Archive for June, 2009

A good deed

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

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I recently spent a chilly morning at Melbourne University, shooting headshots for Febfast (more below). (more…)

Design Considerations – Why? What? How?

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

“But why?”

If you have kids, you will relate to that question. “Why?” – they go through a phase where it’s all they say… But it is an important question to ask when you start out to build a website. Why are you building it? The answer will be different for each of us but is likely to have similar themes. For me, I had the following objectives: (more…)

Website design on no budget

Monday, June 29th, 2009

The construction of my website and this blog has been an absorbing, frustrating but interesting journey. I have been reading threads and commentary online of late, and it seems that I am not the only photographer out there who is befuddled by the options. A good example is this thread on flickr and this post by Bert Stephani.

I promised to put together my thoughts and experiences so that others out there could save some of the downtime that I had. You may or may not agree with my approach, but hey – it’s a free world! (more…)

A lunge for the line..

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

If you are following my blog or website (hi Mum), then I hope that you are impressed with what you see, because it’s my baby, and I have worked hard to get it to where it is. I am proud of it no matter how homely it might seem to others and I fail to see its flaws. That’s what emotional attachment will do to you.. (more…)

Wrangling a monoblock…

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Fattilla

Following on from my previous post on the strobist phenomenon, over the weekend we held a meetup of the Melbourne Strobist group. We hosted 19 photographers in a large hall with 5 sets running concurrently and 6 models on hand.

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