Alex Wise Photography

War time photography is interesting, I have an interest as it’s something I’d never have the courage to do but also because my local newspaper doesn’t really touch on the topic much with photographs but instead a small text article. When you actually look at the photographs to understand the terrain which soldiers must deal with it really makes you realise how hard the day to day activities for soldiers must be. John Moore recently captured a series of photographs in the Korengal Valley, Afghanistan which I thought might interest you. (Click)

Just something a little different to waterscapes for once.

I’ve been dying to shoot lately but with other commitments I’ve been too busy to drive for hours for sunsets or sunrises. So over the last few days I’ve just been snapping around my little city of Hobart during the day with a Hoya R72 infrared filter then converting to black and white.

Initially I was going to submit these individually but feel they stand better in a group. As I mentioned an infrared filter was used and most shots were of varying 3-7 minute exposures at F11-18.

One from Park Beach, Tasmania just around a hour out of the city of Hobart. I really don’t have anything much to say other then the new 5D Mark II 22 megapixel sensor is making my 350D 8MP sensor look very inferior. Is anyone upgrading?

A shot from this evening where it was cold and windy, not nice conditions to be shooting in but I got some interesting shots which made it worth it. I think this was originally going to be exposed for 7 minutes however I had to cut it short to a little over 5 minutes as there were strange people in the carpark near by little civic but all was ok.

Recently I’ve been watching Kill Generation a new show from HBO set in 2003 when the US invaded Iraq. Like all shows HBO picks up this one is taking off nicely and worth a look. But from the show it got me searching for war photography and this gallery on the time website stuck out as quite amazing by James Nachtwey and was worth sharing, click here to view

I came across an interesting article on the Sydney Morning Herald website (Click) which discusses the potential ugly side of entering competitions. Whenever entering a competition I’m quick to check the terms and conditions which state the rights I may retain if entering the competition. Such competitions which transfer the copyright to the organisation occur regardless of you winning the competition or not. Is it really worth it sometimes?

It’s a growing occurence for many who soon learn after entering a competition that their image copyright was transferred to the competiton owner which is obviously frustrating. At the end of the day it really is the big organisations being the real winners as their image library expands which would have otherwise costed millions.

Click here to read the article Read the fine print by Jon Reid

It was only recently that I posted about Moo Cards (Click) and how great they’ve been received by others. As I was making the post it occurred to me the images on some of the cards were really quite old and it was time to shake things up with some new shots and include my blog address on the cards.

Since my first Purchase in January 2007, Moo have changed a lot with implementation of not only flickr but other social networks including facebook. One thing that caught my interest were little plastic carry cases for your moo cards. I’ve managed to fit 14 in the case and it has made its way onto my keyring.  The size of the case seems ok for a keyring but maybe a little bigger then my other things but it’s ok.

I received a little card with my order that offers 20% off to new buyers but I’m not sure if this is limited to one order or can be used by many anyhow the code is ‘EWSCCV‘

Cadbury’s chocolate truck passing through Campbell Town, Tasmania. The cloud this day was amazing as the weather had been completely overcast for the past 3 days and as we slowly made our way from Cradle Mountain to Hobart the weather began to clear with some amazing clouds. This particular shot consisted of lowering the blue saturation in lightroom and bumping the contrast a little.

Long exposure seascape photograph taken at Park Beach, Tasmania.

Photographed with a Canon 350D, Canon 10-22, Cokin ND Grads .6 and .9, Tripod.

I must return to this place!

Many moons ago I got 100 moo cards made and many have been amused by these little mini business cards. You can uitilise templates on the moo website but what’s the fun in that so moo have integrated popular websites such as flickr, facebook and others so users can easily upload images. Once images are chosen they can be cropped and personalised on the back with 6 lines of text in many different fonts.

At $19.99 for 100 cards it’s quite cheap and they fit conveniently in your pocket or wallet to hand out to people as I’ve found many times during convosation someone may ask for my website and they were often amused with these little business cards.

Included below are a few pictures of the box which they arrive in and shots of the cards