This past week, I have been putting together some presentations about HDR and Photostitching for the AVA Show that is currently on in Johannesburg. I took the time to revisit HDR as a technique in digital photography and after really playing around a lot, I realised just what a powerful tool it is. I have…
As you all know, I am a “binnelander” (live inland…in afrikaans) but I grew up in Kwazulu Natal, close to the sea. Since I have been doing photography, the sea is one of my favourite landscape subjects. I love its moods, its colours and its shapes and movement. Last week I was down in Ballito…
Recently I was at the Walter Sisuslu Botanical Gardens in Little Falls (Johannesburg, South Africa.) It was a cool summers morning and had rained the night before, so there were lots of droplets around. The light was good because there was cloud cover (soft diffusion, works well ) I managed to snap off a few…
Well, you can go into detail about the “rule of thirds” (more about this another time) you can talk about the lighting, the colour, the tone, the expression and guess what. All of these would be correct. What makes a photo great is the combination of all of the above techniques and more. A great…
I have had this conversation with a few people…can a photo be seen as art? Well, I guess that depends on your definition of art. If art is something that take a certain amount of talent to produce, is creative in nature, is visually appealing, stirs an emotion or memory, then perhaps some photos can be…
