Portrait Tip - Panning with 1/15 sec

No tripod, no monopod and no Photoshop. I start my students practising on 1/20 sec. When they get it right I move them to 1/15. Then, when they are hot I let them loose on a 1/10 sec pans. One tip is to have soft, low-level lighting, a great background and the subject about 4-8 metres away. Its also a good idea to switch the camera to manual focus to stop the camera focus 'hunting'.
Be prepared to shoot lots of image - this is no 'one-trick dog shoot. The averagae is about one shot in 50 looks reasonable.

Vale Richard Swannell

Facez temporarily became a television studio for a short period last week. Andrew Njuguna
from Buffalo Film Studios came to record an interview for the Richard Swannell 'To Live By Choice' video. Richard died on Sept 8. Richard's enthusiasm and passion for photography, people and life was unparalleled. In early 2005 he asked me to accompany him to India to record the rescue of the Tsunami orphans. It was a life changing experience for me. http://www.facez.com.au/dale%20profile1.html
Photo by Dafna Lambert.

Koji Kids

I've been doing farm shoots for about twenty years now - Brookton to Yelbeni, Gin-Gin to Kojonup. So a three hour run in Spring down to Kojonup is a break from the rat-race. And even if you win the rat-race you are still a rat!
After three brothers, a Star is born. Much celebration in the shearing shed and canola crop. Besides that, Kojonup was a bit of nostalgic trip - its where I spent the second night of my honeymoon back in '67 and where my best man Frank Papasergio honed his teaching skills in the 60s.