HDR Rainforest Photos
What does a wedding photographer do during the colder months when there are not many weddings on? Other than catch up on everything on my ‘to do’ list I normally play with a few new techniques and do some personal photography projects.
Today’s weather is a bit dodgy with heavy cloud cover. The diffused light is perfect for rainforest photography so I headed to the Nightcap National Park to try some high dynamic range (HDR) photos at Protestors Falls.
Here’s a couple of my early efforts. Images like the waterfall can be particularly difficult to capture as the top of the falls is in bright sunlight and the bottom can be extremely dark.
Fake Cops Stealing Camera Memory Cards
Check out this story from Photoshop guru, Scott Kelby.
It seems that fake police are accosting tourists in Italy and demanding their camera memory cards before selling them on the black market. I’m guessing that will be a boom industry in many countries and tourist traps. Maybe it’s a good way to get rid of my old 512Meg cards I never use anymore.
Perfect Music for a Beach Wedding
If there was one musical instrument in the world I’d love to be able to play it would be the Jamaican Steel Drums. For some reason I just love them. The sound of them is simply just incredibly happy.
So how is this for a combination. The steel drums being used for the Wedding March at a beach wedding.
Byron Bay Wedding Feedback
I photograph a lot of brides and grooms who come to Byron Bay from interstate and overseas. Actually, most of the weddings I am the photographer for are not local couples. The up side is that I get to meet an amazing array of people from all walks of life. The down side is that I don’t normally get to deliver their wedding album in person. I therefore love getting feedback after the wedding album arrives in their hands.
Giselle and Daniel were just such a couple. They had a great wedding on Clarks Beach at Byron Bay. Giselle just sent me an email. In part it says:
“We recieved our Album last week and we absolutley love it!!!!! You really did a great job and the whole day was captured beautifully, so a really big thanks from both Dan and I and our families. We have been proudly showing it off all week and everyone comments on how well it is put together.”
Here’s a video of their album:
Model Bride
Here’s an image of a model bride I took yesterday. And yes, she is literally a model bride. I didn’t have a wedding yesterday so did a photo shoot with a model instead. This is Kiara. We took a bunch of photos for me to use as stock images.
They’ll eventually turn up on either iStockphoto or Getty Images. Check out my iStockphoto portfolio here and my Getty Images portfolio here.