Images created on a medium format film camera of the channel between the mainland and Andamooka Island in Lake Torrens, South Australia.

Wandering around the channel over several days, I came upon several patches of exciting rocks; rocks that took on the form of familiar and imaginary animals and brought me pleasure observing them.

Wilderness Landscape Photography - The Practicalities of Getting Out There

Ever dreamed of travelling to isolated wilderness areas to photograph the landscape but been defeated by the practicalities of getting there? Wished you had a helicopter? Wondered how you could hike with a heavy pack and camp out for days at a time?

Well, this Australian amateur wilderness landscape photographer did it. Here's the story of the daunting task that lay ahead and how I overcame the obstacles.

Reflected Light Readings for Film and Digital Images

In order to correctly expose your film or CCD there are two variables that must be identified: average reflectance and average light. Unless you have some good reason to meter for other than these two averages, stick meticulously to the method outlined below when you take a light reading.

This tutorial deals with reflected light readings. This is the type of light reading taken with an in-camera light meter or a hand held meter which is pointed toward the subject. This tutorial does not deal with incident light readings which are a measure of the light falling on the subject.

Subtlety pervaded the light, the colours and the tones as the first gentle illumination of morning dawned on the freshly fallen snow.

Tortured, contorted, gnarled, yet proud, even grand, snowgums set the tone of the Monaro landscape. To me they are the defining element of this harsh and unforgiving country.

Although still widespread and plentiful, the Monaro snowgums we see today are mearly the remnent of a once flourishing arboricultoral population; all that is left of the overstory vegetation to provide shelter from the sweltering hot sun of summer and the driving blizards of winter which in turn determine the Monaro snowgum's growth habit.

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Ever get caught without a light meter? Stuck on an important photoghrapic expedition without a way of determining your exposure settings? Well I have and it worked out ok, thanks to the Sunny 16 Rule and careful consideration of years of experience. Here's the story surrounding this event and how it worked out.

Why Pinhole Photography?

• It’s fun.
• It’s creative.
• It’s educative about the basics that photographers deal with whenever they do their thing.

Need for Winter Time Darkroom Heating

I suppose we all know that the chemicals for processing B&W Photographic prints should be used at 20°C. The manufacturers of the various papers and chemicals say so. On a cold winter night, with the darkroom in a tin shed and the outside temperature down to -2°C this is not so easy to achieve.

Two Printers - A3 Plus and A4

We are a two printer family. Yes, we have the "good printer" and the "little printer." The "little printer" is the budget printer and the subject of this article. Anything that's not critical as regards archival permanence gets printed in the "little printer."