Red-bellied Black at Boulder Beach yesterday. Love the Willy Wagtail defending his territory😀
Congratulations to Tim Mulholland for winning this weeks Digital Camera Warehouse competition “Motion Photography”
Is anyone is interested in taking some footy shots tomorrow? I’ll be down at Fripp oval tomorrow around 2pm to get that specky shot!BOMBERS CLASH 💣 ![]()
Ballina vs Burleigh at Fripp Oval![]()
This Saturday ![]()
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Reserves 12pm, Seniors 2pm![]()
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Come down and support us yeww🔥![]()
And stick around cause the girls play after 💃
Thank you to everyone for their lovely comments on my talk on editing at the meeting the other night. ![]()
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For those of you who were there, you might recognize my image of a couple standing under a digitally modified waterfall (Path Blur in Photoshop). ![]()
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I found out this morning that it won the **Australian Photography Magazine **competition theme of Leading Lines. ![]()
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The judge/editor of the magazine gave me some great feedback: ![]()
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*"This is a fantastic image because it brings something new to long exposure images of waterfalls – something that’s pretty difficult to do."*![]()
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*"You’ve done a great job of visualising the result you wanted before you took the image. The placement of the couple and the flow of the water that leads towards them makes for a visually balanced frame, but you’ve also done well to choose a shutter speed that retains texture and doesn’t just turn the water to milk."*![]()
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*"But what sets the image apart is the intrigue you’ve created – initially at least I didn’t know exactly what it is I was looking at – are the couple summoning the water, or just observers of nature? This sense of mystery creates interest, and when you that combine that with your great technical skills, makes for a winning shot." As winner, Julie will take home an awesome $150 print and framing voucher from Created For Life, thanks to our wonderful sponsor [Created For Life Australia.](createdforlife.com.au/?gclid=Cj0KCQjw1N2TBhCOARIsAGVHQc62gJ3KFr81idT1N2y7fmKeNIS7jmfdyocylKlUExxA…
This may be of interest to members before the next outing later this month.
Astrophotography: The Ultimate Guide
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A complete guide to astrophotography for beginning photographers, from what it is to how you can use what you have to shoot amazing photos.
Here’s the panorama from last nights meeting I said was on the phone, verses the one from my Fujifilm. I think the Fujifilm one is a little too tight.![]()
And just to mix things up, the third image is a 16 shot panorama.![]()
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With all my panoramas, I focus on an object that will ensure everything in the following shots is in focus. I note what the ISO/aperture/shutter speed, which I change to manual mode and set, so all images don’t change during my shots.![]()
Lastly, I stitch them in lightroom, which does a pretty good job.![]()
Easy peasy😃
**Congratulations **to Julie Pallant on being this weeks winner in the Digital Camera Warehouse competition. This weeks topic was Beverage Photography.
Last night Julie spoke about the Topaz Suite of software. Have a look at their site as they have $100 off 3 of their most popular programs that ends on May 6 USA time. www.topazlabs.com/image-quality-bundle?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=bundle_sale&… . Here is an example of Topaz DeNoise in use on one of my images.
Just a reminder that I will be talking about how I go about editing my photos in a presentation at tonight’s Photography Club meeting entitled: ‘Turning pixels into art’.![]()
The slide show from the presentation will be available for you to copy onto a memory stick so bring one along if you are interested.
Julie Pallant’s presentation tonight at the meeting for those members who could not make it to the club meeting. A copy will also be posted on the camera club website. Use the Stop/Play button to read the information at your own pace.
Lamp posts have multiple purposes! In this case the gulls seem to be using this one to play ‘who’s the king of the castle’.
I entered into the photography section and won a few prizes please try and have a entry. If I was living here this is what I would do for the club members get their entries to submit to this show.
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Mark
petapixel.com
A beginner photographer’s guide to shooting in manual mode to have full control over turning your vision into photos.
Ok – while everyone is posting Alpaca Farm images; I went to the local AFL match again. Only 750 shots today, whittled down to 13. Here are a selection. Sorry for indulging you all with my quest for the specky.
I spent the morning chasing the mum and bub alpaca around hoping they would move away from the fence which tends to spoil the photo. I managed to snap the bub just as he/she had finished feeding from mum and was peaking out from between her legs.
For the twitchers in the club.
Full Story of Kestrel Couple’s First Year 🦅 Kestrels Apollo & Athena
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This film follows a kestrel couple as they overcome their early, awkward, courtship to become excellent parents to three kestrel chicks.To support my channel…
Lamps, Day & night off my deck. Even managed to get the full moon last Tuesday night.
Portfolio! Shame about my incomplete meal. Maybe a bit of a touch up would be in order.
Lovely morning out at the farm. Great to see so many people there. Lots of fun and photos!
I do love a GIF as well. Here’s a free kick for the guy who made this tackle.
Today at the farm we were told the only animal we had to stay away from was the donkey. Here is Tim trying to make friends with it.
Thanks for the opportunity to visit the Alpaca farm this morning – this is a shot of my favorite character, snapped while he was having a snack. ![]()
To blur the background I used my zoom lens at 200mm and set the aperture to f/4.0![]()
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Lens: EF 70-200mm![]()
Aperture: f/4.0![]()
Shutter speed: 1/1000sec![]()
ISO: 400![]()
Focal Length 200mm
A great day out at Erwin Alpaca. 18 members enjoying a beautiful morning when the sun came out for us. I am sure we will be seeing lots of great photos😏
My Junkspace image has been accepted as a finalist (one of 80) tin the Brisbane Lethbridge Landscape prize (open to all media).
Congratulations to Don Eagleton on being this weeks winner in the Digital Camera Warehouse competition. This weeks topic was Environmental Portraits.
Inside a Camera at 10,000fps – The Slow Mo Guys
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Gav shows you how insanely quick the inside of a DSLR camera moves when it takes a picture, by filming it at 10,000 fps.Follow on Twitter – twitter.c…
I’ve got a “special request” for a club member who may be up for a challenge. As you all know , we were pretty devastated by the flood. One of my very prized possessions was a printed painting that stood over my grandmothers fireplace. Even though I put it up high in my house before the flood , it went underwater… I’ve taken it out of the frame and it’s marked and buckled. Is there any member who would be interested in taking it for me , photographing it, fixing up the damaged pieces on it in photoshop , and ordering me a copy of the print in the same size. Obviously I will pay pay for the print , but wondered if someone was willing to volunteer their time . It is 600mm High and 960 long.
Wishing every one a very happy Easter ,some photos taken at Lithgow now Autum leaves falling time .
Some images from yesterday’s AFL match between the Ballina Bombers and the Cararra Saints. I was shooting JPG only, sports mode and high burst, which meant I took over 1200 photos. Yikes! I’ve culled them down to 14. Still lots to learn doing sport photography.![]()
I’m still looking for that specky😁
I’m heading out to take some photos of the local AFL team, the Ballina Bombers at Fripp Oval, if anyone’s interested. 1st Grade starts at 2.00pm.![]()
I’m ever hopeful of getting that specky shot!
the water is getting higher and higher – is this the transportation of the future? – No more empty seats!
This may be useful for members who have Photoshop and Bridge www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSu3TE5NCNw .
048 – 5 Minute Fix – The Camera Club – Competition Image Size – Photoshop
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There have always been image size rules for Camera Clubs and societies. Photoshops Bridge helps to make this easy and consistentDownload this video from Here…
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Dorrigo plateau, wish I was there, but the roads in are all not in good shape!