Andy Hutchinson
@andyhutchinson.com.au
Photographer | ADHD | Autistic | Gen X | Ex-DJ | British/Australian | Member no: 15,865
Latest photo-think is up on my Substack ...
It Doesn’t Matter if You’re Shit at Photography
Nobody's keeping score.
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I absolutely hate the default darktable themes - they seem purposefully designed to obscure - shit-brown identical sliders everywhere. So I made a theme I could work with. www.patreon.com/posts/154293...
The Default Darktable Themes are Shit - So I Made a Better One | Andy Hutchinson
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Must admit Bluesky fell off my radar over the last year or so, but that's true of all social media so it's nothing against this platform. Anyway - here's a shot from my happy place - Gerroa, looking south down Seven Mile Beach towards Cullunghutti Mountain. #photography #landscapephotography
Out exploring the Booderee National Park on a glorious summer's day and encountered this lovely Honeyeater getting his calories for the day.
Always love seeing the pelicans down at the river estuary chilling out after a hard day harassing the silver gulls at the boat ramp. This is the Shoalhaven River estuary at low tide, looking west towards the setting sun. #photography #australia #shoalhaven #serenity
How do you feel about this application of AI in photo editing? Using Nano Banana Pro and this prompt: "make the background as sharp and in-focus as the foreground - as if this was a focus-stacked image". Output Image is 4K at 300dpi - zoom detail at 200%. #ai #photography
Always nice to get a shout-out. My recent video on Nano Banana Pro has been picked up by Capture Mag.
Video: Did Nano Banana Pro Kill Photography or Just Photo Editing? - Capture magazine
Is the era of trusting our eyes over? South Coast photographer Andy Hutchinson tests Google’s Nano Banana Pro, revealing an AI that has shattered the barrier between reality and simulation.
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Latest article online at Substack - a meditation on how the latest generative AI models will impact photography and post-processing. #photography #ai #post-processing #weareallfucked
Did Nano Banana Pro Kill Photography or Just Photo Editing?
I Can’t Tell What’s Real Anymore
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We still doing aurora? I bollocks'd the last big show - went out too late and hit up a local spot that turned out to be busier than Bondi on Xmas day. So this time I had a plan - an abandoned yacht on the river estuary. 25s exposure on the X-T4 - bit of dehaze and white/black not much else needed.
Some lovely sunrises and sunsets over the long weekend here in South Coast NSW. This was taken on Monday about 30 minutes before sunrise. I thought this driftwood looked a bit like someone lying back in the surf with an arm out-stretched. #surf #beach #sunrise #landscapephotography #australia
So what's the thinking then? #Canva are getting rid of the old #Affinity suite and releasing some new apps incorporating their tech? Given that they're now giving away the old apps, it sure does look that way.
Two Big Photo Apps Have 'Gone Dark' - What's Next?
Well we know where we're going, but we don't know where we've been ...
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One of those lovely warm spring evenings shooting long exposures at Black Head in Gerroa at the weekend. #photography #landscapephotography #sunset #australia #fujifilm
Mavic 2 Pro. 10-bit 1" sensor & Hasselblad colour science. What's not to love? 5 x shot vertical pano shot above the Shoalhaven River estuary at the weekend. #waterscrape #landscapephotography #photography #australia #dji #mavic2pro
Latest Substack post now online. Free read made possible by my epic paid subscribers
Phojo No-Go - How to Beat the Photography Blues
How to stop over-thinking and fall back in love with your camera
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The ever lovely Murrays Beach in Booderee National Park, Jervis Bay on a mid-winter's evening. #photography #longexposure #beach #landscape #australia #fujifilm
Sunset last night was spectacular - like a golden flower of vibrant colours. It carried on for ages after sunset too - I was still on the beach nearly an hour after the sun hit the horizon. #photograph #sunset #australia #beach #serenity #sunflower
Had my eye on this beached yacht since it washed up on the estuary and when I realised the sunset was going to pop, I headed down early to photograph it. Ironic then that this shot (a long exposure) was taken a full 50 minutes after sunset. #photography #landscape #australia #fujifilm #sunset #nsw
Excire ran a photo competition that was judged by an A.I. Excire's CEO thinks their A.I. is 'subjective' and 'unbiased' - I categorically disagree. open.substack.com/pu... #photography #excire #judgementday
Sunrise in the back dunes on Seven Mile Beach here in South Coast NSW, Australia. Wind's back again today, but it was calm as you like three days ago. #photography #landscape #australia #beach #sunrise #fujifilm
Some cracking winter sunrises lately - always a treat after a spell of bad weather. This was sunrise in Shoalhaven Heads. #photography #sunrise #beach #serenity #australia #fujifilm #coast #landscape
My sunset spider-sense was well and truly tingling yesterday, so I made sure that the drone was charged up. Flew just before sunset and about 10 minutes afterwards. This is a Mavic 2 Pro incidentally - still the best Hasselblad camera DJI stuck on a drone. #photography #dji #drone #sunset #australia
Incredible sunset tonight here in south coast NSW. This is a two minute exposure shot an hour and 10 minutes after sunset! #photography #landscape #sunset #australia #fujifilm #skyfire
Beautiful vibrant sunset tonight down at the local. Just me, a solitary surfer and the silver gulls. #photography #sunset #australia #pacific #fujifilm #landscape #beach #serenity
Photographed the 'strawberry' moon with the big zoom lens to get into the detail. I've marked up a few of the landmarks in the second image. Funny to think of the Eagle sat there on the edge of the Sea of Tranquility. #photography #astrophotography #moon #astro #landscape #fujifilm
Big old strawberry moon tonight - photographed rising over the Shoalhaven River in NSW, Australia. 10 shot vertical pano edited in Lightroom. #photography #australia #nsw #shoalhaven #fujifilm #fullmoon #strawberrymoon #moonrise
The Aurora Australis at the weekend was just incredible. Stunning colours and amazing clarity. Living somewhere with dark skies is a real privilege. #photography #aurora #astro #australia #gerroa #nsw #fujifilm
The aurora australis arrived in full technicolour glory on the 1st of June and, miracle of miracles, we had clear skies too! This was towards the end of the show with the lovely red light slowly receding under the milky way in Shoalhaven Heads. #photography #aurora #australia
