Tag: Nature
What’s happening in our rainforest
11th July
It might be winter, but life doesn’t slow down much in the rainforest.
The mist and drizzle have been going for days. It gets cold enough to have a fire. But the Chowchillas are frenetically hoovering through the leaflitter, skedaddling away at lightning speed when disturbed.… Read the rest
The Art of Biodiversity
- Tutorial: Focus Stacking with the Nikon D800e in the fieldWe’ve never shot tethered to the computer before today. But being in a fix with no cable release for a loan Nikon D800e, we had to do something. So we got a looooong extension cord and dawdled out into the rainforest.… Read the rest […]
- Interview with Kaisa & Stan on FotoFlockSee here for an interview by the folks of FotoFlock India. … Read the rest […]
- iPhoneography: my big mean $4 iPhone lensI have a slew of teeny tiny lenses for my iPhone 4S. Wide angles, fish eyes, telephotos… Some clip on, a la the Olloclip, and some attach with little adhesive magnetic rings that are fiddly and I’m always dropping them in the dirt.… Read the rest […]
- HiLo lens: great for street iphoneographyA new Kickstarter project is this great little lens for iPhone and iPad. The HiLo lens has fantastic potential for all kinds of iPhoneography. And I think it has great promise for street iPhoneography in particular. HiLO Lens is the first right angle lens for the iPhone and iPad, and will come with a free app.… Read the rest […]
- Nikon D800e: a wonderful thing. A qantum leap.We had a loan of a Nikon D800e just a few weeks ago (thanks Nikon and Photo Continental!) After squeezing a wonderful Canon 1Ds MkII for some 8 years for every bit of quality it could give, it’s time we started looking around again.… Read the rest […]
- Nature photography for all: high end and lo-fiA loan camera arrived from Nikon recently, complete with 105mm macro lens (thank you Nikon and PhotoContinental). It was the D800e, sporting 36.3 megapixels. Total Australian value is around $3,600. For our impressions of the Nikon D800e see our article here.… Read the rest […]
- How Kaisa learned PhotoshopI learned Photoshop the way John Paul Caponigro taught it in his fabulous book, Adobe Photoshop Master Class. When I picked that up 10+ years ago, I was very intimidated. This was no quick-slap Learn-Photoshop-the-easy-way book. But there was no other book like it: by an artist, for artists.… Read the rest […]
- Kaisa’s iPhoneography on Digital Photography SchoolKaisa’s work was featured in Digital Photography School’s top 10 iPhoneographers by Misho Baranovic. … Read the rest […]
- Kaisa, Stan and their iPhone on ABC ArtsAn article about our explorations with iPhoneography, Rainforest Country and Wildflower Country is up on the ABC Arts site. Check it out! Leave a comment, have a rant… … Read the rest […]
- Close calls with nature and an iPhoneKaisa has fallen in love with iPhoneography. She’s only had it a couple of months, but they are inseparable. Kaisa and the snake—no; Kaisa and the iPhone, we mean. So now we span one extreme to the other: high end and lo-fi photography.… Read the rest […]
