Month: February 2017

  • Color Theory

    Color Theory

    Two articles I have come across this week concerning the use of color theory during post processing. Both articles are about what color combinations work well together, admittedly in landscape photography, the color of a scene you have taken a photo of should not be altered too much, but to make it more pleasing to the eye you have the ability to emphasize the colors that work well together.
    The more photos I look at online, the more I realize that some Photoshop work is needed to get that image to pop, it’s just finding out what to do and how. These two articles will help.

    Ted Gore

    Color. When it comes to landscape photography, color has the power to both take a good image to great, or take that same image, and absolutely ruin it. Sometimes it is a very thin line to balance on, but absolute ruin can be avoided with a little knowledge of color theory. ……..

    Ted Gore Landscape Imagery

    Dave Morrow

    Light is the single basic ingredient required to create photographs. Without light, pictures don’t exist.
    Digital photography is the process of transferring light energy, carried by photons, into digital information, which can be processed and displayed by computers and cameras in the form of digital images.
    Light also contains the ability to produce color. Color is produced by specific energies or frequencies of light, known as visible light.
    Understanding color theory and creating beautiful images requires a basic knowledge of color & light.
    This basic understanding is essential for mastering all other aspects of photography, including shooting & photo editing…….

    Dave Morrow Photography

  • Moreton Island

    It’s Australia day (Jan 26), the time when most Australians take some time off from work, and head to the beach, fire up the BBQ, or just sit back and relax with the family having a few quite ones. My wife and I decided to join our friends on Moreton Island.
    Queensland has a number of islands off the coast which are easy to get to, some of them have bridges so you can drive to them, others like Moreton Island have no bridges, and no roads, so it is a 4WD only island only accessible by ferry.

    Heading out to Moreton Island
    Heading out to Moreton Island

    The ferry doesn’t berth at a pier on Moreton Island, instead, it just stops at the beach, in the sand. As I said 4WD only.
    Moreton Island beach
    Moreton Island beach

    The beach above is actually classified as a road. Police patrol up and down it on the quad bikes. Someone actually said the were breathalyzed.
    Moreton Island shipwrecks.
    Moreton Island shipwrecks.

    These pictures were taken towards the end of the day, there was a lot more people about earlier. Plenty of fish and thing to see, but watch out for the current, it will take you down the beach quickly.
    Moreton Island - heading back to Brisbane
    Moreton Island – heading back to Brisbane

    It was a great day, and certainly a place I would come back to.