tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65020048135972207952024-03-13T13:21:59.471+02:00Professional Photography in Cape TownGareth Griffiths Photography and Imaging. Commercial, wedding and personal photography services. Based in Cape Town, South Africa. Travels. Images for sale. Copyright Gareth Griffiths.Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-30772881562807254012022-08-29T14:59:00.005+02:002022-08-29T14:59:59.276+02:00Winter sunsets - My side of the mountain<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h3 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Dusk - after sunset<br />Noordhoek Beach</span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0aSbFt34fjnMVuvijE0-QqMr9Gg7odBPJj2GGq9GYSxanM1o-3-IAk28M2emAEVu77zpqId3sV3FaoTR-hcOvlJixk_Pob7J_vOaTLWWlK4PhIsm1ZDTkzWoMQ2S0hz6c1A_4RotiFo4o1m4qkFTERpvvsjyi22pXlN3ApuwalerOUJIVVQCWMOsX/s3859/GG_Imaging-7378.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2247" data-original-width="3859" height="372" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0aSbFt34fjnMVuvijE0-QqMr9Gg7odBPJj2GGq9GYSxanM1o-3-IAk28M2emAEVu77zpqId3sV3FaoTR-hcOvlJixk_Pob7J_vOaTLWWlK4PhIsm1ZDTkzWoMQ2S0hz6c1A_4RotiFo4o1m4qkFTERpvvsjyi22pXlN3ApuwalerOUJIVVQCWMOsX/w640-h372/GG_Imaging-7378.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-53170836136125874512022-01-27T16:06:00.008+02:002022-01-27T16:16:28.552+02:00Understanding digital photo quality and file size: A ready guide<div style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 2.04; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Understanding digital photo quality and file size: A ready guide for publishing -</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 2.04; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Magazine print, newsprint or digital medium.</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 2.04; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 7.5pt; text-align: left;"><img height="284" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/qWypL82iBEGRI_b3cXkn1XJqNS4go37SSs1b3sH0TTlod-S-jMnBi6W2kJVP3Sd8J9zhHu0oNHHHe5rocVWFnFR1qN4YpJ4Dv2EwQ1KJQ2ga6V2WrPK9nHgk_kDEh2k-awgY8-Jw" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="300" /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: trebuchet;"> </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Photo and content copyright Gareth Griffiths</span></i></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">As an editor and professional photographer, up to 50% of the images Safrean Gareth Griffiths gets sent for publishing in print are of the wrong resolution. Here’s how you can be sure you get it right next time.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Resolution</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Resolution means the size of the photo in pixels (very simply, these are ‘dots’ of digital information relating to colour and tone) that are expressed in a horizontal and vertical medium. When you multiply the horizontal by the vertical dimension, you get the digital resolution of the image, expressed in megapixels (what you camera ‘takes’). This should NOT be confused with print resolution, which is the dots per inch analogue equivalent of digital resolution. The trade has adopted two slang terms for the presentation of images. They are ‘high res’ and ‘low res’. Be warned that these are subject to misinterpretation.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It is important for digital camera users to grasp the basics of digital image sizing. Should you be sending photos to a newspaper or even a magazine, then a photo taken in JPEG format at medium resolution (around 5 megapixels) is suitable. However, should you need to keep this photo for high quality printing and possible enlargement, it becomes important to shoot at the camera’s maximum digital resolution.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">An additional setting available on your digital camera or smartphone is compression or image quality. This is normally selected by setting the camera to take ‘fine or high quality’ or on the other hand, ‘medium or standard’ quality. Some cameras also have a low quality or high compression option. The significance of this setting is as follows:</span></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.22857; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Low compression means a large file (around 3 megabytes) on your memory storage card but the photo is rendered at highest quality. There is a minimum of digital noise or blurring of detail.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.22857; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">High compression means a smaller sized file (around 1 megabyte) on memory storage, but the image quality is poorest.</span></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 2.22857; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">High compression files further deteriorate in quality if they are edited on the computer using a programme such as Gimp or Photoshop Elements. It is a good tip to always take your photos at the highest quality setting, even is taken at a low digital resolution – assuming your camera memory card has available space. Smaller sized files in megabytes are also easier to email, however.</span></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">As a very rough guide, many publishers will tell you not to send any photos other than 1 megabyte in size for publishing. This applies to a number of factors but in truth you can get away with a much smaller sized file provided the megapixel size is correct. As an editor, I will publish most file sizes of 500 kilobytes (half a megabyte) – that’s my rule of thumb.