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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Each year Linda and I get to travel together to one of the remote Supercar and Aussie Racing Car events, last year we went to Sydney Motorsport Park, but this year we decided to go to the most remote event for the Aussie Cars, Perth, Western Australia for our Motorsport Photography. Wednesday morning saw us head off to Perth, the trip over is a 6-hour flight (the trip home is 4 hours 15mins, go figure), luckily, we had a row to ourselves, so three movies later we are there. We rented a house in beautiful Scarborough Beach, it’s usually beautiful but for the moment it’s a huge construction site, not to worry the restaurants are still great. Garry O’Brien from Auto Action stayed with us as well, so just a few beers each night! Linda and I headed out to the circuit Wednesday afternoon, Barbagello is a pretty great place to photograph at, it’s got everything, long straights, plenty of hills and action close to us and the crowd. This fire greeted up on the way to the track, it was just a little bit of excitement LOL. The one thing that was always a downer there though was the […]
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The power of a great testimonial can be hard to judge, sometimes you think the best ones will ring in the referrals and sometimes just a simple one-liner will. As a photographer you have probably been told, even had drummed into you from your peers or maybe a mentor that you should have as many testimonials as you can get. We have, from many! We do subscribe to the notion that testimonials are good for your business, and of course your ego! 😉 But do Testimonials actually get read? Its a great question and one we’ve pondered for some time, we even searched on the interwebs to find out, Google didn’t really help much! What we have found and its been through asking friends, family and peers, so its by no means a scientific answer, the answer was yes, yes they do, however we found that if there are anymore than 3-5 of them they read the first 3, maybe jump a few read another then go on to make a decision (if there is a decision to be made). Can you “Build your Reputation” on testimonials? Its a great place to start for sure, as they say […]
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We are kicking off again for 2017 the Photo of the Week Challenge – whats that you may ask? Well each week we will post a Challenge Photo Subject in the Header of our Digital Realism Photography Training Facebook Page. Over the course of the week, Monday to Sunday we will challenge you to upload and share a photo to the page for that weeks subject. The Photograph we choose as the winner will get to grace our Training page Header for the following week. Before we get started though we need a comprehensive list of subjects and that where we are looking to you to help us build the list of subjects, we have some in mind but we are sure you will have lots more we can use. So with this in mind leave a comment below or you can Contact Us directly via our page with your list. The more subjects the merrier the Challenge will be. Lets get 100 subjects! HAVE YOU JOINED OUR MAILING LIST? DON’T MISS OUT ON OUR SPECIALS + TIPS & TRICKS.
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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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And so the 2016 Bathurst 12 Hour motor-race is done and dusted, what a HUGE event for us. This is the second year we’ve been able to attend the race, the first was in 2013. Last year we were unable to participate due to our commitments at the V8Supercars Test Day at Sydney Motorsport Park. What an amazing event, the class of the main B12hr field was nothing short of the best assembly of GT cars to race in Australia, hands down! Bathurst is without a doubt the best circuit to shoot at, 23 turns of “amazingness” for sure, if you couldn’t find something to shoot there you are probably dead, or not holding a camera 🙂 I shot every single car that raced over the weekend, even a few that only managed one lap from the supports! My Friday started out with the iconic “Bathurst” shot that is coming over the Skyline with a clear sky behind the car. The weather was pretty good and played along, mostly, you can see some shots further down this post. One thing I forgot about and kick myself is the fact its Bathurst and it can be bloody cold, even in the […]
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Darin Mandy our Director and Principal Motorsport photographer will be heading to the Bathurst 12 Hour event this weekend. Darin is McElrea Racing’s official photographer for the event. Matt Campbell our great mate and up and coming superstar will be driving the Tony Wall’s “Objective” McLaren, along with Tony is Warren Luff and current V8Supercar driver Tim Slade. “I cannot wait to get there, this year I’m camping at the track with Matts family, its going to be a great weekend” says Darin. The Bathurst 12Hr event sees teams from all over the world with GT3 cars like Ferrari’s, Porsche, Lamborghini, Nissan, Audi, Bentley and Mercedes and many more. The tough event is beamed across Australia on the 7 network and via a Live Stream world wide. Keep an eye on our Facebook page Digital Realism Media Hub for all the updates and Darin’s photos.
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