Its been a little while since my last blog post and with the busiest start to a racing year ever I thought it would be a good time to put down a few words along with some hot motorsport photography shots, oh and a Scallop Pie! So for 2018 we have elected to make this our biggest year in motorsport photography. Last year was full on with the Aussie Racing Cars and our Supercars commitments (and we have both again this year), to add to the mix I had 10 days away in Mexico at the F1GP and with Matt Campbell in the Porsche SuperCup, it was a mind blowing trip, so amazing and capped with Matt winning both the Porsche events. But thats so last year LOL. Remember to LIKE our Digital Realism Media Hub page on Facebook to keep up to date with Photos etc for this year. After the Christmas break we were back into the shooting, there was a couple of practice days out at Queensland Raceways for the brand new SuperUtes with Western Sydney Motorsport. However the first race meeting for the year was to be the Bathurst 12hr, once again we were the team photographers […]
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Couran Cove 2017 (Visit this page: Couran Cove Photography Retreat 2017) So at the beginning of the year we looked at our commitments to our photography like Real Estate, Commercial and Motorsport and pretty much decided we didn’t have time to run a Training Retreat like what we’ve done in the past, let alone a second retreat! Then the opportunity to run a Winter Weekend Retreat came up and we couldn’t miss the chance, so this weekend just gone we had 16 photographers join us for a pretty amazing weekend, they all did so well and we had a ball running it. Here are a couple of quick images from the weekend. And so when we were preparing for this event writing up our notes for different sessions another opportunity came about for a Second Retreat for 2017. (Yes we did say we were running just one event this year!) Couran Cove is nestled on South Stradbroke Island in Moreton Bay, its a 40min picturesque boat ride from the Northern Gold Coast, its also one of our very favourite places to photograph. Four years ago we ran 3 retreats here in the same year, its amazing. So when the opportunity […]
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A BIG part of our photography is in Studio Commercial Photography, and we do this for a very varied array of customers, one day we could be shooting gift baskets or scooters and the next day (or in some cases the same day) it might be new biscuit lines or even bags of poo, cow manure that is! Commercial photography done in the studio lets us totally control the lighting and product placement, in a lot of cases this is deep etched which sees the shadows and the background removed from the images in post production (and on camera) – our customers have very specific requirements and these can differ from client to client, plus some products can be very difficult to photograph – like shiny or stainless steel products, so the studio lets us control all of the conditions, where is outdoors you are somewhat at the mercy of the available light. Thats not to say we don’t shot them outdoors as well, just when required. And thats what we had last week, we photographed 10 new scooters for Flavor Scooters, check out their Facebook Page as what their guys get up to is NUTS! then an assortment of […]
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We have gift vouchers that can be used for any occasion available for any of our work, be it photography in the studio or your home, or for any of our courses and retreats. In 2017 we are excited to announce that we will be running our photography courses once again. We had 18 months away from the courses working on our own photography skills and opening the new studio. Now we have both the time and the space to do both. More details on these and the Mid Year retreat is coming soon. Our gift vouchers can be for any dollar value you like and can be used on any of our services. These are great for Christmas or Birthday presents, or especially for someone who may have just got a camera as a gift and doesn’t know how to use it 🙂 To Purchase just call us on 07 3372 2333 or via our Contact Us Page
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WOW we are having so much fun with the Pets coming into our Forest Lake Photography Studio. This Christmas we decided to run some Pet Christmas Photos and the response has been fantastic, we weren’t sure what to expect, and whilst we’ve photographed many pets they’ve always been outdoors. Having the dogs, cats and birds (yes we had a 20 year old Cockatiel in today!) come to the our Studio at the Forest Lake Shopping Centre has been the best idea yet! We’ve had the studio setup with the Black background with both plain and Christmas scenes. Plus the Christmas Tree is looking splendid for the food collection we are doing for the RSPCA. We still have some spots before Christmas open, plus we’ll next Year be offering our specialist pet photography Full Time. To see all the information about the 2016 Christmas Pet Photography visit this page. Meet Some of Our Friends….
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A couple of weeks ago I got to experience my first ever Formula One event at the Melbourne Formula One Grand Prix, many people say its the best event of the year (except maybe Monaco) being the first event for the new year. My very first taste of the F1 came late Wednesday afternoon whilst a mate and I were at the pub, the Minardi Two Seater with Cameron McConville at the wheel was running some warm-up laps for rides a bit later, to say I was impressed with the V10 scream is an understatement that’s for sure, wow. We’d get to see and hear this car each morning around 7.20am as our alarm clock. SO I’ve been to lets say hundreds of race meetings, yet here I am at the Pinnacle of Motorsport and its so laid back, nothing on track till after 9am even later some days, gees at a grass roots event we’d have had 3 races by then! 🙂 Supporting the F1 were the Australian GT’s, Porsche Carrera Cup and of course the V8Supercars. I had a few clients in all classes but really this was a junket event for me (have to thank my wife for […]
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This years Clipsal 500 was without a doubt a big event for Digital Realism, 40+ Aussie Racing Cars took to the concrete jungle and 40+ cars made it out the other side too. No other class at the event could say this! I love this circuit, its a bit of walking but there are so many photo points we can shoot from, producing some of the best photography for the year. Outside of the ARC cars I was also shooting a few AGT cars, plus my Dunlop series clients too, this is what made it a BIG weekend, but I had a ball. I was going to say the weather was perfect, and it was up until the final big V8Supercars race on Sunday afternoon, just before the race started they declared it a wet race, I was at turn three and thought that’s weird it wasn’t raining, well, then the heavens opened and it poured down, its the wettest I’ve ever been at a race meeting! Luckily the Canon gear stayed reasonably dry! Here are a selection of photos that made it to the Facebook page along with some that were run in Auto Action as well, both online […]
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Many will know that we have just opened a brand new Photography Studio in the Forest Lake Shopping Centre Professional Suites, and over the Easter break we spent 3 days painting the new photography studio, so to kick it off we then photographed the most dirtiest product you could do, short of dirt!………..Mulch! We are quite lucky to have a great regular product photography client in Rocky Point Mulching based just south of Brisbane. checkout their website here: www.rpmulching.com.au plus they are BIG into Social Media so you can follow them on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram and more!! The Australian owed company has produced many new innovative products to date for the Australian gardening market. They also have a great YouTube channel with a stack of informative Videos! RPM have a new innovative product in coloured mulch, its amazing, the four colours have made our garden look like a rainbow, well Natural – Black – Red and Brown that is. We first photographed the new products in the new studio on the plain white background for deep etch, this is typically done for a business whom produces a catalogue or sells product through an online shop and requires a true representation of how the product […]
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We needed a new logo for our Brisbane Photography Studio we are setting up in the Brisbane suburb of Forest Lake at the professional suites upstairs in the Forest Lake Village Shopping Centre (yeah our own, working space coming to fruition #wecannotwait) we really needed to get under way as embarrassingly the current two colour logo looked very outdated no longer modern or inspiring and it had to go. So we set in motion to come up with what we wanted our business to be about and align with our values for our photography business. As a Brisbane Photography business that offers website and business images to engage buyers to your brand we wanted our new logo to be catching and memorable. So between us we set about coming up with key words that we felt would portray our business values to our clients and at the same time portray a feeling and symbol that stood out. Words like fun, colourful, vibrant, modern, contemporary, futuristic with digital look, after all we are creative digital photographers. Inspired by the bigger companies such as Google and Microsoft whom show a rainbow of colours and what they represented. The bubbles behind the font mean light, fun, and the Neuropol font was easy to get hold of and […]
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