Australian Photography

Ever since I was born, my family and I would pack up our belongings, hitch the caravan, and drive what was then an hour and twenty-minutes from our home in Western Sydney to North Narrabeen on the North Sydney coast. It was there I learned to swim, s

So much of the craft of photography is about getting the thing in the frame that we want to stand out to stand out, to readily catch the viewer's eye. For some photographers this is a subconscious action but for most of us, myself included, it’s quit

THIS MONTH’S WINNER Painting with Light Ria Murray tells us this creative image was made during a light painting camera club outing last year. “The person moving the lights is standing in the middle of the image,” she says. “I love the effect whereby

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Car photography is a popular genre of image-making but is a tricky one to get right. If you’re shooting action, you’re dealing with fast-moving subjects that can trouble any autofocus system and if you’re shooting static shots, your challenge is to m

SANDISK has unveiled a new modular storage ‘Ecosystem’, the PRO-BLADE Modular SSD. The ecosystem consists of three parts - the PRO-BLADE SSD mag, the PRO-BLADE Portable SSD enclosure, and the PRO-BLADE Desktop SSD enclosure. The PRO-BLADE SSD mag is

My first professional level Apple computer was a Power Mac G4 that I purchased new in 1999 for $6000. It had a 300-megahertz processor, 64-megabytes of RAM, 10-Gigabytes of storage and it weighed 13-kilograms. Eight years later Apple released its fir

I have been taking photographs most of my life. I began with a 120-film camera as a teenager and then gradually advanced to a SLR and then a DSLR. And yet with family, sport and work commitments filling my everyday life, my camera only seemed to come

Offering a diverse range of subject matter in an ever-changing landscape, Australia’s alpine regions are popular destinations for many landscape photographers. However, due to their remote location, these areas are not ones that many people will ever

At the time of writing, I’m participating in a free workshop spread over six two and a half hour long sessions. It’s a program designed to assist folk who are sixty-five or older to do something with their boxes of slides of past travels, their print

There are a tonne of photographers out there who are now eagerly eyeing up the monitor market. Why? Well, the mighty Apple Mac Studio has recently launched and it doesn’t ship with a decent monitor (sigh). But also, there are many laptops powerful en

Jack was taking his first surf lesson when, like all good photographers, he saw the potential for a photograph - “I got up running, full wetsuit on, mid lesson, up the shore to my bag and camera and ran back down to catch these surfers just passing m

Firstly, let me state up front, I’m not an aerial photographer and I have never been anywhere near Lake Eyre (now officially called Kati Thanda–Lake Eyre). But in early March I was given the opportunity to spend time photographing the Lake Eyre regio