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 287px; overflow: hidden; width: 300px;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><img height="287" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/WMUNT2EPSpV9U7GWuPug2N4oTFVwrM4IoZxjV8qKNgWYAE_leYWJu70ZsQydTOke6u8vnCIAJD0_bKZeNCTJWVYA-VN16yEg9pVUXemSzFxyqFW0-qaRgIvhWNpEHBUh8a1nmWBg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="300" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Notice Bentley the Frenchie in both images (same size in height and width). The image at the top is rendered for internet/web usage. The lower image is how that same image would come across in print. Note how the image deteriorates at print resolution, confirming the rule that you cannot send low resolution ‘thumbnail’ images for printing. This is very important when sending a press release with an image to a print magazine.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Other formats</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Nowadays many photos are being presented in .PNG (Portable Network Graphics) and not JPEG format. Be aware that this format takes up more disk space for a lower resolution photograph so a .PNG image sent at, say 500 kilobytes (half a meg) is most likely too small to be published in the print medium, whereas a .JPEG file at 500 kilobytes most often is publishable.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 11pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">I’ll deal with the other (higher) formats of digital imaging, including RAW, in the next article.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 15pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #4f4f4f; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">So why do photographers refer to pics posted in emails or on the internet as thumbnails? It’s because when printed at standard print resolution, they come out the size of a thumbnail – too small for a magazine or book (unless you have magnifying glass handy!).</span></span></p><p><br /></p>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-70916951555094443362022-01-27T12:57:00.002+02:002022-01-27T12:57:09.955+02:00STILL TURNING HEADS<p> <span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">My Martial Eagle from Etosha many years ago! Pics still in demand.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzPtB284MqBC1laFxN7x8ucaue-nza8rYqr3y_rWIGzcGLLsQ098fCVp4gNcHdbQochOI-KenAQMhw0Xmd0zvbMAaZUGrE11Rz7_Lchf6bXsbwZZ9tVH0P2oW_Hi174-frrnYhKbnP-PNDhB8trPyLQ6rX8szcLsaB8oNZySvDzlh4Om0TxkBvyFJA=s720" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="540" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhzPtB284MqBC1laFxN7x8ucaue-nza8rYqr3y_rWIGzcGLLsQ098fCVp4gNcHdbQochOI-KenAQMhw0Xmd0zvbMAaZUGrE11Rz7_Lchf6bXsbwZZ9tVH0P2oW_Hi174-frrnYhKbnP-PNDhB8trPyLQ6rX8szcLsaB8oNZySvDzlh4Om0TxkBvyFJA=s16000" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJi81sfMI-7gFN1gnjvCnEkJMwIRV3HkBTesNJ1syyeISWo5kWva-t0pyOKFxjxVroLBu9MaDtcbDSj95Pi3mAvSC7LAn6FMbn-x_idXZdHwEIa8W1qTvrMKCqXj9M86JxuD9g_nPiYg2W4RxuQO7iXTECpQDmV6ROJs5VDC66wQNmIDjYIY-vu69I=s720" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJi81sfMI-7gFN1gnjvCnEkJMwIRV3HkBTesNJ1syyeISWo5kWva-t0pyOKFxjxVroLBu9MaDtcbDSj95Pi3mAvSC7LAn6FMbn-x_idXZdHwEIa8W1qTvrMKCqXj9M86JxuD9g_nPiYg2W4RxuQO7iXTECpQDmV6ROJs5VDC66wQNmIDjYIY-vu69I=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-83295986162968522692021-05-14T13:16:00.005+02:002021-05-14T13:16:37.497+02:00AS AN ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHER<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">AS AN ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHER, I often cover outstanding architectural projects for print and digital magazine purposes, in addition to social media.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">My high note was covering the launch of the Zeitz MOCAA - Museum of Contemporary Art Africa when I was stationed in the media area right near the Arch. As usual Archbishop (Em.) Tutu charmed the crowd in his normal unassuming way. Just take a look at the faces of those girls!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jJCgrY8JgFg/YJ5ZIoBDaPI/AAAAAAAAHSU/Lq5BXEHIp9In8p5avBCt5mLJHCnKYpeqACLcBGAsYHQ/s600/Gareth%2BGriffiths-7126.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="600" height="416" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jJCgrY8JgFg/YJ5ZIoBDaPI/AAAAAAAAHSU/Lq5BXEHIp9In8p5avBCt5mLJHCnKYpeqACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h416/Gareth%2BGriffiths-7126.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zJNBbUOJ_Cg/YJ5Yt97_a5I/AAAAAAAAHR8/EE5LK_rN09QPfCYTMXMNyDc9gbi4cGjiACLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/GG%2B_%2BImaging-2238.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">This was my shoot for the magazine at the SILO Hotel - part of the Royal Portfolio Group where Liz Biden does much of the interior design herself.<br /><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MP7UVvqIWBU/YJ5YuOzPr4I/AAAAAAAAHSE/Y4w0p8fMk4oTB8NhY9aE8KoVnuzF5CwjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1500/GG%2B_%2BImaging-2237.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1500" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MP7UVvqIWBU/YJ5YuOzPr4I/AAAAAAAAHSE/Y4w0p8fMk4oTB8NhY9aE8KoVnuzF5CwjwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/GG%2B_%2BImaging-2237.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Most recent project: The Ridge - V&A Waterfront.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The best green or sustainable building ever!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Interior design was by Paragon Interface - for Deloitte SA.