tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67634028425880489862012-01-25T10:12:53.517+11:00News and reviews from Melbourne photographer Will Hore-Lacy.Will Hore-Lacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010022331763407268noreply@blogger.comBlogger331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6763402842588048986.post-48350302898383527742011-12-14T09:39:00.001+11:002011-12-14T11:03:36.428+11:00

After many late nights since returning from my trip to South Africa and Botswana I've finally got a new calendar together for 2012!  It is filled with 13 (including the cover) of my favorite wildlife photos from the trip printed on A3 200gsm satin art paper with a sturdy top wire binding and hanger.  They are a fantastic gift idea and if you order before the 17th of December in many parts of

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So for those of you that don’t know, I’m in South Africa! I’m having a holiday that has involved some time in game parks while touring around South Africa (and a bit of Botswana) and obviously taking a few photos, just a few… Currently at the half-way point but I thought I share a photo or two, you’ll have to go to flickr for more: South Africa Set

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Ever wanted a bit of fill flash on that aeroplane you are flying alongside?  Or overpower the sun that on that luxury yacht cruising the harbor?  Well Claes Axstål has a just the rig to get the job done!  Although the article doesn't really talk about the set-up for specific photos it does mention shooting medium format with leaf shutter to get a higher sync speed (Mamiya 645DF) and lighting with

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Here's a novel idea, take your photo and then decide where you want the focus point to be! This is one of the possibilities of computational photography, it is unclear from this article if it is possible without a plenoptic camera (uses microlenses to capture multiple images). I wonder if this can be used to extend the DOF as well as just choose your focus point. Oh and it has possibilities for

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Glacial Stream, a photo by will_hl on Flickr.Going back through old photos I thought I'd have another go and processing (LR3) and stitching (CS3) this one. Was able to bring out the shadow detail better and correct the perspective so I could keep the waterfall on the left in the shot. The original version is here.

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Last year I had the opportunity to combine two things I dearly love, Food & Photography, and get paid for doing it! Last year while setting up a graduation group photo at Ridley College (will write a post on that soon) I was approached by the head chief of Hot Dish catering, Michael Shaw, to take some food photos during the day.  I said sure, thinking he just wanted some photos of the spread

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Canon has just announced it is developing the EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender1.4x and it looks sensational! It will cost a mint and weigh a tonne but I suspect it was be a sensational lens for wildlife and sports photographers who need some extra length. The Nikon 200-400 f/4 is very highly regarded so provided canon doesn't do anything too silly, I think this lens will be a huge success.The

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Day 3 saw me fortunate enough to borrow a lens I'd been thinking about buying, Canon 100-400 IS.  I've been wanting to do wildlife photography for years but I've never been able to justify the big $$ to get started.  So my aim for the few house spent with this lens was to determine if wildlife photography is for me and if the lens is worth buying. Here's a few of the photos I ended up with:

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Day 2 and I took very few photos, just some rolling hills overlooking Sandy Point, Shallow Inlet and of course Wilson's Prom.

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Once again it is Cup Weekend in Melbourne and our family tradition (for the last two years) is to spend it at the holiday house in Sandy Point. Sandy Point is a small beach town in South Gippsland, Victoria, not far from Wilson’s Promontory and surround by some beautiful scenery.  You can see some of my Sandy Point photos here. This weekend has several priorities, family, sleep (am recovering

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I'm the first to admit that I haven't really done a lot of black & white photography, just a few images here and there for weddings and portraits, just barely enough to know that it is a whole new world that requires more than just desaturating an image!  So after seeing so many black & white landscapes on Moose Peterson's blog I thought it was time to have a go for myself. Here's a side by side

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Photographer Robert Benson likes to have the right tool for the job, and, if it doesn't exist at a reasonable price, he heads for the garage.  A couple of years ago he came up with a long range radio (literally) trigger when he found pocket wizards wouldn't give him the range he needed and now he's engineered (and posted for sale) a wireless DSLR external monitor.   It has been made using off the

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I picked this one up from @DSLRinformer on twitter.  Litepanels (who produce LED video lights) have just released a LED light panel with strobe function at NAB 2010!!  No idea on the flash specs but it's a cool concept.  Check out the NAB video here.

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Adobe has been showing off some pretty nice new image processing software recently, with a new beta version of Lightroom 3 and a sneak preview of Photoshop CS5! I've just downloaded the beta 2 version of Lightroom 3 and will hopefully have a look soon but the items of most interest are the tethered shooting and the new improved noise reduction feature.  I hope they are as good as they say.  More

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Just saw this article about a new type of QuantumFilm image sensor by Invisageinc that could replace CMOS!!  It looks pretty amazing and will apparently be in cell/mobile phone camera by the end of the year! Press release EE Times article Wired article

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I've been doing a lot of research and thinking (and a little action) into the best way to try and sell some if my photos.  While I've done some event photography and shot some weddings, my real passion creating amazing landscape, nature and still life prints... so I figure I should follow it.  This article is basically some rambling and thinking out loud, hopefully it will give you some ideas

