Photo Review

Don Norris Opening on 19 August and running for 31 days across five weekends to 17 September, the 2017 Ballarat Foto Biennale can be ranked with the other great world photo festivals and biennales. The theme, performance of identity, is one everyone

‘As a photographer one of the most valuable skills I have gained is being able to see light. Its intricacies and its incredible and powerful qualities.’ If there’s one thing Olympus Visionary and busy commercial photographer Lachlan Moore really love

Margaret Brown Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre, as it is now officially known, was renamed in December 2012 to reflect its importance to the Arabana and the Dieri People, who hold native title rights over the lake and surrounding region. The National Park is c

Margaret Brown Back in the days of film, photographers tended to use one of three film formats: 35mm (with individual frames of 36 x 24mm), medium format (which used 60mm wide film with frame lengths ranging from 45mm through 70mm to 90mm) or large f

Margaret Brown ‘Getting good results requires you to be aware of what’s going on around you’ Most communities, both large and small, conduct special events at intervals throughout the year. Christmas, Easter and public holidays like Anzac Day and Aus

Margaret Brown If you read last issue's feature on printing, you'll know how your choice of printer influences the media you can print on and the control you have over the printing process. In this feature, we'll look at the different types of inkjet

Over the past year and a half, I have been lucky enough to walk down Katoomba’s Furber Steps on several mornings starting before sunrise. Each day I experience something different. Some mornings the air is clear and still, and high clouds bring the p

Olympus OMD-EM5 Mark ll; 12-40mm PRO lens @ 12mm; ISO 200; f/8; 1/125s This is 2 images stitched together to get a wider field of view. The image was taken at Moraine Lake in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I climbed up the moraine wall to get some alt

Don Norris ‘I knew that I was on a path, and I knew that I had done something that was a little bit different.’ When Lisa Saad was a girl, her family had a beach house at a little spot called Coronet Bay on the eastern shore of Victoria’s Western Por

The negative space challenge turned out to be rather popular with our Challengers and we were impressed with the standard of entries. As the old race call cliche goes, ‘they were so close, you could have thrown a blanket over ‘em’. In the end we gave

Steve Packer ‘Although all of my work is done on the street, I could in no way be classed as a traditional street photographer.’ You have a very artistic approach to photography, but you’re making it work on a commercial level. How do you do that? Br