Stirling Ranges

The Stirling Ranges are located in the South West Region of Western Australia and are the highest point for a 1000km's.
I took a trip there last week to photograph the mountain range and to highlight the beauty of this area.

Natures pastel colours

Yesterday reached 41 and was predicted to hit 38, today they predict 39 with storms so I predict 43 in my garden!

Thought I would get up before it got too hot and catch a sunrise (up at 4.30am), headed up to Two Rocks here in Western Australia, this is the best time of the day. I love the pastel colours in this shot and yes they are real, I try to capture what I see. I have included the image shown by the camera when it was taken.

Enjoy the weather where ever you are today! :)

Baby Portraiture

We are now providing Baby Portraiture!

Currently offering...

-We come to you and setup a small studio (Perth Metro area)

-All images are edited including Photoshop'ed if required to remove cradle cap, blotches etc

-Free print of your choice

-Online secure gallery for you to distribute to whoever you like

All this for only $150.00

Visit http://www.waynewrightphotography.net/kids_gallery/gallery_kids.html for more details.

Recents

We have uploaded several new images to our Landscape Gallery...
http://www.waynewrightphotography.net/landscape_gallery/landscape_section.html

Images of the Perth Wildcats home games at Challenge stadium can be seen here...
http://www.waynewrightphotography.net/sports_menu.html

Our latest competition closes at the end of this month so if you haven't registered head over here and register...
http://www.waynewrightphotography.net/competition4.html

WIN a signed LIMITED edition print!

We are giving away a LIMITED EDITION SIGNED PRINT.
See here for details...

http://www.waynewrightphotography.net/competition4.html

On your wall

See how one of our images could transform a room in your home.

Send us an image your room.

Choose up to 3 images from our Gallery.

And we will show you how they could look in Your home.

Free to try for the first 15 people...
Visit http://www.waynewrightphotography.net/on_the_wall/on_the_wall.html

To digitally enhance a photo or not...

One of the most common questions I get regarding my images is... Did you enhance this in Photoshop.

The answer is yes if you count Colour balance, Cropping, dust removal, vibrance, curves, contrast, sharpening etc.
Professional and serious photographers shoot in RAW rather than JPEG, why?...
When you take a shot with your point & shoot in Jpeg or similar, you get that fantastic shot with beautiful colours, it is sharp and ready for print without digitally enhancing...or do you?
Jpeg's are compressed files with limited image data, you have taken the shot the camera has picked a colour temperature, saturated the colours, sharpened, increased contrast, boosted clarity and all those things that finishes of an image. The camera has chosen how to enhance your image for you and taken away that creative process.
When you shoot in RAW you get maximum information and no adjustments. It is up to the photographer to adjust the image to fit his or her vision.
It is important to a photographer to have full control from the moment they take the shot right through to the final print. Even to the point the monitor they view images on are adjusted and calibrated to show a true representation of what the print will look like. Monitors you get with your laptop or desktop are generally not calibrated for photos, they are far too bright and the colour balance is usually way off.
There are "purists" out there that believe you should take an image and not touch it, that way it hasn't been enhanced. I say if you are using digital the camera is doing it for you, it would be purer to do it yourself. If shooting with film, the choice of film and the chemical process changes the way an image will look, so you are manipulating chemically instead of digitally.
Photos have been manipulated or enhanced since the beginning of photography.
While I think adjusting your image is a necessary process, it can easily be overdone. In my images I try to represent what I saw and re-create the feeling of being there and get it right in camera using filters as much as possible.

Please excuse my grammar and spelling but I think you get my point... :)