July 2020

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The Decisive Moment
Often a photographer has the right idea and they are ready to shoot at the best possible time, but their gear lets them down. If you’re trying to take thatperfect shot, it’s never a good time to learn a new and complex technique. Get to know your equ
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A Graceful Dance
Jellyfish are many things to many people. To fishermen, they can be a costly impact on business. To swimmers, they can be a source of fear and pain. To entrepreneurs, they can be a surprising source of income. To the curious, they are hypnotic and fa
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Contributors
Justin Gilligan’s images have won awards in the BBC Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year, the Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year, and the Australian Professional Photography Awards. See more of his work
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The Art Of Self-analysis
Here’s a question for you: what do you think makes for a good photo? Your answer might be something along the lines of an interesting subject captured in an unusual way, or an image taken in great light, or a shot with a dynamic composition. Intuitiv
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Quick Snaps
THE 2020 Head On Photo Awards have been announced, with the annual photography competition celebrating excellence across three categories: portrait, landscape and student. In the portrait category, Australian photographer Fiona Wolf-Symeonides’s The
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Your Best Shot
PETS Siamese Fighting Fish EDITOR’S COMMENT: There’s something incredibly relaxing about watching fish swimming in a tank, which might be one of the reasons we were so drawn to this image. Photographer Kym Douglas says this Dumbo halfmoon (Dumbo mean
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A Foot In The Door
With the outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent implementation of social distancing and isolation, the world of photography has been thrown a curveball. For the first time in living memory, the world’s population has been forced to retreat to their
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How To Enter
1. Email your entry to yourbestshot@australianphotography.com with the name of the competition theme in the email subject line. For example: Weather, Abstract, Landscape, etc.2. The image file must be the same as your name. For example: Jane Smith.jp
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Refining Your Technique
• Always focus on the eye or head of the bird. If the eye is not sharp the image simply will not work. • Use high-speed continuous shooting and fire off bursts. Yes, you will need to do some culling later on, but you are greatly increasing your chanc
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Bird photography Basics
Many bird enthusiasts take up photography so they have a record of what they see, and on the flip side many photographers enjoy the challenge of photographing and become bird enthusiasts. I have always loved birds, but had a small knowledge of their
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Strip It Back
Epic outdoor scenes can sometimes give us the desire to try and capture every little element in a photograph. But what if you stripped it all back to focus on something singular within the frame? Photographing landscapes with the intention of highlig
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Benq Sw321c Monitor
As a child, back when televisions had cathode ray tubes, our parents were forever telling us to sit away from the screen. Nowadays, with 60-inch TVs common in many living rooms, sitting too close is not so much a problem as actually sitting far enoug
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Why Back Button Focus Will Change The Way You Shoot
There is one feature on your camera that you may have just brushed over in the past or ignored altogether that holds the key to improving your in-focus hit rate enormously: back button focus. This one tiny button will change the way you shoot forever
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Sony A6600
Three years is a long time in the world of technology – just look at the gap between 2016’s A6500 and 2019’s A6600. When the A6500 launched, it was packed with innovative features such as 4K 30 fps video, 11fps shooting speed, in-body stabilisation,
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Small But Exquisite
At some time in our lives we have all walked down a windswept beach and as the waves crashed and wind blew, we found ourselves sidestepping myriad of bluebottles washed onto the beach. Some of us have even been tempted to pop one or two of these nast
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Image Doctor
Alan Coligado says: “This is one of my fledgling attempts at multiple exposures through layering in Photoshop. It is a composite image of a mural and a discarded mattress I found while exploring street art in Sydney’s Inner West last January. My inte
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Frustrations, Challenges And Rewards
A little over a year ago I started a journey which is now coming to a close. My first submission in the APS Conceptual Art Photography Award (CAPA) program is now nearing its completion and is ready for assessment. CAPA was first initiated in 2015 by
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A Fujifilm Finepix Xp140 Valued At $299
Thanks to Fujifilm, Alan Coligado has won a brilliant Fujifilm Finepix XP140 camera valued at $299. The first XP Series model capable of recording 4K video, the XP140’s High-Speed Video recording function also allows you to record HD video for smooth

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