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From Rhodes to Plettenberg Bay

This account picks up the story as we leave Rhodes in the Drakensberg Mountains of the Eastern Cape after our one night stay en route to Plettenberg Bay and Cape Town. We have friends (Chris and Julie Marias) living in … 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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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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Lions Pinch Camera Followup

The interest in our Lions Pinch Camera video has been amazing with just under 20 000 view in 2 days! It seems it is on the London Telegraph web site, New York’s ABC Breakfast Show and the Huffington Post. And … 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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Photographs of Everything

I heard a very interesting comment the other day: “Stock photography is not so much about having great pix but having photographs of everything!” And it’s so true. We get quite a few requests from photographers that are keen to join Africa Imagery’s team … Continue reading

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Everywhere is an Exotic Destination

I was chatting to some friends the other day who live on the West Coast of the USA. We, as always, got on to the subject of photography, travel plans and destinations. “Where are you off to I asked?” They … Continue reading

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Don’t Let Bad Weather Ruin your Photographs

Despite many attempts by the powers that be, it seems that we still have absolutely no control over the weather. So what is a boy supposed to do when the weather turns and you’ve planned (or commissioned) to do that awesome, great light shoot … Continue reading

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