Nearly forgot about this; so fired up the trusty Canon 7D @ ISO160 F11 with my 70-300mm IS onboard. It was pretty cloudy, but managed to grab a couple of shots.
Nearly forgot about this; so fired up the trusty Canon 7D @ ISO160 F11 with my 70-300mm IS onboard. It was pretty cloudy, but managed to grab a couple of shots.
As I mentioned I might, last Tuesday morning, with my tripod strapped to my bike, and my camera, lenses, and MacBook Air stuffed into a backpack, I headed up to North Head, Manly to shoot the passing of Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth as the passed into Sydney Harbour. Some things worked well, but I must admit that overall I came away disappointed with the fruits of my labours.
Panorama photos of the visit of the Cunard Line cruise ships Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth to Sydney Harbour. Taken from North Head, Manly, with a Canon 7D tethered to Adobe Lightroom 3 on a MacBook Air. […]
I haven’t been up early for a dawn photo shoot in a while, but I am going to give it a go tomorrow morning.
How about two massive cruise ships, the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2, meeting off Sydney Harbour Heads and cruising in tandem into port? I will take a shot of that! […]
I get asked for product recommendations frequently. And my recommendations are ignored frequently
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Oh well.
I am a bit of a “gear head”, and love researching new camera gear. If only I had some way to pay for this obsession?
What about an Amazon Store you say? A good idea indeed. Behold my new Recommended Page!
In the spirit of full disclosure, as a signed up Amazon Associate, I get a tiny percentage of any products bought through the links in this Amazon store. I won’t be buying a private jet anytime soon, but it should help towards the cost of running this site. And just in time for a Christmas bailout!
Each of the hand-picked items listed I have either owned in the past, own currently, or would love to own in the future. There is no filler here, it’s all good stuff, and I would happily recommend to my family or friends.
Enjoy.
Sometimes nowadays we can get too caught up in the details, the minutiae of controls and settings. Did we set ISO correctly? What about white balance? Am I in the right position? What about over there? Is the foreground cluttered? Rule of Thirds?
Sometimes our favorite images are captured, not through technical excellence and precise adjustments of the camera controls, but by standing back and looking around.
Sometimes our best images are captured, not by focusing on what everyone else is looking at, but by looking the wrong way…

I recently subscribed to an excellent blog entitled “Serious Amateur Photography” by Jeff Lynch. In particular I liked his how-to posts, i.e. how to achieve a certain photographic result. So in that spirit, I want to share how I created the image above…
The emergence of Canon DSLR video has been a triumph and a struggle for wannabe Steven Spielberg’s, me included. The triumph is the undoubted quality of the image, and the creative avenues opened up by the wide variety of lenses available.
The struggle includes the introduction of so much new terminology, so many new ways to be creative and to fail miserably, and the inevitable havoc caused to well established workflows with the introduction of video. This post outlines my efforts to arrive at something resembling a usable workflow for video, using MPEG Streamclip, Adobe Premiere Pro, and YouTube.

We Had Some Great Adventures!
Ah, my first DSLR, a Canon 20D, it is time to part company. I will miss it, but the truth is I have not used it since I got my 7D. So it is up on eBay now, to be recycled into something new and shiny! Check it out here.
UPDATE: Sold and dispatched.
Slowly but surely I am sorting and sifting my way through my back catalog of images. This new gallery features some of my favorite shots from a two week trip to Rome in 2007. During that time, we really got a feel for this wonderful city, and especially it’s food! […]