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PnTmSK8cZjs/YJ5bNTI018I/AAAAAAAAHSs/agM_rgcCo_oGC84UM-H_e9tyKgU4J0DAACLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Gareth%2BGriffiths%2B-4970.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PnTmSK8cZjs/YJ5bNTI018I/AAAAAAAAHSs/agM_rgcCo_oGC84UM-H_e9tyKgU4J0DAACLcBGAsYHQ/w426-h640/Gareth%2BGriffiths%2B-4970.jpg" width="426" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lU5iCDcvwZg/YJ5bOOUgp4I/AAAAAAAAHS0/LW6Tu74QW3Io39kY2JxrxPC0A4oL3WfJgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Gareth%2BGriffiths%2B-5007.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1333" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lU5iCDcvwZg/YJ5bOOUgp4I/AAAAAAAAHS0/LW6Tu74QW3Io39kY2JxrxPC0A4oL3WfJgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Gareth%2BGriffiths%2B-5007.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">And here is Claire D'Adorante, the fantastic designer and workplace strategist who made it all happen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9CT5nu7_ieM/YJ5bNdLSJ8I/AAAAAAAAHTA/5cN122Y8GMwBxDt1H2jXUkLXwg8xuV4FwCPcBGAYYCw/s2000/Gareth%2BGriffiths%2B-1274.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1333" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9CT5nu7_ieM/YJ5bNdLSJ8I/AAAAAAAAHTA/5cN122Y8GMwBxDt1H2jXUkLXwg8xuV4FwCPcBGAYYCw/w427-h640/Gareth%2BGriffiths%2B-1274.jpg" width="427" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hey, happy couples, the wedding season is coming with the first peak of spring and organisers are busy planning ahead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A word of advice about booking your wedding photographer: <a href="https://ggphotoworld.blogspot.com/2014/01/getting-married-insist-on-professional.html" target="_blank">Choose carefully.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It is more about pointing a camera, as you will note from the advice offered in my posting above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Are you in the middle of organising a wedding and are looking for a great photographer? I'm an experienced photographer who has invested the right amount of time in developing my skills and I have made right investment in good equipment. As a busy commercial photographer, I undertake a few weddings each year. The brides, grooms and families are never disappointed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A word of advice. Book me early, since my calendar is filling up. Shoots are custom made to your wedding programme and your budget. No standard and boring service offering when you hire Gareth Griffiths Imaging and Photography! I would love to help you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Want more advice: Click here and check out <a href="http://ggphotoworld.blogspot.co.za/2014/01/getting-married-insist-on-professional.html" target="_blank">wedding photography advice</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-80181305891235960162019-05-30T13:50:00.000+02:002019-08-19T16:56:30.751+02:00GETTING MARRIED? INSIST ON PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QX11-Um69Zo/UtUj2QnfyVI/AAAAAAAACZQ/ISoaExfqHxo/s1600/_H5R6941e.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QX11-Um69Zo/UtUj2QnfyVI/AAAAAAAACZQ/ISoaExfqHxo/s640/_H5R6941e.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So what does it mean to get married? Hopefully, a lifetime commitment with fantastic benefits to bride and groom that hopefully leads to children and family .......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">These are lifetime memories, which is why it is so important to preserve them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That's why it is so important to book a photographer and, if applicable, a videographer who knows what they are doing. There are many wannabees who offer services and who sport low end digital cameras and who offer services at bargain basement prices, yet don't know the first thing about photography and working with light. Often they are not so good at working with people either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For a start, ask your photographer what their backup plan is if their equipment fails. Do they carry a spare camera or two and spare lenses?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ask your prospective wedding photographer what professional bodies they belong to, what their qualifications are and what their investment is in photography. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Its also advisable to check how your photographer is with people. Most weddings involve the joining of two families together around the pair who are getting married and so you need a photographer who relates to the older generation - the in-laws if you like - and other guests, also.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So if you are planning to get married, remember it is the special moments that will provide the memories. You want a professional photographer who knows what they are doing during the ceremony and during the special shoot afterwards - and will be able to suggest the best locations for the bride, groom and wedding party to slip away prior to the reception. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Wedding reception photography after the ceremony and formal couple/family photoshoot is a second consideration to the ceremony itself. So if </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">you have only a tight budget and paying by the hour, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">rather hire a competent professional to cover the important stages. You can leave the party photography to guests and amateurs, but ensure your lasting memories are professionally and well recorded.