Monday, November 1, 2010

New site...

I have launched a new blog for my personal photography projects... http://imagesbybrad.com/

Monday, August 16, 2010

Marine Silhouette


This was a grab shot of something I shot some time ago when we took my son to Tooronga Zoo. It's from an underwater viewing enclosure. I had the 70-200mm on and noticed this guy that formed an interesting silhouette. Exposed for midtones in the water which highlights the streams of light angling down and saturated the blues.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

My boy!

ISO 100, 100mm, f/8, 1/160
Key light: 40cm x 40cm Softbox, camera left
Backlight: 66cm x 66cm softbox (made into a strip-light with some black cardboard)

Here's one of our son Oliver. I tried a few things with the lighting, but it wasn't really happening, so I adjusted the angle of the key light from straight on just above to off axis, camera left probably around 45 degrees and adjusted the backlight power to get even light throughout the scene and subtle / soft rim light. I just need him to help me out by lifting up his head now. Still like the shot - most of the shoot he was just happy to bury his face into the bed :)

Still will be searching for my "go to" baby lighting setup though.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Statue Of Liberty

1/160 @f11 ISO 160

Taken at the foot of the statute.

Its an HDR composite from a single image but I thought it benefited from monochrome. I added a little grain to the final image.

Interior HDR - Greek Orthodox Church

I'm not a HDR expert, but I thought I'd put up an HDR that is at the opposite end of the spectrum to Karl's earlier posts in terms of HDR'ness. This was from a job last weekend.
3 shot HDR, ISO 1250, 24mm, f/5.6, (1/640; 1/160; 1/40)

This was to tame the harse streams of sunlight coming through the windows to camera left. It was a hand-held shot on continuous.
I used Photomatix to create the tif; then photoshop for some curves adjustment and clone the people in the foreground back in from an original RAW file (the correctly exposed one).

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

1.6sec @ f11, ISO 100

This one just makes me happy...

Taken on a recent trip to the states.

Friday, July 23, 2010

Hard lighting

Not the kind of subjects that generally like hard light, but I'm testing a recent investiment in some light modifiers. In this case a HONL grid as the key light. This gives me a nice tight beam of light + feathered edges. This means total control of the background.

This one is just with the grid key light (one light)


This one is with the grid as the key, but also ring flash (Orbis) as on-axis fill probably 2.5 stops under the key.

People subjects come next!

Sunday, June 27, 2010



Friday, May 28, 2010

HDR (Karlo)

Golden Pavilion
ISO 200 - 26mm - F/9 - 1/50th

Macmahons Point
ISO 200 - 24mm - F/10 - 1/200th


Harbour Bridge
ISO-200 - 24mm - F/5 - 1/80th


Opera House
ISO-200 - 56mm - F9 - 1/30th



Touch of LR Presets #1



Touch of LR Presets #2

Thursday, May 6, 2010

HDR Podcast

Hey Guys,

I have recently come across a relatively old podcast (about 12 months old) that I believe is execellent listening for anyone who wants to (or is doing) any serious HDR work. This is really insightful in terms of why we either internally accept or reject HDR work as looking "real" or not and it is interesting in terms of the end-to-end process Trey uses including blending of some of the original RAW image data with the produced Photomatix HDR tone mapped image to get the result he wants.

Podcast: http://www.prophotoshow.net/blog/2009/04/14/pro-photography-podcast-57-photography-hdr-with-trey-ratcliff/
Trey's tutorial: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/hdr-tutorial/

Enjoy!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Go Retro...

This was another find in Tasmania...

Friday, April 16, 2010

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Coalcliff and Seacliff bridge



(HDR)








Here's my contribution from the past week boys...

Vik and I were treated to an unreal sunrise.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

From the archive (Brad)

A few random shots I was flicking through from the archive...


Monday, April 12, 2010

Mt Annan (Karl)


Fluffy flower
ISO200 - 105mm - f 4 - 1/640s


Ant on flower
ISO200 - 105mm - f 11 - 1/1250s


ISO200 - 105mm - f 6.3 - 1/320s


Jared not sure of what to make out of a blue tree
ISO200 - 105mm - f 3.2 - 1/1000s


Pretty Clouds
ISO200 - 105mm - f 6.3 - 1/8000s


Jareds Stirring of the Bullants
ISO200 - 105mm - f 3.2 - 1/1250s


Duck Prepare for Launch
ISO200 - 105mm - f 5.6 - 1/1000s


Duck In-Flight
ISO200 - 105mm - f 5.6 - 1/1000s


Queen Ed Waving
ISO200 - 105mm - f 2.8 - 1/500s


Peeping at Wildlife
ISO200 - 105mm - f 9 - 1/125s


INSECTS NSFW
ISO200 - 105mm - f 5.6 - 1/640s

Sunday, April 11, 2010


Turimetta (Vik)

Rip Curl



1st try with HDR

Photographers day out