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Tutorial: How to get two different photos from the same scene

9 October 2012

I was recently commissioned to do an industrial photo shoot, and to take photos of the products and the factory. The client specifically wanted “arty” shots, and images with shallow depth of field. The below two images were shot of the same scene, taken from the same vantage point. For the first image, I set [...]

Industrial Photography Johannesburg: Jewll Industries

8 October 2012

I recently photographed the factory and products of a local industrial manufacturing company, Jewll Industries. My heart fluttered when my client asked me to interpret the brief with artistic flair, so I shot most of the factory images using shallow depth of field, slow shutter speeds and abstract angles. In the factory, I used ambient [...]

How to Photograph Bottles in a Light Tent

13 June 2012

Photographing bottles can be a photographer’s worst nightmare – the glass bottles reflects everything around it. Shooting in a light tent is not the best way to photograph bottles, but it will give you a far more pleasing result than shooting without a light tent.