Suellen Baker
My identify is Suellen Baker. I reside and shoot pictures in one of the crucial stunning locations on earth, the Tweed Valley in New South Wales, Australia.
We develop sugarcane and beef cattle on somewhat farm exterior a rural city in northern NSW referred to as Murwillumbah, and it’s right here that I spend most of my time wandering the hills taking photographs.
In my early twenties, I used to be part of an Worldwide Youth Information gathering movie crew, which impressed me to pursue a life behind the lens, though I used to be there recording audio.
We travelled the world chatting with the youth about their respective nations to search out out what was occurring and what had been the problems they had been dealing with with their governments, religious leaders, and every other matters of curiosity.
I additionally had a brief work expertise with a industrial pictures firm taking household portraits and child photographs that took me across the rural districts of Queensland. This was an important expertise, however not one thing I might see myself making a profession out of.
I principally prefer to {photograph} what’s round me, crops, animals, sunsets and sunrises, seashores, and no matter nature has to supply. There may be loads to select from the place I reside!
Now we have near thirty totally different species of birds simply in our yard; then you may have the butterflies, dragonflies, and all types of bugs and lizards. It’s the subtropics!
Macro pictures might be my favorite style. Trying on the micro world appears to assist me admire what isn’t so simply seen. Earlier this yr, one in all my macro photographs, ‘praying mantis’ was revealed within the German journal Digital Photograph.
I additionally get pleasure from video work, principally documentary-style storytelling, and music movies. In 2019 my documentary a few good friend who hand-built an Australian-designed timber sailboat in his shed, Lone Ranger was chosen to display on the Byron Bay Movie Pageant.
I like videography. It’s such an incredible visible format; there’s something actually particular about utilizing pictures and a soundtrack to inform tales.
Sony A7s Mark III – my digital camera of selection for its low-light capabilities.
Sony A7R IV – for its thirty-three megapixel full-frame sensor.
GoPro 7 – for something underwater.
Sony FE 100-400mm f/4.5–5.6 GM OSS – this one is large enough for wildlife however sufficiently small to make use of and not using a tripod.
Sony 24-240mm FE f/3.5-6.3 – a superb all-rounder.
Sony 35mm FE f/1.8 – for my video and gimbal work.
Sony 30mm FE f/3.5 – a real 1:1 macro lens for getting up shut.
Moza Air Light-weight Handheld Gimbal
Manfrotto 290 Mild Aluminium Tripod
Innorel RT85C Carbon Fiber Tripod – tremendous gentle and strong.
Lowepro backpack
Apple MacBook Professional 16”
I take advantage of Lightroom for most of my enhancing and Photoshop, typically truly hardly ever as a result of I wrestle to search out my approach across the labyrinth that’s Photoshop; nonetheless, my curiosity in studying this system is changing into more and more fascinating resulting from my curiosity within the experimental enhancing of my photographs.
After I turned fifty, I assumed I’d go to Movie College and study extra about content material creation and encompass myself with like-minded individuals to get impressed.
What I truly learnt is that you just don’t essentially must go to high school to get data or inspiration.
You simply have to get on the market and do it!
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