Fleurieu Peninsula Photography Day Tour

Recently ran our first of these day tours and was great to see it sold out!!!!! We encountered a little bit of light rain in the morning for about 10-15 minutes but otherwise the weather was perfect for the rest of the day.

Apart from one of the locations we have intentionally sought out locations which arent so well known such as

Talisker Mines
Cape Jervis
Second Valley
Ingalalla Waterfalls
Port Willunga

It was a very enjoyable day for all and a good learning experience using filters which most had not used much before. Filters such as circular polarisers, graduated filters and neutral density filters.

We have programmed in a couple of new dates, so if learning some more about your camera and filters, spending the day with other keen photographers appeals you can book in here

http://www.eventbrite.com.au/event/6115727305/eorg

Here's a few photos from the day

View from Talisker Mines lookout over Backstairs Passage towards Kangaroo Island

Rocky Beach at Cape Jervis

View from Cape Jervis Beach back towards the lighthouse and Kangaroo Island

Pebble Beach at Second Valley

Second Valley

Rock formations at Second Valley

Reflections in a water pool at Ingalalla Waterfalls

Typical australian rural scene outside of Normanville

Jetty ruins at Port Willunga

Light Painting Nights

Something new we have recently setup, not a workshop as such just a night that a group people can get together and have fun with light painting. We have quite a few materials we bring along on the night for people to have fun with including sparklers,laser pointers, torches, led lights.

And a special technique to create images such as the one below is used throughout the night.

The nights are run at various locations throughout the Adelaide CBD check them out here

http://www.eventbrite.com.au/org/2765568408

This link will take you to the booking site for all our workshops and tours, come and join in and have some fun with us.

Night Time Photography Workshops

Our popular night time workshop is currently live on scoopon

http://www.scoopon.com.au/deals/16093/cbd---master-the-art-of-night-photography-in-a-three-hour-workshop

Check it out and join in on the fun.

Photo Piracy

We are probably all aware of the piracy issues surrounding movies, software etc. but it seems when it comes to photographs many people have no clue they may be actually breaking the law when they copy that photo from flickr or google images.

As a photographer when you create an image you hold the copyright of that photograph and as a result you hold the right to make money from that photograph and to some degree control the usage of that image.
The main difference is that unlike the movie or software industries where there are major international organisations which enforce copyright no such body exists for photographers.

The reason I write about this was that when visiting the Royal Adelaide Hospital recently some of their promotional material displayed in public places clearly contained images which had been stolen. Its hard enough for photographers to make a living and it makes it even harder when our government bodies are either uneducated or couldn't care less.

Here's the image which you can quite clearly see the copyright warning from a company called Inmagine. Other images on the notices I would suspect were also lifted from the internet without payment as an easy give away is that the image has been blown up behind its resolution and becomes blocky. Our government departments should know better!!!!

Now this photographer deserves payment for their work, there is the potential that significant costs were incurred in the creation of this image. It could be a paid model, a makeup artist may have been needed, the cost of travel to this location etc.

I would encourage you to report these instances if you see them around, if there is a watermark or copyright notice on the image it has been stolen. Simply take a photo and send it to the company indicated in the watermark.

Unfortunately because there is no body protecting us we as individuals have to take action when we see things like this.

Sad Times

A bit of a shock to the system.

A fortnight ago my mother was advised that she basically had terminal cancer. It would be highly unlikely that medicos would be able to cure/remove the cancer and advised that she would only have a matter of months if she chose not to have chemo or 12-18 months if she did.

Well firstly let me say some doctors need to learn some people skills, fancy telling someone that when they are in hospital not well, already scared, no-one to support them at the time and until that moment we had been led to believe that the cancer could be operated on.

But the reason I post this is that we know that doctors arent always right with their predictions and was hoping someone out there might have some positive stories to share. People who have defied doctors predictions or even beaten so called inoperable cancer. Would love to hear them as I think she needs to hear some positive stories.