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Car Photographs Available

Car Photographs Available

In the past I have had the opportunity of photographing some amazing cars, not to mention driving them around town and looking way cool. Ha ha… I love these Photo Shoots, mostly they are for one usage in a magazine and a writer will put a car review together to go with the pictures. Once [...]

Food Photography

Food Photography

As a lifestyle photographer I often get asked to photograph food dishes sometimes in restaurants or in the studio. Some photographers specialise as a food photographer and work mostly in studio. If the budget allows, it pays to employ a professional food stylist to create and style the dishes and work with you on the [...]

Facebook Changes Bad for Professional Photographers

Facebook Changes Bad for Professional Photographers

Facebook has announced a new photo viewer that will allow you to upload images 2048 pixels wide to your page. That is 8 x larger than the old 720 pixel limit. The viewer also provides a nice way to page through the images in your albums. Facebook have decided to include a link to all [...]

Automotive Photography

Automotive Photography

A good car photographer really has to learn to see again. I say that from experience from my assisting days when we were doing car photography in a specialised car studio. The car studio is what we call an egg; it has no corners anywhere including the ceiling. This is because a car is like [...]

A good Product Photographer can shoot a wine bottle.

A good Product Photographer can shoot a wine bottle.

Still life photographers are essentially studio based and generally specialise in product photography for their client’s products. A lot of this work can be simple shots of the product packaged in the box it sells in or lying next to the packaging. It gets tricky when the product is reflective or shiny, or in the [...]

Video Gear for HD Filming with a DSLR

If you are a skilled photographer, have video on your DSLR and have ever wondered about the accessories required to film a professional video shoot then Vincent LaForet has put together a series of video’s on his blog with different configurations depending on your exact requirements. http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/mygear/configurations/ An excellent series put together by a master [...]

Microstock Vs Custom Images

Microstock Vs Custom Images

If you use Microstock image libraries to buy photo’s for your clients then have a look at this link and decide whether it actually is the best option. http://tinyurl.com/yegjgr6 It may pay in the long run to have a custom image created by a professional photographer showing your actual staff that work in the company [...]

Landscape Photographers

Landscape Photographers

The secret to producing successful images of landscapes comes down to composition and light. Composition is critical because it’s very easy to centre the horizon line, which will give the effect of being two images, the sky and the land. The other thing to watch is to keep the horizon line level otherwise it feels [...]

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