Get Your Feet Wet

Get your feet wet with Dale Neill at the University of Western Australia Extension's Summer School of Photography.

Check out the link below for course details. Some of my workshops also include lunch at the University Club.

Click HERE for details.

Budapest-Croatia-Dalmatian Coast 2015

Image: Andrea Boldizsar


Budapest-Croatia-Dalmatian Coast 2015

Photography and Cultural Tour

Information Evening: Wed 27 Aug 2014 6.30pm



ENQUIRIES 

Dale Neill's thoughts on Photography and Portraiture

Victoria Donze in Brunei © Dale Neill 2007

Watch the interview with Dale Neill


Thoughts about Photography and Portraiture 



(Note: Victoria Donze from La Rodrigues Island was my photographic assistant when I taught photography in Brunei in 2007)

Photography Tip - Using light in travel photography

George Eastman, founder of Kodak said:

'Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire light. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.'

Many travellers mistakenly think that owning an expensive DSLR camera automatically makes them a great travel photographer. If that were true, Australia would have 14,000,000 great photographers. Unfortunately, that's a long way from the truth.

Bar de Cao, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Fuji X100 compact.

Quality travel images, including travel portraits come from an understanding of the way light works. Part observation, part camera knowledge and part one's ability to engage the subject are the key elements.

Dale Neill is running another On The Move photography workshop (Travel and Street Photography), over three days, commencing on 15 November 2014.

For the young at heart and adventurous travel photographer Wild Heart's photographic and cultural tour of Budapest, Croatia and the Dalmatian Coast sets sail in April 2015. 

The best lens for portrait photography

Which camera sensors produce the best skin tones? 
What are the three best lenses for portrait photography?
What are five simple tips for relaxing and posing people?
Where do you focus in a portrait - the near side eye or the dominant eye?

Master Photographer Dale Neill* answers these questions and more in a new UWA Extension workshop on August 10 and 14. Follow the link Photographing Faces for details and booking. 

The workshop includes a morning of theory and practice in the classic old limestone building at UWA Extension (previously Claremont Teachers College. )

In the afternoon we transfer to the corridors and arches of the University of Western Australia Nedlands for a full practical portrait shoot. Four days later we meet in the evening for a display and critique of your best images.

oOo

Thanks a million for presenting such a wonderfully informative & enjoyable workshop on the W/E. You were able to answer so many questions that have been going around, unanswered, in my head....such a relief! Denise Williams, Graphic designer

Dale – thank you for your generous sharing of encyclopedic photographic knowledge and the empathic way you impart it.  (Dr) Peter Randell

*Dale Neill's portrait images have won more than twenty awards in the Australian Professional photography Awards. He was a  finalist in the 2012 National Portrait Prize in Canberra and his image 'Farewell my Son' was hung in the National Portrait Gallery.

From Western Suburbs Weekly

Green on Blue

When one photographer shoots another photographer there's always a bit more intrigue. (or a court case!)
Abigail Harman is a sought-after, professional commercial photographer as well as a good friend. Abbe has an effervescent, slightly flirtatious personality under-strung with a razor-sharp business brain. So Abbe knew what I was about.

I'm always searching for something a bit different to what I've done before (hence the double macchiato to start the day). Also, I'm mindful of what my subject 'thinks' they want. But at the core of this it should be about fun.
 If you're not having fun you're not doing it right!
Sometimes a subject may complain that its too hot, too cold, too windy, too prickly or too hard. My answer is simple.
You need to suffer a  bit for art
Abbe didn't suffer (too much) and she certainly didn't complain.

Having your portrait taken is much like travelling abroard. There's the planning and preparation (hair, make-up, clothes); there's the journey and then;
 Ah yes then!
Then there are the memories!  The world would be  a much bleaker place without memories.
Its human nature to forget the boring bits. However, we never fail to remember the incidents; the bus that broke down in the desert, the perfume salesman that invited himself to your room and the restaurant in Patagonia that served up garlic guinea pig!
We relive the challenges met on our  journey and embellish how we developed superhuman powers to overcome them. Or maybe we just sit back and laugh about how silly we were. Nevertheless, travel traumas are marvelous  fodder for  after-dinner stories, the exaggerations, the delights; beautiful memories of the places and people we love.

Travel and photography walk side by side - we love the photos that capture the moment and reflect the relationship between two people,

Abbe's husband, John Harman, is a successful author, ghost writer, travel writer and tour leader. In Sept 2013 John and I join forces again for our second Turkish Delight Travel Writers' and Travel Photographers' tour to Turkey (with a Spanish option). Email  Helen Newnham for more details.

Cygnet Bay Pearls at Facez

Dale has just done three shoots for Cygnet Bay Pearls. The first three were H2O based in the Swan River and the fourth was in Facez studio and at Wild Poppy's in Wray Ave. Dale's model was Pam Jackson. Clothing by Diamond Aps in Wray Ave.

Our new logo

Believe it or not Dafna and I finally settled on a logo - yes, version 24. Denise Williams, graphic designer extroardinaire ploughed her way through 23 versions prior to giving this one legs. My original concept was based on ad I saw for Liza Minelli - but it was dafna who added the fimal touch with the drunked Z toppling off to one side.