Essays
- A Brief Rant About Lenses
- An Obsession With Decay
- Subject and Story in Landscape Photography
- GAS - A Counter Point
- It’s an Egg?!?! - the Loss of Thinking
- Filters, Photoshop, and Reality - Is it Real and Does it Really Matter?
- The Power of the Polaroid
- It Is The Result That Counts
- The Accidental Artist
- Filters, Photoshop, and Reality - Is it Real and Does it Really Matter
- Photographing with the family
- The ethics of Travel Photography
- Truth and Perception
- Story-Telling in a Sea of Imagery
- Overcoming GAS
- The Lure of Landscape
- Blind Brand Loyalty
- Why Post-Process?
- Is Passion Important?
- Why Photograph? - The Experience, and why Canikon fails to excite
- Context and Style - A commentary on a changing view of Steve McCurry
- The Photographic Industry in Doldrums?
- Durban Street Photography
- Those Who Can't, Teach - What BS
- An Ode to the F
- Shooting A Personal Project - Faces in my Life
- Amateur, Professional, Image Maker.
- Finding Balance (In Our Image Making Approach)
- In The Mood For A New Camera - New (Important) Toys
- Digital Permanence - Reminiscing the Fading
- Looks That Matter
- In The Hand
- Is 10 000 even possible
- An Argument Against Real
- Why my 30 year old lens is better than the new version.
- Prestige and performance - thoughts on high end product announcements in the last month.
- Photographing the Other and Making the Unknown Familiar
- Why Ansel Matters
- A New Perspective
- Interview with Myllo Menorah - A photographer's photographer!
- Defining Success in Photography
- A New Age?
- So You Wanna Go Pro?
- The advantages of working with a community development arm
- Drakensberg workshop - The Camera Doesn't Matter
- Just Get On With It
- Johannesburg - A View From The Top
- Looking At The World Through A Lens
- A Question of Ownership - copyrighting of ideas in photography
- Free Images?!?! - A Commentary on Getty’s ‘Embed’ Feature.
- Commentary on the World Press Photo Of The Year
- Beware the Fad
- Timelapsing in Thanda - A whole new ball game
- Is digital film finally here?
- Who Moved My Cheese (Shortened and adapted from the book of the same name by Spencer Johnson.)
- What do I call myself? A photographer?
- Why I Call Myself A Landscape Photographer
- Smile!
- Inspiration in a Blade of Grass
- The Catharsis of Photography
- Just Do IT
- To Clone or Not to Clone...
- Getaway Featured
- How Do I Get My Photo’s To Look Like That
- The Blindness of Familiarity – March Drakensberg Workshop.
- Finding Flow
- Going on a workshop
- Enter 2012 and Previsualisation in Life
- A Mantid Season
- Some work and a rant
- Water!
- Windland Smith Rice Awards 2010
- Photo Safari...in the Garden
- Why I (begrudgingly) love digital
Work Stories
- Speeding Trucks
- Running With a Camera - The merits of the venerable Sony NEX-5n
- Cow Pats and Fence Poles
- A Morning at the Museum
- Frisbee Fun
- Visiting Trend Town
- Book Building
- Wedding Chaos - the wedding of Alon and Katherine Gordon
- Kitchen Confidential
- The Zulu Warrior display
- Of Layouts and Weddings (Photos to follow shortly)
- Making the Most of Warehouses
- Getting High
- The Madness of Mweni
- Going Small
- Big Five...but not.
Becoming a Professional Photographer
- So You Wanna Go Pro?
- 5 Reasons why I love my job
- 5 Myths Debunked (About Being a Pro Photographer)
- Being An Assistant
- Drakensberg Workshop and a note on Whether or not to go pro.
- Self-promotion
- The Future of the Profession
- For the Pleasure of it
Photographic Technique
- How To Photograph Into The Sun
- Confusing Circles and Airy Disks: A relatively simple explanation of hyperfocal focusing
- Getting Negatives Digital
- Seeing the World in Slow Time
- Colour Shifts and Working Without Gels
- Moody Macros - February Drakensberg Workshop
- The One Frog Workshop!
- Contemplating The Wall - Notes on a Brief Architecture Workshop
- Working with Muddied Light - Drakensberg Workshop
- Visualising the Image - Thanda Workshop
- Playing With Panoramics
- Great Photographs Require Walking! April AI Drakensberg Trip
- Gardening a Tourist Trap - Some tips on shooting in crowded locations
- Paul Greenway's tips on panoramic stitching
- Unleash the Creativity - Get Off Auto!
