Featured Hot Shot Photographer | Peta Curnow for the Other Category

Peta recently won the "Other" photo category in the first round of our Hot Shot or Not competition. You can see all winners here.

She kindly shared the story and technique behind her winning image "Action at Avalon Air Show"

Peta Writes:

When I booked my tickets online for the 2007 Airshow, I was initially disappointed that I could only get seats in the top...

5 fantastic photographers take out the June Round of Hot Shot or Not

544 images. 5000 votes. 1 very tight contest.

We are proud to announce the winners of the first round of Hot Shot or Not. Each of the winners received the highest average vote in their category.

In no particular order - our 5 Hot Shots for June are:

Wedding Category:

Allison M. for "Windswept"

Landscape Category:

Sally M. for "Resting ontop of the Alps"

Portrait Category:

Sally M. for "After a day's surf"

Flower Category:

Jenny T for...

Introducing Hot Shot or Not – Get your photo rated while winning great prizes

We are proud to announce the launch of Hot Shot or Not - our ongoing photographic competition.

The idea behind "Hot Shot or not" is simple. You can:

1) Rate other photographers images and provide feedback

2) Upload your own images anonymously and get both ratings and comments

3) Win great prizes. The monthly winner in each category gets their winning images printed as a stunning 12 x 18 inch canvas prints.

We've...

Who owns the copyright in a photograph? A quick overview for the printing industry

Many of our clients express confusion over the issue of copyright. We are often asked to print pictures onto canvas in situations where the ownership of copyright may not be clear. This quick introduction to copyright law is an attempt to answer many of the questions we receive.

The Basics

Copyright in Australia is governed by the Copyright Act (1968). In certain cases, a range of international treaties also apply.

The two...

Valentines Day Competition Results

Our inaugural Valentine's Day competition attracted a small, but fantastic group of entrants. Congratulations to J.Eddison from Perth, W.A who took out the price.

We'll be having even larger competitions later in the year. So please check back regularly. Alternatively - send us an email at sales@brilliantprints.com.au with the word competitions in the subject line to be notified when they next one is...

Brilliant Prints – Valentines Day Competition – Win your own canvas print

To celebrate Valentine's Day we are launching our first ever competition. They will hopefully become a regular feature of our blog - so make sure you check back regularly!

The Challenge

We have just posted a tutorial that shows how to use the free photo editing program picnik to create your own Valentines Day image.

For our first ever competition we'll be asking you to create your own Valentine's Day image (whether you use Picnik...

Create your own Valentine’s Day Canvas Print

Regular readers of the blog will be familiar with the free online image editing program Picnik. You can check out our introduction to Picnik if you are curious. For the curious, the four tutorials in that series will give you an indepth introduction to Picnik.

In today's tutorial we are going to show you how to use some of the basic Picnik tools to create a very special canvas print,...

Soft proofing your images – colour calibration and printer profiles

Almost all photographers (amateurs and professionals alike) have experienced the problem of incorrect colour calibration. It is often frustrating to receive carefully crafted images back from the printing laboratory and find that the final colour tones are dramatically different from what you had planned. Many people often experience dramatically different results if they work with multiple laboratories (i.e. a photographic laboratory and a canvas printing laboratory)

In a previous article we...

Quick Tips – Part 1 – Remove cluttered backgrounds

In the heat of the photographic moment, it can be very easy to focus only on the subject of the shot and ignore what's happening in the background. It's only when we download the images onto our computer, or get them developed, that we realise that we also managed to capture a whole array of distracting clutter.

In the first of our quick tips - we'll be showing you how to...