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Photo News:Welcome to another Bluedog Photography E-Newsletter! If winter is chilling your bones south of the equator check out our tips for winter photography below. It's a great season to be out with the camera. First up the BIG NEWS: Our October Tamborine Mountain Retreat booked out within a day of places being opened so we have now scheduled another for September - we still have at time of writing, a few places available. The Vanuatu Tour in October is nearly full, so if you are thinking of joining us on this amazing tour designed by photographers for photographers it's time to register. Our Norfolk Photography Tour is planned! The dates are the 3rd-10th February 2010 and during this trip we will be meeting with renowned photographer Robin Nisbet and visiting his studio on Norfolk Island. Partners are welcome to join us on the tour. A page has been set up on the web site with more details which you can access through the workshop calendar page. Thanks to Henryk from Holiday Coast Tours for developing an amazing tour for us. If this interests you please email us and we'll keep you on the email update list for the Norfolk Tour. Our first Gold Coast @ Dusk was a great night - see the first-class image captured by Rebecca on the evening below. And our first Fast Shutters Fast Cars where participants were instructed on one of the hardest aspects of sports photography: panning. This does take some work and if you look below at the images there's one sent in by Kelly showing a pretty good attempt and that it is it is achievable with practice and play - well done Kelly! We have another voucher to win at present, visit us at the markets or at one of the workshops and fill in a entry form for a $100.00 voucher to any retreat, tour or workshop of your choice! Winning ticket will be drawn at this month's Tamborine Mountain Market at approx. 1.00pm. Along with the workshops the crew have been working hard professionally. As many of you know this is our full time job and it helps keep us current which is always a bonus for those attending our workshops. These past few months we've been on shoots mainly locally including up to the Mackay region and beautiful Brampton Island. After that it was out west to Mitchell and Charleville where we discovered two wonderful new places if you're heading out west: Bonus Downs near Mitchell and Evening Star Tourist Park at Charleville. Check out our Recent Adventures Page for some images and more will be uploaded as we finalise the images for our clients. Our web site update is progressing and over time you will start to notice a lot of changes to make it a more user friendly site for you. 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. Mariah Graveling, a Year 10 student from Tamborine Mountain High School joined us for a week's work experience in July. Other then learning what a hectic life professional photographers lead, Mariah went on her first professional shoot and assisted us processing the images. Look out in the future, this young lady may be a name you hear more about! Planning is also underway for an Outback Queensland Tour next year. We are currently looking at a fly/in-drive-fly/out and staying at accommodated lodgings to enable those that don't have a 4WD to be able to hire one and still experience a magnificent part of Queensland. Please if you are interested email us to be placed on the email list for updates. We've also been uploading regularly on our blog with photography tips, news, and info being placed on there every week. You can also now subscribe to have the blog updates come straight through to your email address. Amongst other things some of the pups have been heading up to Brisbane for the Brisbane Camera Group meetings. Thanks John for making us all so welcome. We'll be at the Tamborine Mountain markets on the second Sunday of every month so why not call in and say g'day. And last but not least, we all need a good chuckle some days! This is what happened to Mick who gladly handed his camera to his wife to take a happy snap of him and his son before his son departed for a holiday to the United States:
A testimonial from Steve: Keep those fingers clicking and enjoying your photography! |
| Thanks again for sending through your images - we do enjoy seeing them and wish we could feature more! Well done!! |
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 This amazing abstract was taken by Michelle at a Mums & Bubs session in Brisbane. |
 Amy Hockley's printed image! |
 Augustine captured this sunset after a Bluedog Photography Workshop. |
 Scott plays on the Gold Coast. |
 Rebecca's amazing moonrise at our Gold Dusk @ Dusk! |
 One of Christine's wonderful images captured in Cambodia recently. |
 A great shot by Robert of the Ravenswood Church. |
 Kelly nails the art of panning at Fast Shutters Fast Cars. |
 Debbie is showing a real flair for portrait photography! |
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: Winter PhotographyAre you thinking winter means hot chocolate, warm fires and staying indoors? Think again as winter can be one of the most challenging of our seasons to photograph. l Keep your Batteries Warm: They don't like the cold so keep a spare one close to your body. l Watch those Whites: You don't want your snow grey and your camera will meter read to make it close to an 18% grey. Know how to overcome this! Polar bears are usually white, not grey. l Watch the Metal!: If you are going into sub-freezing temperatures touching bare metal with bare hands can be very, very painful. If your tripod has no protection wrap something round the legs so you do not touch the metal! l Coming in From the Cold: Cold air is dry and warm air is moist. Be aware of condensation forming in your gear when you come on inside. l LCD Dramas: Again when very cold your LCD (Liquid Crystal Displays) can be affected by low temperatures. You may notice they lose contrast, change the displayed information more slowly, and become quite sensitive to touch and if you press on them you may notice they change colour. In general this should be reversible once your screen warms up.
