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... :)

Yanchep Lagoon Dawn Shoot

Up early again this morning to catch a sunrise. This wasn't the usual shoot which was planned and scouted before hand, I just needed to capture something. Yanchep Lagoon is only 5 mins from where I live so it is a convenient place to shoot, which is handy as I get twitchy if I haven't shot anything for a while.

So here it is, I was hoping for a colour filled sky but it wasn't to be, I'm happy with the shot though and I met another photographer (on the rocks in the distance) who was mad enough to get up early on a Saturday.

All round a productive morning...

The difference a 10 Stop ND Filter can make for daytime photography.

I recentley purchased a 10Stop ND filter, which basically cuts down the amount of light entering the camera allowing for longer shutter speeds.

The below image was taken at 1/40sec F16 ISO 100

The below image was taken in the exact same spot and taken within 2mins of the previous one. This time we add the ND Filter. I adjusted the settings to 30secs F16 ISO 100.

This can allow for some fantastic photography in the middle of the day! Although the sun side lighting will still add more depth.
I will be using this effect to photograph city scenes and street scenes.