Almost Portraits

I had great intentions of a long post on lighting for portraits. I was asked to do a talk for my camera club on Monday evening and I went fully prepared – with speed lights, umbrella, soft box and my old PowerBook so that I could shoot tethered; demonstrating the effects of changing lighting. This [...]

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After the Convention

So last weekend we had the PSNZ Southern Regional Convention 2010, great fun was had by al, at least I hope so. It was a good convention with interesting and entertaining speakers in Grant Sheehan (Phantom House Publishing) and Andrew Goodall (Nature’s Image Photography) and a fun field trip to Akaroa. In particular the stop at [...]

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SmuginProForAperture Review

This has been a really busy week, but a good one. I was contacted earlier this week by Joseph Linaschke who also runs ApertureExpert.com a really useful resource for Aperture users. I had sent him details of my Aperture plugin SmuginProForAperture and he was interested in reviewing it. I was both surprised and delighted when [...]

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Interclub Competitions

It has been a very busy week preparing images for a couple of interclub photographic competitions. It is always fun trying to collect enough images from as many members as possible. We can only enter two images per member and our competition with two clubs in Australia needs 25 images in total, with a small [...]

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On the Spot

A fun evening at the photo club tonight, we were all sent out to take up to twenty photos in about half an hour, we then got to pick the best ten for review with the rest of the club – the catch pick your spot and you can’t move and you can’t change your [...]

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