Canon Australia Professional Photography Awards: Perth Exhibition
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under News, Perth Creative Scene
For those of you in Perth, be sure to check out the travelling Canon APPA exhibition being held in the Central Park Building (152-158 St. George’s Terrace) between the 20th of April and the 1st of May.
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From Canon’s website:
The Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards (Canon APPA) represents the very best in Australian Professional Photography. Now in their 32nd year, the Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards recognise the top professional photographers in Australia. The 2008 awards received a record number of entries with an increase in submissions of 45%.
The Canon Australian Professional Photography Awards are open to all Australian and overseas professional photographers. Photographs are individually critiqued and scored via a rigorous peer-review judging process to determine the highest-scoring prints across the different categories of Advertising/Fashion, Editorial, Commercial/Industrial, Illustrative, Portrait, Wedding, Environment, Science & Nature, Landscape, Photo Illustrator and an Open Award. From the 10 category winners, one photographer is chosen as the major winner.
In 2008, the major prize and title of Canon AIPP Australian Professional Photographer of the Year was awarded to Melbourne-based professional photographer, Mercury Megaloudis, of Megagraphics Photography.
5D mkII available in Perth, Western Australia – first impressions
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under GEAR
Today I got the call…the one I was expecting though didn’t believe until I heard it for myself.
My 5D mkII was in store in the most isolated city on earth – Perth, Western Australia – waiting for me.
Picked it up at 2:30pm and have been playing with it ever since. Unfortunately the battery just died as I only charged it half way and have been playing non stop with live view and video mode – so much fun.
First impressions are great. Wonderfully robust build quality – very solid. AF is very accurate, even in very low light – a big step up from my 30D it seems. Auto ISO is another big advancement – very handy. The gorgeous 3 inch VGA resolution screen is a much more important advantage than I had anticipated. You can now see whether you got the shot, at least in terms of focus and sharpness. Makes getting great, technically sound images all the more easier.
Apparently I’m pretty lucky, Canon Australia have only released a small number around Australia – some estimate less than one hundred!
My thanks to the guys at Team Digital, in particular Ben Walton and Peter Clarke for putting up with my constant questioning as to when the camera will be available – great guys to deal with – highly recommended.
I’ll get up some sample pics and hopefully video tommorow – I need to sleep.
First impressions of high ISO are very, very good – better than I had anticipated based on the samples across the web!
WOOHOO!
Earth from Above: Perth photography exhibition
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Perth Creative Scene
For those of you in Perth, don’t miss one of the most incredible and thought provoking photography exhibitions you may ever see. Yann Arthus Bertrand’s world famous ‘Earth from Above’ series (which has been viewed by 60 million people worldwide in its book and gallery forms) is exhibited outside the Perth Art Gallery until January. The outdoor presentation runs 24hrs a day and documents some of the most incredible places on earth, from a perspective you’ve never seen them before – the air.
I first became familiar with Bertrand’s amazing work from his book ‘Being a Photographer‘ and was pleasantly surprised when I saw this traveling exhibition would be coming to Perth.
While you’re down there, you can also check out the small gallery of Nature Photography at the Western Australian Museum, which is about 100m away. Part of the ANZANG nature photography competition, the traveling gallery encompasses some of the best nature photography from Australia and New Zealand.
- Check it!
Tags: Exhibition, News, perth, Perth Creative Scene
On White…
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under On Assignment, People Photography
I spent this morning banging out some studio portraits of the full staff of Accountants and Financial Advisers who are based at an Accounting firm in Subiaco. Subi is a great place to work,a local suburb rich in high end professional consulting services and the height of Perth’s creative scene.
As the staff are involved in a very precise business, the height of professionalism, we wanted their portraits to reflect this. However, we also wanted each staff member to express their personality, making them appear more approachable – more human.
So, the brief was white, studio white…and lots of it.
More images and the rest of the brief, after the jump… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: assignment, freelance, Lighting, perth, portrait, professional, studio, white
Pecha Kucha Night – 23rd May – Perth, Western Australia
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under News
I’m heading to my first Pecha Kucha night tonight
What the heck is that you ask?
Well, i asked the same profound question when in was initially confronted with the term. After 20 seconds of diligent internet research, i came up with a basic understanding, no doubt about to be expanded at 7pm this evening.
Basically these nights, currently hosted at Ginger’s Garage , are open forums where young designers can meet, network and show their work in public.
Each speaker is only allowed to show 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. If you do the math, that’s 6 minutes per talk – perfect for today’s youtube corrupted attention spans.
I’m heading there with my friend Ed, uber designer of Dickanded fame.
Should be fun…
Tags: design, event, pecha kucha, perth
