Korske Ara Photography

Interior Photography: SonicLight Music Production

Korske Ara — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:01:47 +0000

On Monday, I was asked by Mark at SonicLight Music Production to capture a few photographs of his studio to place on a new website he is working on. Here are a few photographs from that shoot.

I used a 16-35mm wide lens on a 5D Mark II in order to fit the entire room into a single frame.

Product Photography: Tea – Australian Breakfast

Korske Ara — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:26:19 +0000

A friend of mine recently started an online tea store so I bought some new tea from her. Here’s a photograph of the Australian Breakfast that was delivered last week. I also bought some Earl Grey tea too.

The Method: For this photo, I didn’t use a light box or flash. I used a home made light box made from A4 paper, a desk lamp for lighting and baking paper to defuse the light.

If you love tea, check out www.cuppa-t.com.au

Radio voice over fun

Korske Ara — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:23:41 +0000

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been joining the breakfast show every Monday on 91.9, 1WAY FM. It’s been great fun getting involved in radio and I’ve learnt a lot over the past few weeks. I’ve also started becoming more confident with the concept of talking to someone without talking to someone.

Yesterday, I recorded my first voice over for a Community Service Announcement. Not perfect but an end result I’m really happy with.

Hopefully there’ll be more radio snippets being posted as I get better at this new radio experience.

Canberra City Evening

Korske Ara — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 22:32:57 +0000

I took these photos yesterday evening in the city after work. It has been good fun heading out with my camera again. I really like the fancy cars on the road in the first photo great timing with that Porshe. The first building is the Australian Taxation Office.

Canberra Landmarks – Questacon and The National Library

Korske Ara — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:44:14 +0000

I went for a walk around some of the ‘National’ buildings after work today and captured these two photographs. The first is of The National Library and the second is Questacon (The National Science and Technology Centre).

The chromatic abrasion on the photograph of Questacon was so hideous, I converted it black and white to hide the fact. I also had some issues with dust spots. There were over 10 spots on the sensor which took a while to process out. I’ll get to work on cleaning my camera up tomorrow morning.

In other news, my 5DII has almost reached 30,000 shutter releases.

Revisit: Blue to Grey, Field to Suburb

Korske Ara — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:25:20 +0000

This is a revisit on a photograph I captured and processed back in 2008. The new photo is probably more of an accurate representation of the colours that I actually saw.

There’s a lot of CA in both these photographs, not much I could do there. They original photo was taken on a 450D/17-85mm combination and saved as JPEG. If the image was taken in RAW, I’m sure I could have done a lot more.

This is the photograph that I had originally posted in 2008. A little over the top with the HDR sliders.

Monday Musings: On the Radio!

Korske Ara — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:10:07 +0000

Trying to update my blog more often is harder that I expected. My aim is to add a post every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I managed alright last week, let’s hope that this week goes well too! I’m hoping that Monday musings will become a weekly update of some of the things that have happened during my week.

This morning was my first time on the breakfast show with Howie Warren on 1WayFM, Canberra’s local Christian radio station. We had a great time on air having some good laughs and conversations throughout the morning. If you want to catch me on air, tune into 91.9 (94.3 in Tuggeranong) between 7 and 9 on Monday mornings!

Waking up at 5am was probably the hardest part of the morning but that soon wore off as my coffee cup emptied. I’m looking forward to next Monday already!

Photography

I lent my camera to a friend for a shoot he was doing so I didn’t have a chance to head out this weekend to take photos.

Here’s one of my favourites from the shoot my friend had been working on:

You can find more of Joseph’s work in his portfolio: JP Photographic

Quote

An interesting quote that I heard this morning:

“We spend money we don’t have to buy things we don’t need to impress those we don’t like”.

I thought about it and realised how true this was for many people. I had the same focus until I resigned from my previous job to chase my photography dreams. I’m glad I worked this one out early!

Joke

It’s well known that laughter is the best medicine, here’s a joke I heard this week for you to enjoy:

For her 17th birthday, my daughter was given an iPod and she was very happy with her new toy. A few months later, my son turned 18, we bought him an iPhone. When my birthday came around, my family pooled in to buy me an iPad. I was really excited about this and on my wife’s birthday I bought her an iRon. That’s when the fight started.

Revisit: Candid Portraits

Korske Ara — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:28:30 +0000

My latest blog addition, “revisit” posts are just posts that include photos from the past. Whether it be a few photos like this post or a post processing revisit of a photo like this post: A noticeable change.

One of the things I love about photography is capturing moments as they’re happening and this is something that I really enjoy about event photography.

Candid portraits are often my favourite photos, here are a few candid portraits that I’ve taken over the past year.

Rock Islands

Korske Ara — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:27:28 +0000

Again, these photos are from a few weeks ago that went un-processed for a while.

On the day, I decided to change my perspective a little and take a few photos at ground level. Both these photos were taken using with my EF 70-200 2.8L IS. The rocks are in a puddle of water about 2 meters wide.

Just for the perspective, the first picture is of a rock about 10cm in length (If I remember right).

These photos were the outcome of an exploratory photo trip. I love just heading out with a camera and finding something to photograph. Sometimes, even the ground can make an interesting photo :)

World Photography Day, August 19th

Korske Ara — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:47:54 +0000

I love photography and it’s certainly a lot of fun! This August 19th, join with me to celebrate World Photography Day.

Here’s a little except on what it’s all about!

August 19th is a very special day for photographers around the world. It’s on this very day, that the invention of photography was publicly announced in Paris, 1839. Since this occasion, the day has been celebrated as World Photography Day.

World Photography Day is all about photography and remembering how truly special a photograph can be. Today, we take our cameras for granted and a photograph is nothing new. But next time you’re taking a trip down memory lane, remember that there was once a time when photography didn’t exist. A time when those precious moments couldn’t be captured, uploaded and shared.

If you love photography, join us to celebrate World Photography Day.

Check out the website for more information: World Photography Day