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Happy New Year! We hope 2010 proves an exciting year for you and your photography. So what's some of our news for 2010? Our Photoshop Creative Series kicks off with Diana this month. Here you'll learn all the tricks the pros do. Each lesson can be done as a single or you can do the whole series. Details of what is covered in on our website and Barry Cheesman kicks off his first portraiture workshop on the 20th Jan this month! What do John Butler, Jack Johnson, Jimmy Barnes and Bluedog have in Common?.... We’ll all be at the Byron Bay Bluesfest 2010! Easter April 1st-5th. Yes, Bluedog have been working with the great crew at Bluesfest and have secured 5 day Festival Tickets with Photographers access. Over 100 local and international artists will appear across 6 performance stages to entertain a crowd of 80,000 festival goers over the best 5 days of music in Australia. Bluedog will be running a special 5 day workshop for 6 people at the festival. With access to the photographers pit front of stage and a limited special access pass to backstage, you can be guaranteed a great vantage point to get that image! You will also be able to take in the crowds and market stalls to really tell a visual story of this legendary festival now in its 21st Year. Email us for more information about the Bluesfest Workshop and for more info on the festival visit www.bluesfest.com.au We will be commencing workshops in Toowoomba and for those of you on the sunny coast yes we are now coming! Keep tuned to our calendar page for updates. PLUS it looks like we are off to sample the highlights of Tuscany later this year! I bet the tutors will be fighting hard for places on this one!
Congratulations to all of those who had a Bluedog Photography voucher in their Santa sacks this year. Also a big congratulations to Island Magic Resort, where we stay for our Vanuatu Tour, who won Best Self Contained Accommodation of Vanuatu recently. The Bluedog Facebook Group Weekly Challenge kicks off again this week. There has been great work submitted and we look forward to seeing more fantastic photos from playing in 2010. Again we thank Gerard at Photo Planet and his kind support of donating the weekly prize. We'll keep this issues news short and sweet, however before we sign off we'd like to make mention to a few masters of photography who passed away in last year. 2009 saw the passing of Irving Penn, whose photographs 'revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world'. Also during the year Roy DeCarava, one of the greatest art photographers whose pictures of everyday life in Harlem helped clarify the African American experience for a wider audience, passed away aged 89. In this e-newsletter we look at another great photographer the world lost last year: Willy Ronis. We keep setting dates as time allows with the professional commitments of the tutors so check our web site calendar page for continued updates. If there is something special or a date you would like a workshop on, please contact us as we are happy to attempt to do this for you. Here's to 2010!! Keep those fingers clicking and enjoying your photography! |
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 Derrin captures a wolf on a recent trip to Alaska. |
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 Daniela put the tips she learnt at a Bluedog Sunset and Star Trail session to the test on a trip to central Australia. |
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Please remember, we keep setting dates as allows with the professional commitments of the tutors so check our web site calendar page for continuing updates. If there is something special or a date you would like a workshop on please contact us as we are happy to attempt to do this for you and as our workshop sizes are kept very small this is often achievable. |
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Photo Tip: Camera PhonesCamera Phones are getting better and better as each new model comes out and the technology develops. We are seeing higher megapixel cameras, improved lenses and storage capacity increase. However many images are poor in quality. Some of this is due to the capabilities of the phone while some is also due to poor photographic technique. While you still won’t get the crystal clear images (yet) as we get from a digital SLR they are a handy tool so here’s a couple of tips to get the best photos from your mobile phone. Use the highest resolution possible on your mobile phone. (For many this is obvious but for others it may not be). It’s particularly important if your mobile phone shoots under 1 megapixel. Just remember higher resolution increases file size and therefore send time. Don’t edit images on the phone – do it on your computer. Your phones screen is not as good as your computer, you will be working on them under all sorts of different lighting conditions if doing it while out. Make sure your subject is well lit as this will make a clearer image. Be aware that different light sources can impact on the colour of your images. If you have the technology in your phone you can experiment with White Balance. Get in close! Don’t make your subject a small distant blob in the distance – this is your focal point and it needs to be big. Keep the phone still – especially so when working on low light. Try leaning or resting your hand on a hard, sturdy object like a wall, tree or table. Obey mobile phone etiquette. Don’t use them where you can’t use a normal camera and always ask people first if you can take a photo of them. Have fun and record precious memories.
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I Torres Strait Island Railway (Pamle) I Bipotaim: Stories from the Torres Strait I The 2009 Nikon-Walkley Press Photo Exhibition I Vaniman Panora: I Long Distance Vision - Three Australian Photographers: This exhibition examines the idea of the ‘tourist gaze’ and its relationship with three contemporary Australian photographers: Christine Godden, Max Pam and Matthew Sleeth. I neeta madahar - Bradford Fellowship in Photography 2008-09 I Bill Rowlinson & Richard Nicholson- In England:
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World's most reproduced photograph? It is claimed the world's most reproduced photograph is this portrait image of the Queen Elizabeth II taken by Professor Hedgecoe. It appears on UK and Commonwealth postage stamps which just for starters comes to a 200 billion copies so far!