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What's On: Photography Exhibitionsl Up Close and Spinelesss :: Invertebrate Photography exhibition. l Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour:Showcases photography and moving image works by artists from the contemporary Asian, Pacific and Australian collections. Cairns Regional Gallery Caloundra Regional Art Gallery l Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award 2009: Established as a key exhibition in the contemporary art calendar! l Sixth Leica/CCP Documentary Photography Award Exhibition: Bundoora Homestead Art Centre l Vaniman Panora: l Axe Me Biggie: l Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow: l Don McCullin - In England: |
Photo Trivia: Did You Know?Here's one for the collectors! This stamp was issued in France on the 24th April 1939 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of photography. It features Niecephore Niépce (left), Louis J. M. Daguerre (right) and F. Arago (in the middle) while he announces at the meeting of Academie Francaise the invention of photography in January 1839. The world's first photograph was taken on a summer day in France in 1826 and took 8 hours to expose! The 'negative' was a 8"x6.5" coated pewter plate sensitised with bitumen of Judea and the camera a camera obscura. Niépce's image forms part of the Gernsheim collection—an internationally renowned photography archive encompassing the history of the medium—which was acquired by the Ransom Center in 1964.So if you want to see it its off to the University of Texas!
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Bluedog's Eco TipSave Power! Guess what? Electricity is going up and up and eating into our budgets. Did you know the average home in developed countries generates more than 750kg of green house gas each year by just the items running on standby power. And you know that microwave we find so handy for quick heat ups? Well some generate more greenhouse gas running the digital clock than cooking food! So turn off those electrical appliances when not in use. A quick trip around the house flicking those switches off each morning can save you not only money but help save our Earth.
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Dedication
to the Masters of the Lens Selbastiã Salgado is a Brazilian photographer, who briefly pursued a career as an economist before switching to photography in 1971. He is now considered one of the best photojournalists alive today. Salgado has photographed some foremost issues such as the famine in Niger and the war in Mozambique. In 1979 he joined Magnum Photos cooperative for photo journalists and in 1981 he gained recognition after capturing a photo of John Hickneys attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. He then continued to devote himself to the job of storytelling through series of images he took focusing mainly on the homeless and down trodden. As a reflection of his main focus most of his photographs are portrayed in black and white. A well renowned photographer and being a part of the “concerned photography” culture Salgado has won virtually every prize in recognition of his photography, from around the world. In 1994 he founded Amazonas Images, his own press agency and he now lives in Paris with his wife Leila Wanick Salgado. In his latest project which is nearing completion, “Genesis” he is documenting the effects of modern development on our fragile environment. Salgado claims he is a reporter rather than an artist. In one interview he commented: "It's not my intention to give people guilty consciences, just to make them think. One thing is for sure, he is indeed a humanist who conveys his feelings with powerful images and tells of life how it really is. "I hope that the person who visits my exhibitions, and the person who comes out, are not quite the same," says Mr. Salgado. "I believe that the average person can help a lot, not by giving material goods but by participating, by being part of the discussion, by being truly concerned about what is going on in the world."
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