Tag: Photography
I want to be a photographer when I grow up
This is something that you hear so many young people say. It is also something you hear a lot of adults saying as well. I get emails from people all the time saying, they have bought a digital camera, they want to learn how to use it and then become a professional photographer. If only it were that easy. This isn’t meant to put you off, but I thought we could look at some of the realities of being a photographer in today’s market. How do you go about it? What you can expect and how hard it can be potentially? Need to be passionate about wanting to do it First and foremost, you should learn photography and want to do it because you are passionate about it. People who decide to learn photography just because they think they could make money, may make money from it, but… | Read the full article
Profiling Feature Photographer Natasha Lesonie
This is the start of a new series where we will be interviewing featured photographers and getting an insight into them and their photography. Today we start with the first person Natasha Lesonie. My name is Natasha, I am a portrait photographer. How long have you been taking photos? Why did you start? I’ve been taking photos for 7 years. It started when my first baby was born. I was eager to catch every moment of her life, hands, the passion to the photography. I quickly realized that it’s not enough just to have a professional camera but it also important to study photography as an art. Little by little people started asking me to take photo of their families. Then I received a few requests from agencies and photo magazines who wanted to use my photos for commercial advertisement and even put them on cover pages. That… | Read the full article
Photographing the Landscape When It Really Isn’t Your Thing
Anyone who follows my blog knows that I am not really a landscape photographer. I like to see the man made element in my work, and in front of me when I am taking photos. That doesn’t mean that I can’t take landscape images, just that it is not my subject of choice. Quite a few years ago I went away with a friend to the Grampians, for those that don’t know, the Grampians are a National Park and very mountainous. During this weekend away I was supposed to be getting photos, we drove around and around, but I didn’t get any photos because I didn’t want to photograph anything. I thought it was beautiful, but was not the type of subject that I really wanted to photograph. There are times when you don’t have a choice and you just have to do it. I was asked recently to… | Read the full article
Photography as Art
Is all photography art, or is only some of it art? Are we photographers or artists? Are some of us photographers and some of us artists? How do you know which is which? Interesting questions, and something I’ve been trying to work out for some time. I tried to do a post on it last year, but I don’t think I thought about properly and I was slammed for it. No one seemed to understand what I was trying to get at. People thought I was putting photography down and implying that art was more superior, which I don’t think at all, I just feel that they are different. Recently I saw an online program from Joel Grimes and he talked about how he considers himself an artist and not a photographer. That while he uses the medium of photography, he is an artist. When I saw this I decided… | Read the full article
Christmas is Here Again
With less than 15 days to go we have decided to take a break from blogging here, but wanted to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope you will find lots of time to take photos over this time. We will return around mid January with more posts for you. Merry Christmas and thank you for the support.
When Does it Belong to Me
Recently I have been getting lots of inquiries about images that I have on my blog and if they are for sale. The easy answer would be that everything is for sale, so I thought I could set up my own stock image library. Then as I was working out what I could put up and what not, it suddenly started to occur to me, what is really mine to sell. I know that I own the copyright on my images, but where is that line on what I can take and what I can sell. I know that if you take photos in any of the parklands in Victoria that are looked after by Parks Victoria then they won’t let you sell the photos. You can’t make money from their parks unless you pay them a lot more money. I don’t know if I agree with this or… | Read the full article
Rules, Rules, Rules
When I first got into photography I was given a Pentax K1000 for my birthday and I had no idea how to use it. It was a long time ago and the internet wasn’t around so I couldn’t google “how do I use my SLR”, so I had to figure it out for myself. Trial and error got me there. I did one course at the CAE here in Melbourne, but it was about black and white processing, didn’t really help with learning how to use it. I did read a lot, and I figured out what it all meant. Composition was a different thing though. I had to learn that on my own. I had to work out what was the best way an image looked. Then I did a beginners course at a local camera club and I learned the”Rules”.The rules that say everything must be on… | Read the full article
Finding What Inspires You
You hear the word inspiration used a lot with artists, what inspires them to paint or draw, but it isn’t a word that photographers use a lot. We seem to have things that we love photographing and we just photograph them right? Though there has to be something behind that, something that drives you to photograph it. It can be called many things, inspiration, drive, passion, influence, motivation, incentive, probably many many more words that are used to basically describe the same thing. So what is inspiration? I found a definition when I googled inspirations the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative Sounds easy, you will be stimulated, you will feel something, and then you will do something really creative. I wish it was that easy, and I know for a lot of people finding inspiration can be so hard…. | Read the full article
Are You Covered
My followers know recently that I photographed a wedding, I wasn’t the main photographer, I was the second photographer with very specific requirements. I had never met the other photographer before and, as you do, we got talking. One of the things that came up was insurance. I asked him if he had insurance, and he said yes, he had all his gear covered under his house and contents insurance. That is something a lot of us have, you get special insurance on your contents that protects your gear when you are away from the house. I replied, is that all. He looked at me and I said, what about public liability insurance? What about the insurance you get to cover you if something happens to all the photos you have taken? It has not occurred to him that he would need any further insurance. He was fairly… | Read the full article
The Grey in Between
Today I want to tell you a couple stories. This is a story about something that has happened to me, and some things that have happened to other people, something that could have happened to you, or might happen to you. I use Nikon, I love Nikon gear and have been a Nikon person for many years now. When you get into DSLRs and choosing your gear, you do have to think about it like a life choice, because once you get the gear you want, well it is hard to change. So I have put a lot of money into my equipement, I would hate to think exactly how much, but a lot. I know that Nikon have this thing called the Nikon Professional Services, or NPS for short. To be a member you have to fill certain criteria, which you can find on the NPS page. I first heard… | Read the full article
