Professional Photography in Cape Town

Beautiful early summer day at world famous Buitenverwachting Wine Estate. In the photo, Chief Chef Edgar and maître d' Diego check the quality of some of the estates famed red wine prior to serving lunch.

 As THE EDITOR OF  TO Build magazine , I  was one of an elite group of magazine editors and international journalists to be invited to cover the developers’ gala evening, the official press launch and the grand opening ceremony and ribbon cutting a week later.        With the opening of the Zeitz MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art Africa) 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 Museums (ICOM) and is used in internationally renowned galleries such as Pompidou Metz, Pulitzer and Paul Klee. After four years of repurposing and construction, the V&A Waterfront’s R500-million project to transform the historic grain silo into the world’s largest museum dedicated to...

Welcome to the Peninsula Girls Rowing Club Regatta fundraising shoot. Note the full photoshoot IS available. Please follow the link below to access it. This website contains a few of the images (there are lots more on the main gallery! . The link to the Picasa gallery site where the images are stored can be access by clicking here : { G O TO IMAGE GALLERY } Instructions on how to order can be read in the titles of the top line of photos. Please don't download without ordering and paying. The images are displayed at very low resolution and if you rather order and pay, we will send you high res with no watermarking - or even as prints, should you prefer. PGRC is doing this for fundraising purposes because they urgently need some essential equipment. Once you are happy with the photo, I will email it to you at high resolution, or if you would like to order prints (5" x 7") we can coordinate that for you. too! Conditions were tricky out there on the water, e...

As featured in the Peoples' Post - 27 March 2012 Hanging out of the side of a helicopter taking photos for a client, or trying to get a steady pic from the window of a car while game spotting, you need to operate your camera at higher shutter speed.  School in Cape Town taken from a helicopter at 900 feet  Most cameras have settings that allow control of exposure time or shutter speed. This is the length of time, in thousands of a second.e.g. a common speed of 125 means one 125 th of a second, or 1000 means one 1000 th of a second. Do not confuse this with sensor or ISO speed, the direct analogy of film speed. They are however complementary. Advanced cameras allow the exposure to be directly set, but even Others, including basic digicams have a ‘fast’ or sports setting to be used when you want to freeze the action. Check yours out, often denoted by a running man icon. Use the “sports” setting when you want to freeze the action or at any tim...

What a great month of February we have just had. Ideal weather. The photograph below was taken at about 2 000 feet from a very small helicopter, while on assignment for an industrial client. Here is Table Mountain, one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World, seen from above the tourist haven of Cape Town, South Africa.

Last time I mentioned some of the image editing software options available to you for free download or bundled with certain digital cameras you purchase. So you’ve all installed yours on the computer, right ? Editing technique number one to know is how to crop effectively. It is the ideal fix for photos that were badly composed (shot in a hurry!) or contained unwanted distracting objects. The cropping tool in the software is normally denoted by a boxy looking icon depicting scissors. An effective photograph is like a good essay that puts across one story, or an idea. Think abou t that when you crop. Dismiss the notion that your subject needs to be at the centre of the photograph. Think about what story you are trying to tell, or what looks interesting. Consider how you would like the eye of the viewer to travel. Experiment. Remember first to save your original image from the camera, and always work on copies only. The beauty of modern high resolution cameras is that y...

A selection of interesting accommodation establishments I have shot over the past few years. BOULDERS BEACH LODGE - ANNUAL SHOOTS! The brief: To do an "Atmospheric" shoot Rooms  Wish you were there ? Food ! BRYNBROOK, NOORDHOEK - Clive and Iris Gibson GLENCAIRN The brief was to show how relaxing and accommodating the Whale View was to visitors and in particular to whale watchers.   Finally, a bit of decorative detail ! Always important to help advertise your establishment to clients - show them what trouble to you to to make them feel comfortable !