Are you looking for background images suitable for compositing?
I needed a natural texture to blend with a composite that we are in the process of creating for a client. A quick search of our natural backgrounds gallery in excitations stock photography archive and I had the shot I wanted.
Orhid time in the Grampians.
The early orchid varieties should be starting to bloom in the Grampian Ranges about now, so I’m hoping to get down there twice this season.
Stock Photography Australia, new search portal launched.
Last night we launched a new search portal for our stock photography. Nothing flash mined you… in fact it’s straight html (get it). Just another mean of searching our image archive, we’ll update it as we go and add some more content to improve its SEO, but in the meantime, stockphotosaustralia.com will be a simple [...]
excitations stock archive out of action today.
June 10th from around midday until just after 2pm Australian Eastern Standard Time the server running our archive will be down for a scheduled upgrade. Of course its scheduled, because if it wasn’t we would know it was going to happen would we now. Anyhow the good folk at Photoshelter who provide our archiving service [...]
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 released.
After being in Beta testing for some time Adobe have release Lightroom 3. Certainly some neat new features in this version, including noise reduction and non destructive perspective adjustments not to mention the ability to to work tethered with a range of cameras. Why has this feature taken so long Mr Adobe? Working on both [...]
Eucalyptus flowers, how to photograph them.
One of the search terms we see often used to arrive at this blog is “how to photograph flowers” and one of the flowers that often appears in that list of how to searches are Eucalyptus flowers. so herein starts a simple approach that we often use when photographing flower in the natural environment. There [...]
Digital work-flow for working photographers
I’ve read heaps of stuff about the perfect digital workflow for working pros, and its all good advice. Especially if you’re shooting mostly RAW as I do. The only problem I have with most of the workflows recommended, is they don’t suit me. So before I ramble on any more let me just say that [...]
Dromaius novaehollandiae, a big flightless bird.
Usually when you come across an Emu out in the bush one of two things happen. If you surprise them, they run off into the distance as quickly as their long skinny legs will carry them. Or, if you don’t surprise them, they will continue to graze as if you’re not around, all the time [...]
Barringtonia racemosa, the fish poison tree, close up flower detail.
Barringtonia racemosa, often referred to by common names such as Fish poison Wood, Barringtonia, Brack-Water Mangrove, Common Putat, Freshwater Mangrove, Hippo Apple, Powder-puff Tree and Wild Guava. Is a native of the Phillipines but occurs over a large range, including the northern parts of Australia. The young leaves of Barintonia racemosa are used as vegetables, [...]
What makes a good photo?
Many years ago I attended a photography lecture by a great teacher of photographic techniques, Dean Collins. He said a that event, and I suspect on many other occasions as well “Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder of the cheque (check) book”. In all my years as a photographer earning his living from [...]
Sharpening, how much do my photos need?
One of the first things you ever learn about sharpening, whether it be in camera, or in post production, is that sharpening is easy to apply but very nearly impossible to reverse if the file has been saved.
Earth Day 2010
Earth day, a day to celebrate our environment, passes silently by. Hardly even noticed by most in Australia, of which I’m one. Boston.com has some amazing pics of our earth right here, you should take a couple minutes to check these out.
Photographing volcanic eruptions
The team over at Photoshelter who provide our back end archival storage, have posted a great story today about two of their Icelandic photographer clients. Both of whom have a rather unique perspective of the volcano. Head on over there and check out the photos and the photographers stories. Click here to view the volcano [...]
Swarming locusts near Mildura, Australia.
Anyone who has ventured outside in the Northern parts of Victoria over the last few days will have noticed a large number of locusts hanging around. As the day warms up, numbers increase, until the sky is filled flying grass hoppers. Walking across any section of lawn or grass land and you the effect below. [...]
Locusts swam across NSW, Victoria and South Australia.
Over the last couple of days we’ve seen a dramatic increase in numbers of swarming locusts passing by our studio. I’m reliably told that the extent of swarming is very wide spread, with large numbers occurring between Mildura and Renmark. Thankfully the little hoppers are not in huge swarms as sometimes happens. Enough though to [...]
Site modifications
There will be a few changes to this web site over the next few days. At this stage we don’t anticipate any disruption to service, however, site navigation will change and there is a chance that some links may for short periods of time be inactive. Hopefully all goes well and you will have an [...]
Super fast wireless broadband, 63kbps!
Ok we live and work out in the booney’s I’ll admit that. We are just on the verge of viable ADSL coverage and have to be content with an ADSL service that is shall we say adequate at best. For this reason we pay Telstra Bigpond $70 per month to have super fast wireless broad [...]
When spin goes wrong.
Last week an email arrived in my inbox. I started to read it which means it came from an organization that I normally trust with their information. Buy the time I got through the first paragraph however, I’m starting to think, what is this crap?
Dead trees in salt lake.
I stumbled across these images of dead trees in yet another salt lake, or salt pan as many locals in the Mallee region of Northern Victoria refer to them.
Saline lakes, Southern Australia.
Environmental disasters come in all shapes and sizes. Some are man made others most likely naturally occurring but from our point of view are disasters.
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.
Low level aerial of Salt lake
Low level aerial photo of a salt lake near Mildura in Far North Western Victoria, Australia.
Finding your way around excitations-stock.com
Just a quick heads up today on finding your war around our stock photography site. You are currently viewing the blog section of our stock site, where we announce new stuff and generally just talk about photos and Australian outback kinda stuff. If you need to search for images you can go to www.excitations-stock.com or [...]
Back from extinction
The ABC are reporting an important fined of a frog, a yellow-spotted bell frog to be exact. That has been miraculously found to be alive and surviving along a creek, on private property in NSW. Check out the story here. That’s gotta be some good news, as we are so often hearing of another species [...]
