This isn’t a ‘normal’ photo for me. High ISO and hand-held in low-light aren’t really my thing. But sometimes, it’s a noisy-shot or no shot. What does that mean? To get a shot, you need light. You’ve three components of collecting light in a photo. Continue Reading..
It’s a little hard to explain. So, let me jump back and forward in time. Continue Reading..
Trying to sell photos isn’t exactly simple. To me, selling anything – I struggle. I’m not really a sales-man guy. In fact, the idea of telling people to do something makes me really cringe. You watch YouTube, and every video ends with a call-to-action, “so hey, subscribe to my video, check my channel, *do what I tell you!*”. It’s just not me. My view is if you dig it, you’ll act. It’s all about the product, right? But in a broad sense, that’s not really the right approach. Continue Reading..
So it's Christmas. I might no have a Santa Sack, but I've got some portrait pictures that might make your lock-screen look a little more local?
Feel free to download them and let me know if you do. Take a picture, show me how it looks! Thanks, hope you dig!
And if Sydney's more your style, check out my free Sydney mobile phone wallpapers.
Just click on the one (or few) you like, and download to your phone.
We know that cameras are getting cheaper and more accessible. But the capabilities of these little cameras is remarkable. For a long time, the control that was on a more traditional camera just wasn’t available. Full manual control, ISO, focus, shutter speed, variable aperture, RAW image shooting. But not any more.
When it comes to flying a drone, there’s a few things you need to be acutely aware of. First priority is your legal requirements, but second is planning. The idea of heading somewhere to randomly fly can be fine, but if you want to really capture something, a little planning can go a long way. Continue Reading..
Art by Smug | Managed by Juddy Roller | Commissioned by Citipower
Location 651 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne Continue Reading..
I’ve worked for other people and companies all my life. It’s been great. I’ve got almost 15 years experience working in tech companies from small business, start ups to large enterprise. I’ve worked on big client facing projects in both B2B and B2C, as well as back end systems that aren’t directly visible on the outside. In the past 8 or so years though, I’ve diversified with regards to what I’m passionate about. Continue Reading..
Over the space of a few weeks, I was lucky enough to do the first Instagram Takeover of Federation Square. If you’re not aware, Fed Square sits right next to Flinders Street Station, and really is the meeting place of Melbourne. It was great to get some special access of this iconic Melbourne landmark, but equally awesome to get to eat my way around and get to know it a little better. Continue Reading..
I’m not much of a tutorial guy, but it seems that when I show people how I assemble my pictures, there’s this veil of mystery removed. It’s kinda cool, because while it’s all kinda magic, it’s really just a process once you know it. Continue Reading..
As a restless ‘can’t switch off’ & ‘I’ve always gotta do something’ type, I reckon I hear the following more than most.
As part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival 2016, The Queen Victoria Market ran an event called “The Queen Vic River Trail Market” at the base of Melbourne Arts Centre. The weather was perfect, and all up, it was a beautiful day for the event to come together. Continue Reading..
If you’d like the full 150 megapixel resolution image, for non commercial use, download Melbourne in High Resolution right now. If you use it, please let me know. Either on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook or link to this regularsteven.com. It’s 33 megabyte file, so best not do this on your mobile. You can print this as big as you like if you like. Please, just don’t sell it or use it for commercial purposes.
As for the quality, here’s the picture at 100%. You can crop in almost anywhere and figure out how to frame a shot. Over and over, a new picture can be found – the quality is crazy!
And, not only, but this picture is cropped down from 330 megapixels. Check out the full view of what I captured while standing in the rain.
The potential detail you can get with consumer cameras is remarkable. This is a photo that has been generated from 50 individual shots, each taken at the same settings, each shot with some overlap from the previous photo, and then stitched up using Adobe Lightroom (actually very easy – select the shots, press Control+M, and it’s almost done). Each shot was captured at 70mm, which is rather tight, but I did that to try preserve straight lines while allowing for a ultra sized end picture result.
It’s me using tools to make for shortcomings in technology, but over time, this will change. I’m an early adopter with photography, but these kind of hacks and results are often what drive future technology.
In the future, there’s going to be all sorts of advancements in photography to the point that photography, as an art that it is today, will die. Or perhaps evolve…
There will always be those with an eye for a shot and an ability to compose on the fly to the point it’s second nature. But as technology advances, the need for those skills while on shoot are going to become less relevant with the progressing technology in post production.
Say you’ve got a camera that captures the following at:
Now, my little future thought has issues. For example, portability with regards to optical quality. There are some rules of physics (with regards to light & capturing it) that will be very challenging. Equally, things such as barrel distortion make for surreal looking pictures (think of fish-eye), but again, this will increasingly be less of an issue; barrel distortion is getting better in consumer post production tools, and it’s only a matter of time.
What do you think? Will photography, as it is today, die?
The Queen Victoria Market always has a sense of hustle and bustle when it’s in full swing. From the regular day sessions, where there’s a healthy mix of “get your sausages” and “get the best fresh fruit here” being yelled Continue Reading..