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RAW versus JPG: Digital Camera File Format Faceoff

RAW and JPG are different ways of creating photos in a digital camera. Each has advantages and disadvantages. In the Blue corner we have Wolfcat who argues in favour of the RAW file format and in the Red corner we have Neerav who argues in favour of the JPG file format.

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Floriade: Photographers Paradise – Australias Biggest Flower Festival

Although Canberra is only 3 hours drive from Sydney, until last weekend I hadn’t visited for 15 years which is a shame because I’d completely forgotten about “Floriade” – Canberra’s annual flower festival (the biggest in Australia) which offers lots of opportunities to take great photos of spring flowers

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How to Design a Professional Coffee Table Style Photo Book

The most daunting aspect of creating my self published coffee table style photo book “Taking The Road Less Travelled” using Blurb wasn’t selecting the photos (though that took aaagggees!) but deciding the way photos were ordered, how they were displayed on the page, font size and what the front and back covers look like.

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Road Less Travelled Photo Book: Urban, Desert, Mountains and Storms

I recently met with the Australian representatives of the online self-publishing company Blurb.
They gave me a voucher to review the service by creating a book from scratch so I made a “Road Less Travelled Photo Book” with Urban, Desert, Mountains and Storm themes using a selection of the many photos I’ve taken over the [...]

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Featured Photo – Refracted Rainbow From Mirror Onto Concrete

It is yet again a grey and rainy day in Sydney, Australia. Winter officially began a few days ago but the weather has been like this for much of the last 3 weeks. So I thought I’d feature a rainbow photo that is colourful and cheerful.

Refracted Rainbow From Mirror photo credit: Neerav Bhatt

Earlier this year [...]

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Tips for Taking Photos of Planes at Airshows

GUEST ARTICLE: There are a few things you are going to need if you want to go to an Airshow to take photos of planes. You are going to want a long lens. 200mm is really not going to cut it, you’ll never be close enough to get a full frame shot of the [...]

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Creative Photography: How to do Light Painting/Drawing/Graffiti

Light painting, also known as light drawing/light graffiti is a photographic technique in which photos with brilliant effects can be created at night time in a dark place in the outdoors or inside in a dark room by moving one or more hand held light sources around to “draw” with light.
During my recent trip to [...]

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Winding Dunedin Road with Electric Blue Sunlight (Photo)

One of my favourite photos from a recent whirlwind week exploring New Zealand’s lower South Island was the very 1st photo I took with a Nokia 6710s Navigator cameraphone on impulse while sitting in the passenger seat of a car.

Winding Dunedin road with electric blue sunlight photo credit: Neerav Bhatt

I had the phone in my [...]

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Sydney New Years Eve Fireworks Photos

The Sydney Harbour YHA rooftop balcony provided me with the best vantage point I’ve had for Sydney’s New Years Eve Fireworks shows at 9pm and Midnight including a panoramic view of Circular Quay, the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge
A handful of my photos are displayed below, along with a bigger slideshow selection of some [...]

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2009 The Year In Photos: Butterflies, Icebergs, Sand Dunes and Lightshows

Since this is a travel and photography blog I thought I’d highlight a few of my favourite 2009 photos rather than write about the year.Visit my Flickr profile to see more photos

Butterfly – Wingecarribee Dam

New Zealand Flag Against NZ Southern Alps

Lake Tekapo Aerial View

Rainbow Over Sydney City

Panorama – “Luminous” light projected onto Sydney Opera House

Colour, [...]

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Tips To Take Best Fireworks Photos: Location, Camera Equipment and Settings

Taking really good fireworks photos is not actually that hard but most people take terrible blurry fireworks photos because they don’t research how to take good fireworks photos, don’t have the right camera equipment and fail to plan ahead to find the best vantage point location to take the photos from.

Location, Location, Location for Fireworks [...]

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Snowman in Charlotte Pass, Snowy Mountains – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download free 1680×1050 resolution desktop wallpaper of a Snowman in Charlotte Pass, Snowy Mountains.
At 1760 metres, Charlotte Pass Village, NSW is the highest resort in Australia and is snowbound for most of the ski season. I visited Charlotte Pass for a week in mid-2009 as a mid year holiday.

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Lest We Forget Sacrifice of WWI Soldiers – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free desktop wallpaper photo of a World War I cemetery in Flanders (Vlaanderen), Belgium taken by Featured Guest Photographer Fushmush.

A Soldier of the Great War & Stone of Rememberance credit: fushmush

The battlefields of Flanders (Vlaanderen), in Belgium, were part of the Western front during World War I. The front ran from the North [...]

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Bearded Dragon (Pogona) – Free Desktop Wallpaper

This photo of a Bearded Dragon was taken beside the Murrumbidgee River Road on the afternoon of 30 September 2009 by my friend David Merrylees.

Download free 1680×1050 resolution desktop wallpaper of a Bearded Dragon.

About the photographer: David drives down Murrumbidgee River Road morning and afternoon and often spots all sorts of wildlife, wedgetail eagles, lizards, [...]

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Footprints and Journeys in Stockton Sand Dunes – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download free 1680×1050 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of Footprints and Journeys in Stockton Sand Dunes.
The wind-blown sand dunes of Stockton Beach comprise the largest continuous mobile sand mass in New South Wales, Australia. The grains of sand have been washed in from the sea and blown ashore to form dunes up to thirty metres [...]

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