Duet Images - Baby & Family Photography, Wheelers Hill, Glen Waverley, Melbourne: Merry Christmas!

Duet Images says "Merry Christmas"!: Our studio will be closed for the Festive Season and will re-open Mon 9th Jan 2012. We wish all of you a very Happy Christmas & a fantastic New Year !

Using your Camera to sell products on eBay ?

If you are using your Camera to generate some cash and help sell something on auction sites like eBay - just remember to use a small aperture value (f11 or f22) to get as much of the product in-focus as you can. This helps your potential clients see the product in the best possible way.  Remember to shoot the product from different angles, and with as plain a background as possible - ideally close-up on Macro mode

Cheers

Roscoe

Moments from "Becoming THE Family Photographer" Photography Education

We had a LOT of fun running these "Becoming THE Family Photographer" seminars recently.  We hope you all did too ..!

In case you wondered, that is a flying chocolate bar (!)

Cheers

Roscoe

Post your Questions here

Thank you to to all of your who attended our seminars these last 2 weekends!
Vanessa and I really enjoyed catching up with you all, and  helping you make the most of your cameras!  We started by looking at how our cameras work, so we can understand how to take control rather than just letting the camera doing its own thing.  We also covered exposure and composition and outlined simple ways to improve the images you take of your families.

Please feel free to post any follow-up queries in the comments area below this post and I will respond to you as soon as I can.  By keeping these questions on this blog, we can share information amongst those of you who have similar questions!

Happy picture taking and see you next year on one of our day seminars on the wonderful world of photography! We'll be letting you know about dates for these day seminars shortly

Cheers

Roscoe

Budget of $1,000 for a new SLR Camera and Lens

We get lots of questions after our seminars - here is a good one posted recently by Edward, about choosing a Camera body and Lens with an overall budget of $1,000

Hello Ross

I recently attended your 2 hour session.  It was of immense help. Let me know when you decide on the 1 fully day course.

In the meantime I am planning to buy a SLR Camera; I am willing to spend up to $ 1000.  I have come across the following website and their prices seem to be reasonable. However, quite confused to decide the correct camera. Here is the website details:

http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/category/dslr-cameras/

Please suggest which camera to buy from the above website.

Thank you for the help.

Kind regards

Edward

ANSWER FROM ROSS

You are right Edward, the Kogan site has excellent pricing.

Depending on what you want to photograph, the lens choice can be quite bewildering.  However, if you want to photograph people, then please bear in mind that having a larger aperture (such as f3.5 or f4 through the whole lens range will be more useful than a zoom lens).  If however you like to photograph animals, then a zoom will be more useful to you.

For a budget of $1,000 I recommend the EOS 550D (was a current model until recently) body-only http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/canon-eos-550d-body/

and then look to buy a second-hand lens with the remainder of the budget.  Alternatively, if you would like to get a twin lens kit all brand new, then this could be a good bet for you as you start out, and I would suggest considering http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/canon-eos-550d-kit-twin-is-lens-kit/

Please let us know how you get on.  We’ll be confirming the day-course shortly.

Cheers

Ross

Photography Seminars Melbourrne

Thank you to to all of your who attended our seminars this weekend!  It was great to meet you all and help you make the most of your cameras!  We started by looking at how our cameras work, so we can understand how to take control rather than just letting the camera doing its own thing.  We also covered exposure and composition and outlined simple ways to improve the images you take of your families.

For those of you who attended, please feel free to post any follow-up queries in the comments area below this post and I will respond to you as soon as I can.  By keeping these questions on this blog, I hope that we can share information amongst those of you who have similar questions!

Happy picture taking and see you next weekend for the next round of our introductory seminars to this wonderful world of photography! 

Cheers Roscoe