You’ll have to excuse the extraordinarily long title of this article as I’ve just heard from my Canon Australia contact that the Canon EOS 5DmkII will be on sale in Australia at the end of the week! My contact was quick to say that stocks will vary from shop to shop and all that sort of stuff. Knowing the buzz that’s around this camera... (more...)
Normally it’s me who is the one posting the cooking / recipe photos, not today as I have a special guest. Let me introduce Miss Cherry Bomb and her special recipe for ‘Lamb Shank a la back lawn’. Read More →
I wasn’t entirely happy with the images out of the product shoot this morning for the CPR Torch / Flashlight so I went back to the drawing board with my lighting set up. This is where I was this morning, and the following two images shows you where I’m at now. So I’ve ended up repositioning the lights into more of a ‘light... (more...)
This has got to be one of the coolest applications I’ve ever seen, Poladroid. Essentially you install the application, launch the app, drag n drop a jpeg photo onto the Polaroid, and the app does the rest. Apart from the cool photos you get, the best part is watching the film ‘develop’. Check out the video of it in action and... (more...)
Vintage and Retro website design, graphic design, and photography are very hot right now. I’ve actually been playing around with putting together a video tutorial for real grain effects in Photoshop, hopefully coming online soon. Anyway, overnight Smashing Magazine put together an awesome resource on where you can find 35 Beautiful Vintage... (more...)
Normally when I see a headline like the above the first thought to enter my brain is “what’s the catch”. There’s always a catch, some newsletter or e-book that you have to sign up to. It’s annoying quite frankly. So here’s why my headline is different, it is all actually free. Here’s some brilliant resources... (more...)
Whoa, time flies when you’re trying to come up with ideas for photographs for a competition. Anyway, it’s now time to start uploading your entries for this years Canon Photo5 competition; It’s time to upload your photos. Remember you don’t have to enter all 5 but the more you do, the better your chance of winning! If... (more...)
Just posted on the Canon Photo5 community blog, figured I would pass it on considering the amount of traffic I’ve been receiving for my previous Canon Photo5 articles. As you’ll have noticed, we’ve received a number of queries about whether you can duplicate objects, i.e. add multiple tea-light candles to an image, instead of... (more...)
Here’s a quick and simple tutorial on how to get some really punchy colour into those flat photos. Oh and these instructions are based on Photoshop CS2, it’s probably similar in other versions though. Enjoy. image for thumbnail only Read More →
Griffen + Curtis’ Trash the Dress Shoot in CA from StillMotion on Vimeo. It’s not a new concept, but it’s darn well executed and the video footage is nothing short of spectacular. My brain is going a million miles an hour with ideas at the moment, so if you’re looking to add a little spark to your wedding or model photograph... (more...)