Category: Digital Photography Tips

I spent a couple of hours photographing the shearing at South Gap Station in outback South Australia. All colour digital, I’m afraid, with a subject lending itself to black and white images.
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Black and white image produced from a digital colour photo. Shearing at the South Gap woolshed.
My days of genuine […]

G’day. I’m heading off for my next outback trip in a few days, traveling the country west of Lake Torrens in South Australia.

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I’ll be following the route, as far as it can be established, of the explorer, John McDouall Stuart. He traveled in the area in 1858 and once he’d been on the […]

Moonscape wilderness landscape - Lake Eucumbene in the Snowy Mountains
Well, you’d expect landscape images of Lake Eucumbene on the Monaro, at the foot of the Snowy Mountains, to feature blue water images, lush plants and flowers, chocolate box photos of an idillic recreation spot.

Near Frying Pan, looking across a narrow arm of Lake Eucumbene, […]

ATV camp trailer set up for a trial.
Preparations are coming along well for a wilderness travel, camping and photography trip in September.
The ATV engine has been rebuilt. The ATV camping trailer has also been rebuilt to overcome the weaknesses of the previous model.

Strong, highly flexible coupling to allow for very uneven country and trailer […]

Well, G’day!
I’ve joined a brand new webmaster’s forum called Bright by Design.
After only a couple of days it has five members, mostly full time web designers.
The future looks good for this new Website Design Forum on html, CSS Layout, SEO & Graphics.
Looking for a web design forum with the requirement for polite interaction as one […]

A dragon raises it’s ugly head.
Faces found in a snowgum, overlooking Lake Eucumbene
For those with an imaginative eye, faces and forms are seen in the random textures and shapes found in the natural world.
A cat perched on a snowgum.
In this case the source of the images is a snowgum, overlooking Lake Eucumbene, near Frying Pan […]

The fabrication of parts for rebuilding the ATV camp trailer.
As the time for another outback South Australian photography trip draws near, the urgency of rebuilding the small trailer that carries the camping gear intensifies.
On the previous trip, some of the country proved beyond the endurance of the construction, a crack developing in the draw bar […]

ATV, quad bike, parked in the weird landscape of Lake Eucumbene
G’day there.
Well, it wasn’t much of a day on Good Friday, for photographing or riding, with the sky heavily overcast and showers visible around the landscape, threatening to fall close handy.
However, with the bike motor having just been rebuilt, the urge to give it a […]

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The warm morning sun shines on the Bega Public School.
Did you ever make a mistake on election day? Well, I did. Here’s the story.
Last Saturday we had our state elections. In a bid to speed up the process of getting your name marked on the electoral roll, the electoral commission, for the first time, issued […]

Digital photography in a Bega shop window.
Some digital photography tips on photographing in a shop window.
Firstly, note the strong colour and clearly defined lines of the subject under the shop window lighting. See the shaddows cast by four distinct light sources.
This photo was taken in the early hours of the morning. No body around to […]