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An organisation such as Safrea, the Southern African Freelancers' Association, has many fine professional photographers as Full Members, who subscribe to a professional code of conduct. These are mostly working photographers who, in addition to providing wedding photography services, work within the media publishing areas such as advertising and editorial photography. Photographers such as these have invested way over R 100 000 in cameras, special lenses and other equipment including IT backup and software.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm a senior professional member of Safrea, which gives additional confidence to the client. You can reach Safrea on </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">the site www.safrea.co.za for further information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-42201107443508478802019-03-08T12:46:00.000+02:002019-03-08T12:46:32.290+02:00TRAVELS IN THE KAROO<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sutherland, just inside the boundary of the Northern Cape is an interesting place especially if you are keen on astronomy. The level of science being practised at the SA Astronomical Observatories is fascinating, where South Africa is making a real contribution to the scientific database of the world, especially with the Southern Africa Large telescope (SALT).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But there are some interesting lo-tech highlights also. See Pic!</span><br />
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<br />Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-76733590194253214642018-04-09T11:46:00.000+02:002018-04-09T11:46:24.626+02:00Honeycomb spaces<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">T</span>he refurbished Grain Silo at Cape Town's V&A Waterfront is full of striking 'interstitial' spaces where grain used to be stored but now have been converted into elements of the though provoking Zeitz Mocaa (Museum of Contemporary African Art). These spaces have been polished by master polishers of their trade and provide the camera with some interesting eye candy.</span><br />
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in the second half of September, South Africa entered the super league of
countries that host contemporary art collections from across a continent and
its diaspora globally, all protected by Category A climate control inside its
90 galleries. The technology has been endorsed by the International Council of
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construction, the V&A Waterfront’s R500-million project to transform the
historic grain silo into the world’s largest museum dedicated to contemporary
art from Africa and its diaspora has reached completion, culminating in the official
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I update my Facebook page more regularly with a photo narrative of the work I do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To view my adventures, click </span><a href="http://cederberglife.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">here.</span></a>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-2868785759366097062016-10-10T09:24:00.004+02:002017-01-23T15:21:51.520+02:00MUCH OF THE WORK OF GOOD PHOTOGRAPHY IS ON THE KEYBOARD<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For photographers who learned their trade (or hobby) in the pre-digital age, the camera and its film were everything. While you could get very clever professional film that added colour pop to your images, high contrast or low light, you had also a degree of control when the film was being developed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For example, it was better to slightly overexpose your photograph when shooting on film. Due to the high density of layers of photo sensitive chemical in film, that recorded extra detail.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nowadays with digital, the opposite is true. If you 'blow out' your image by letting too much light past the sensor in a digital camera, the detail is gone - forever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However, what you do have today is the availability a lot of 'post production' computer software that allows you to do everything and much more than film processing could do. There is even software available for handheld devices, including smartphones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have photography in RAW format today. (</span><a href="http://ggphotoworld.blogspot.co.za/2011/06/shooting-in-raw.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">See my earlier article on this</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">). Effectively, what RAW does is allow you to re create the whole image you took from a light perspective. It is not a format you can take to the printer. It needs to be developed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">But for this post production work a great deal of computer software is available at your fingertips. While users of the highly expensive Adobe Photoshop CS suite are dedicated and hard core, the great technology available in Photoshop is also distilled down in a number of much cheaper packages that are uber user-friendly as well. Probably the best of these is Adobe Photoshop Elements, which contains multiple technical 'hand me downs' from Photoshop CS - at a fraction of the price.