Archive for Hotshots
Featured Photographer: Bernard Pieterse
Bernard Pieterse and his friend Herly Greeff did a photography course with me just about a year back. He was barely 15 years old at the time. Over the past year we got used to amazing images by this talented young photographer. Bernard recently won the Visual School’s award for “Upcoming Photographer of the Year”. [...]
Read moreShot of the Year 2011
We got to Photo Critic’s first Shot of the Year Competition. The winning shot went to Pietman Muller with his image “Klikbek”. This was really an outstanding shot; a once in a lifetime moment captured by him. Elsje Wiid, one of the five judges, wrote, “Incomparable moment! There is a great amount of different [...]
Read moreShot of the Month: September 2011
September month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Gustav Brandt for his image “Remembered”. You have to read his comments below, to understand what exactly happened when he got this shot. Since Gustav won the shot-of-the-month competition he was appointed as an admin for Photo Critic. Unfortunately, he wouldn’t qualify for any other awards. [...]
Read moreShooting Location Portraits with Flash
I often hear photographers’ saying that they do not like using superficial light (aka flash) at all; that they prefer using natural light only. I too prefer using natural light, but maybe, I don’t like the hassle of carrying too many lights around and / or having to fiddle with light ratios, light shapers, angling [...]
Read moreShot of the Month: July 2011
July month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Leon Pelser for his image “Dancing Ladybird”. Leon is a master photographer when it comes to macro and close-up photography and has won many photo competitions and his work published in several magazines. This image wins him a free one (1) day workshop. View Leon image on [...]
Read more10 macro and close-up images by Leon Pelser
Today, we are featuring ten close-up and macro images of one of our top Photo Critic members, Leon Pelser. Leon exceles in this type of photography, but is also quite versatile in other forms of photography. You can check out his Bio on the bottom of the page. In the meantime; here’s some eye candy [...]
Read moreShot of the Month: June 2011
June month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Ewald Sadie for his image “Fairytale Descend”. This image wins him a free one (1) day workshop. View Ewald’s image on Photo Critic by clicking HERE… Photographers Comments… I take a lot of downhill mtb photos and I’m pretty comfortable with my setup and I’ve got [...]
Read moreShot of the Month: May 2011
May month’s Photo Critic photography competition goes to Pietman Muller for his image “Klikbek”. This image wins him a free one (1) day workshop. View Pietman’s image on Photo Critic by clicking HERE… Photographer’s Comments… The Shingwedzi area in the Kruger National Park is home to lots of Squirrels that like the many hollows [...]
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