Good or Bad? Good light is critical in getting a quality landscape photograph. Almost anything can be made to look good in the right light with the right framing, and terrible in bad light. After
Part 1 ~ Light
A Photographic Primer, introduction
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” – Ansel Adams A photograph starts way before you reach for a camera. It starts in your mind, moments before you pick a camera up, or months,
Star Photography – A Guide
Shooting the night Sky can produce some awe inspiring photographs and its something I really enjoy. Its not that difficult a thing to shoot either but there are a few basics, in terms of gear,
Going Vertical
Vertical panoramics are tricky things to do normally. Luckily with a combination of a RRS L plate and canons 24mm TS-E lens they get much simpler to execute and process. Which has caused me to
September is Spring
A mix of wild weather and gorgeous warm days signals spring in Christchurch. Little Hagley Park’s flowers are in full bloom and the trees are just putting out the new leaves making it a fantastic
Lightning!
September 4th 2012 we had a huge storm roll though Christchurch. I headed up onto the Port Hills and got a few shots but the storm looked quite violent ) we had golf ball sized
Dyers Pass Sunset
Long time no posts! Seems I have been uploading to flickr but not updating Zarphag much. Time to change that I think! Well whats been happening recently? Well I have a couple of photos published in
Tip Top Kite Day
Staged today 28th on New Brighton beach. Absolutely gorgeous day, 25 degrees,sunny (but with some light cloud) and just the right kind of easterly for the kites. I don’t normally shoot much at all in
The Iris Burn Valley
A file lost amongst many others from the Kepler walk I did back in April
Sunset on the Hills
With half of the Port Hills still out of bounds sometimes its hard to find a good location to shoot a sunset from. You can still get up Mt Pleasant road and even up
Washpen falls
Washpen falls is about an hour out of Christchurch, on private land and there is a $10 fee for walking the track. Its formed in an old volcano crater and the area is nicknamed
Shag Rock Re-edit
Trying out a slightly different workflow from my normal one with some help from this blog post by Jerome B. Its not so far from my normal processing for a seascape but there are