Instagram …

I’ve been a little quiet of late on this blog, so to get things moving again I’ve built in an instagram feed. Instagram has become my image sharing platform of choice due to it’s simplicity and speed, it’s the photographic antithesis of shooting with an SLR. Instagram has limited options, including it’s characteristic square frame, along with the required publication to a wide audience. Join the phone photography fun and follow @jamesdoherty85.

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Rewind – DoF and other TLA’s – October 2006

**This post was originally written in October 2006, but to this day seems to attract a lot of attention from google searches. So to start off a retrospective series of posts, here is james circa 2006:

Ever wondered what this magical DOF people spoke about was, How about Bokeh…? lets start with the easy one…um

DOF as is commonly used on the interweb is yet another highly descriptive TLA (Three Letter Acronym) is stands for Depth of field and refers to the distance between the first point in focus and the last point in focus for a given picture. In what could become this photoblogger’s catch cry, lets have a look at this photo, (No explanations yet just have a look at it…)

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As yet unnamed string quartet…

I guess this is what you call a ‘mixed media’ project. I was asked to produce a single shot video of a performance of Shostakocivh’s String Quartet No 3, for entry into a competition (hence the unedited single shot) and promotional material. This presented few challenges, in contrast to previous video work, except for the question of how to record audio. 


Thankfully the two hour rehearsal left me with plenty of time to adjust levels and microphone location, and some time for portraits.









Wedding – Cam and Jane

Sometimes it’s inevitable that something interesting will happen, this was’t a unique day in that regard. Cam Hollows and Jane Mckenzie were married on Shark Island, in the middle of Sydney Harbour. Every couple is unique, every wedding special, yet I think this wedding will linger in the minds of those who attended for a long time. It was a location not to be forgotten, even in the stifling heat and direct sun.

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But it’s not going to be the location the guests will remember this wedding for, but the exact moment, as bride and groom approached the cake cutting, the wind picked up everything on the island, blowing it down, around and upside down. Storm clouds rolled in, the horizon growing darker, and the city disappeared from view as dust was blown across the island, coating the guests. One would have expected this bridal nightmare to indelibly scar the party, yet there wasn’t a frown to be seen. Wide eyed with broad grins the bride and groom were elbow deep in the cleanup, guests rallying around them. As the packing up drew near completion the final ferry arrived, and with it the rain…

Anglesea in colour and monochrome.

The weekend took me, albeit briefly, to Anglesea and the beginning of the Great Ocean road. The sun did it’s best to stay behind the coulds resulting in a windy, wintry weekend.  
Airies Inlet Lighthouse
Given this current weather trend, monochrome just seemed to fit…
Black and White Airies
  Colour gallery here, black and white here! 
*As a demonstration of how I work in post, there are a few images that make an appearance in both galleries. My strong advice is to shoot in colour for all black and white work. Reason being; the latitude afforded to you when converting to black and white.