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The post production phase of photography is split into two components:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Image workflow and archiving software - for example Photoshop Lightroom, an expensive system, and the Organiser software found in Elements. Most of this software allows the user to make various light and colour related adjustments but does not allow the user to apply filters or to alter the photograph beyond that.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second stage is the full edit. That is where Photoshop CS, and the host of other </span><a href="http://ggphotoworld.blogspot.co.za/2011/10/softer-side-of-pics.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">image editing software</span></a><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> I mentioned, comes in. This stage allows the user to add or remove people, change the landscape, correct distortion, etc. The classic meaning of a 'Photoshopped' image.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course, the final stage is the presentation or publishing of the image - be it on Facebook, as a print, or in a printed book.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm a competent user of Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Elements. Together, they meet all my needs as a professional photographer - including weddings or architecture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Give me a shout if you need some lessons or coaching with these systems. You can improve your photographic results by 100% Up to now, my clients have been very satisfied.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">COST: Please discuss your specific requirements with me, but the basic cost is R 1600 for two coaching sessions of approximately two hours duration.</span><br />
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Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-49022049368088919122015-11-25T14:08:00.000+02:002015-12-22T14:47:10.139+02:00FAMILY BEACH SHOOTS AND OUTDOOR WEDDINGS THIS SEASON<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The summer has arrived in the Cape - big time. Perfect weather for time at the beach with loved ones and friends. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Surprise your visitors from the North or from overseas with a professional beach or family shoot - at leisure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Your holiday season is my quiet season away from the architecture, advertising and commercial shoots that I normally do. So you can have my attention on the beach or at a venue of your choosing for an hour or two. Contact me to discuss your needs and get a tailor made quotation to your needs. Prices start from R 1 990 for an entry level shoot. You'll love it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Getting married? No problem. I love to do those, too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Got a new camera and need some lessons? Give me a shout, too. I know my way around technology.</span><br />
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<br />Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-28383990459658032962015-04-29T12:13:00.002+02:002017-01-23T15:23:40.438+02:00OFFERING: FIRST LEVEL COURSE OR COACHING IN PHOTOGRAPHY<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<i><b><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">By: Gareth Griffiths, BSc (Phys Sci) Full accredited member, Southern African Freelancers’ Association -
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EFT. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Non refundable booking fee upon confirmation: R 350.00 (private coaching) and R 200.00 (group sessions).</span></div>
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how to work their own camera as efficiently as possible. A basic
understanding of the concepts of working with light, with people,
with objects and with scenery will be covered. Finally, an
understanding of the electronic end of photography; how to best store
images, how to prepare for the best prints, how to email your work or
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study the electronic end of things. How to use the computer to work
with pics; free software available; good quality software that can be
bought. Preparing for printing, emailing of storage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Where can I store my images online –
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Contact Gareth: 072 905 0252 /
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">E -<a href="mailto:garethgriffiths.imaging@gmail.com" target="_blank"> Email me</a></span></div>
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Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-77784599579889351242015-03-05T20:56:00.005+02:002015-03-05T20:56:56.749+02:00FIRE TODAY - LIFE RETURNS TO NORMAL - OR DOES IT?<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's obviously tough for the people of the Noordhoek Valley to resume normal life after a traumatic week, but thankfully our valley seems to be safe now. Admittedly, there is not much more to burn, but there remain a few existing hot spots that continue to smolder and emit white smoke. This is not helped by the strong "fresh" South Easterly wind which supplies the embers with copious amounts of oxygen. Gladly, the same wind has assisted in clearing the local air of smoke and ash so our normal clean atmosphere has returned. If only it was not for the grey landscape .....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">We are so fortunate that the fire did not spread to our neighbours in Masimpumele and Sun Valley; and also that all of our local farms and businesses survived, thus ensuring continued employment for the people who need it the most.