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2013-02-01 07:37:07 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

In January I had a great opportunity to try some studio photography with the +Darwin Photo Walks  Group. I have never shot in a studio before, nor I have a shot with off camera flashes. This event at +Nina K's Studio gave me the opportunity to use studio lighting and when the studio lights were being used I was also able to use Nina’s Pocketwizards on my Canon 430EXII flash to try some different style.
Thank you +Nina K for the use of your Studio, it was a great afternoon.

2013-01-24 10:28:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

In a Studio with Dancers
Earlier this month, I had the privilege to attend a +Darwin Photo Walks event,  shooting a group of dancers in the studio of +Nina K - many, many thanks to Nina for the use of her studio and the sharing of her knowledge about the equipment she generously allowed us to use.  

Even more thanks to Melissa, Kia, Pieta and Danial - shooting your movement was a great opportunity and I wish you all possible succes in your dance careers.

Those of you familiar with my stream will know that shooting people isn't exactly my thing.  Yes, I do make lots of images of my god-sons and I cherish that - but shooting people - no, not my thing.  Having said that, I'm quite chuffed with a few of these images and I'm particularly impressed with the images shot whilst using Nina's flash system.

Thanks again Nina, Danial, Kia, Melissa andPiet... more »

2013-01-16 10:14:03 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I had the pleasure of shooting dancers in a studio this past Saturday evening with +Darwin Photo Walks at +Nina K's studio.  I haven't had time, until this evening, to even look at the images.  I loaded the card into the appropriate slot in the computer and there's nothing there.  Nothing - not even the standard, invisible default files that are always there.

I used ZAR data recovery a few years back when this issue raised its ugly head.  Here's to hoping it works this time.

2013-01-14 08:25:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Some of +Owen Gale 's images from this weekend's session at +Nina K 's studio. Thanks to the long suffering dancer models and Nina for sharing her wonderful set-up and gear.

2013-01-02 08:52:48 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Darwin Photowalks - A Schedule for 2013

Welcome to 2013 - may it be all you want it to be and more.

So far, we have one event scheduled and several others planned for early in the new year but with no firm dates.  We've also had several ideas suggested that we need to follow through with, plan for and then make dates.

12 January 2013
In the Studio - with +Nina K 
This will be an afternoon of shooting dancers in Nina's studio and then heading out to the paddock for more shooting.  A second post will be made (private to those who participate in our gatherings) where Nina can give people directions to her studio and any other instructions that may be needed.

February 2013
Aviation Museum - No further plans nor a date as yet.

March 2013
Post-processing with +Bryan Seears
A date and location is to be determined.... more »

2012-11-25 23:55:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Corroboree Billabong - Photo Walking on Water
#Derek #Photography   #DSLR #DarwinPhotoWalks   #PhotoWalks  

The first image in this set is my favourite from the weekend cruise with +Darwin Photo Walks at Corroboree Billabong.  Though the birds were beautiful, the crocodiles fierce and the sky amazing, this tree - well, it really took my fancy.

2012-11-25 05:19:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

2012-11-25 05:19:14 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-11-25 05:18:48 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#darwinphotowalks  
Who would have thought it would be so hard to get sharp images at twilight rocking around in a boat - I've never managed to get very good images with the 7D at high iso's (800 or above), and to be honest I was kitted up for birds, with the sigma 120-300 2.8 and 1.4X extender, so it's probably no surprise that I wasn't happy with one bird image that i took, they where either to noisy or a a little too blurry (though to be fair to the camera I am a little picky..).
The upside is that after 24 years of living in Darwin these are the very first pictures of crocodiles I've ever taken.
Enjoyed the cruise immensely and will difinately be going back in the daylight hours to see what I can get. 

2012-11-24 21:38:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Photos from my first Darwin Photo Walk.

Just got done quickly editing a few photos that I thought could be keepers, the low light and my f5.6 400mm VR lens made it difficult to get really sharp shots. Looking at the 2.8's that were on the shoot got me thinking again and I may purchase one before Africa.

2012-11-18 08:13:11 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Next Photo Walk: Corroboree Billabong Cruises
#DarwinPhotoWalks   #PhotoWalks   #PhotoCruise  

The next +Darwin Photo Walks gathering will be on Saturday, 24 Nov 2012.  We will be going on a sunset cruise (see link below) with Corroboree Billabong Cruises.  The cruise begins at 5:15pm and will finish at around 6:45pm.

