Articles - Lighting

Lately we have been buying and drinking a lot of wine.  Tough life, I know.  The cellar — actually a climate-controlled refrigerator specifically for wine — has got rather full, and I have lately felt inspired to photograph some of the good stuff.  For inspiration I had been looking at other marketing-style images of wine [ continue reading ]

It has been a few weeks since I have been out for a photoshoot, and this afternoon I felt a desire to create an image.  I decided to re-visit water droplet macro photography, so I set about rigging a 'studio' to shoot some water droplets of water.  Here is the result: In my initial setup [ continue reading ]

Almost five years ago to this date, an old Flickr contact of mine, Rich Legg, created a photographic image of a smoking gun.  I was impressed, and I commented on his image at the time.  I recently decided to have a go at this type of shot myself, and did so today.  Rich used a [ continue reading ]

Here are two vastly different images from the same dawn seascape shoot at Turimetta last Tuesday.  The first image above was taken shortly after arrival, and in the pre-dawn darkness, the moving water is abstracted to the point where its movement is almost invisible.  A sense of calm is evoked as the clump of seaweed [ continue reading ]

A few months ago, I was asked by Robert Keeley, the editor of Australian Photography magazine, if I would consider writing a feature for the magazine.  I had sent some images for the magazine's competition, and when he received them for review, he saw a story in one of the images.  The image which captured [ continue reading ]

Here is a nocturnal urban landscape I shot at Sydney's Middle Head Fort using creative light painting techniques back in 2009.  I had never published it until now.  To create this image I used a combination of fluorescent white light and a red cold cathode light to illuminate the bunker in the night sky to [ continue reading ]