Over the weekend I was the victim of a very unfortunate event! My Canon 5D decided to stop working, just as I started with the bridal portraits! I just froze…looked at the bride, made no scene (as I could see she was already a bit stressed) and asked her to wait as I just quickly “get another [...]
I just received my new hand made leather albums that were custom made for me. For the past year I’ve really been struggling to get any simple and good quality albums here in South Africa. I believe there is not just a lack in the quality albums we get here, but also a lack in [...]
As photographers we are surpose to be in control of our time, because you are your own boss…but as time goes by you get tanged up into so much work it begins to rule your life for you. I’ve recently learned that there is so much more to life than just work.
This week I was overwhelmed by how many people are actually viewing my website on a regular basis. And I’m so excited about it. But then it made me wonder how many of you know that you can automatically receive my updates via RSS instead of coming back every now and then just to see [...]
Today I received something so exciting! No it’s not a new camera, lens or any other piece of equipment…it’s plain and simple, words on paper and but i believe it will change any photographer’s life!
It’s Dane Sander’s book: Fast Track Photographer. I stumbled on the fast track photographer website a few weeks ago and I saw that Dane wrote this new book…I was immediately interested, because I knew who he was and I’m always so bummed that I can’t attend any of his (or all the other great USA guys’ like JD, Jessica Claire, Jasmine Star) workshops or courses, becasue I’m all the way here in Africa..but now there was a book! YEH!
So I ordered it and hoped that it would arrive asap..
The web is so cool! I’m crazy about it! I love it and I can’t go without it! I redesigned my website some time ago. It was launched in the 1st week of May this year and every now and then I check my google analytics to see who actually visits my website and where [...]
I love surfing the web and looking at other photographer’s blogs. It’s great just to refresh your mind and get some new ideas and inspiration. I’ve been looking at Jasmine Star’s work for a few months and I love her work! It is so clean and crisp, and similar to the stuff I like. I [...]
I’ve been working on Adobe Lightroom for the last 4 months and I absolutely love it! I love the fact that I can flip through all my RAW images really quickly..select the ones I want to work on and with no delay it opens up for editing…it just works!
Lightroom has all the main features for photographers such as colour correction, brightness, aperture settings, levels etc etc. But something that it missed till now was a tool similar to the dodge and burn tool in Photoshop. But now with Lightroom 2 they added such a feature. I tested it out today and it work wonders!
Tomorrow will be my last wedding for this season..I have to say I’ve been quite busy lately (trying to get the coffee table book going in South Africa and starting a second business) and therefore I’ve become quite tired. But tonight I was watching a video on You Tube where David Jay (one of my photo and business heros!) was talking about keeping your passion going. He was talking about how we get tired sometimes and loose passion..