Those who have already joined us for photowalks or who have expressed interest in doing so have been having a private conversation about this event such that we can get numbers together.  If you're not one of those people and would like to join us, please ensure that you note your interest by the end of Monday, 19 November as we need to the let the company know the numbers that will be attending.

Many, many thanks to +Louise Denton for organising the cruise, and a group discount, with the company involved.

Cost: $40 adults,$25 for... more »

2012-10-24 10:47:29 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Fridge Festival Finale: Saturday October 27
At the Darwin Waterfront
4-6pm  Esky workshops/ Recycled art / fridge magnets with Janie Andrews, Karen Roberts and Marita Albers. BYO esky. All other materials will be provided.
4-6pm Make digital art with Sydney based artists, dLux, using a studio housed inside a humble esky.
6pm – 9pm Watch the sun go down to chilled out tunes by Country Town Collection. Then get your groove on and help celebrate the end of this fabulous festival. Laser art. Storytelling. Theatre. Comedy. Live music.
9pm Halloween! at the Happy Yess. Sideshow Aly with DJ Evy Starr,  VJ Asterix and the Skull F*ckers Puppet Show. Prizes for best dressed.

2012-10-21 06:32:15 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Darwin Photo Walks
A group on #Flickr  for those who don't G+.

2012-10-21 06:31:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-10-20 23:14:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Fridge Festival Photo Walk
#DarwinPhotoWalks #PhotoWalks   #Photography  #DSLR #Darwin  

A few of my images from yesterday's +Darwin Photo Walks _Fridge Festival_ photo walk.

2012-10-19 08:46:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hello Darwin!

Join Charles aka Rantz on a photo walk through the Darwin Fridge Festival!

Here's the mission briefing:

The Darwin Fridge Festival (http://darwinfridgefestival.org.au/) is the world's coolest festival: as a part of this festival, there will be an Eye'Em meetup on Saturday, 20 October 2012 at 4pm. We'll be meeting at the bottom of the glass lifts at the Darwin Water Front and walking around the festival, shooting our way to a fine Build Up afternoon. BYO camera(s)

Join the event to get updates and stay tuned for the first ever EyeEm Meetup to go down in Darwin.

See you soon!

Say hi to Charles here:
http://www.eyeem.com/u/Rantz
@Rantz

2012-10-18 22:22:56 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

On Friday 19 Oct, another of Australia's most prolific mobilographers - +Charles Strebor - will be conducting a mobilography (ie mobile photography) workshop.  During this workshop, Charles will be guiding participants through a variety of applications for various mobile devices in preparation for the Photo Walk the next day at the same time.

The workshop will be meeting at the base of the glass lifts at the Darwin Waterfront.

Please be sure to bring your mobile device(s) and it would also be good if you have +EyeEm loaded on your device (available on iOS, Android and Windows platforms).

2012-10-18 22:21:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hello Darwin!

Join Charles aka Rantz on a photo walk through the Darwin Fridge Festival!

Here's the mission briefing:

The Darwin Fridge Festival (http://darwinfridgefestival.org.au/) is the world's coolest festival: as a part of this festival, there will be an Eye'Em meetup on Saturday, 20 October 2012 at 4pm. We'll be meeting at the bottom of the glass lifts at the Darwin Water Front and walking around the festival, shooting our way to a fine Build Up afternoon. BYO camera(s)

Join the event to get updates and stay tuned for the first ever EyeEm Meetup to go down in Darwin.

See you soon!

Say hi to Charles here:
http://www.eyeem.com/u/Rantz
@Rantz

2012-10-13 03:20:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Darwin Fridge Festival gallery on +EyeEm 

+Natalie Sprite 

2012-10-18 22:19:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

EyeEm
#Mobilography   #MobilePhotography   #Android   #iOS   #Windows  

For those attending the  Mobileography Workshop on 19 Oct or the EyeEm Darwin Meetup on 20 Oct it would be handy if you have EyeEm installed and account.

+EyeEm 

2012-10-07 02:03:01 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

On Saturday, 20 Oct 2012 +Darwin Photo Walks invites you to participate in the first photo walk for the World's Coolest Festival - the Darwin Fridge Festival.

We will be meeting at the base of the glass lifts at the waterfront and then walking our way around the Darwin Waterfront Precinct, exploring the festival through the eyes of the many talented photographers that make up our group.

