Composing your photo – Odds or Evens?

Composing your photo – Odds or Evens?

I ran across this fascinating quick article from Jeff Wignall that got me thinking about the photos that make me stop and take a second look. There can be many factors that contribute to the success or failure of your image, however this little observation may make or break your photographs. Read more

Challenge your photography

Challenge your photography

I ran across this great article from Jeff Wignall that really challenged the way I take photographs. In the article ‘Need a challenge? Illustrate a concept‘ it struck a chord with me about the shoot anything method with a digital camera.

I know when I pull out my DSLR, regardless of whether I am shooting with Nikon, Canon or whatever I have tended to just shoot so much and eventually be Read more

Asterisk in the sky

Asterisk in the sky

An asterisk is a symbol that looks like this * . So how do you turn an asterisk into a photograph?
Zack Sheppard has been combing the files of Flickr and found an amazing array of images, many of them taken with a Digital SLR camera and I suspect a polarising filter. You will see from viewing some of the images the way Read more

The Magic of a Polarising Filter

The Magic of a Polarising Filter

The polarising filter would have to be the one must have accessory that I would take with me everywhere!

In a really informative article Jeff Wignall explains the many and varied uses of a polarising filter in your photography. Many people are amazed that a polariser can darken a blue sky, saturate colour and eliminate reflection and Read more

How to Photograph a Lightning Strike

By guest contributor Damian Riches

In the following explanation I will try to cover the basic photography technique you’ll need to take good lightning pictures. You will very quickly notice that shooting light is not at all that difficult technically speaking but it takes time, patience and also determination.

Equipment Protection

Taking lightning pictures is exciting but you need to remember that you paid money for your photography equipment so the last thing you want is to have it ruined. Read more

Silhouette Photography made easy

Capturing that brilliant silhouette of a fisherman at sunrise, or a boat on the water against the backdrop of a setting sun, is all about timing — and a few basic rules. Read more

Shooting Great Pictures at Home

By guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)

I’ve travelled a fair portion of Australia, with only Tasmania and the tropical north of Qld still escaping my lens and it would be a reasonable assumption that whilst all of those kilometres enveloped me in their protection from all things “back home”, they also gave me opportunities to take some spectacular photographs. Read more

Photographing Abrolhos Islands

From guest contributor Peter Langston (Lango)

Read more about Peter here and on facebook. Peter is a customer of the Eastmon Tamworth store.

After three months in WA, you might think it hard to pinpoint one outstanding day above all else.
It is, but only if you have never been to the Abrolhos Islands..
The Abrolhos are an archipelago of three groups of islands (Easter, Wallabi and Pelsaert) and coral reefs which lie in the Indian Ocean and are home to a rich diversity of wildlife and for a large part of each year, Cray fishermen who work the waters for the lucrative return of Western Rock Lobsters raised in the warm waters of the Leeuwin stream, flowing south from the tropics along the WA coast. Read more