Tuesday, March 30, 2010

More Landscapes - The Rock - Wagga

The last landscape I'm going to bother doing for a while. Plus, I worked out how unfit I am that it was heavy work to haul 5kg of camera gear up a hill. Stitched HDR and converted to B&W with PP to bring out the cloud texture. 24mm @ f8, handheld. PS does a good job of stitching these days.



Need to get back to my portraiture. Went to the National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition. Maybe it's just me, but only a few (including the winner) stood out as exceptional photos. Without wanting to sound self involved, many amounted to mere snapshots.

Have you ever seen an very ordinary, blurry photo of a surly looking teenager taken by his mother blown up to a huge size and hung in a national gallery? Well here is your chance.

I'm not saying that my photos are works of art or contain vast quantities of emotive content, but heck, I can at least take a photo that doesn't have back focus or slow shutter blur (most of the time anyways).