- Making Things Move
- Zen Zulu Wildlife Workshop - A note on keeping it steady
- Jammin with Lynch - low light black and white
- Simple vs Complex - The ‘Single Shot’ Approach vs The ‘Build It In Photoshop’
- Layering for Effect - (and) February Drakensberg Experience
- Where's The Light- Wildlife Portraits and the March Thanda Workshop
- Balancing ISO
- Taking Over the Boardroom
- Thanda in the Springtime - September Thanda Workshop and a note on Live View Focusing
- Green Square Anonymous - Thanda Photography Workshop
- Slice and Dice - and a note on Lightroom 4
- Thanda Workshop and a Caveat on the 'Expose to the Right' Approach
- Panoramic Workshop - An EArly Morning Start
- Building the Shot
- Photographing Water Droplets - Workshop
- Camera JPEG Settings
- COP17 - Making Events Interesting
- Going Grey
- Constructing the Image
- Keep it Moving - Thanda Photography Workshop
- Lots and lots of pixels
Lighting Technique
- Strobist Approach 2.0 - The Middle Ground
- Colouring The Light Fantastic
- The One Light Wrap Around
- Colour Shifts and Working Without Gels
- One modifier to rule them all.
- Layering For Effect - Lighting The Side Of A Building
- Location Portraiture and a Big Ole T-Rex
- The Factory Cafe - Modifying Flash Workshop
- Back to the Museum - Lit portraiture on the fly and telling a story.
- Make sure to Modify - Modifying the light from a flash
- Natural Light
- One Flash Wonder Workshop
- Pros and Cons of the Strobist approach
- Portraiture Assignment – using available light
- Straight outa Star Wars
Composition Technique
- Building Relationships - The building blocks of composition
- The Element Approach
- The Power Of Line In Composition
- Shooting Distance
- Space - The First Frontier
- The 'Rule' of Thirds
- The First Order of Composition - Frame
- Wildlife Composition - Thanda Photography Workshop
Post Production Technique and Software
- Is the Upgrade to Nik Efex II worthwhile?
- A Change Is as Good as a Holiday - Moving from Lightroom to Capture One Pro
- A Brief Introduction To Storage and Backup
- Basic blending of layers in Photoshop
- Sharpening in Lightroom
- Using Guided Transform in Lightroom
- Tips to Speeding Up Your Lightroom Develop Workflow
- Understanding the Difference Between Catalogues, Folders and Collections
- Introduction to Nik Color Efex Pro and U-Point Selections
- Giving It The Finger - A Photoshop Layering Technique
- The Importance of Post Production
- Where the *%*k are my pictures!?!? Synchronising files in Lightroom
- Basic Selections in Photoshop
- Alternatives to Adobe for Lightroom and Photoshop
- Basic Workflow To LRTimelapse
- Enter the Cloud (Lightroom goes CC)
- Colour Grading in Lightroom
- The Basics of the Curves Dialogue
- Tonal Blending 101 in Photoshop
- Whither Do You Go? - Do you join the Adobe Cloud or not?
- Post-Shoot Workflow
- Creating a Watermark signature in Photo Shop
- Watermarking Your Images
- Giving Images ‘Bite’ in Photoshop, Lightroom and Capture NX2
- To Clone or Not to Clone...
- Software Choices
- Raw Studio 2.0
- High Dynamic Range Images - Tonal Blending
Photography Equipment
- Thoughts on the Nikon Z50
- The Nisi Holders - is an upgrade worth it?
- The Nisi Long Exposure Set
- Living (and traveling) with an F-Stop
- A Brief Introduction To Storage and Backup
- Even I’ll Go Mirrorless Eventually
- Where we stand - thoughts after Canon and Nikon Mirrorless Announcements
- Balancing The Light - Graduated Neutral Density Filters
- Big Stoppers - Blocking The Light
- The 100mm Square Filter System : Part 1 - The Filter Holder
- The Upgrade Path - Where To Spend your Money
- Overcoming GAS
- Revisiting the iPad in the field
- In The Hand
- Looking Ahead - The (Equipment) Year in Review
- Just Get On With It
- In The Bag - Namibia Landscape Workshop Gear used on the Composing the Dunes Workshop
- Losing The Mirror - an introduction to mirrorless cameras
- Thoughts on the Nikon Df - updated (28th February 2014)
- Bang On - Build Quality and Ergonomics - Part 3 of Choosing a New Camera
- To see or not to see, the viewfinder is the question Part 2 of selecting a new camera
- Decision, decisions, decisions - part 1 of choosing a new camera
- A Welcome Trend - the start of EVFs on mirrorless cameras
- Lens Diffraction - Should you care?
- Can the ipad replace a laptop on location?
- Understanding Tripods and Heads - A new web article
- Thoughts on the EOS 100D
- Try not to leave home without em
- Check your equipment list - March Drakensberg Workshop
- Thoughts on the Nikon D600 and Canon 6D
- Some Sound (Real World) Buying Advice
- Thoughts on the Nikon D3200
- Megapixel Madness - Thoughts on the D800
- Emerging Trends
- Wowwee...new toys (or so what?)
