Posted in Canberra, Shoot., Trish Smith Photography on Sep 6th, 2010
In the Sculpture Garden at the National Gallery of Australia here in Canberra, there’s an installation that is only visible between the hours of 12pm and 2pm. It’s the mist. I didn’t realise that my kids had never seen it. We went there yesterday to get out of the house and Do Something for Fathers’ [...]
This time of the year, all around the city of Canberra, you can see large flocks of sulphur-crested cockatoos, ripping apart the grass in search of tasty new shoots. They’re making a mess of things, really, but there’s something quite pretty about so many of these birds, eating grass. Like a flock of sheep. Every [...]
Posted in Shoot. on Jul 17th, 2010
I’m off to see Beth Jennings again this morning, for my next session of Conquering the Camera. Today we are going to be photographing a real, live model (a person!) and seeing how to get the best shot in available light. Then we’ll be coming inside, uploading the images, managing the workflow… And this is [...]
Posted in Shoot. on Jul 15th, 2010
Posted in Shoot. on Jul 13th, 2010
This is Molly. She lives next door. But you can tell by that look on her face that she would much rather live with us.
I’m shooting a wedding in August. It’s stuff like this that just adds to my pre-wedding nerves. This video is supposed to be hilarious but it just made me want to cry. He’s using two cameras and two lenses… that’s several thousand dollars worth of gear he’s just ruined. Poor bastard.
Posted in Shoot. on Jul 8th, 2010
Trish Smith Photography dot com is LIVE! http://www.trishsmithphotography.com/ With sincere thanks to… The remarkable Beth Jennings for the not-half-bad pictures of me! The marvelous Vanessa MacLeod for the stunning logo design! The divine Anne M. for leading me though the creative process! The beautiful Kate M. for insisting on being my first paying client and [...]
Posted in Shoot. on Jul 5th, 2010
New homepage… what do you think? (Launching very soon.)
Posted in Shoot. on Jun 18th, 2010
This weekend I am going to a 3-hour photography lesson with the fabulous Beth Jennings. Me and a handful of other photography enthusiasts are going to learn how to ‘conquer the camera’. The class has been tailored somewhat to the needs of the enthusiasts (we all filled in a survey and laid bare our collective [...]
Posted in Shoot. on May 28th, 2010
Ree, The Pioneer Woman, is running a contest on her photography blog at the moment – she picks a theme, you upload a photo. A couple of months ago the theme was green, so I posted this one, and Ree picked it as a finalist, and I was chuffed. The theme for her last photography [...]