What's been written about recently: 'All I want for Christmas' What we would like from Santa here in the Bluedog kennel Tips for Buying Photography Gift Vouchers Tips for Photographing Christmas Lights The Risks Photographers Take Highlighting Your Cause With Photography Mr Google Lends a Hand for Photographers - The Sun Timer Slide Tips for Flower Photography Clicking Like A Rolling Stone - Georgia May Jagger To view the Bluedog Blog visit: Keep Cool In Summer! With summer temps rising in the southern hemisphere here a few tips to keep your energy bills down! Clean air conditioner filters regularly. Plant deciduous vines near walls - this helps again keep your house cooler and if you choose fruit vines such as grapes you may get the extra bonus of some fresh home grown food. It's claimed planting three trees, properly placed around a house, can save a few hundred dollars in annual cooling and heating costs. In summer, daytime air temperatures can be 3 degrees to 6 degrees cooler in tree-shaded neighbourhoods. Avoid landscaping with lots of unshaded rock, cement, or asphalt on the south or west sides. It increases the temperature around the house and radiates heat to the house after the sun has set. White window shades, drapes, or blinds to reflect heat away from the house. If you haven't insulated then DIN (Do It Now). Again it is said that from 3 inches to 12 inches can cut cooling by 12 percent. If you have a tin roof consider placing roof vents. One of the reasons that tin roofs heat up so badly is that the heat has nowhere to go - a closed-in roof system is just like an oven. Vents assist the heat to escape and a cross wind can be established to keep the heat moving out and a cooling breeze coming in. Humidity makes a room feel warmer so minimise this by not using appliances that generate heat during the day such as washing machines, clothes dryers and cooking appliances. |
This month Danielle put the Sigmas APO 70-200mm F2.8 II Macro HSM Optic to the test during a wedding shoot. High image quality seems assured throughout the entire zoom range. What Danielle liked was the super multi-layer coating reducing flare and ghosting and the overall length of the lens does not change during focusing and zooming, ensuring convenient handling - always a plus!
Bluedog tutor Augustine got one of her wishes from Santa - a carbon fibre tripod.The Slik Sprint Pro II GM is designed for the traveller and that is what Augustine is a very, very keen traveller. She gave it a burl with the Nikon D90 which she is taking on her trip to South America and Antarctica and it held her Nikon 70-200mm F2.8mm lens in vertical with no movement at all. A few of the features we liked were the padded legs, gun metal finish, the new SLIK SBH-100DQ all-metal compact ball head with quick release system for faster, easier mounting of a camera, the adjustable legs that angle and can be used to splay the legs out and lower the tripod plus when we used it with the built-in short center column we were able to get the camera 16cm from the ground which should prove good for macro work. Augustine will put it to the test on her trip and give us a full review on her return. Bluedog are now stocking the Sprint Pro II GM at the RRP of shops $149.00 AUD. For orders email us I x1 One Canon EOS Canon EOS50D Body with Canon 18-200mm Lens and Canon BGE2N Battery Grip;
UV Filter 72mm;
Scan disk Extreme III 4GB card, 2yr extended warranty. Canon RS-80N3 Remote Control with Canon BP511A Battery X 2, Canon EW-78D Lens Hood, Canon 580EX II Speedlite,
Manfrotto 055X Pro B Tripod Body, Manfrotto 488RC2 Midi Ball Head, I x1 Canon EOS 300D body with Canon EFS18-55 Lens I Near new Nikon D60 with a Nikkor 18-200 lens. Camera was bought on 31 January last year but has only been used a handful of times. In excellent condition with all original accessories, boxes and packaging. Comes with a 4GB platinum SDHC card and a UV filter. All receipts are available. Camera is perfect for someone starting out with a digital SLR as it is light weight (for an SLR!) and compact. Reason for selling: I no longer have the time to take it out and use it, and I hope someone can purchase it and really enjoy photography!! |
aWilly Ronis192009 saw the passing of French photographer Willy Ronis, long considered one of the last great French Humanist photographers aged 99. Born in Paris, Ronis is best known for his pictures of everyday life in Provence and in Paris, in particular the working-class districts of Belleville and Montmartre. He became a full-time photographer in 1945. He joined Doisneau, Brassaï and others at the Rapho Agency. He was the first French photographer to work for LIFE Magazine, and Edward Steichen exhibited him at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953 in a show called Four French Photographers. He was also part of the Family of Man exhibit. The Afterimage Gallery gave him what was perhaps his first American art gallery show in 1985.
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