excitations stock site having a few problems
Over the last 24 hours there have been a few problems with our server. The archive has kept functioning, but server hosting excitations-stock.com has been playing up. Temporary redirect is in place which goes straight to http://excitations.photoshelter.com the archive server. Looks a bit different but working fine. I’d like to remind you that you can [...]
Note to our two political leaders…
SHOW US YOUR POLICIES AND PUSH OFF. I don’t know about you guys but I’ve had a gut full of seeing two pollies sniping at each other about absolutely nothing day in day out.
Photographers and designers, not using PicScout, maybe you should.
Sorry about the long heading, but I couldn’t think of a shorter way of getting the message into a heading. That would be why I’m not a copy writer. Seriously though if you are either a photographer or in the design/photo buyer world you should take a look at this product. It’s in its early [...]
Take a $40k camera, put it on a long pole and….
Roberto Bigano has been around shooting for a while. He will be better known to our European friends but suffice to say he does some pretty cool stuff. This morning I received this link from Manfroto, the Italian manufacturer of fine tripods and studio equipment. Nice video, and while it is nothing new, photographers have [...]
Photographer faces jail over nude photos.
The Online Age reports in its entertainment section today that a Japanese photographer, Kishin Sinoyama, faces jail for snapping a nude photo of a model in a public cemetery. You can read the story here. Same old same old, although to be honest he may have been pushing the bounds a bit with a nude [...]
Fabulous photo learning experience, Australia.
Phase One, the medium format camera and digital back manufacturers are holding one of their PODAS events in Australia in early December 2010. Now for all you photographer types out there, who would like an opportunity to spend a week shooting from dusk to dawn in central Australia in some of the most spectacular country [...]
Who’s next?
Standing in a store waiting to be served, the cashier comes to her register and without looking up calls out “who’s next?” As I’m the only other person in the store I felt like telling her that the guy next to me was first but decided not to. We when through the what would you [...]
Sensor cleaning Friday.
I really really love cleaning the senors on my cameras. I can’t think of anything I’d rather be doing… Who am I kidding! I hate it. Thankfully its not a job that I have to do too often as these new self cleaning sensors seem to work for a lot of the little stuff. However, [...]
Naked truth about outrageous headlines.
Couldn’t resits using the above headline. Apparently in today’s world of internet and electronic media the headline is more important than content. Years ago I spent a fair bit of time being taught how to write headlines to catch readers attention. This was for advertising purposes of course, not editorial news. It was drumed into [...]
Jessica Watson only minutes from completing around the world solo voyage.
As Jessica sails the last few miles of her epic around the world solo and unassisted voyage. Two things occur to me, firstly I have the feeling that Jessica has completed the easiest part of her journey. Now as she passes the finish line the hard bit will start. Everyone will want a piece of [...]
Is this the dumbest news headline ever.
Unfortunately it isn’t but today the ABC , our public broadcaster in Australia posted this on their Twitter Account “Watson chugs home with ‘dodgy’ engine” with a link to this story here. It seems the ABC is a bit strapped for cash and is hiring reporters/journalists with very low skill levels. The story based on [...]
Leaf digital back in action.
Creating a photo with Colin Anderson. Leaf, the makers of fine digital capture backs for medium format camera’s have an interesting step by step, of how an image was created on their website. Makes for really good reading even if you’re not into photography. Colin Anderson is a Melbourne based photographer, who tackles lots of [...]
CS5 has arrived…
Well not really, first it was announced, then we had the big launch on Monday US time and now of course we’ll have to wait until next month to get our grubby little hands on it. Looks as if it might have some useful features for photographers. I guess not being a big Photoshop freak, [...]
TV cameraman sacked.
Today in Victoria we see the news that a Channel 9 TV cameraman was shown the door by his bosses for an incident recently where he was filming a father and son on the street after leaving court in Melbourne. The sacking wasn’t for filming the individuals involved, but instead for the manner in which [...]
Blazen at Mildura 100 Ski Race, 2010
Second boat up the Murray River on Easter Sunday 2010 was Blazen, and as you can see from this shot that’s exactly what she was doing. The quick boats in this race are just that…. quick. A gallery with pictures of almost all the boats in the Mildura 100 Ski Race can be found at [...]
Hellrazor wins Mildura 100 Ski Race
Team Hellrazor managed to cover the 100 kilometre Murray River Course near Mildura in 32 minutes and 9 seconds on Easter Sunday to take out overall first place in the Mildura 100 Ski Race. We went out to the course for a look at the event and also for a chance to practice our panning [...]
Our world is about to end.
Bit dramatic, I’ll admit but in reading some of the reactions to the about to be released CS5 version of Photoshop you’d think it was all over. Apparently people can now use the “content aware fill tool” to get rid of watermarks on images, untrained people will take the jobs of professional retouches, we’ll never [...]
The price of admission.
Chase Jarvis, out there photographer and techno nut posted a great comment on his blog just the other day. I’d point you to his blog, but as I write this his site is timing out, so I’m not sure what is going on. Here is a link to Chase Jarvis’s regular site. Anyway the point [...]
The next Great War will be over water!
I read that somewhere a few years back, maybe the author was right or maybe it will be over food shortages and starvation. Certainly the possibility of war over water isn’t as silly as it sounded just a few years ago. Especially in an inherently dry country like Australia. As water becomes increasing scarce and [...]
Mildura, Murray River, Red Alert Algal Blooms
While the weather continues to remain warm, we can expect blue Green Algal blooms to continue their slow spread down the Murray River, at least until the mix with the faster running waters coming in from the Darling River at Wentworth. Below is a copy of today’s new red alert. Red Alert Warning issued for [...]
Gallery of cheap and cheerful royalty free photos
To make it easy for you to check out what is available in our cheap and cheerful royalty free department this week, we’ve created a gallery of a selection of the aforementioned over at excitations-stock.com under galleries or you could click this link to excitations cheap and cheerful royalty free images of food, fruit and [...]
Robinvale Euston, Red Alert, Algal Blooms.
Issued today by the NSW Government. New red alert issued for the Murray Valley New information on the blue-green algal bloom in the Murray River received today has shown an increase in algae numbers at Euston and Robinvale. Accordingly the Sunraysia Regional Algal Coordinating Committee has today issued the red alert for blue-green algae for [...]
Sensationalism in Television Current Affairs.
Last night manage to catch the last few minutes of a “leading current affairs program” they were apparently in the midst of patting themselves on the back for yet another journalistic triumph.
How not to apply for a photographers job.
Up until this point I’m thinking to myself this is a real ballsy way of applying for a job, this might even work but then there is a link to his flickr photo stream, headed “MY PHOTOGRAPHY SPEAKS FOR ITSELF” and unfortunately it did.
