Landscape Tips - Wave Rock

Grab you SLR & get shooting!!!

Spring is one of the most exciting times to shoot the landscape, there are lots of vibrant colours, splashes of green and our dramatic West Australian skies.

This image of Wave Rock was taken about a year ago .. I wanted to capture the bright yellow canola fields that blanket our landscape every year for a few short weeks. I love the ever changing scenery of the Wheat Belt & Great Southern region and ended up spending a couple of days in Hyden while I was shooting.

This image was taken early morning, the air was nice and crisp and the sun was still low enough to give the rock this spectacular shape. A few interesting clouds floating in the sky enhanced this spectacular landmark. I've been shooting the Australian landscape for 25 years now and still wonder at the changing seasons and colours, a photographer's dream!

I am from the old school of photography (a perfectionist world) and I strive in doing everything possible to take the absolute best image during the shoot … the image composition, lighting, an interesting or obscure angle and perfect exposure is the recipe to all great landscape images.

Photoshop is only a tool to put the finishing touch to your image. If you don't have a great image to work with, Photoshop is only part of the answer!

Shoot Details:

Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 24–70 / 2.8G ED

Focal Lengh: 28

Exposure Time: 1/500 at f8

Cokin Palaroid Filter: P 164

Left or Right brain? Which one are you?

Are you Left Brained or Right Brained?

Right-brained people are considered to be creative, dreamers and free spirits where as left brained people are considered to be more analytical and organised. To the left brainer the right brainers look like they have all the fun. You probably already know which one you are, follow the links below and take the test ... and you might be very surprised!

Two side to every story

The brain is divided into two hemispheres, each hemisphere controls different functions and processes information in different ways. The left hemisphere controls movement on the right hand side of the body; it also controls speech, reading, writing and spelling functions. The right hemisphere controls movement on the left hand side of the body and prefers to work with images rather than words, understands images and metaphors. The right side of the brain sees the big picture, makes intuitive leaps and ignores sequential processing.

The dominant side of the brain is the one we have a preference for, however through learned behaviour we can improve our less dominate side. Therefore these are the characteristics, which come natural rather than a learned behaviour.

Nature V Nurture...

So does that mean to be creative you must be right brained...In short, no! You can learn the skill to draw, but the passion comes from within and cannot be learned. Just as accounting skills can be learned but the natural passion cannot.

How did Censure stack up?

When I took Frank's test:

Left 6 Right 11


When I took Where Creativity Goes to School test:

Left 3 Right 9


Take the Test Yourself, here are the links:

http://frank.mtsu.edu/~studskl/hd/learn.html

http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/ rb_test.htm
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