Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop with No Keyboard
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under GEAR
I’m an Apple fan, but this is too funnnnny!
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard.
When marketing goes nuclear…
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Advertising
Scarcity plus Christmas plus social pressure plus greed plus kids = critical mass.
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry on what this video is telling us.
The most disturbing part is about 3 minutes in…
What do you think?
Tags: Advertising, marketing, video
Fight!
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling
A bit later than this time last year, I set off for Thailand -spending time with some friends for the first few weeks then setting off on my own.
My friends and I spent time in the wilderness, driving from the south to the north and spending the majority of our time photographing in the regions abundant National Parks. You can get a bit of insight into this part of my trip here, here and here.
I parted ways with my friends in Bangkok, setting off on the overnight train to Chiang Mai - Thailand’s second largest city and the hub of the northern region. It was here I would spend time on a personal project which I found fascinating - documenting the art of Thai Boxing.
Located in Thailand’s north, relatively close to Burma (Myanmar) and Laos, Chiang Mai is a a cosmopolitan city, rich in culture and a hub of the Thai Boxing scene in Northern Thailand.
The National sport of Thailand, Thai Boxing (Muay Thai) permeates Thai culture in a similar way that Australian Rules Football does here in Australia. Young boxers live and breath Muay Thai, training 6 hours each day, 6 days a week - the kind of athletic discipline which must only be shared by the very best athletes in the western world.
I put together a short slideshow of muay thai photos here which I will update as I process more photos from the journey (remember to switch on the audio track).
Enjoy
Photographer or Thug?
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Photojournalism & Story Telling
We live in a strange time in terms of street photography. On the one hand, we have the most incredible tools available to us in terms of equipment, allowing us to shoot under all sorts of conditions with never-before-seen image quality. On the other, those people wielding such equipment in the public domain are often seen as unscrupulous voyeurs, skulking the streets trying to photograph unsuspecting ‘victims’ rather than those who have the important task of documenting our time (though admittedly, at least one photographer does just that). It is rather strange, as the world is occupied by an unprecedented number of cameras and the image of a person holding their mobile phone up to take a photo is not an unusual one.
As a result photographers - especially budding amateurs who just picked up a brand new digital SLR - are regularly bullied and intimidated by figures of authority, being advised (wrongly I might add) that what they are doing is illegal.
Give this comprehensive article a read - it gives you some basic guidelines on the law regarding street photography in NSW (and by extension, Australia) so that next time a security guard or policeman has an issue with you taking photos - you know where you stand.
Tags: law, street photography
Nikon releases D3X with a US RRP of $8000 - biggest fans outraged!
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under GEAR
Nikon released their newest flagship DSLR a couple of weeks ago, the 24 megapixel D3X. Essentially the camera is the year-or-so old D3 with a tweaked Sony sensor inlaid - so when Nikon announced a recommended retail price of $8000, heads rolled…
Enjoy!
Tags: D3X, GEAR, Nikon, youtube
Website Overhaul: deanbradshaw.com.au
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Portfolio
Prone to a love for design, I spent some of last week tinkering with my own site in an effort to best show my portfolio of images. I settled on this. Let me know what you think…
Tags: design, Portfolio, website
Finding Style: the dilemma of photography
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Thoughts and Theory
I came across this fascinating insight by Chuck Close whilst watching a documentary on the history of the photographic medium. It has led me down and interesting path of thought, one that I have been pondering in the back of my mind for a while, which has now been forced to the forefront of my imagination - the notion of photographic Style.
Here’s the dilemma and the strength of photography.
Its the easiest medium in which to be competent, but it’s the hardest medium in which to have personal vision which is readily identifiable. There is no physicality to a photograph…there is nothing you can point to and say “this is the work of that artists hands”.
So then…how do you make a photograph that somebody immediately knows as the work of a particular artist?
Well that is a very difficult and complicated thing to come up with - and when someone really ends up nailing down a particular kind of vision to such an extent that they own that vision - you know they’ve really done something.
- Chuck Close (American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist.)
I’m going to consider photographic style over a few more posts, as it can take one very far down the rabbit hole…
What are your thoughts on the matter?
Tags: Art, creativity, Philosophy, Style
Recent work
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under Portfolio
I haven’t made time to post some of the recent work I’ve been doing to the blog, having been so enamoured with the recent release of Canon’s newest camera - the 5D mkII.
So without further adieu, here’s a selection of some of the thing’s I’ve been shooting.
Tags: Portfolio, recent work
5D mkII at ISO6400
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under GEAR
So I’ve had the 5D mkII for a week now and have had the opportunity to shoot assignments as well as test shots with it. My first impressions remain strong - the AF is great, the big screen makes it much easier to resolve whether you’ve ‘got the shot’ in run-and-gun situations and the image quality and level of detail is extraordinary.
As we know, pictures speak a number of words, so following are some photos I took last weekend on the second evening of having the camera. Some were taken at the astronomically high ISO 6400 to resolve how well the camera performs at this level. As such, these images are only for testing purposes. Click on each to view them on flickr where you can see them at full size.
First up, a couple of unsharpened images at ISO100 run straight through Adobe Camera Raw at its default settings.
View the images taken at ISO6400, after the jump…
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Tags: 5D mkII, camera, canon, GEAR, street, test photos
Canon 5D mkII - 100% crops - ISO 6400
Posted by Dean Bradshaw | Filed under GEAR
I should really be sleeping, but I couldn’t resist…
I was just going through some of the shots I took this evening on the production 5D mkII i picked up from the shop in Perth (Western Australia) this afternoon and after casually checking them out - I decided to take a look at some of the ones taken under more adverse lighting conditions.
Boy was I impressed.
Following is a 100% crop of an image shot under the lights of a gaming arcade (most of the illumination in the photo is provided not by overhead lighting, but by the screens of arcade gaming machines!!!!). It is amazing to see what the camera can capture - beyond the scope of the human eye!
Shot at f1.8 (wide open) on a Canon 85mm 1.8, I wasn’t expecting much, but not only did the 5D mkII nail focus on the eye (AF seems really reliable and accurate!), what impressed me so much was the level of detail and sharpness resolved at such a high ISO.
Check it out after the jump…
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