When you’re shooting in low light levels, you will often find the exposure process is not intuitive. Autofocusing can also be difficult and sometimes the lens fails to lock onto the subject and you end up with a blurred image – unless you have taken

Our eyes have always been drawn towards things that look different. We find them intriguing and want to investigate. This is probably why we’re attracted by effects filters in our smartphones and cameras – as well as popular image editing application

Sony RX10; 24-200mm Carl Zeiss lens; ISO 200; f/7.1; 1/100s @ 44.52mm Taken while on a European river cruise during Autumn. The light and colours were amazing. You could not but help clicking the shutter button numerous times. To me this photo has a

I first came across your photography when your shot of a black cockatoo with a gumnut in its claw was shared on Facebook. I found it especially beautiful and compelling. Thank you. That’s why I love taking shots of birds. Mainly because their person

‘I became a chronically truant juvenile delinquent at a very early age,’ says Greg Semu. Fortunately, an understanding art teacher noticed how excited this sometime-student became when he was given a camera. ‘They gave us black and white film and tau

South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula has plenty to attract photographers and videographers. It’s a great place for landscape photography and a birder’s delight. With unspoiled beaches, National parks and protected areas, the region also contains some fas

Pointing your camera directly at the sun can burn out pixels in its sensor, inflicting permanent damage. If you’re using a mirrorless camera, the screen in the EVF will also be damaged, again because pixels are destroyed. Damage to the EVF screen wo

Screens are essential components in digital cameras. The technology has been in use since the earliest days of digital photography, although these days the organic light-emitting diode (OLED) screen has largely replaced the liquid crystal display (LC

I CC profiles are pieces of software code containing information that characterises each colour input or output device in an imaging workflow according to standards set up by the International Colour Consortium (ICC). They are used to define the way

Rendering intents are the different methods by which colour management systems convert some or all colours in a picture to the colour space of a given output device. You’ll generally find them in the print dialog box (shown here). Of the four renderi

Most of us like to receive feedback when we show our pictures to friends and family members. Often that feedback can provide useful tips about which of your photos works, what makes it engaging or how you could have made it better. But feedback isn’t

Canon 5D Mark lll; EF 24-105mm lens @45mm; f/11; ISO 100; Multiple exposure blend at 1/5s, 1/15s, 1/50s, 1/160s & 1/500s I arrived at the summit of Mt Ngungun to find the peak already crowded with sightseers, so as the sunset developed I quickly vent

‘You start climbing at night, well before sunrise,’ says Natalia Mroz. It can take four hours to reach some of the churches she’s photographed in the mountains of Ethiopia for her Pilgrimage project. ‘Parts of the path are vertical and truly frighten

How has the coronavirus pandemic affected your photography and business? I have two sources of income as a professional landscape photographer. One is teaching the workshops I’ve been doing since 2005. They were suspended, of course, but I’m back do

Located approximately 337 km south-east of Perth and just over an hours' drive northeast of Albany, the Stirling Range National Park (or Koikyennuruff in the Indigenous language) covers an area of 1,159 square kilometres and stretches for 65 kilometr

‘The 360 in 360 project was an idea I developed more than four years ago with an aim to showcase Australia in a way that has rarely been seen before,’ says award-winning Olympus photographer Scott Portelli. The concept is as simple as it is ambitious

The Head On Photo Festival program was just starting to ramp up final preparations for their ambitious 2020 program of events across Sydney when the COVID-19 pandemic hit Australia. Like everyone else, festival director Moshe Rosenzveig and his team

When the coronavirus pandemic upended life as we knew it, the effect on documentary and news photographer Sean Davey’s personal work was not perhaps what one might imagine. For twenty years the Canberra native has made a name for himself working with

An Olympus Visionary for the better part of half a decade, Michaela Skovranova has devoted herself to the art of documentary storytelling through her photographs and filmmaking. What began with a primary focus on underwater projects and personal work