Avene | Video, Beats & Techniques

I figured it was about time I posted something here again. I should be posting more articles, but sometimes it's just so much more enjoyable to shoot a bunch of photos, tweak them and upload them here instead! Nothing special here, just the usual scenery from another one of my afternoon walks to Manly Beach & back again. Next time I'll most probably head off in the other direction.

Today's photos, all taken on the Canon S95 using a circular polarising filter attached to the Lensmate adapter on the S95, or should I say 'polarizing filter' for those of you in the US :) Here is a description of what polarising filters do, thanks to Wikipedia: A polarizing filter, used both in color and black and white photography, filters out light polarized perpendicularly to the axis of the filter. This has ....

Filters can be fun A few weeks back I ordered the Lensmate Quick Change filter adapter for my Canon S95 camera. Now I've never really used photography filters much in the past, apart from maybe a polariser or UV. But since the Lensmate adapter would give my S95 the ability to use filters, I decided I would make the most of it, and ordered quite a few eBay. Now originally the plan was just ....

This is a collection of macro photos I shot around my studio last year. Nothing too exciting, but I like the look :) These were all shot using my Ricoh CX1 camera, which I'm actually considering selling, as I rarely use it anymore and don't find the quality of the photos to be as nice as those from my Canon S95. Although strangely, photos from the CX1 do appear to have more ....