We look forward to seeing you there - please be sure to bring your camera(s), fully charged and ready to shoot.

2012-10-07 01:53:28 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)

On Friday 19 Oct, another of Australia's most prolific mobilographers - +Charles Strebor - will be conducting a mobilography (ie mobile photography) workshop.  During this workshop, Charles will be guiding participants through a variety of applications for various mobile devices in preparation for the Photo Walk the next day at the same time.

The workshop will be meeting at the base of the glass lifts at the Darwin Waterfront.

Please be sure to bring your mobile device(s) and it would also be good if you have +EyeEm loaded on your device (available on iOS, Android and Windows platforms).

2012-10-01 09:00:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Hello Darwin!

Join Charles aka Rantz on a photo walk through the Darwin Fridge Festival!

Here's the mission briefing:

The Darwin Fridge Festival (http://darwinfridgefestival.org.au/) is the world's coolest festival: as a part of this festival, there will be an Eye'Em meetup on Saturday, 20 October 2012 at 4pm. We'll be meeting at the bottom of the glass lifts at the Darwin Water Front and walking around the festival, shooting our way to a fine Build Up afternoon. BYO camera(s)

Join the event to get updates and stay tuned for the first ever EyeEm Meetup to go down in Darwin.

See you soon!

Say hi to Charles here:
http://www.eyeem.com/u/Rantz
@Rantz

2012-09-29 09:07:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Darwin Fridge Festival & EyeEm
#DarwinPhotoWalks   #PhotoWalkes   #EyeEm  

The next +Darwin Photo Walks is going to be full of grandness with a whole variety of ways in which you can participate.  For the mobilographers amongst us, there will be an +EyeEm meet up.  Those of you on Facebook might wish to visit this link and note your attendance there.

More information on the mobilography (ie mobile photography) workshop on the Friday before the photo walk coming soon.

2012-09-23 04:22:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Thanks to +Louise Denton for allowing +Darwin Photo Walks to use this image as our profile shot.

2012-09-22 21:47:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Special thank you to +Charles Strebor for his fire spinning.

2012-09-22 11:35:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Thanks to all of you who made it to Lee Point tonight - I look forward to seeing your images.

+Charles Strebor 

2012-09-20 22:28:27 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

A quick reminder that the next Darwin Photo Walk is at Lee Point: 6pm for sunset and then fire poi spinning.  +Charles Strebor will be doing the fire spinning and +Louise Denton & +Bryan Seears will be able to give on camera settings for capturing fire (and reflections, depending on where the streams on the beach may be during our time there).

We look forward to seeing you there.

http://goo.gl/3Q0XH <<--- The event page.

2012-09-19 11:22:45 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)

Meet at the Lee Point Car Park
http://goo.gl/2imTt Google Maps link

2012-09-10 08:03:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

And a few examples from Flickr.

2012-09-10 08:03:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Techniques for shooting a wide variety of 'fire' scenarios.

2012-08-26 01:06:20 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

This basic tutorial should give you some ideas for shooting on our next photo walk (22 Sep 2012).

2012-08-11 02:04:37 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Darwin Photo Walks on Flickr
I've established a group for us on Flickr such that we can also share our photo walks work in that space as well.

2013-04-15 13:19:08 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Darwin Photo Walks at Territory Wildlife Park

Please visit http://goo.gl/OQCh4 for more information

2012-08-11 00:32:56 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 5 +1s)

Next Photo Walk: Saturday, 25 August 2012, Territory Wildlife Park

The next walk of +Darwin Photo Walks will be on Saturday, 25 August 2012 at Territory Wildlife Park.  We'll meet at 8:45 at the Main Station inside the park where the trains depart from.

It would be good if everyone could bring a picnic for after the walks and please remember lots of liquids and your sunscreen.  We'll first plan to be at the Ooolloo Sandbar for the 10am whipray feeding, work our through the park and end the day with the 2:30 Birds of Prey show day at the flight deck.

We look forward to seeing you there.

2012-08-02 21:29:09 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

New Profile Image
Thanks to +Bryan Seears for allowing us to use his image as our profile picture.

Over the coming walks and months, perhaps we can change our images after each walk so as to spread the grandness around?

2012-07-10 08:56:27 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

#DarwinPhotoWalks
Here's a few from our recent Darwin Photo Walk.
Another night of good company and fine weather. 

2012-07-09 07:51:08 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

2012-07-08 11:01:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

New banner image: thanks +Tuan Nguyen for allowing the use of his image from last night's photo walk for our newest banner image.

