Quick link to a video of Ulysses AGM, Mildura
Don’t often do these, but our friends over at O-Line Video have put together a short compilation tape and posted it to YouTube. Here’s the link. To pad out our post a bit below is a photo we created at the Grande Parade of the Ulysses Motorcycle Club AGM held in Mildura recently. We wanted [...]
WOOLSHEDS new book by photographer Andrew Chapman
Woolsheds, a photographic essay of shearing sheds around Australia. Shot by long time photographer and all round good guy Andrew Chapman. There is a saying in photography that you should shoot things you’re passionate about. Well that would would put the iconic Aussie shearing shed right dead centre of Andrews viewfinder. Andrew has for years [...]
Story teller, Frank Turton and THAT BOAT!
The Murray River, home of a thousand characters. We were in Renmark last week shooting a job for a commercial client. After completing the photo session we decided to take a quick stroll along the beautiful Renmark waterfront. My dad always use to tell me that if you’re looking for something or someone to photograph. [...]
Wintery weather sweeps across South Eastern Australia, time to start pruning…
In the above stock image of vineyard workers pruning, the ladies pictured are preparing to roll canes onto the wire trellis, which as you can see is way above their heads.
Uploading a handful of older images to Photos Australia web site.
Shot originally to illustrate a wet and cold theme, this image along with a number of others from the shoot are available at Photos Australia in a couple of days.
R.I.P. Kodachrome!
Last week in the USA a tiny little processing facility processed the very last roll of Kodachrome Film. Not surprising in this digital age, but sad none the less. For nearly 75 years Kodachrome was the go to colour transparency film of choice for serious photographers. Most all photo journalists who shot colour, shot Kodachrome. [...]
Happy 21st Birthday to the Lady in Red!
Stephanie, a young lady who from time to time graces the front of our lenses here at excitations stock is celebrating her 21st Birthday today. So from the team we’d like to wish Steph a very happy birthday, we hope she has a great day and we look forwarded to partying with her soon. We [...]
2010 Tour of the Murray photos
When we caught up with the competitors they where battling very strong winds and the occasional shower.
Photographing health and fitness images on a beach during Melbourne’s winter.
Turned out to be be a good shoot really, despite the chilly winds sweeping in off Port Phillip Bay and only a brief period of light that was anywhere near decent.
30 seconds in Lightroom and look what happened.
I love Lightroom, probably the best thing Adobe have ever done, its quick, and it works the way a photographer expects it to work.
Stock photography, “Editorial Use Only”.
Put simply, most of our stock images can be used for editorial use. However not all of our stock photos of Australia are suitable for use in advertising or for commercial use.
Photographer at Blanche Cup, outback South Australia.
Still at Blanche Cup, this shot shows just how a photographer sometimes just has to take a different look at things. Ignoring the obvious shot, photographer Andrew Chapman, turns his back on the spectacle of Blanche Cup Mound Spring and shoots into the setting sun. His subject, surrounding arid landscapes just to temping to resist. [...]
Fire juggling on Lake Eyre, Australia’s largest salt lake.
While we were up shooting around Lake Eyre, we had an opportunity to shoot with a good bloke by the name of Andrew Clegg. Andrew is a shearer by vocation, but has been juggling for years, as well as song writing and performing as a hobby. When I heard that Andrew had some of his [...]
Outback photographers, Mckenzie and Chapman.
Yep I know it’s not polite to put your name first, but hey I’m the guy on the left in this shot and we always caption pictures from left to right… Anyway this portrait of two bush photographers was created the other day while Andrew Chapman and I where scouting the edge of lake Eyre [...]
Hot air balloon at Lake Eyre
For the past couple of weeks the excitations crew have been busy with a number of shoots, which is the reason posts have been few and far between around here lately. We spent a wonderful week at Lake Eyre preparing for and finally flying in a hot air balloon across the southern section of Lake [...]
Shooting near Maree in South Australia
Late June, looks like I’ll be shooting in outback SA, near Maree, would love to shoot a couple of characters while I’m there. If anyone knows any in the region, please let me know. Just a for fun shoot but a blokes gotta have a little R & R .
C’mon guys, how about a little basic retouching.
Just had a lady complain to me about “professional photographers’ claiming that they fully retouch images before they leave their studio but who in fact had out jpegs straight from the camera. Now it’s one thing to hand out jpegs straight from the camera, but if you’re doing that , please be honest enough to [...]
Five things you need to know about infrared photography.
First cab off the rank in this one is that you should be aware that infrared shooting, whether with a digital camera converted to shoot infra red or a film camera with infra red film, is that as a medium it is unpredictable. Because you are actually recording the infra red part of the spectrum, [...]
Reports that solo around the world sailor may not achieve record
Today our media is filled with stories that Australian teenager Jessica Watson, who has almost completed her solo around the world voyage unassisted may be denied the record. The youngest sailor to circumnavigate the world in a yacht unassisted and non stop may not have covered enough distance to claim the record. There appears to [...]
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. [...]
They took my picture… they did.
Ok today I had a really unusual experience. I managed to get on the wrong side of the camera. Not by choice, but I was asked to supply a picture for publicity and …. well we didn’t have one. Imagine that, a photographer without a single promo picture in his archive. Anyway, it wasn’t to [...]
Unsung heroes of a photo studio.
I’ve just watched our digital artist working on a very closeup face shot of a very beautiful young model. The high resolution image fills her monitor with only little pieces of the models face at a time. Perfect as our models skin was by any standards, up this close at high resolution and shot through expensive glass, things are not looking great.
Belly Dancer and street parade
I still have a very clear vision of shooting some art images on a dry secluded swamp with Kim as our model. No biggy for us really, but then we had all our clothes on and weren’t lying on hard, cracked mud with all manner of creepy crawlies scurrying around our now, some what exposed body.
Mardi Gras, Mildura, Australia.
We got to spend Saturday evening shooting so of the festivities for the Mildura Mardi Gras 2010. Heaps of colourful costumes and great floats. While this may not compare to the Sydney Mardi Gras held on the same evening, I’m sure the participants had just as much fun. I know the kids involved where having [...]