On a recent trip down to Northern NSW to visit my family over the Christmas break I returned to a spot that I had photographed two years earlier to capture this photo: It was low tide, so there was no chance of it happening and I decided to come back a few days later when […]
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A Road Tripping Adventure: LA to San Francisco Pt 4
After spending a few days at Yosemite National Park which you can read about here it was time to move along our Road Tripping Adventure and head to San Francisco. I was really excited about this part of the trip because I have heard so many people say good things about San Fran and it didn’t […]
HDR Photography: the good, the bad & the ugly!
So we’ve all seen those horrid HDR photos. You know, the ones that make your eyes bleed. The contrast has been turned up 100% and everything looks all grungy and dirty. I will add some examples below! I never used to like HDR until I came across Trey Ratcliff’s site Stuck In Customs a while […]
A Road Tripping Adventure: LA to SF Pt 3
Following on from Part 2 of A road tripping adventure: LA to SF which you can read about here and Part 1 here (have you read it yet?) we start off in Yosemite National Park after arriving the night before. The national park is really beautiful and covers such a massive area of California. I would love […]
How to get more followers on Instagram
I thought I would take a side step from writing about our trip this week and talk about how to get more followers on Instagram. I’ve been using Instagram as my business/photography account exclusively for the last six months. Before that I was just using it as my personal account and hovered around 100 followers […]
A Road Tripping Adventure: LA to SF Pt 2
In Part Two of our road tripping adventure : LA to SF I will continue on from where we left Part 1 which you can read about here. After getting up early and checking out from our accommodation we continued along California’s Highway 1 which follows the beautifully rugged coastline. The drive from Big Sur up […]
A Road Tripping Adventure: Los Angeles to San Francisco Pt1
So I am back in Australia after a 23 day USA/Canada road trip. I will start with the first part of our Road Trip Los Angeles to San Francisco. We arrived at LAX at 6am after a 14 hour flight with Qantas from Brisbane. The flight was a good one except for the fact that […]
Lightroom Tutorial: How to do a Colour Selection
I have had a lot of requests recently about doing more Lightroom tutorial videos and because I think you are the bees knees I decided to do a quick one before I go away next week. I chose this photo of the Brisbane Wheel as its one of my favourites and one of my first […]
The Ultimate Overseas Travel Checklist
As I am heading overseas in 2 weeks to be exact I thought I would throw together The Ultimate Overseas Travel Checklist not only for myself but I thought that you might find it handy also. I always find myself freaking out on the day of departure because I haven’t gotten myself organised enough to […]
How to Photograph Waterfalls in a Rainforest
Ive got a lot of travel blog posts coming up so I thought I would throw in a few tutorials before I head overseas on my USA/Canada road trip. So let me teach you How to Photograph waterfalls in a rainforest. To begin with, a few weeks ago we headed down to Lamington National Park […]
A Travelling Photographer: Whats in my Bag!
For my upcoming road trip from LA to Banff I thought I would give you a peak at whats inside my camera bag and what you need when you are a travelling photographer. I like to travel pretty light because I like to do a bit of hiking so I don’t want a massive load […]
Basics of Photography: Understanding ISO
Part 3 of my 3 Part Series of Basics of Photography is about ISO. ISO is the third point on our Exposure Triangle. The other two being Aperture which I talked about hereĀ and Shutter speed which I talked about here. So lets start with the definition of ISO. What is ISO? ISO is your cameras […]