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Ever wondered what dung beetles have to do with photography, night vision and road safety?  Check out this article for nature inspired pixle binning, HDR and image processing being used to try and help drivers see in the dark.Dung beetles' secret superpower: ultimate night sight

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As we are all well aware, Christmas is looming fast and the race is on to find gifts for everyone. While I'm sure I'm not the only one that's a bit over all the Christmas marketing hype, it'd be silly not to take this opportunity to give you a few nice, unique, artistic gift ideas (and if it helps I can beg and plead as well . . . ). Cards: The quality of Redbubble cards is fantastic and they

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Those that know me would have heard me dreaming about a trip to New Zealand for years and years, particularly after falling in love with REAL mountains in Canada, and in December last year a few things came together to make it possible at last! Basically we started in Christchurch with a hire car and 7 days to get to Dunedin and managed to fit in a nice little tour of a small part the South

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My 2010 Calendars are now for sale on Redbubble! I've got 4 different calendars for sale this year with the New Zealand Landscapes and a Still Life calendars new this year!Links:Will's CalendarsWill's BubblesiteWill's Redbubble profile

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This is just a quick post to say that my Yongnuo 2.4 GHz triggers last week and they are great! I haven't yet used them for an actual shoot but I've done some quick tests.These remotes are designed as wireless triggers for either a camera shutter or a flash and because the operate on the 2.4 GHz frequency the seem to avoid a lot of the interference problems that some other flash triggers have. In

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Hi my name's Will and I'm a gear-a-holic . . Ok so I'm not as bad as some but here is a bit of a review of my photo gear that gives me a fix and fuels my addiction.Canon 50DCanon 30DCanon 300DCanon 10-22mm (I love this lens!) Tamron 17-50mm f2.8Canon 100 f2.8Sigma 50mm f2.8 MacroSigma 70-200mm f2.8 Canon 50mm f1.8Sigma 17-70mm (more or less unused)Canon 18-55mm (unused)Canon 430EX Speedlight

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Redbubble now have calendars for sale! So why is that so exciting I hear you ask, well because it means that I now have calendars for sale!!Last year Redbubble came up with a way that allowed us members to put together calendars and get them printed, for ourselves. Well almost a year on and we can now offer those calendars up for sale direct to the public. They have not yet been incorporated

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I posted and article called Sync speed and flash duration earlier this year describing a hack to enable cameras with mechanical shutter to shoot using a flash at shutter speeds over the cameras max sync speed WITHOUT using a proprietary flash system. Since then a little more info has become available so I thought I'd write another article focusing on how to do it rather than just investigating

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What's that I hear you say, bout bloody time?? Yeah I agree, my web site has been neglected for a long time, largely because it was very labour intensive to update the image gallery and I figured there was no point putting more effort into a lost cause. I've know for a long time that I've needed some sort of an automated site builder/image gallery/content management system but didn't really know

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I just got back from Hullabaloo, an awesome swing dance exchange (big dance event over several days) in Perth where I had a great time dancing up a storm and even managed to snap a few photos.My kit for the trip was:Canon 30DSigma 17-70mmCanon 50mm f/1.8Canon 430EXto give a versatile and light weight kit to shoot scenery, people/group snapshots, portraits and even some dance action shots. Anyway

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Many off-camera-flash users got excited when they found out they could use their flashes above the camera's normal sync speed if the camera had an electronic shutter. Well now there is a way to get high sync speed even if the camera has a mechanical shutter! Now I can't claim credit for this, I read about it in the Strobist forum here and here. First some background: When a camera with a

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Thought I'd give you a quick "preview" of a product - The Umbrella Softbox - that might be of interest to Strobist readers after a recent post on rethinking umbrellas. So first the background:The Strobist post was comparing reflective umbrellas to shoot through umbrellas and then after a while softboxes got brought into the debate through the comments. So what tools of the trade work best,

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My mother rang me up recently to see if I could take some photos of an orchid (actually technically a Gloriosa Superba or Glory/Flame Lilly) that was flowering so I thoughtI'd give you a quick post about some photos I took recently and a bit of the story behind them.Ok technically it was pretty simply, I thought I'd have a go shooting in direct sun with a reflector, it didn't work great, but I

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While photography isn't actually my job I would kinda like it to be one day, anyway I though today's What The Duck post was kinda cool:

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I've been following "RadioPopper" development for a few months now and I reckon they look pretty spiffy! They have just release more details and photos of their "P1" (One channel ETTL/CSL) units.The basic idea is that they take the optical IR signal from an ETTL/CLS master unit and transmits it to the slave flash using a radio signal, thus greatly extending the range and improving line of site

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I may have mentioned something in my first post about being a little busy, well recently that's a been mild understatement.One of the first things I wanted to write about is my experience with the "eBay" flash triggers but since I haven't had time to do any writing - let alone proper testing I thought I'd start with a link to Jeremy Kuster's blog that gives a detailed write-up of some

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Yes, I think this means that I just started another project, some would say I am crazy and I would tend to agree, but what's life without a little craziness?Anyway I'm not entirely sure what form this blog will take just yet, but I hope to share a little photo news and reviews with you, assuming I actually have the time to take some photos and write about them. For now I'll simply leave you with

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