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today's only negative is that there is a fire approaching from the South. The blaze that started in Cape Point reserve is making its way North, placing Scarborough and surrounding areas at risk. Amazingly, brave volunteers from the Noordhoek crisis centre have volunteered their services to fight the approach of this fire. Here they are, receiving their briefing at the Noordhoek centre from the professional team leaders before setting off South to this new D-Zone late this afternoon.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, not too much celebration as yet until we can be sure that all People of the South, their animals at home and in the wild are safe.</span>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-30836727901316107622015-03-04T18:03:00.001+02:002015-03-04T18:04:26.977+02:00VIEW OVER NOORDHOEK 'AMPHITHEATRE' EXACTLY ONE WEEK PRIOR TO THE FIRE<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I was 'up there' with Civair doing some work for a client and snapped this peaceful panorama. Thought you might want to see it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><i>Chilling to think how much of the green stuff is gone. Thankfully the vineyard survived</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Media: Pics available of Constantia and Tokai bowl - exactly same time. Shout if interested.</span>Gareth Griffiths - Professional Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04049375021615075847noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502004813597220795.post-73141443860015137352015-03-04T09:25:00.001+02:002015-03-04T12:37:42.812+02:00FIRE IN NOORDHOEK - REPORT 4 MARCH - ONE PROPERTY DESTROYED<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have been out on site since early this morning and here is a photo-story of the situation above Noordhoek Beach area. I have deliberately excluded pics of burned properties because as an ethical journalist I believe that is a time and place for them, but not today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you want to report damage to you property for my background information and so I can correct certain highly irregular reporting on the part of some of Cape Town's media, please email me on garethgriffiths.imaging"@"gmail.com (note I have inserted quotes to the @ to prevent spammers from finding me!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you in the media? I am too. Please contact me if you want to use photos or information. I offer them freely subject to a licence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Athos describes to me taking some time out for supper at the Toad last night, but then realising that - maybe- the Fat Lady had not yet sung - speaking of the fire. How right he was.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A flareup off Chapman's Peak Drive this morning. Typical of the type of scrub the fire was "working" yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also off Chapman's Peak drive around 07h00. A very lucky escape - thanks to all helpers, I would think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Here's the sun as last, peeping it's bloody eye through the Stone Pines, which are now 2 x survivors - from 2000 and now 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Will give wine tasting a miss for a few hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Stone Lions at CPV have seen many a drama along these roads!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Thanks Sybrand vd Spuy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Incredible job by volunteers who continue to arrive at the Crisis Coordination Ops Room in Village Lane. Pete de Bruin, Franck Dangereaux and Guy of the Foodbarn kindly providing real coffee from a kiosk outside the Farm Village - free as a thank you to the workers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: left;">According to Athos and colleagues at the Crisis Centre, it may not yet be over, but above all panic should be avoided. Keep the Crisis Centre informed. Be sure to put your friends and social media "friends" straight when giving information and encourage people to stay away from the "D-Zone" except when to volunteer. A list of donated items for the centre is still available. Athos can be contacted on 082-606-3726</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The most reliable report we have is that ONE property in the Noordhoek Valley was completely destroyed by the fire, and this due to the hot ash fallout at around midnight last night. Several others suffered limited damage. I will substantiate as soon as possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do you have a story of the fire? You can send it to me at the email address above. It will be handled confidentially.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Social media reports of the big fire particularly in the Noordhoek Valley have been rather misleading and possibly contributed to panic rather than helped he situation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A tweet by @vanhaywood that did little to help matters on Monday:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The tweet was picked up by big tweeters such as @KFM and @CapeTown and retweeted without verfication, even by the Lodge itself, which may have retweeted under some pressure.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">However, this was the area looked like, via a photo from the beach taken at about the same time as the tweet:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The fire at 6.30 pm Monday. The Chappies road separates the lower Chapman's Peak area from the mountain.