Comments on: Life at Zaytuna: Surveying for Mullumbimby Community Gardens

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 12:07:59 +0000

Hey, you don’t need any tips!

All correct, except I didn’t do too much re contrast and saturation. The shots that look saturated are pretty accurate – it was late in the day, the magic hour, where colours come up nice on their own.

In case it helps, I have five lenses in my kit: an ultra wide as you correctly guessed, a wide-to-semi-tele, a tele zoom, a 50mm fast lens (f1.8) and a macro.

I don’t give a brand name, as what I’ve done can be done with any decent SLR with good lenses, regardless of brand – and we don’t need to encourage the whole logo thing, huh.

By: greg

greg — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:40:09 +0000

Well lemme hazard some guesses then – you shot with both a very wide angle and a very long lens. For the wide shots you often shot into the sun, lighting the foreground with a flash. You used the long lens primarily for people/portraits and kept the depth of field shallow (wide iris).

Looks like you probably post-processed for maximum contrast and saturation as well…

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 06:25:41 +0000

Hi Greg. I’m the guy behind the lens as well as the keyboard. Re tips, hard to do via a blog comment box. I found several years of trial and error works though!

Re equipment, am using a pro-end digital SLR and miscellaneous lenses, etc.

Glad you appreciate it. I agree that we need more quality documentation of Permaculture, and better PR in general, if we’re to drive sustainable design systems into mainstream thinking and action.

By: greg

greg — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:16:18 +0000

Can the photographer responsible please share some tips and elaborate on his/her equipment? These photos are stunning, and in my mind the PC movement could really benefit from prettier, more compelling documentation like this!