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

9 October 2012
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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 [...]

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Industrial Photography Johannesburg: Jewll Industries

8 October 2012
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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 [...]

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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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Why I don’t supply RAW or unedited images to Clients

30 August 2012
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Occasionally, after supplying a disc of beautifully edited images to a client, they ask for the RAW images – and they want all of them. They saw me take hundreds of photos, but I only supplied 30 on the disc. There are a number of aspects to delivering a beautiful photograph – some of them [...]

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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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