31 Oct The Rash Assessment
I am wary of rash assessments...
October 2018
30 Oct Shop Only At Approved Places
I really should stop reading him. But it’s like a crash on the freeway...
29 Oct The Good New Days
Milkbars, Monaros, middies, and motoring down Hay Street on Saturday night. Welcome to 1966. Wander down one of the arcades in town and look into the camera shop - the one with the lights and enough space to move in. No names, no pack drill. This...
26 Oct Go To The Fair
Here’s a go - the writer for a major camera shop telling people to go to secondhand camera fairs and marketplaces instead of coming into the shop. Is he crazy, or what? Well, that should have been evident a long time ago, but in this case...
25 Oct The Undercoat
Painting anything is either fun or torture...
24 Oct Is The Flash Outdated?
I asked myself this question as I shot a few reportage pictures for the recent Boxing Special at the Photo Live 2018. There were plenty of photographers around the ring with plenty of cameras but few of them besides me seemed to have flash guns...
23 Oct You Say AWB And I Say KWB
And we are not going to start on potahtoes and tomahtoes, no matter what George and Ira Gershwin would have us do. But we must learn to disagree politely with what the makers of our flash units would have us think - or else call...
22 Oct The Value Of A Wingman
The wingman. The second who accompanies a fighter plane pilot on a sortie - who alternately sticks close or dodges away to watch out for the safety of his mate. Who shots down whoever gets on the tail of his partner. Who can switch roles...
19 Oct I Talk To Bad People…
A small apology to the readers - you have been forced to read the back of the cornflakes box at breakfast instead of this column for the last four days. I'm lying in a hospital bed with my leg propped up and have just now...
12 Oct Click Bait
The open and shut case for the digital camera. Look up the history of the Leica cameras - it is one of the most documented devices in all of the photography. It came along to give a new way of working, just at a time when...