2012-07-08 07:36:11 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

2012-07-08 07:34:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Thanks, thanks and thanks
#DarwinPhotoWalks   #Photowalks  

Thanks muchly to the 19 people who showed up for last night's photo walk - your presence is much appreciated.

If you're receiving a notification about this message, it is because you are in our 'Darwin Walkers' circle.  If you haven't received notification but were at last night's photo walk - or the first two - please let us know and we'll add you to the circle.

When you upload your photos to G+, please remember to tag your posts with #DarwinPhotoWalks  and/or +Darwin Photo Walks and we'll add them to our stream.

Next photo walk - August.  Territory Wildlife Park - date and time to be discussed and confirmed by those who participate in the walks.

Posted by +Charles Strebor

2012-07-08 06:13:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

#DarwinPhotoWalks

2012-07-06 04:17:17 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Darwin Photo Walks - Walk #3
#PhotoWalks   #DarwinPhotoWalks   #TheWalkDownUnder  
On Saturday, 7 July 2012 +Darwin Photo Walks participants will be meeting at 5:30pm at the viewing platform on the Esplanade at the Western end of Knuckey Street.

From there, we will take the path noted on this map, ending at the corner of Smith and Knuckey Streets some hours later.

We look forward to meeting you on the night - if you can't make it for the 5:30pm start please use this map to find us - it shouldn't be too hard to do so - just looking for the gaggle of people with cameras.

See you there!

2012-07-02 08:25:59 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Darwin Photo Walks - Walk #3
#PhotoWalks   #DarwinPhotoWalks   #TheWalkDownUnder  
On Saturday, 7 July 2012 +Darwin Photo Walks participants will be meeting at 5:30pm at the viewing platform on the Esplanade at the Western end of Knuckey Street.

From there, we will take the path noted on this map, ending at the corner of Smith and Knuckey Streets some hours later.

We look forward to meeting you on the night - if you can't make it for the 5:30pm start please use this map to find us - it shouldn't be too hard to do so - just looking for the gaggle of people with cameras.

See you there!

2012-06-27 13:13:04 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Darwin Fridge Festival
+Charles Strebor has been talking with Natalie Sprite from the Darwin Fridge Festival and is organising a photo walk to be held during the festival (12 to 28 Oct 2012).

It would be much appreciated if those of you who have participated in #DarwinPhotoWalks  to date - and those who are keen to do so in the future - could post your ideas about what we could get up to for the walk.

Thanks
(posted by +Charles Strebor).

2012-06-27 10:11:23 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Next Darwin Photo Walk

We've schedule our next #darwinphotowalks  for Saturday, 7 Jul 2012 in the Darwin Central Business District.

We'll meet at 5:30pm for a night walk though we haven't at this stage chosen a spot to start from and to go to. All suggestions welcome and gladly considered: please let us know any ideas you may have.

Those who have undertaken walks in the past will then make a decision over this coming week and post again with a meeting spot.

+The Walk Downunder +Tuan Nguyen 

2012-04-28 23:03:16 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Photos from +Donna Schakelaar from last evening's gathering.

#DarwinPhotoWalks #TheWalkDownunder

2012-04-28 11:04:31 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Thanks to all of those who attended this evening's gathering at the (unfortunately 'closed') Nightcliff Jetty.

Next gathering will be towards the end of June or early July - possibly in the city for a streetscape walk (thanks +Bryan Seears for the idea).

We'd much appreciate if you could tag +Darwin Photo Walks with any images you upload from this evening's gathering.

2012-04-28 00:18:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Nightcliff Jetty Photowalk
#DarwinPhotoWalks #TheWalkDownunder #Photography #MobilePhotography

+Darwin Photo Walks will next be meeting on Saturday, 28 April at 6pm at the Nightcliff Jetty. We hope that those who made it to the #TheWalkDownunder will be able to join us again for shooting one of Darwin's most beautiful icons at sunset.

See you there!

2012-04-25 00:11:48 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

Nightcliff Jetty Photowalk
#DarwinPhotoWalks #TheWalkDownunder #Photography #MobilePhotography

+Darwin Photo Walks will next be meeting on Saturday, 28 April at 6pm at the Nightcliff Jetty. We hope that those who made it to the #TheWalkDownunder will be able to join us again for shooting one of Darwin's most beautiful icons at sunset.

See you there!