I usually don’t write much about gadgets such as the Ipad, but this feature I just discovered is too cool.If you have a Mac there is an app which allows you to to share your screen on the ipad. Check it out for yourself.
Archive for June, 2010
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010Lurline Bay
Saturday, June 26th, 2010The other day Gavin and I went out to scout a new location. It is called Lurline Bay and supposedly this is the place where many dead bodies wash up ashore – nice!
Well armed with head torches, gps, tripod and our cameras, we made our way to this remote spot in Sydney’s South. It was not easy to find and the pitch black did not make it easier. However we arrived there on time for sunrise and realized that it is almost impossible to get down to the bay without climbing gear – especially in the dark.
So we had to stay up on the cliff and shoot from there. You can see the actual spot by following the shoreline to where the pebbles are. I took a close look through my long lens for a close up shot and no – no dead bodies that morning 
Adobe Lightroom 3 has been released!!
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010The wait is finally over and after Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 3 has just been released!
Check this link to see some cool new features of Lightroom 3.
And here is a workflow video made by Terry White. He shows you how he gets his HDR images from LR3 into CS5:
The World of Macro
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010I was always interested in up close photography. So close that you can see things in a way you can not see them with the naked eye. This is probably what fascinates me the most about photography.
Macro Photography is such a thing. It opens up a whole new world to you. Seeing the fine details of the eye of a praying mantis, or the fragile canals of a maple leaf. It’s all there – right in front of you.
We tend to ignore this perspective mostly – but I encourage you to go flat on your belly in a garden or in a park and observe life up close. You will see so many new possibilities opening up to you.
Here is a macro photographer I always admired and I followed his work for years. His name is Ronnie Gaubert – a Louisiana based photographer.
Personally I shoot with a Tamron 90mm macro lens. It is one of the sharpest lenses I have ever used and I even use it for portrait work sometimes.I also bought a Nikon pn-11, which is an extension ring that you can put between the lens and the camera. This allows you to focus a lot closer and thus get into the zone of larger magnification than 1:1. In fact with the pn-11 you can get as much as 2:1.
The below shot was one of those 2:1 macros, which really shows you the detail you can get from this setup.
In case you do not recognize what it is (another artistic trick that you can use in macro photography), it’s the surface of a strawberry!