- A Pleasant Dream - My dream basic camera
Gear Reviews
- Zeiss Milvus Review - on Landscapegear.co.za
- A Tale of Two Plates - Sirui L-Brackets vs. The Comeptition
- Laowa 12mm Ultra wide lens review
- Sirui K40x Ballhead Review
- Sirui R-5241XL Tripod Review - The Three Legged Tank
- Creating Movement with the CamRanger and MP-360 Robotic Head
- Review of the Sirui R-2204
- Trigger Trap Review posted
- Sirui and BlackRapid Reviews
- FLM CB38-FTR Review
- FLM CP26-S4S Tripod Review - Pint Sized Stability
- FLM Centre Ball CB48FTR Tripod Head Review
- FLM Tripod Review - Is this a worthwhile CF tripod?
Other Reviews
Workshop and Trip Reports
Drakensberg- Monotone Mountains - November Drakensberg Workshop
- Drakensberg workshop - The Camera Doesn't Matter
- Climbing the Ladder Again - August Drakensberg Workshop
- Working with Muddied Light - Drakensberg Workshop
- Great Photographs Require Walking! April AI Drakensberg Trip
- Flowing Rivers - March Drakensberg Workshop with African Impact
- Holding Back The Rain - October Berg Workshop
- Carry Water! - October Drakensberg workshop
- Back to the Berg (at last)
- The Mountains of Mist - April Drakensberg workshop
- First Drakensberg Workshop of 2013
- Composing The Dragon
- Of Fungi and Streams
- Photographing the Cathedral
- A Teacher's Learning - Drakensberg Workshop August 2012
- Sentinel Squad - and a note on shooting more
- The Mercurial Drakensberg (and a note on Photo Writings)
- The Blindness of Familiarity – March Drakensberg Workshop.
- The Lightbulb Effect - February Drakensberg Workshop
- The Special Group - November Drakensberg Workshop and a comment on Dynamic Range
- Breathing in the Berg
- Not Quite Right but Great!
- Snowbound
- Mountain...What Mountain. It Could be BelgiumWet Wet Wet
- March Drakensberg Tour
- the Grunge Group - Landscape Master Class
- The Late Group - December Drakensberg Workshop
- Check that Histo! (November Drakensberg workshop)Wet and Windy September Berg WorkshopWind and Fire
- Gone with the wind – June Drakensberg Experience
- Ralph - Party of Nine...Ay (May Amphitheatre Experience)
- Photogs in the Mist
Madagascar
Namibia
- Composing The Dunes - the 2015 trip report
- Composing The Dunes Part 4 - Quiver Trees and Canyons (delayed workshop report)
- Composing The Dunes Part 3 - Picturing Ruins (delayed workshop report)
- Composing the Dunes Part 2 - Ghosts of Trees (delayed workshop report)
- Composing the Dunes - part 1: Spitzkoppe (delayed workshop report)
- Dead Vlei Finale - Part 4 of the Namibia Landscape Workshop Recce.
- A Sho't Left to the Great White Place - Part 3.5 of the NamibiaLandscape Workshop Recce
- The Fiery Monolith - Part 3 of the Namibia Workshop Recce
- Through the Desert to A Ghost Town - Part 2 of the Namibia Workshop Recce
- From The Ocean to The Quiver Trees - Part 1 of the Namibia Landscape Workshop Recce
- Visualising the Image - Thanda Workshop
- Mad Dogs and Englishmen Go Out in the Pouring Rain - December Thanda Workshop
- The Importance of Backup and the September Thanda Workshop
- Of Elephants and Stars - Thanda Photography Workshop
- Concentrate On The Small (Common?) Things - Thanda Photography Workshop
- A Thanda Start To The Year
- October Thanda Workshop
- Thanda Workshop - August 2012
- Thanda Photography Workshop - a note on sharpness
- March Thanda Workshop and a tip on group photos
- Thanda Workshop - Dealing With Frustration
- Thanda Photography workshop - A start to 2012
- Thanda Paused
- Let's talk about...
- Thanda Tripping
- Thanda - The Image Industry
- Thanda Light
- Thanda Workshop - Jus Strobin Along
- Thanda Photography Workshop (February)
- Inaugural Thanda Workshop
- Swansong
- October St Lucia Workshop
- August St Lucia Workshop and update to Macro Workshop
- Chasing bugs - Late July St Lucia Workshop
- Dearly Beloved...
- Orphus, the Greek God of testicles...ummmm
- Ralph, Party of Six - May 2010 St. Lucia Workshop
- April St Lucia Workshop - Painting with Time
- March St Lucia Photography workshop - Smoke and Water
The Wild Coast
Kenya
Botswana
Eastern CapeOther Workshops
Other
- Composing The Dunes Timelapse
- BTS - Carpet shoot timelapse
- Time-lapsing Paddy
- Exploring the land of Viking sagas! Natures Light Iceland Recce Trip
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