Have you ever been on a trip and wished you could take a photo or video of both yourself and the scenery? Of course it’s possible with a tripod or handy object like a tree stump. This does involve some mucking around testing where to stand or getting a photo of your back as you run back to position as the camera timer goes off.
This is where the StickPic comes in handy. A while ago we contacted one of the inventors, Rod, and squeezed a free sample out of him. It sat around for a while and we finally took it on our last trip to Tasmania.
Rather than explaining it all here, we produced another of our rough …
Wow.
One word describes the new offering from Digital Photography School, their fourth eBook designed to teach you how to use your digital camera. This one, Photo Nuts and Shots: Tools and Techniques for Creative Photography, has been released today.
Is a massive (100+ pages) and incredibly good photography teaching resource.
Why are we encouraging you to check it out ?
Because we all want to learn to be a better photographer……
Photo Nuts and Shots: Tools and Techniques for Creative Photography is a terrific new resource because:
- it is written in a way that even I can understand
- the tips are simple, easy to follow and practical
- the advice will work for most digital cameras, not just the
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While the risk of snake bite while hiking or bushwalking in Australia is very low, many people are nervous and careful when out in the bush. In this article we share tiger snake images submitted from readers Adam and Steve. On both occasions they were very surprised with their encounters!
We were reading the “Green Guide” in the Age newspaper and came across a great article reviewing a couple of different inexpensive options to protect your SLR and standard digital camera in wet weather, snow or sandy conditions.
Our camera usually stays packed away in a dry sac bag if we are hiking in the rain but after reading the article by Terry Lane, these two options look interesting.
In this article we share some edited information about the features of each cover taken from the suppliers websites. We have not used either of these covers but will be looking closely at them before our next trip, especially if the forecast is for wet weather!
Op/Tech 18″ SLR Rainsleeve 
The …
If you’ve ever wondered why your pictures never look quite as good as those lavishly spread across the pages of a magazine, part of the answer may lay in the post-processing: photos are very rarely shown straight out of the camera.
Instead, they often go through photo-editing software, which may be thought of as a powerful digital darkroom.
Although Photoshop is the most well-known software, it is also very expensive. This is where Gimp (http://www.gimp.org/) comes in: a free, open-source alternative for your photographic needs. Best of all, you don’t have to be a computer wizard to begin using it – just download , install and run Gimp, open up the picture of your choice and follow these three simple …
