Photo tips

Don’t leave your subject until you’ve exhausted the photographic opportunities.

Exhausting your options

16 April 2013 | Cameron Ewart-Smith

Most great photographs come from really working a subject, so ask yourself whether you spend enough quality time with your subjects.

Sam Owen's carefully planned shot of penguins being released.

Photography: plan the shoot, shoot the plan

1 March 2013 | Cameron Ewart-Smith

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Most photographers have one image they’re dying to shoot. They can usually visualise it, but getting it in the can is another matter entirely. What you need is a plan…

The secrets to capturing sunbursts

26 February 2013 | Dylan Kotze

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Ever wondered why the sun always shows as a blob of overexposed light in your pictures? Learn how how to create beautiful bursting rays of light.

I wanted to part some personal thoughts on shooting travel assignments and attempted at avoiding the obvious. I have put together some of my own selection of images a lot of which didn’t make the story to illustrate some of these points.

These two images are versions of the same photograph. On the left the pic has been tweaked slightly and yet looks natural. On the right, I have totally over-saturated the image, so much so the colours have started to bleed.

Digital photo editing – how much is too much?

5 December 2012 | Cameron Ewart-Smith

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It’s become ever easier to manipulate images, but how do you know when enough is enough?

Video: All the DLSR gear and no idea

29 November 2012 | Dylan Kotze

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In an effort to boost sales of their compact cameras, Sony Australia has come up with an online – slightly off-the-wall – marketing campaign. It has produced a series of videos poking gentle (but acutely-observed) fun at stereotypical DSLR users, with the tag line ‘All the gear and no idea’.

Black-and-white conversion with red channel set to –50.

Photography tips: How to make black and white conversions

28 August 2012 | Cameron Ewart-Smith

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It’s easy to convert colour images into black-and-hite photos these days, but to make arty masterpieces you need to know more than simply how to click a button.