Albany Humpback Whales
During our recent travels in Western Australia there was a heap of great and varied photographic opportunities. (I hope to write a post about some more of them soon …) But one of the real highlights for us was during…
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Category Photography
Mt Townsend
I had a great trip recently, snowshoeing from Crackenback (above Thredbo) to Mt Townsend. It was mid-week (no-one else out there), there had been about 20cm of fresh snow the night before (creamy smooth snow with no tracks) and the…
Winter Postcards exhibition
PhotoAccess is currently showing an exhibition of work by no less than 32 photographers. It’s called Winter Postcards, and as the name suggests all of the works must be postcard size (i.e. 6″ x 4″), with each exhibitor able to…
Text in photography
This post contains some thoughts on the incorporation of text in still photography, and was written as notes for my Private Thoughts in Public Places project. Text and images have been combined in art since writing was first used. Written…
Narrative in photography
This post contains some thoughts on the depiction of ‘narrative’ in still photography, and was written as notes for my Private Thoughts in Public Places project. Photographers have sought to portray narrative in their work since the inception of the…
Private Thoughts in Public Places
Private Thoughts in Public Places is a short (12 minute) video slideshow (with voices, music and subtitle text) which I prepared as a studio practice project for my studies at the ANU School or Art. It aims to bring into…
Pixel Bender oil paint effect for Photoshop
There’s a number of ‘artistic’ effects filters that come as part of the Photoshop software (under the menu option ‘Filter’ in subfolders ‘Artistic’, ‘Brush strokes’ ‘Sketch’, ‘Stylise’ etc). By and large I try to avoid using them as I mostly…
Tasmania HDR
I still keep making High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. I can’t help it. This popular technique involves making a series (usually three or five) images with identical composition, usually on a tripod to ensure an exact alignment of the images.…