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Can you believe the countdown to Christmas is on? It's been another busy couple of month's here in the kennel. Danielle travelled to Thailand and Cambodia, Suellen and Nick headed to Vanuatu with one of our tours and the Bluedog-Kingfisher Bay Fraser Island and Stradbroke Island Night Landscape tours were a huge success. Check out the web site for tour dates already planned for next year and we are excited to be planning more. Did you see the spooks on Halloween? What a great night we had in the graveyard. And we'll be planning more of these for the new year too. Are you interested in coming with us to Norfolk in February? Its filling and we only have 4 places left for our May 2010 Vanuatu Photo Tour which may be the only one next year with new tours being released. Our next Stradbroke Night Landscapes Tour date has been announced - see below! We welcome a few new faces to the pack!
Amy Hockley is also kindly giving us her time to keep the Bluedog Facebook Group Weekly Challenge in order - a master of FB. Amy has already set up an album on the Bluedog Page where the weekly winners and the judge’s comments will go. Thanks Amy you are a champion! We must also mention since Amy attended the Bluedog Photography Weekend Retreat she has gone on and up with her photography. She now is a regular journo and photographer with a magazine and busily travelling race circuits for a range of corporate and media clients. Well done to you Amy! A big congratulations to Garry who took out 2nd prize in the BHP Billiton Outback photo competition. New to our newsletter are short product reviews. This one's on the new Lensbaby Fisheye Optic. The Bluedog-Photo Planet Weekly Photo Challenge on the Bluedog Facebook page has been getting everyone clicking away each week and the entries have been fabulous. Congratulations to all who have entered and taken up the challenge. It's open to anyone who has attended a Bluedog Photography Workshop, Retreat or Tour and we must say a special thanks to Gerard again from Photo Planet, in Southport, for his prize each week of a 12x18" print!! 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. As our workshop sizes are kept very small this is often achievable. When weather allows, we will be at the Tamborine Mountain markets at the show grounds on the second Sunday of every month. Feel free to call in and say g'day. We wish everyone a safe and happy Christmas and all the very best for the New Year! Keep those fingers clicking and enjoying your photography! |
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 Natalie took out a merit with this image 'Lil' in the AB grade of her camera group. |
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 The Bluedog Photography-Photo Planet Weekly Facebook Challenge has many clicking and playing. This image won Linden the Repetition Challenge. |
 Halloween spooks by By Ashley Geosits |
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 The girls hard at work during the Bluedog-Kingfisher Bay Fraser Island Photography Tour. |
 Thanks Judy for sending this one in of a sunset shoot on Fraser Island. |
 One of many of the stunning portraits taken by Ann-Maree during the October tour to Vanuatu. |
 Brilliant night landscape by Kristen during the Bluedog Photography Stradbroke Island Tour! |
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: using flashSo often we hear people saying they are disappointed in their flash photography results. One of the biggest reasons for this is actually the operator (sorry to inform you!) not knowing how to properly use their flash with their camera's light meter. The below two images were both taken at the same time of day, from the same position. The first one the camera is set to Program mode and the flash to the ‘normal’. When using flash for your photography the trick is not to know flash has been used. Last year we judged Queensland’s 100 year National Park anniversary photo competition. There were thousands of entries and unfortunately many stunning images were ruined by the use of flash. Flash when used correctly can and does give a stunning image. Remember when your flash batteries are near exhaustion they will affect your flash power output even if your camera is fully charged.
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I Frame by Frame: Asia Pacific Artists on Tour: Showcases photography and moving image works by artists from the contemporary Asian, Pacific and Australian collections. 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: I Irving Penn: Small Trades |
The first photograph below is of Florence Nightingale, one of nursing’s most important figures and dubbed “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night to tend to injured soldiers. It was discovered in an album of mid 19th century photographs in 2006. Taken in 1858, it shows Florence sitting reading outside her family home in Embley Park, Hampshire two years after her return from the war. Early photographs of Florence Nightingale are very rare because she was extremely reluctant to be photographed, partly for religious reasons and also because she regarded any personal publicity as detrimental to the causes of public health. The second photo was discovered in 2008 and was taken in 1910 (52 years after the one above). It’s the last photograph taken of her and shows 90 year old Florence in her bedroom at her home in South Street, London near Hyde Park. The photo was taken by Lizzie Caswall Smith, a noted studio photographer in the early 1900s who specialized in celebrity and society studio portraits. On the back of the photo Caswall Smith wrote, “Taken just before she died, house near Park Lane. The only photograph I ever took out of studio. I shall never forget the experience.”
Help save the planet when shopping! Always consider the planet when doing your weekly grocery shopping. Try when possible to buy fresh products as frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce than fresh food!
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Released in October 2009 you can now turn your Lensbaby Composer into a fisheye! A brand-new part of the Lensbaby Optic Swap System the Fisheye Optic’s ultrawide 12mm focal length captures an eye-popping fisheye view from infinity all the way down to 2.5cm (1inch) away. The Lensbaby Fisheye Optic captures eye-popping images and features a system of interchangeable aperture disks, with possible aperture settings ranging from f/4 to f/22. With a RRP of $249.00 AUD it is expected to be available by mid November 2009.
For more info visit: We review the hardworking Pro Roller x-series released by Lowpro in house over the next couple of weeks. |
aWorking primarily in black and white, Mary Ellen Mark was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1940 and began photography at a mere 9 years of age with a box brownie camera. After high school, she continued to the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with a BFA Degree in painting and art history in 1962. She then went on to graduate with a Masters in Photojournalism in 1964. In 1996 or 1997, Mark moved to New York City, New York where she proceeded to gain interest in photographing the Vietnam War demonstrations, the women’s liberation movement, and transvestite culture. After this period in her life, Mark moved on to become a unit photographer on movie sets providing stills for films. To date, she has photographed on the sets of over 100 films. In addition, Mark has contributed to many publications including Life, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Her photography aims to address issues such as homelessness, loneliness, drug addiction and prostitution. Mark works intensely to find her subject and the right moment. "Her passion for the meaningful single image, whether part of a longer project or not, is revealed quickly by putting photographs from different essays side by side. Her core concern and strength of vision creates a broader context. One sees her subjects are people, no matter where. Both respect and the edginess persist: the ultimate story is much more profound." Marianne Fulton. Mark takes her desire for excellence right though to the editing of her work - everything must be excellent, there must be clarity and the image must be able to stand alone. She is able to remove herself from the situation and not allow nostalgic memory hinder her from producing that final image that all can read a story from. She will be renowned as one of the greatest photographers of all time. As of 2009, Mark has published 16 books, won numerous awards and her photography continues to be exhibited worldwide. “I’am just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven’t had the best breaks in society. "I think you reveal yourself by what you choose to photograph, but I prefer photographs that tell more about the subject. There's nothing much interesting about me; what is interesting is the person I'm photographing, and that's what I try to show." "What's interesting is letting people tell you about them selves in the picture."
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