Music photography is one of the best jobs in the world for someone who loves music. Imagine being at the front of a concert watching your favourite artist while being paid for it. Photographing live music is one of the most rewarding jobs there is, and the energy you get from the music and the […]
I was booked in as a tour guide for the Great America Eclipse of 2017 back in 2014, three years before the actual event. For three months beforehand, I worked solidly on planning and rehearsing my strategy while collecting and freighting gear from my home in central Victoria, Australia, to the site of the shoot. […]
I hope you enjoy this video, “The Moon in Motion,” with footage of the “Great American Eclipse” captured from locations in Idaho and looking over the Tetons on August 21, 2017. It’s best viewed with the lights down and the music up on the biggest screen you have. Music is by my talented friend, cellist […]
Often the basis for composition, lines can create a sense of movement because our eyes instinctively follow them. As an essential part of composition, we should always consider any leading lines that make up part of the image. Why? Because they can be powerful. They can balance an image, link selected elements together and draw […]
Canon Australia loaned me their new EOS Ra camera during over the summer, and between the smoke of the summer bushfires (how long ago does that seem now?) I was able to capture one deep sky image from my observatory, a timelapse sequence from the Gippsland Lakes and several panoramas close to home. Despite the […]
Have you ever thought about entering photo contest? If you are an aspiring photographer, this is a good thing to try. Why? Because you have to really concentrate on the “perfect photo” to win. Can you win if you don’t know the rules of composition? Is that even important? Yes and yes! My friend and […]
Despite living in the southern hemisphere, I decided to have a crack at capturing Geminid meteors in December 2020. There was no moon and one or two nights of a clear forecast. But I was a bit rusty. I was using a Star Adventurer 2i tracking mount to track a section of sky near the […]
There’s an old expression that a photographer’s first 10,000 photos are their worst. That means if you want to become a good photographer, you have to take at least 10,000 photos—and make sure you are practicing and learning how to take pictures, not just snapshots. If you go out for a walk in your neighborhood, […]
As a teenager, from my earliest days of interest in astronomy and photography, I had a famous (in the southern hemisphere) image of the Southern Cross and “The Pointers” as a poster on my wall, captured on a medium-format camera by Japanese astrophotographer Akira Fujii. Fujii used a blur filter to highlight the famed bright […]
In the late 1990s, an adventurous photographer set out to capture a unique perspective of a renowned skyscraper, aiming to photograph the building’s intricate architectural details and the courage of its maintenance crew. Climbing to a restricted, vertigo-inducing vantage point, the photographer positioned themselves delicately on a narrow ledge high above the city. Securing themselves […]
