A collective of landscape photographers from Australia
Right, sorry if this is the wrong forum to do this, but I really need some extra drive space. I’m investigating a drobo, but they’re not cheap.
Does anyone know where I can get one cheap with FW 800 and 2 1TB drives.
Local quotes have not been cheap enough.
Cheers everyone.
Okay, due to a number of home and work pressures, I am no longer able to photograph. Unfortunately I will not be out hunting the light any more. 
I’d rather not see my gear go to waste, so I’m giving it all away. Thats right, tripods, cameras, lenses, flashes, pocket wizards, bags, the lot.
Who wants it, leave your best reason in the comments and I’ll decide who I think is well deserved for all my gear.
You have until the end of the day!
Good Luck
Stitched image from earth hour last year, taken from south perth
Earth hour begins in just over 23 days. For one hour around the world, people are asked to turn off their lights. This year, Earth Hour is being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote.
In Perth, earth hour will begin at 8:30PM on Saturday 28 March 2009.
I’m not sure how Perth did last year, I think they made a good effort, but there sure were a lot of light on in the city. When I sent the above photo to my friends, they all replied back “I thought the lights were supposed to be turned off”. I hope the council decides to turn off more street lights.
I will be switching off my lights and going to take a photo from South Perth again for this year. Anyone else that shoots at this time
And Flemming, I’d like to see how your city looks if they are participating.
I am having real trouble with B&W photos. I can’t get what I want and I think more importantly can’t visualise what I want. I have been looking at lots of B&W photographers for inspiriation, but somethings not clicking.
Colour is easy compared to B&W. I can process colour photos all day long and get the outcome I want, but I don’t know what it is with B&W, but I’m just not getting it.
Does anyone know of any good resources for advances B&W, not just the generic here’s an image, use the channel mixer etc, etc.
Posted by James
Hi All,
I haven`t posted much on this blog as I have been a bit preoccupied with other stuff at the moment, but as we are all learning and trying to improve, I thought I would post about my process and hopefully get feedback on how everyone handles there files, as I would love to know if I am wasting time and space on my hard drives.
So yes I`m a stittcher and about 98% of what I shoot are images that get stitched together, and heres how I do it. Obviously I go out and shoot, I usually don`t have anything in mind until I get to my chosen location and set up. I still use a panoramic head so I pan the scene and decide how many rows and what angle and then how many images I need to capture the scene, usually for a nice panoramic cropped image with the equipment I use is 2 rows of 8 images. Once the images are taken I go home and download the my computer, it is setup so that the images get saved into Adobe Bridge. At the download stage I add basic metadata and save them to a folder 03_02_Perth (MM_DD_Location), which is a sub folder of 2009_Panoramics, the images are also converted to DNG and are not deleted from my memory card usually until the next shoot so they are safely backed up to 2 different locations. I then open up the file with images and create new folders in order of how they were shot and how many images are in the folder (Stitch_1(16)), I then select all the images from 1 folder at a time and open them in Camera Raw, make some subtle changes if required to all images (white balance and exposure) and convert to tiff. The tiff files are opened in PT Gui and stitched together, I always save the stitch to my desktop as a tiff. The stitched image is then opened in photoshop and make some changes as adjustment layers (levels, curves and saturation), it is then saved as a layers file, I then flatten the image so I can crop it and also check for dust spots, it is then saved as a flattened file. So by now in my folder – Stitch_1(16) I have 16 images, 1 Master, 1 Layers and 1 Flat image. I know add more metadata – keywords, location and title, I add title because if I use the image on my website it would be changed to a 6 digit code (PER106) and in 5 years time I would be able to go back and find it. Once all images are stitched from the shoot they are backed up to an external hard drive and burned to a DVD.
My issues are 1 stitch takes up about 2.5gb and am I making changes in the correct order. Technology and programs change and get updated so quickly, how does everyone adapt as this costs more money and time, does everyone just do what is comfortable and works for them? I know changes in Photoshop are personal but 1 book gives instructions to do it 1 way and another book says to do it this way. I guess in some ways I am asking for help as I don`t want to be left behind and he does not ask does not learn.
Michael
Let’s kick this off with a bit of an introduction to who we are…
Oz In Focus is a collective of landscape photographers from around Australia (except for Flemming who wishes he lived in Australia) who have formed a community and friendships through each of their photography blogs.
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