Grant & Junay

The weather was horrible but the bride and groom were lovely. we managed to get the photos finished just before the crazy rain hit. the wind was extremely bad also, at one point we were wandering if we were going to get blown away to another location. All in all a lovely afternoon and a special couple.

music video stills.

Michele Krummeck is a local artist and is putting together an album and creating some music video's. I was invited to take the stills on set for the week of shooting 3 different videos. Was great fun and good to be on set again. these are a small portion of the images I took. If you want to see more you can visit my facebook spot... http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4075062&id=603950489#/album.php?aid=156546&id=603950489&ref=nf

little Emi and the 1.8 lens!

So, firstly, Emi is the lovely little daughter of good friends of ours. She is soooo chilled and very cute! We went to visit them the other morning and I took my camera and new little lens along to snap some pics. its a canon 50mm 1.8 lens, so considering the camera i was using was not a full frame camera, the lens equals about an 80mm lens. The 1.8 depth of field is fantastic and really fast and the sharpness is brilliant! Considering it only cost me R1100, its an absolute bargain lens!! I heard the pro's call it plastic fantastic!!

Anyway, below are a few pics I took. :)

Ilana & Abraham's wedding

Ilana & Abraham's wedding was one of the most memorable we have photographed, they are a stunning couple full of love and purity. Photographing them was an absolute pleasure, easy going, good looking, and they definitely didn't need to be asked to show affection!! there is a lavender field on the way to Franschoek where we photographed Ilana and her bridesmaids before the ceremony and then the bridal party after the ceremony!! Beware the beautiful allure of an expansive and lilac coloured lavender field, below the beauty lies an evil creature,...well, thorns, really irritating sore thorns that seemed to get in everywhere!!! Ilana and her bridesmaids took it in their stride and picked them all off every now and then and just enjoyed the moment!! what a pleasure!!! Anyway, below are a few images from the ones we took.

good old film!!

So digital has taken over and everyone has a digital camera and therefore everyone is a photographer. What happened to film? Of course, those knowledgeable will know film is definitely not dead but very much alive and lots of people still prefer using film because of the fantastic quality it has. So over the past year we have shot one or two rolls of film and hung on to the film canisters, undeveloped, waiting to one day take a trip to Orms in Cape Town and get them developed.

The images were shot on two different camera's. My wife uses her Holga with medium format film and I have been using a trusty old Canon SLR with a wonderful 50mm 1.8 lens. quite enjoyable having to wind the film on after every shot and not looking at the back of the camera to see how the shot has come out, really something special about that!! Film is great to work with but doesn't offer the quick instant ability of digital.

Anyway, these are a few of the images that we took, we got them scanned and then did a little post production on them in photoshop, not much tho, just a few levels etc.


In a park in New Zealand. Holga, meduium format film.

Lilly-ann in the park

me, taken by Jenna-lea, on strand beach, B/W film.

Jenna-lea, colour slide fim, 1.8 50mm lens

Graham Sayer, colour slide film, 50mm 1.8 lens. the depth
of field you get out of this lens is great!!

Jenna-lea in Satori Pizzeria in Kalk Bay, great place, great
pizza, the light wasnt great inside but the 1.8 lens enabled
this movie set like lighting.

once again, that depth of field I get from this 1.8 lens is
awesome, loving it.

We will definitely be taking more film photo's, so will post
them up the next time we get them developed!!

ciao