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Chinese New Year Festival at Nan Hua Temple

11 February 2013
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Yesterday Julian, Conley and I went to the Chinese New Year Festival at Nan Hua Temple in Bronkhorstspruit to capture the colours, ambiance and merriment. All images were shot with ambient light on a Canon 5D mark iii using 24-105mm and 70-200mm lenses. Below is a small selection of my favourite images from the day.

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Playtime with my Macro Lens in a Wintery Landscape

13 December 2012
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In August this year, Julian, Dexter and I went to our favourite pet friendly lodge, Komati Gorge, close to Dullstroom. We went there last year, and everything I shot I used my Canon 85mm f/1.8 and used a grungy arty treatment. This time I decided to only use my Tamron 90mm f2.8 macro lens and [...]

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Tutorial: The advantages of using Grid Display on the Canon 5D mark iii

12 October 2012
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Displaying the Grid in your viewfinder The advantage of displaying the grid in your viewfinder is that camera tilt will be more obvious, and it’ll be easier to rectify the problem by using the guidelines in the viewfinder. To set the grid, press the menu button, and use the muliti-controller to go to Set Up [...]

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Commercial Photography Talk: Kiki Guest Speaker July 2012

10 September 2012
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“Would you like to photograph anything you want, anywhere you want, in any way you want, with a great professional camera system? Would you love to travel to luxury destinations and photograph whatever, whenever you want? The only way to do this is to get a real job and do photography in your own time.” [...]

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Tutorial: How to Photograph Smoke

29 August 2012
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Smoke photos are very impressive when captured correctly, and it’s really not as difficult as you may think. You just need oodles of patience as the ratio of duds to great photos is pretty high! Equipment Needed dSLR Camera with manual shooting mode Tripod Studio lights or off camera flash Black backdrop or background Incense [...]

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