CHRIS BISHOP PHOTOGRAPHY - PERTH COMMERCIAL, LANDSCAPE & TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER
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Claremont Jetty at Sunet

31/1/2015

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Claremont Jetty, Perth - Western Australia
Claremont Jetty, Perth - Western Australia
This shot presented itself after finishing photographing a Claremont property that will be auctioned shortly.  After capturing the golden light / money shot for the exterior of the property to be displayed on Real Estate signage and real estate websites such as reiwa.com.au i started driving home and kept looking skyward towards an increasingly colourful sky.  

Quickly making a detour down to Claremont jetty knowing this light wouldn't hold out for long i managed to get about 3 or 4 minutes of beautiful warm tones as the sun set over the indian ocean.  To make my night complete a lone pelican was also content taking in the spectacular Perth sunset, or perhaps he was keeping an eye on the fishermen at the end of the jetty. Either way it was a nice addition to the photo's composition and made for a nice evening taking in the Swan River.

The RAW file was processed in photoshop with slight saturation adjustments and the Nik Software colour FX pro colour contrast filter to bring out some shadow contrast of the jetty while keeping soft tones in the clouds.
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Perth Skyline from Applecross Jetty

6/1/2013

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Perth Skyline from Applecross Jetty
This is my first image in a long time.  A result of the realities of work and a period of creative block.  More excitingly this is also my first image from the Canon G1-X.  Im really excited by the possibilty this camera will provide me.  This high end compact from Cannon offers suburb image quality from the largest sensor in it's class.  It's a camera that i want to try and keep on me as much as possible to shoot whenever opportunity arises.

From the limited shots i've taken i can say I've been very impressed with the results thus-far.  The 14MP camera, features a 4x optical zoom from a very nice lens.  Noise from the RAW images is very low even at high ISO's.

This shot in-particular was shot hand-held at 400ISO on a overcast day on the Applecross foreshore south of Perth, Western Australia.  I look forward to posting a more comprehensive review of the camera soon, but really happy so far.
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Photographic Art Portraits

7/2/2011

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I wanted to gauge people reactions and feedback to the photographic art above.  It's not something i do a lot of but i was interested to see if i could make a series of images that are closer to traditional art than true photography.  This is the same series of photos that i took from my recent trip to Bali, Indonesia and i wanted to create something a little different.

Using a series of lighting techniques using adjustment layers and filters in Adobe Photoshop CS5 i have created these highly stylised portraits that have been cropped to a square format.  I think they would look great in a series of canvas prints

While i definitely wont be doing this regularly i certainly had fun creating these photographic art portraits and may look to create some more down the line.  If anyone is interested in purchasing one of these on a canvas please let me know as i can get some great pricing on quality archival canvas that would be sure to create a talking point in your lounge room.

I would love feedback of any sort so please don't hesitate to leave a comment.
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Photography - Archiving and Storage Workflow

4/12/2010

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One of the most frequent questions I am asked as a Perth photographer from photography enthusiasts is how do i store and archive my digital images. Unfortunately for the photography enthusiast the precursor to the question is often along the lines of "my computer was stolen, my hard drive has crashed, I accidentally deleted everything, my dog at my hard drive etc. These all too common incidents are often described with sunken watery eyes and a sprinkling of expletives.

Fast forward to our conversation..."chris how do you back up all your precious photographs and digital images?" My answer to any enthusiast or professional alike is to "establish what works for you and keep a routine that you can maintain week after week, month after month, year after year.  There is no point developing a back-up system so elaborate and secure that you become exhausted at the mere thought of having to perform another back-up of your digital image collection.

With digital cameras both compact and DSLR versions having the capability of storing thousands of images on one SD disk no-one is shy about taking a seemingly endless stream of photos on a daily basis. So with 4 out of 5 digital files seemingly identical to the last what do we do to manage and control an abundance of images.  Well for me i have a staged process that i find manageable, time efficient and an effective means of filing digital image files to find easily today, tomorrow and indeed in years to come. I will explain this process in the coming paragraphs.

Step one:  When i return from a professional photography shoot either for a commissioned job or a personal project the first thing i do i download all photos (usually several 8gigabyte SanDisk Ultra 3 SD cards) onto my Macbook Pro desktop.  I always - repeat always use a card reader for this as opposed to plugging in a USB into the Digital camera body for the reason that you can sometimes get card failures by doing this and miss out on downloading all the images available.

Once i have all images on my desktop and having still not reformatted my SD cards ready for my next photo shoot I drag each image into Adobe Bridge.  Adobe Bridge is an image viewing program that comes with most editions of the Adobe CS Suite.  I find it particularly useful as it lets you see all the meta-data of an image and also view the RAW .CR2 files that most image finders don't show.  It doesn't really matter though what program you use but its preferable that you can view the images side by side so you can begin to compare photos.

Its at this stage that i look to cull as opposed to deleting photos on the shoot by looking at them on the back of the 3' screen on the back of a Canon 5D Mark II or  Canon 40D which while useful to establish rough composition and exposure really lack the detail required to judge a images quality.

Going through the photos i quickly delete photos where people are blinking, exposure is clearly over or under exposed, or images that are blurry or poorly framed. Once i have done this i create a folder that is named with a sequential job number that i keep on google docs and place all remaining files in there.  The sequential job number links to the google doc file (available from anywhere with internet connection) then tells me more details about the shoot.  Details such as date of shoot / subjects / photography brief (if applicable) / Location (Perth, Western Australia, or overseas). Once this stage is complete I burn two copies to DVD which are then labeled (filed in CD case) and copy a remaining copy to a 1.5 Terabyte external hard drive.  One of the two DVD's are then taken off-site to safeguard against theft.

Now i have my base selection of images all safe and backed up 3 times.  At this point i delete the images off my desktop to ensure my computer and the available RAM is accessible to use in photoshop and the processing of the RAW files that draws considerable memory usage.

Each image that i work on is entered into another google doc database for final processed images.  Again this database of images details where photograph was taken,subject, landscape photograph or portrait photograph in terms on composition and orientation of camera.  Once i have made any necessary post production I create store the following files all with renamed file names to match my database:
1x Raw .CR2 file
1x Photoshopped .psd file with all layers un-flattened.  This is useful in the event that i want to change the look or feel of the image at a later date.
1 x high resolution jpeg
1 x Medium resolution jpeg
1 x Low resolution jpeg (This file contains my logo watermark - as seen on all my work published on the internet)

These 5 files are each filed into a folder of the same name that grows larger  and larger as it contains images from previous photography shoots.  These folders are then backed up in the same way as my unprocessed photographic collections: 1 copy to the external hard drive and 2 x burnt DVD's to file and archive.

Well that about summarizes my process.  I'm not saying its the best or the only way to archive and back-up.  The onset of cloud computing and websites such as dropbox.com has me thinking about other ways to safeguard my work.  But as mentioned earlier what ever process you decide on, or develop yourself make sure its one you can maintain.

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Adobe CS5 - One fan's quest

4/5/2010

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A not so serious look at one fans quest to be the first to get Adobe CS5 "Wow, do you have CS5 loaded in your fingers?..." Classic line.
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