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Meditation and Photography

Meditation and Photography

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On May 26, 2019
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  The value of Meditation has come a long away in the western world over last 20 years Even though Its been around for 2000 years or so in eastern culture it  was treated with some scepticism by the modern world and science. That has rapidly changed in recent years with scientific study of the […]
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Practise Makes Perfect

Practise Makes Perfect

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On December 13, 2017
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  • camera, old buildings, photo workshops, photography, shadows
Had a camera for a few years or just bought one. It was  the best I could afford at the time. Unfortunately I’m not making pictures that I am really happy with. I am not sure if it is the camera or me. You might fit into one of these scenarios or you might be […]
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East Mount Painter Gorge

East Mount Painter Gorge

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On June 11, 2014
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Photographers talk generally about the Golden Hour – that hour around  dawn or dusk when photography is at its best. In this case it could be filtered down to just a few minutes after the sun has risen. East Mt. Painter Gorge, in the Flinders Ranges, taken in those few precious minutes at a time when […]
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Power In a Picture

Power In a Picture

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On November 7, 2013
  • 2 Comments
This picture has a certain power, not just because of the dramatic location  but because of the contrast between the church and the background. The church of San Pietro Caveoso perches right on the lip of a  ravine in the old part of Matera, a city and a province in southern Italy. The first rays […]
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Take A Different View

Take A Different View

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On October 27, 2013
  • 2 Comments
  Flowers  and animals are like children, best photographed from their level rather than an adult’s view. But sadly this idea is all too often forgotten. Getting down and dirty with the flowers though is not without its discomforts and miseries. The Sturt Desert Pea is a beautiful but lowly bloom and in this case […]
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The Bike Shop

The Bike Shop

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On October 26, 2012
  • 1 Comments
This is not a camera review, but the image speaks for itself. A new additional to my cameras, the Fuji X-Pro 1 with a 50mm equivalent prime lens. Shot at f1.6 at 1/40th sec at ISO 1250. Hand held. Very much a low light situation with no noise in the image. Straight from the camera […]
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In the Beginning……

In the Beginning……

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On July 23, 2012
  • 2 Comments
Something of a historical photo….the first successful landscape I took. The date June 12, 2004 and somehow in amongst a numbing number of poorly exposed/out of focus/poorly composed/ and a host of other mistakes….my first success. It’s a place called Greenly Beach, west of Port Lincoln on South Australia’s west coast. The afternoon was heavy […]
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Photo Tip – Light and Colour

Photo Tip – Light and Colour

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On July 21, 2012
  • 1 Comments
I have a student new to photography whose pictures don’t have much life. The subjects are interesting but the pictures aren’t conveying that. The answer won’t lie in Photoshop or Lightroom but in what happens in the field. How many times have you seen a fantastic panorama that’s just going to be the perfect picture, […]
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When Any Prop will Do

When Any Prop will Do

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On May 13, 2012
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  • William Creek
Apart from a great pub, there’s not a lot else in William Creek on the Oodnadatta Track to photograph…but there are plenty of aircraft. So, when there’s a sunset and two large contrails from jets on the the run from Sydney to Perth, you use any prop you can get. The sun was well and […]
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Wing Power

Wing Power

  • Posted by Peter MacDonald
  • On November 27, 2011
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Wildlife isn’t something that I am either equipped for or patient enough to specialise in, but this magnificent creature did all the right things for me. I took these images a couple of days after a workshop at Arkaroola last week. I had been working the Arkaroola waterhole with two very keen and experienced photographers […]
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Portrait Too

Portrait Too

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On May 8, 2011
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It’s a good habit to develop when shooting landscapes, to also look at the portrait perspective too. Back in late January I photographed this scene link to picture along a stretch of the Arkaroola Creek not far from Bolla Bollana waterhole in the Flinders Ranges. The portrait version, I think it is a better image.
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Full Moon Over Warraweena

Full Moon Over Warraweena

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On May 4, 2011
  • 1 Comments
A full moon rising behind the ruins of the Sliding Rock mine on the Warraweena Conservation Park, northern Flinders Ranges. The night before a full moon, as in this case means the moon has risen at about that same time the sun is setting so there is still plenty of available light. It can pay […]
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Country Birds

Country Birds

  • Posted by webmaster
  • On April 21, 2011
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f5.6 1/4000 sec ISO 400, focal length 300 mm , Auto Focus – Canon AI Servo mode. Nikon and the other camera makers will have another name for A1 Servo. The mode locks on to a subject and keep it in focus while the shutter button is held down half way, even when the subjects, […]
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