Photographer - Traveller - Explorer |
Lynda.com has released a FREE iPhone app providing access to award-winning training videos that teach digital photography, graphic design, web and interactive design, business, applications, 3D, audio and much more.
Lynda.com members have access to their existing accounts. Once logged in, you’ll see the most recent video you watched, whether you watched it on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or on your computer’s web browser. Just pick up where you last left off.
Adobe has released an Acrobat Connect Pro iPhone app to so you can attend meetings using your iPhone or iPod touch. The FREE Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro Mobile application allows immediate access to meetings anytime, anywhere. You can Watch and listen to live presentations including real-time presenter webcam video and screen sharing demonstrations.
The presentation HDR guru Trey Ratcliff (www.stuckincustoms.com) recently gave to Google (on Youtube). Displays many of his HDR photographs. Interesting to hear about his vision and how he sees the world.
Other links:-
For a while now I have been thinking about taking pictures of a local communications tower which has a number of cellular, mobile radio and microwave antennas mounted on it.
Even though the tower is a stationary object, getting the planned image is not as easy as one would think. When you get the opportunity you need to move fast.
First you have to get to the tower. Towers in rural areas are often located on hills or in isolated areas. Getting to the local tower took a 20 minute walk up a steep hill in the heat of the day.
Secondly you have to take into account the time of day and the direction of the sun. Communications towers are normally tall and antennas mounted high up, so taking the picture at the wrong time of day can result in too much shadow, lens flare, or glare from the metal. I had to wait until 3pm for the sun to light the tower from behind me and at the correct angle.
Lastly you have to wait for the right sky. Luckily on this day there was a patch of blue sky directly behind the tower at the angle I wanted to shoot it. Other parts of the sky were covered in grey cloud. Clouds move fast changing the background every couple of minutes. Many times I have gone to take the picture and clouds have moved in and changed the scene before I could get in position.
Microwave antenna and communications array for the cellular telephone system on a tower.
(Also available at: iStockphoto, Shutterstock, CanStockPhoto, Fotolia, BigStockPhoto, Dreamstime)
Underwater video of Hawkbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) on Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier Reef. Shot with Canon G10 while diving with QuickSilver’s Silversonic on 13 Feb 2010 from Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia.
Hawksbill Turtle swimming over tropical coral reef ( Youtube 
)
Also available for download at: Fotolia
Went for a dive on Saturday on Quicksilver’s Silversonic to Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier Reef. The underwater visibility was around 14m and there was a bit of sediment in the water, but managed to get a couple of images and video shot with my Canon Powershot G10.
Tropical coral reef – Agincourt reef, Great Barrier Reef
(Also available at: iStockphoto, BigStockPhoto, CanStockPhoto, 123RF, Fotolia, Dreamstime)
PRESS -RELEASE, 21 Jan 2010 :- Frans Lanting, hailed as one of the world’s greatest nature photographers, will visit Sydney in March to run his first-ever Australian photographic seminars.
Sydney is one of only two destinations the Netherlands-born, US-based photographer will visit while he is in the country – the other being the Central Coast. Lanting will also exhibit a range of his visually arresting images at the Ken Duncan Galleries at Sydney and Erina Heights while he is here. The free exhibition will run from 10am-5pm daily from March 12-15 at the Erina Heights Gallery (414 The Entrance Road, Erina Heights), and from 10am-6pm daily from March 18-22 at the Sydney Gallery (73 George Street, The Rocks).
Lanting, whose Australian visit is being hosted by landscape photographer Ken Duncan, has documented wildlife and the natural world from the Amazon to Antarctica for three decades to promote understanding about the Earth and its natural history. His work is prolific and appears in books, magazines and exhibitions around the world and is frequently commissioned by National Geographic, where he served as Photographer-in-Residence.
Confined to the office today while waiting for the next cyclone to hit, I decided to update some images on one of my commercial websites. Browsing various microstock sites, I was struck by the variation of image quality and lack of creative content.
I decided to update some of the images on one of my commercial websites, as they no longer represented the message I was trying to convey, and set about trawling the microstock web for replacements.
I started by searching around some of the free microstock sites such as Stock.Xchng, Stock Vault, and Dreamstime Free Stock.
There were a couple of good images in the free stock collections, but in most cases the variety of images is small and the quality is pretty poor.
