Gallery updates.
By November 26th, 2009, underI began working on major archival additions to the online galleries recently and have been busily digitising and processing existing folios of published works which will showcase sections of my history in news, editorial, sport, advertising and commercial photography. They’ll be added and updated gradually as I have time.
I thought I’d start you off with this series form a bushfire that reached, and eventually breached, Thabeban Rd Bundaberg. Many houses and businesses were at risk at the time, with the fire fighters battling fires right up to, and sometimes within, the fence lines of properties. I actually came across the fire quite by accident on my way home from the late shift at the news-paper. I noticed a 30 cm long ember still aflame floating across the road less than 100 metres from my home and turned to investigate where it had come from. That’s when I noticed the giant red glow a couple of city blocks from home. Off I went to investigate and here is a snippet of what was published.
I felt like throwing this one up as well because I’ve always like this picture. In fact, I’ve always loved portraiture. Men – women – children – it doesn’t matter – I just love photographing people in a good light.
Figuratively Speaking – A Foto Freo workshop announcement
By October 24th, 2009, under
For those that may not know, I’m a member of the Foto Freo 2010 Workshops Committee and will also be officially conducting a workshop of my own during the festival. This workshop, titled “Figuratively Speaking”, is detailed below and will be held on the evening of Thursday April 8 2010. Full details and bookings of this and other workshops will be available form the www.fotofreo.com/ website very soon. There are some great workshops planned, so keep your eye out and plan to be in Perth during April 2010.
Title:
Figuratively Speaking – The fine art of the nude
Host:
Brett Dorron
Duration:
3 Hrs
Date:
Thursday April 8 2010, 6.30 – 9.30 PM
Course description:
In this exclusive art nude photography workshop, Brett will openly share a number of his most valuable and intimate approaches to photographing and working with nude figures in and out of the studio. Learn how to light, pose and communicate with your models, and to put them at ease. Then take the opportunity to practice these techniques photographing a nude in the studio under Brett’s creative direction.
Topics covered include:
- Basic principles of photographing male and female nude bodies
- Pre-production & conceptual stage of photographing nude figures
- Elements of beauty in nude photographs
- Studio lighting techniques for nude photography
- Creative states and managing creativity in a technical environment
- What to do, where to look, and overcoming inherent problems
- Sourcing and preparing models
Biography:
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The Camera Recycle Project.
By October 21st, 2009, underI am very proud to announce my involvement with Jade Stott and Jeremy Hall in The Camera Recycle Project. I’ll be an instructor in the youth workshop program which officially kicks off this week.
What is The Camera Recycle Project?
The Camera Recycle Project – Giving young West Australians tools for creative expression.
The project aims to collect donations of old or unused cameras and other photographic equipment from the community and make them available to disadvantaged youth in the form of a “technology library”.
OBJECTIVES
- To provide access to cameras and other technology for creative expression;
- To increase community awareness of the “digital divide” – unequal access to technology based on SES status, youth homelessness, and youth issues in general
- To engage youth in the Perth photographic community;
- To teach photographic, editing, and computing skills to participants in workshops led by a professional photographer/teacher (in conjunction with the launch of each library);
- To provide information on photography and associated opportunities (i.e. as a creative outlet, advertising, exhibition information, career and education options);
The Camera Recycle Project is proudly supported by Propel Youth Arts WA, and Healthway to promote the “Drug Aware” message and the workshops are run through Joondalup Youth Support Services’ (JYSS) COMET program (an alernative Year 10 program for youth who have left school and/or home).
Read more about COMET and JYSS here: http://www.jyss.org.au/
Public exhibition of their photographic work will be organised and held by the COMET youth at Edith Cowan University Joondalup’s Art Gallery on Tuesday 8th December 2009.
This coincides with their graduation.
Favourite quotes from four great masters.
By October 21st, 2009, underSome are witty and obvious, others challenging, but I hope you find all inspirational. I know I do. Included are Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Man Ray.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Above all, I craved to seize the whole essence, in the confines of one single photograph, of some situation that was in the process of unrolling itself before my eyes. – Henri Cartier-Bresson [1]
Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn’t go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick. – Henri Cartier-Bresson [1]
To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. – Henri Cartier-Bresson [1]
Have you ever experienced anxiety or doubt about your art? Watch this TED talk by author, Elizabeth Gilbert.
By October 18th, 2009, underElizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk as she exposes her fascination for genius, and how we ruin it.
