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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Power In a Picture

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On November 7, 2013
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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 […]

Take A Different View

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On October 27, 2013
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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 […]

The Bike Shop

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On October 26, 2012
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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 […]

In the Beginning……

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 23, 2012
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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 […]

Photo Tip – Light and Colour

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 21, 2012
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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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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.

Full Moon Over Warraweena

Posted by webmaster
On May 4, 2011
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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 […]

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, […]