Here’s a photo I got on the way to Mt. Cook/Aoraki, which is only a few hours from Queenstown. It’s one of the new stops we’re gonna do on the upcoming NZ Photo Adventure workshop happening soon!
The time has finally come to move on from my trusty Sony a7R3. It’s been an awesome body and while I’ve flirted with some others over the past few years none of them felt like a useful upgrade, so I always ended up back on the Mark 3. Amongst other things it’s been with me from New York to San Francisco and loads in-between in the US, all over Asia, through Africa including being AWOL in Madagascar for a few days, went from the Portuguese coast to Russia via 9 other cities and more countries. It even survived Burning Man more than once. My companion on a bunch of hikes, including the Camino de Santiago and all-around New Zealand it’s been a phenomenal device.
Its replacement? The a7CR. I’ve been playing with it for a couple of months now and knowing that the Mk.3 with its forever lost eye cup and extremely well worn body was reaching the end during my Scottish adventure last summer, I was looking for something more compact for the next few years which are shaping up to involve a lot of time on the road. This is a great balance of great specs and compact size. The question is… stick with my 24-105 G or go for something a little more compact (and a bit less worn!)?
If you missed it yesterday, here’s how to do that (probably buggy) IG post type that gets quite a bit of interest…
1) Go to https://business.facebook.com/latest/composer on your laptop/desktop) – untick FB in the interface if it is connected, leaving IG on.
2) Do the text.
3) Upload the image (in this case the image is 2.1k x 7.4k) and as it’s uploading immediately hover over the publish button.
4) Publish becomes clickable for about 0.25 seconds before the error kicks in about crop.
5) Whack the publish button during that 0.25 seconds!
It’s been a crazy few months here with a major project or two coming together so this weekend I’m off to a festival here in NZ as a little treat. I guess after settling back into the groove on my return I should talk about my new camera. 🙂
I took this while on a boat with the amazing Stu after another delightful day exploring Scotland. I can’t wait to go back. It’s a very special place to me.
I guess this is the camera body that should be described as “my” camera. Up until this point in my photography I’d jumped from body to body and brand to brand but despite moving to other models along the way such as the mark 4 and the Hasselblad X1D I’ve always returned to the a7R III. It has its battle scars for sure, but it has never let me down, across many continents and trips in the most extreme conditions and it’s still going strong today.
I thought it’d be fun to go through what turned out to be my top content on social media for the year and that continues today. Mainly I’ll focus on Instagram but I’ll drop in a few others towards the end as when they get traction (e.g. Flickr) the stats go crazy. So, here’s number 3 in my most viewed posts of 2023… does that make them the BEST? Not so sure, but for whatever reason they connected with people, or the algorithm!
This was one of the first images I took in Scotland (finally I made it to Scotland, and it was WONDERFUL)… certainly it was the first I processed and shared and the reach was pretty massive. It was also confusing as I’d made a pretty low effort post, no hashtags, no location tags, nothing. Just a pic and a bit of text and BAM loads of interaction across socials.
Starting today I thought it’d be fun to go through what turned out to be my top content on social media for the year. Mainly I’ll focus on Instagram but I’ll drop in a few others towards the end as when they get traction (e.g. Flickr) the stats go crazy. So, here’s number 10 posts of 2023… does that make them the BEST? Not so sure, but for whatever reason they connected with people, or the algorithm!
Whenever I’m out on an assignment I always try to capture some varied shots that the client probably won’t choose. It’s always good to give them options though, and maybe force them to think about what they actually like/want. This is one such shot and is entirely different to the final selection that was made.
