Damian Breach: Photographer Profile

[lindsay]

Damian Breach has been taking photos of bikes and bike related things for longer than I care to remember. He is currently living abroad, acting as a photojournalist and writing articles for magazines. I decided to catch up with him and give you all a look inside his life.

Check it out here (http://www.farkin.net/article/a703c0/Damian_Breach_Photographer_profile).

[binner]

that was a cool interview, follow what you love doing I guess.
And damn he's got a good eye....

[roxy12]

his photos have always been awesome! great read there.

[Alec McJo]

You didn't happen to be at the first El Arish round in Cairns this year, did you?

That was actually a pretty good interview!

[demo man]

damn straight it was a good interview! :p

I quite enjoyed reading the answers, he's a great photographer and an even better bloke.

[DylanDeanDesigns]

the top B&W photo fits him perfectly! Little Farker needs to wake up & get off his lazy ass! lol ;)

cool interview & great to see Damian recognized!

Dylan "Damian's Hero" Dean

[daymz]

the top B&W photo fits him perfectly! Little Farker needs to wake up & get off his lazy ass! lol ;)

cool interview & great to see Damian recognized!

Dylan "Damian's Hero" Dean

you idiot Jeremiah.... :-)

damian "jdd for 2008" breach

[scratchy]

A lot of truths spoken. Great interview.

Oh and as an afterthought, I would be interested in his opinion on what is favourite lens/ most used lens for shooting MTBs?

On a recomendation I got a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 and it's been a cracker.

[daymz]

A lot of truths spoken. Great interview.

Oh and as an afterthought, I would be interested in his opinion on what is favourite lens/ most used lens for shooting MTBs?

On a recomendation I got a Tamron 28-75 f2.8 and it's been a cracker.


Thanks for the comments. My most used lens for racing is a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR.

[bitch_face]

Damian Breach has been taking photos of bikes and bike related things for longer than I care to remember. He is currently living abroad, acting as a photojournalist and writing articles for magazines. I decided to catch up with him and give you all a look inside his life.

Check it out here (http://www.farkin.net/article/a703c0/Damian_Breach_Photographer_profile).

great interview. you have got me inspired to start taking photography seriously

[bitch_face]

What should i do to get started. do you recomend a certain style of camera. any hints or tips to get me started:)

[six9man]

your gona need a digitalSLR if you want really high quality shots, and personaly i think you should get an image stabiliser lense, its easier than using a tripod.

but you can have the best cammera in the world, its the mug holding the cammera that takes the shots. practice with a average point and shoot cammera and see what you can do, put it on sports mode and play with angles and work with that first.

[daymz]

your gona need a digitalSLR if you want really high quality shots, and personaly i think you should get an image stabiliser lense, its easier than using a tripod.

but you can have the best cammera in the world, its the mug holding the cammera that takes the shots. practice with a average point and shoot cammera and see what you can do, put it on sports mode and play with angles and work with that first.

That's some good advice. Pratice with a good P&S (some of the are pretty damn good) and learn about composition, panning, ISO, shutterspeed, aperture, etc and then take it from there.

[bitch_face]

yer but where can i learn all of the techniques. i have got a pretty good point and shoot and have tacken some pretty cool shots. what is the cheapest way to improve my P&S. thanks for all the great tips i really apreciate it!!:)

[SpectRe]

yer but where can i learn all of the techniques. i have got a pretty good point and shoot and have tacken some pretty cool shots. what is the cheapest way to improve my P&S. thanks for all the great tips i really apreciate it!!:)

I played around with my P&S cameras for ages before getting my DSLR - and found the best way to learn is get out there and shoot as much as you can. This way, you can experience what does/doesn't work, and try to improve in areas.
You might find that a book or two on photography might be handy to refer to - especially when it comes to learning the ins and outs of ISO, Shutter speed, Aperture etc. Check out your local bookstore or library.

[six9man]

as everyone else said, you need to know how to balance iso settings with shutter speeds for the light, composition, take into account movement and objects, its fairly complicated. there are alot of different settings in a cammera that you can use to achieve different effects

most digi-slr's take decent photos on auto mode, you need to be able to tune the cammera to your desired settings to get a top quality shot.

what is your current cammera?
some p/s cammeras allow you to adjust some settings and play with the image without auto focus etc. try that and see how you go, photograph the same thing with different settings to see what happens

a good start would be to google "how to photography", read as much as you can to learn ;)

[bitch_face]

i have a fuji finepix 5500. i have played around with it but when i get it to take a better photo the reaction time slows down. thanks heaps all for the help and advice:)

[daymz]

one trick with p&s cameras is to pre focus/pre set the camera before taking the shot as there will be a lag time if you don't. to do this most cameras will let you hold the shutter button half way down and there will be an indication (a noise or colours on the screen) when it is all ready to take a shot. Keep the shutter button half way down and then when you take the shot it should take the photo much, much quicker.

[scratchy]

Thanks for the comments. My most used lens for racing is a Nikon 70-200mm f/2.8 VR.

So the cheap stuff eh? Don't know the Nikon range, but the Canon 70-200 f2/8L IS is $2800 (IIRC), for the lense alone!

And it's on my Christmas list.

[chrisjack4]

good interveiw and nice profession if you have the bank roll to support it