National Archives Talk

For our final talk we had a lady from the Archives talk briefly about the Archives role in preserving photographs and other important documents through photography and digitisation. To be honest I did not particularly see the point in this presentation and don't feel that it was particularly well thought out. I gained little valuable information from this presentation, and also strongly resented the discussion that followed about the photography industry being in decline and that we all may as well give up.

Snowgum Studios

For this visit, we went out to Snowgum Studios just outside of Canberra to see Leonie Keogh. Leonie showed us the sets she has on her property that she uses for her photography, which include a small wood house, corrugated iron backdrop, a rustic door and a old farm fence, which all add a rustic appeal to her portrait work.

Leonie also showed us how she shows a client the photographs she has taken using a program called ProSelect which she also uses to print out photobooks.

Overall a very interesting studio set up and discussion by Leonie.

Dan O'Day & Haley Richardson

I was unfortunately unable to attend this presentation so I have researched the 2 speakers.

Dan O'Day is a wedding and fine art photographer based in Canberra. He has won numerous APPA and AIPP awards. Dan likes to take a photojournalistic approach to his weddings and likes to tell a story through his images.




Haley Richardson is a fine art photographer who also shoots weddings. Haley has only recently started taking her image making more seriously after being awarded the 2009 Professional Photographer of the Year and Portrait photographer of the Year in the ACT AIPP awards.