photography
Artists are bad enough. Art critics – and art collectors – are worse. Andreas Gursky just had a photograph sold for $4.3 million. Srsly. Oh, and this is the photograph: Again: srsly. I could whine about how aesthetically bland and completely devoid of meaning or interest it is (indeed I have done so), but that’s not what...
I thought, since I’ve used it pretty much every single day since I got it, and since I would count it one of the absolutely indispensable apps on my iPad, that I should probably write a “sort of review” of Filterstorm (I now have the Pro version, but most of what I’ll be saying...
I had a nice surprise today, spying a few lorikeets having a nibble in some trees as I was walking between the emergency department and outpatients. While I didn’t have my Lumix, I have taken to carrying my wife’s Fuji FinePix compact in my jacket pocket, so I took a few photos. My favourite...
I was struck today, when considering my daily photograph, by how much it is possible to do after clicking the shutter. Of course the better the actual in-camera image, the better the end result – but there is a lot that can be done. Consider the photo that I took: The sun was too bright and...
At dusk flocks of rainbow lorikeets whirl around and hang out in the trees I pass en route to the train station. This is a poor photo, due to the low light, and consequent slow shutter speed (even with a high ISO) I spent as long as I could just looking at them before I...
