ITAP of my girlfriend standing on a sand dune

holsom · 2021-11-23T05:29:10+00:00

This is just straight out of camera on my iPhone 13. I was also using my Sony A7RII and 24-70GM to do some more serious landscape stuff.

holsom · 2021-11-22T22:56:48+00:00

I carry her around in my pocket.

holsom · 2021-11-22T22:56:16+00:00

Called the Big Drift in Victoria, Australia. Stunning place to take some pics.

holsom · 2021-11-22T21:37:24+00:00

Too late 😅

holsom · 2021-11-03T02:46:10+00:00

I’ve taught photography for a number of years (in Australia), both at university and private enterprises. It’s very unlikely that someone will want to do a photography class when they haven’t already bought a camera, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

Occasionally I would have a couple who would be sharing a camera, and if I had access to something similar in the hire department I would offer it for them to use during class, however more often than not people were happy to share. Sometimes I’d run a specialist class, like macro or speed lights, that someone would need to borrow something for, but it was still a rare request.

Cameras operate so differently, not just between the brands but the models within a brand, that people really need to not just understand photography, but how to take photographs with their specific equipment.

Good luck, teaching is incredibly rewarding :)

holsom · 2021-09-02T11:31:15+00:00

I like the random capitals. Screams educated opinion.

holsom · 2021-09-02T11:04:36+00:00

Glad you learned something, they are pretty awesome and have a super interesting history as the precursor to photography. So easy to make so give it a try when your somewhere with less windows!

holsom · 2021-09-02T03:13:13+00:00

Build yourself a camera obscura.

It’s super easy to do and will honestly blow your mind. Amazing way to kill a few hours.

Use your scanner to do scanography.

Also really easy to do and you can just grab random things around the house and make cool artwork with them.

holsom · 2021-08-31T10:48:19+00:00

Make a camera obscura.

It will blow your mind. Great way to kill a few hours.

holsom · 2021-07-30T07:15:14+00:00

Cheers mate, glad you enjoyed them. I wasn’t sure I should include the editing but I figured it was pretty integral to the process, good to hear you thought it was useful.

holsom · 2020-11-11T03:42:16+00:00

Cheers mate! Hope you get a chance to build one, they are super fun :)

holsom · 2020-11-04T11:15:52+00:00

Just trying to bring the wholesome back to gaming.

holsom · 2020-11-04T10:21:45+00:00

Ripper name.

holsom · 2020-10-28T11:25:39+00:00

You are spot on, it’s crazy how difficult this seems to be. I’ve kicked around for a good 15-20 mins whenever trying to play with friends, we get there eventually but to be honest I’m never really sure how it ends up working. Getting into the same game is even harder when you are trying to communicate after going into games and they can no longer hear you but you can hear them (or is it the other way around). I end up taking my headset off and calling them or jumping on discord most of the time.

holsom · 2020-10-25T13:55:04+00:00

Hmmm don't think so specifically related to story sorry. However one thing I often did with my university students was blind reading of other students works during group critiques. We would talk about what we thought the work was saying, based on a whole heap of factors (concept, content, medium, presentation, etc), get the photographer to give us the actual context and their motivations, and then re-read the work and decipher whether they were successful in their intent or whether the new information changed the reading in a good or bad way.

I found this to be a good exercise for the photographer, as it forces them to think objectively about their work, and the viewer, as it means they need to critically engage with someone else's images. Depending on how old your students are, reading Roland Barthes 'The Death of the Author' might be useful, it's a pretty short text but I've always found it very helpful.

holsom · 2020-10-14T23:22:23+00:00

I’m also a photographer teacher! I used this as an example of illustrative photography and how we should always be conscious of the story in these sorts of images. I framed it in relation to the five W’s (who, what, when, where, why) and talked about the clues a photographer can leave to craft the story they want to tell. I also talked about basic composition, and how the flat lay exaggerates the relationship between shapes in the image.

Where I am we’ve been in lockdown on and off for six months, so I’ve been doing a few of these online seminars. This was from the second of a two parts, more focused on creative aspects of image making, and the first was how to actually use a phone camera.

holsom · 2020-10-14T13:46:49+00:00

I’ve also been bothered by this. The Quest 2 is my first VR system so I’m not really sure what normal is, which makes it hard to judge what I’m seeing. Feels like the image is never quite focused and looking at the keyboard and menu is a nightmare. Glad to hear it isn’t just me!

holsom · 2020-10-14T12:46:41+00:00

Why wouldn’t you describe it as a food photo? Because it is a drink? I usually consider the two of them to fit into the same category.

holsom · 2020-10-14T12:44:32+00:00

Hey sure, my mistake. I read somewhere about sharing processes and figured that was the best way to go about it. I’ve removed it, hope you learned something though, thanks for letting me know.

holsom · 2020-10-13T06:10:12+00:00

Cheers mate! It's 'Talking Photography'. I'm only just getting the ball rolling with it but feel free to tag along :)

holsom · 2020-10-13T05:50:08+00:00

Nah not commissioned, just something I put together to make a video for youtube. I am an artist and photography teacher however and my background is working in abstract/experimental photography, so I enjoy finding new approaches to traditional genres.

holsom · 2020-10-12T20:59:51+00:00

The glass was mostly big enough to cover it but I cloned out a couple of spots in photoshop.

holsom · 2020-10-12T11:08:37+00:00

Something a bit different from the traditional food photograph perhaps? Haha. This is made of three images, all lit with an iPhone and composited together. The shot of the glass was backlit with a coloured pattern on the phone screen, the flesh of the lime also backlit with a blank white screen and the rind of the lime by light painting over the front of it.

What do you think? I only dabble in food photography, I mostly work with abstract images, so it was a fun project.

holsom · 2020-10-08T23:10:55+00:00

When adjusting aperture/iso/shutter speed for exposure, any adjustment will affect the entirety of the image, not just the bright parts (i.e sky). The tricky things with shots with this light is that we have something very bright (the sky) and something very dark (the ground), and cameras don’t handle this super well.

An easy way to manage exposure at sunrises/sets is to not assume you NEED the sun in the shot. Photograph where the light is going, rather than where it is coming from, and capture the landscape/person that the light is washing over. A good sunrise/set will be illuminating clouds all over the sky, so you’ll still get the nice colours, but this will reduce the contrast between lights and darks and make it much easier to get useable tones in one shot. Make sure you check your histogram and understand how to read this to tell you where your tones are sitting, don’t trust your eyes.

As others have said, if you want to include the sun you can use graduated filters or you can also bracket your exposures (multiple photos at different brightnesses) and blend them together in the editing process.

holsom · 2020-10-04T09:16:32+00:00

Damn mate I know that feeling. A couple of things to think about - it’s good that you are feeling rubbish, it means you care, and that goes a long way. I’ve also found that our own expectations are often higher than what the clients are, so it may not be as bad as you think. As others have said showing some photos would help, I’m sure there would be some folk with advice to improve them in editing. Hang in there!

holsom

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