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Wilson’s Wharf – Durban

We are down in Durban to attend the 2012 Indaba Tourism Expo and after a day of meetings, media registration and so on we found ourselves down at Wilson’s Wharf at the Durban Harbour. It’s one of our favourite spots … Continue reading

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I am – Over the Moon!

The moon is the closest it will get to the Earth this year at it’s perigee, sometimes called a Supermoon. It appears about 14 percent larger because of that and, at its peak, it’s about 357 000 Kilometres from Earth. So … Continue reading

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Lightroom 4 Tip

Have just now managed to get Adobe Lightroom 4 (LR4) downloaded, installed and my Lightroom 3 catalogue converted. A glitch! The new and updated adjustment sliders in the Development Module didn’t seem to match what I had been playing with … Continue reading

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Howick Photographic Workshop.

It started off as a rather small, informal little workshop for a previous participant (Tammy) on one of our previous workshops and also for the son of some friends who is heading back to university in the next day or … Continue reading

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Lightroom Shortcuts

I use Adobe Lightroom for the vast majority of my image editing and have found that these days I only really use Photoshop for stitching images into panoramas and for the more involved edits where I have to use layers … Continue reading

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Wildlife Panoramas

When one thinks of panoramas the mind automatically leaps to scenes of great vistas and awesome landscapes. (well mine does…) While working on our new book about lions I started playing about with shooting panoramas stitched from 2 or 3 images … Continue reading

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500px Plugin for Lightroom.

Wow, now this is a useful one: 500px (a wonderful site that allows you to post photographic portfolios and images and follow and interact with other photographers) has just launched a publish plugin for Adobe Lightroom. For those of us … Continue reading

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Snow, Snow and More Snow

When it snows it South Africa it us usually greeted as something of a special occasion. Everyone behaves like children and there is much building of snowmen and throwing of snow balls. this inevitably leads to cold fingers, feet and, actually, everything … Continue reading

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Does this Pic Work?

I was showing some of the images we are shooting for our new book on lions (www.africanlions.co.za) to some friends the other night and this one caused a bit of controversy. Some of the group loved it – others thought … Continue reading

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Don’t Pack Your Camera Gear Away!

We were doing a shoot at St Lucia, Part of the Isimangaliso Wetland Park, a World Heritage Site in KwaZulu Natal. One of the things we were covering was the Santa Lucia launch tour and we’d done the whole thing … Continue reading

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