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Photography Introduction

This is where I discuss one of my other long-term interests, photography. I have been interested in all types of photography including subjects like people, landscapes, seascapes and even the night sky (see my astronomy pages for more information about astronomy).

I use a Canon Powershot G6, 7 megapixel digital camera for most of my photography. There's some more information on the camera and digital photography in general here. My film camera is a Canon EOS-5. There's information on this camera and a discussion of conventional photography here.

The image used in the title of this page is a photo I took at the 1988 Word Expo in Brisbane, Australia. Technically the exposure, depth of field and other aspects are just about perfect (not always easy, especially using long exposures with no tripod). The image itself is a bit surreal I guess - where is this strange world of neon? The long neon tube under the monorail track and the illuminated human figures are particularly weird. Like all the photos here no filters, darkroom or electronic tricks were used.

Photo Galleries

I have put some of my favourite photographs in the photo galleries. hese are high quality images which have been scanned from both slides (using the University's Microtek 35 mm slide scanner) and prints (using the University's Agfa and my own Microtek flatbed scanner) and corrected for brightness, color balance, etc to match the original as much as possible. Obviously the final appearance will depend on your machine. They look best on a Mac with the monitor gamma corrected to be fairly neutral. If you don't have a Mac, a PC or other machine which can display thousands or millions of colours would do.

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