Archive for category Photography
How I’ve covered the first two days of the Palm Island death in custody inquest
Posted by Cameron in Magazine, Newspaper, Photography on March 9th, 2010
Whilst on Palm Island covering a coronial inquest yesterday I was interviewed by a tertiary student from Tasmania for her assignment on editorial, news & commercial photography. I promised I would put the pics from this job online to give her an idea of the type of coverage required for this type of assignment. News reports from this job are at link, link, link. A full set of television reports are at this link
Great calibration with a Gretag Macbeth Eye-One Display
Posted by Cameron in Apple, How do I do that, Photography, Technology, Video on March 1st, 2010
I have been using a Gretag MacBeth Eye-One Display monitor calibration tool for quite a while and thought I’d take a few mins to give you a quick run-down showing the simplicity of the calibration process. It really is easy peasy. And the quality of the calibration is excellent! Find out more info on this device at the manufacturer’s link here (note: this product has been replaced with a newer model)
http://www.vimeo.com/9820919North Queensland Fury F.C. Awards night 2010
Posted by Cameron in Commercial, Photography, Sport on March 1st, 2010
Photographed the North Queensland Fury’s 2010 Awards night on Saturday and got a great meal tossed in. Ahhh, the spoils of shooting functions! Anyway, if you’re a Fury fan feel free to pop along to http://www.cameronlaird.com/nqfuryawards2010
Robbie Fowler with chairman Don Matheson and his Golden Boot, Players' Player and Player of the Year medals
Cam & Kuttan hit the local paper!
Posted by Cameron in Just for Fun, Newspaper, Personal, Photography on February 16th, 2010
Amazing what reach Facebook has nowadays! I posted a quick snap of myself with legendary 90yr old Galle Face Hotel concierge Kuttan on Facebook whilst I was on assignment in Sri Lanka. Mates of mine Scott Radford and John “Ando” Andersen from the Townsville Bulletin spotted this and dropped it in Ando’s “Talk of the North” column. Ando called me “lanky”, not hard when your posing partner is only about 4″10″. Haha 
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Tricky request calls for creative lighting
Posted by Cameron in Newspaper, Photography, Studio on February 2nd, 2010
Today’s assignment was to photograph the new artistic director of Dance North. My brief was to keep it quite plain, maybe even as plain as with a standard white background. Sounds a bit boring? Well – the pic is to be positioned right across the page with text over the plain areas. So, instead of giving only a choice of plain background I threw in a few extras that are a bit more creative. Apart from the wall there was nothing that would help the viewer even identify her surroundings with her profession. I decided to use a glass door that was just next the the exposed bricks to my advantage. Bouncing a 580EXII into white reflector umbrella gave me a nice gentle light on the subject but also had the added advantage of reflecting in the glass door and giving the reader something to identify with. Knowing what many sub-editors are like it will probably get cropped out but what the heck, can’t hurt to get your own gear in the pic every now and then!
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1/200th @ f5.0 ISO640 – Shot on Canon EOS 5DMkII with EF 70-200 f2.8L IS USM. Lighting with 580EXII into white reflector umbrella triggered by PocketWizard PlusII’s.
How the story appeared in The Courier-Mail (click photo for large version)
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