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Posted on March 27, 2009 - by admin

Which Nikon digital SLR?

Not everyone approaches the dSLR buying decision as a tabula rasa choice. If you’ve already chosen Nikon — whether it’s because you already have some lenses, friends who are brand-enamoured, or have simply had good experiences with the company’s point-and-shoot models — here’s some help selecting the right model.

Read the full story at Cnet

Posted on March 23, 2009 - by admin

Free Photographic Resource Centre For The Novice Photographer

This free site is designed for the novice photographer; here you will learn to use the basic tools of the creative photographer, enabling you to produce more dynamic and imaginative images.

Posted on March 6, 2009 - by admin

Black Saturday Fire Image

This photo was taken from the roof of Doncaster Shopping Centre on Black Saturday.
Source: Unknown

Posted on January 22, 2009 - by admin

Great Photography Related Websites

Here is a list of great photography websites that I have started to put together.

What photography related websites do you use? If you have others that are not on this list please add them in the comments are we can add them to the list.

Photolinks – http://www.photolinks.com/
Picasa – http://picasa.google.com
Flickr – http://www.flickr.com
Photobucket – http://www.photobucket.com
Photocomp – http://www.photocomp.com.au
Photo.net – http://www.photo.net
Photography.com – http://www.photography.com/
DPreview – http://www.dpreview.com
PopPhoto - http://www.popphoto.com

Cheers
Eff

Posted on January 21, 2009 - by admin

Photocomp Judge Profile

Photocomp Judge Profile: Sam Stiglec

I have spent the last 22 years working as a photojournalist for the Fairfax Media group. I’m currently the Chief Photographer of Fairfax Community Newspapers (VIC) Australia.

I spent 10 years teaching photography at the Holmesglen College of Tafe.

While living overseas I spent a year teaching photography at a regional high school, and took primary school kids for visual appreciation classes.

Posted on January 20, 2009 - by admin

Nikon’s new SLR leads the pack for sensor quality

It’s not a surprise that the Nikon D3X, the company’s brand new 24.9-megapixel SLR, tops DxO Labs’ sensor performance test. What is a surprise is the margin by which it leads its rivals from Canon and Sony.

Read the full story at Cnet: http://www.cnet.com.au/digitalcameras/cameras/0,239036184,339294434,00.htm

Posted on January 18, 2009 - by admin

The One Flash Setup

Just to demonstrate the dramatic changes that can occur from even subtle changes in lighting, below is a series of shots, showing one model and ONE FLASH using multitude of flash positions.

Image A	Image B	Results of using flash in different configurations a) On-camera flash (yuk!) b) Off-camera flash c) Off-camera flash with softening umbrella d) ONE flash over shoulder with two front reflectors – Wow!!
Image c	Image D

The fourth shot is a truly remarkable image, considering we are using only ONE FLASH. The flash was placed BEHIND the model and over her shoulder, so that the bottom of the flash “beam” just touched her hair, and the majority of the beam hit the reflector placed out-of-frame, on the right. The right reflector was angled to reflect some of the light on to the model’s face, and some of it to the reflector placed out-of-frame to the left. This secondary-bounce light then illuminated the left side of the model’s face.

Flash is over shoulder, and two large white reflectors bounce the flash to the right and then the left side of her face.

By: Sam Stiglec

Posted on January 16, 2009 - by admin

Photo of the month winners for November & December

We are currently running a prize for photo of the month which has been kindly donated by Kazzas Jewels.
This is a $50 voucher to purchase any item from their website www.kazzasjewels.com.au

Photo of the month for November

November Winner - Tim Bowman for his photo ‘Beggar’ in ‘Street Scenes’ competition.

Photo of the month for December

December Winner - Hanz Kilian for his photo ‘ Refreshing’ in ‘Macros’ competition.

Posted on January 12, 2009 - by admin

New Competition Subjects Announced for Photocomp

We have announced the next four competitions for Photocomp. Each competition will run for one month.

Competition 11 (Febuary) – Action
Competition 12 (March) – Nature
Competition 13 (April) – Funny Photos
Competition 14 (May) – Travel

Each entry will now cost $2.00 AUD.

www.photocomp.com.au

Posted on January 12, 2009 - by admin

Pretec Unveils CFastTM Storage Card, the Smallest SATA SSD in the World

Las Vegas, USA. January 8th 2009 — Pretec, as the 2nd in the world to offer CF card (1995) and the producer of the world’s largest capacity CF card (64GB), proudly unveils at CES 2009 today the Pretec CFast^TMStorage Card, another breakthrough in the flash. Pretec CFast^TMStorage Card is a revolutionary product with CF card sized form factor incorporating the key strength of high speed SATA interface.

Read the full story at Dpreview: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0901/09010902preteccfaststoragecards.asp