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Rule of Odds Again

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 5, 2021
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The human eye finds images pleasing that have a certain balance or harmony. Apart from a single subject like a portrait, photographs are more visually interesting if they fall into groups of odd numbers….particularly threes. House guests or just visiting?

Filters and Exposure

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 26, 2021
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Using the Circular Polarising Filter to the max and playing with exposure for a more dramatic picture for the Dredge at the Murray Mouth. The sun was high and falling sideways across the scene which is where the polariser is at its maximum on a clear blue sky. Normally I’d back the strength of the […]

The Importance of Exposure

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 19, 2021
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I really wanted to take a photo of this tack room on Mundowdna Station near Maree in Outback South Australia. It was a collection of horse and camel saddles and the saddlebags the old cameleers used when camels where one of the main modes of transporting anything around Outback country. The trouble was the lighting. […]

Rule of Odds

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 12, 2021
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Your camera goes wherever you go

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 5, 2021
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Reading about the lives of successful photographers now and in the past, they always seemed to have their camera with them at all times. Many worked only short distances from their homes most of their lives and yet made outstanding photographs that are still masterpieces today. Joseph Sudek and Saul Leiter are just two of […]

The Dead of Night

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On December 11, 2020
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Murray Mouth Through storm, wind and rain the iron lady continues her task of keeping the waters flowing through the small outlet that is the Murray Mouth. Without the dredge that shifting sand would close the gap casing major ecological damage to the surrounding area and fisheries. The image is one of the features in […]

Choices

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On January 5, 2020
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Sometime ago I did some work for a company that employed me to take still photographs. However they also wanted to video content. That didn’t work out too well. When I decided to swap to video, I kept seeing the good still photographs that I should have been taking, so both suffered. Since then I’ve […]

Aerial Photography

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 2, 2018
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Drones have brought a new perspective to photographing the landscape but there are limitations and sometimes an aircraft is the only way to truly get a spectacular image. Drones can fly limited distances and height and in remote areas getting them to an area easily accessible is not an option. The small resolution sensors in […]

Forward Planning

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 7, 2015
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Most of my workshops are now tailored to suit the the busy lives of most people, whether it be a one, two or three day courses or a one hour Skype session. However there’s one popular workshop that needs a bit of forward planning. The last 3 day event held at Arkaroola in the northern Flinders […]

Lake Frome – An Eerie World of Salt and Sand

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On May 24, 2015
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Glad not to have false teeth. The track(very loose term) to this location was a real car killer. I’m on the edge of Lake Frome, a very large expanse of salt to the east of Balcanoona in the northern Flinders Ranges of South Australia. The salt on the lake is dotted with sand dunes said to […]

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 […]

A Couple of Characters

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On April 24, 2014
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Cockatoos noisily posing in the afternoon sun

On Your Bike

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 31, 2013
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Shops in Paris, particularly in the central part of the city have quite small fronts so to make them noticeable a lot of work goes into making them works of art. This florist shop caught my eye. Obviously I was going to take a picture of it, but I decided to wait for the right […]

Froth & Bubbles

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 28, 2013
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I found this an amusing scene. All the Greek Gods or perhaps the architects of the French Revolution looking down from the parapets of the Louvre in Paris on a woman taking a bath in a truck. Yep. Times have changed. If I had waited another second I might have got the driver in a […]

A Paris Lunch

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 10, 2013
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A little cafe off the tourist trail. The Montmartre District, Paris. The food suddenly becomes so much better.

The Louvre

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On July 3, 2013
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Since the digital revolution the number of photos taken daily has become an avalanche in the billions. The number of bad photographs expands wildly while the number of good ones shrinks to a trickle. The iPhone and its way of taking a photo and similarly many of the cameras manufactured today where the screen at […]

The Luminous Labyrinth

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 27, 2013
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Matera town by night. Some really great restaurants featuring fresh local produce ensured an active nightlife in this rural community. I recall resting the camera on the top of a wall to get this nightscape. f2.8, shutter 1/10th sec, ISO 2000, FUji X 100s

Workshop in Matera

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On June 19, 2013
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Where the Hell is Matera? Well, you won’t find it on a map anywhere around my usual haunts. Let me explain. The Sentimental Bloke has beaten a pretty straight path over the last three years, concentrating on a wonderful part of Australia, the Flinders Ranges and the surrounding deserts. From the comments and emails I […]

Natures Gems

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On March 4, 2013
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I am no geologist but when I saw this specimen under light I couldn’t resist the idea of a photograph. This is gypsum crystal…one of the mineral’s many forms. Not all that common but certainly beautiful. The piece is quite large and I shot this in an almost dark room with just the light on […]

The Vagaries of Summer

Posted by Peter MacDonald
On February 18, 2013
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