20 Jul How Much Do They Love You?
Conversely...
July 2022
18 Jul Godox Bean Can
The studio light in a case - for the photographer who wants light light. Pardon the punning - this Godox kit is a surprising delight on the back wall of the Stirling street shop. It is designed for the event or portable portrait worker who wants...
15 Jul You Cannot Argue With The Horizon
It has been here a lot longer than you, knows what it is doing, and will easily outlast you. Make friends with it, and treat it with some respect. We have all seen the seascape or landscape photo with the tilted horizon - often in our...
13 Jul The Water Heaters
Let us have a moment's silence for the photo studio water heaters - they are dead; both of them. They lived long and prospered but eventually galvanic action and electricity spelled their doom. I was confronted with the question of how you replace them. Who sells...
11 Jul The 2000 Megapixel Mobile Phone Image
The picture that takes up all your bandwidth for a month. The one that causes the local Telstra tower to burst into flames...
08 Jul Magic Is As Magic Does
In the rush to get the newest of cameras and lenses - lighter, faster, stronger, and better smelling - we sometimes lose sight of the humbler components of photography. That is, until we are desperately trying to make the new gear do a simple old...
06 Jul There’s More Art In You Than You Might Think
Many people think that they are great artists - some are correct in this, and some take a lifetime to find out they were wrong. That's the brushes, canvas, marble chisels, and plasticine side of the thing - leaving aside the artists that collect discarded bricks...
04 Jul Can You Patent An Idea?
Of course you can - and tens of thousands of thoughts have gone through various government's bureaux over the last centuries to be assigned to owners - who have paid for the privilege. After that, a fair number of them have vanished into obscurity - having...
01 Jul Bwing Me My Elephant Gun, Foskins
I'm hunting wabbits. As a person who has fwequently hunted wabbits I am well aware that a .470 Nitro Express may be a bad choice - the effect on me would be only a little way short of that on the wabbit. Overkill can go both...
29 Jun Sit, Stand, Or Lie Down?
Or, in the case of the surf photographer, swim madly for the surface before your life insurance kicks in...