IMAGE QUEST 09 Winners & Finalists
On behalf of the Image Quest 2009 sponsors we are proud to announce the winners to the inaugural ImageQuest creative competition. The standard of the entries was extremely high which made the judging very difficult. See all the winning images and the finalists galleries here. Click the title above to see the full article.

 by Jamie Gray

Who is your favourite photographer?
Gregory Crewdson followed closely by Erwin Olaf.
 

A Tour of Sun Studios 
 
With 7 studios in Sydney and 3 in Melbourne plus the biggest hire department in the southern hemisphere Sun Studios has set a very high and very impressive benchmark for the industry. There is little doubt that Sun Studios is the place to shoot if you are a serious photographer... I asked Peter Osborn (co-owner) to tell us how Sun Studios came about....

Today many people are deciding to dip their toe in to the arena of book publishing. Traditionally this has been an expensive journey to make but now it is affordable and potentially profitable thanks largely to the development of computer to plate printing technology and the affordability of software.

Having produced many books for myself and for other clients I am often asked (by potential publishers) to offer advice for such projects. 

 

With the changing technological landscape of professional photography it has been difficult for many to adapt. It seems something happened with the advent of digital photography that placed pressure on the photographers to be more than just an image taker. It seems now that there are subtle pressures from client's, manufacturers and suppliers that are trying to turn photographers into one stop photo shops. They want us to take the photo, digitally process the file, colour manage the file and then even print the file. Well that is OK if that is what you really want to do but for me I do not want to play that game. I do not believe you can't be the master of all aspects of technology unless you give up a lot of time and it's a never ending time commitment. Many of my friends have become slaves to technology and it is not helping in releasing them to explore their first love of image making.