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><u>This is how things played out after the arrival of the "Muizenberg Fire" #capefire late on Sunday 1 March.</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Living in the area as I do with my family, my first inkling of the big fire was 01h00 Monday morning when I was woken up by the smell of smoke. The fire was approximately 300 metres away and moving relatively slowly. Having stayed where I do long before the really big fire of the year 2000, I can confirm that the fire of 1 March on moved a lot more slowly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Noordhoek Manor and surrounding area was advised to evacuate and rightly so due to a large infestation of pine on the property of landowner, SA National Parks, which had re-grown there since the big fire of 2000.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Noordhoek Crisis Centre was convened at the NGK property near the Farm Village by experienced volunteer, Athos. Athos and others were intimately involved as volunteers in fighting the big fires in year 2000 where they were hosted at the Noordhoek Farm Village by then-owner, Jeremy Wiley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">According to Athos, this morning, 3 March at the Crisis Management Centre, a considerable number of "mistruths have been perpetuated" by large media groups, apparently based on erroneous social media reports. In fact, there was anger among certain of the volunteers interviewed, in this regard (especially about a Facebook message that stated the Lodge has burned to the ground). Admittedly, access to the Far South was severly limited on March 2nd, with huge grid locks on the Main Road Kalk Bay and all the other roads closed. However there is palpable concern in the crisis centre that panic was seeded by, among others, the following reports:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Lodge appealed for "urgent assistance". According to Lodge staff and PRO, Jenny, a call was put out this morning for water bombing assistance from fire helicopters. At that stage the fire was still 200 metres away and there were four fire tenders from CCT on patrol immediately above the Lodge on Chapman's peak.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The Crisis Control Centre "wishes that somebody would have spoken to them first" because the misinformation panicked a number of Beach Road residents, who came to the Centre in alarm. Volunteers were however excellent and a highly efficient operation was set up.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Noordhoek's Crisis Centre, located at the NGK Hall, opposite Noordhoek Farm Village. Coordinator, Athos, on the right.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Shortly after 8 a.m., helicopters were diverted back to Noordhoek Valley and resumed assistance in slowing the progress of the fire, which was burning slowly through (mainly indigenous) brush above Chapman's Peak.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <i>Volunteers fighting the fire above Noordhoek Manor, Monday 08h45 Monday 2 March</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> <i>One of three San Michele houses under threat - 05h00 Monday 2 March</i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> A pile of wood, ironically cleared from the waste of the Yr 2000 Fires, catches alight.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i> Emergency fire fighting tenders finally arrive from the Noordhoek Manor side 05h00.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Water bombing in the TM National Parks area near their regional office 08h00 Monday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fire from bottom Silvermine Road and Noordhoek Beach - Monday 2 March c 19h00</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A bloody sunset at the end of a bloody day.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>From Noordhoek Beach - the bloody sunset</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>11.30 pm Burning above TM National Park's local office near Silvermine / Ou Kaapse Weg intersection. Sorry no tripod!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><u><b>Today: Tuesday 3 March</b></u></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Fire largely under control although helicopters continued to water bomb - in some cases using sea water. "no homes burned (down) confirmed coordinator of crisis centre in the Valley.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>From Noordhoek Beach parking area - 08.30 a.m.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Main residence, Monkey Valley Resort - survived</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>The arrival of Working for Fire helicopters, bombing commences and a mixture of staff and volunteers celebrates - from the roof of the most vulnerable structure at Monkey Valley.</i></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Jenny, the Hotel PR is on the left.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, Cape Town and its citizens, especially those in Far South, owe a large debt of thanks to our hugely professional fire fighters, pilots, fire volunteers, citizen volunteers and responsible social media community who helped keep things together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>About Gareth Griffiths</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Gareth Griffiths is a senior member of the Southern Africa Freelancers' Association, a professional photographer living in Noordhoek and Editor of To Build magazine. www.tobuild.co.za</span><br />
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