So the other day I was looking through some impressive photographic galleries over at 500px and it occurred to me that the really good portfolios were the ones that had some sort of unifying theme. By comparison my gallery's 'bitsa' - if you know what I mean - bitsa this, bitsa that. However I realised that I had my niche too - namely dawn and dusk, there are more photos of that hour of the day than anything else in my collection. I didn't set out to concentrate on sunrise and sunset, but that's what's happened. I wonder if everyone just chances on their 'thing' or if it's usually more calculated than that.
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Bio Bay Collection
Just uploaded a collection of my photos of the Jervis Bay bio-luminiscence over at Flickr. Have a look if you've got a minute :)
So I thought I'd write a little about what I do to my photos once I'm back home. But before I explain that, it needs pointing out that I shoot in RAW because I want to make all the processing decisions instead of my camera. If you're unfamiliar with the format, RAW files are basically unembellished sensor data. When you shoot in JPEG your camera will make all sorts of decisions about saturation and light and they may or many not look satisfactory to you. So I, like many photographers with RAW-enabled cameras, take the camera's opinions out of the equation.
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Only basic saturation boost to show off the sunlight.
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Give the shutter button a rest!
If I'm guilty of any of the usual crimes against photography, it's probably overshooting. If you get back from a location and you've nearly filled a 32Gb card with images then you're probably guilty of it too. I think there's a danger in this digital era, that we come to rely on chance supplying us with the right conditions to meet the settings we've dialled in to our cameras. And to compensate for that we repeatedly press the shutter button in the hope that one of our exposures will be correct.
So in an effort to stop myself from doing this, I ask myself some questions when I'm hunched over that viewfinder:
1) Has the light changed substan
The Global Photography Club
I was talking to a good friend of mine that other day. She's a professional photographer (20 years in the business) and a published author and we were talking about the influences that surround us. It occurred to me then, more than it ever has before, that circumstances have changed drastically for photographers due to the Internet.
When I first started taking photos in my teenage years (the 1980s) the benchmark that I used to measure myself against was the local photography club. Sure there were books of photographs by famous photographers but they lived in the rarified stratosphere. So the pool of talent that I judged my efforts against we
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