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Bernard Pieterse wins the Environment Category in the Youth Competition of the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards
Congratulations to 16 year old Bernard Pieterse who came on tops in the environment category in the youth competition of the Sony World Photography Awards! His image of Deadvlei, Sossusvlei won him the first place in this category! Bernard did a basic photography course with DPC in 2010 and from there on it seems no [...]
Read moreFeatured 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 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 moreStudio Lighting Workshops
Last week we had our second studio lighting workshop for this year; and boy did we have fun? The “crowd” of five attendees was very lively and through all the jokes and mess about, I was bombarded with questions. I started out by explaining what a typical studio should look like and then shared [...]
Read moreFeaturing Tom Wells
Danie’s Randburg course ended a few weeks ago, and he kindly asked me to write a few words on the experience and show off a couple of my favourite pictures taken on each of the outings. The first photoshoot felt like being dropped into the deep-end initially. Most of us were still getting the hang of our cameras, and switching from “auto” to “aperture priority” mode seemed like a pretty scary prospect. But after a brief pep-talk we quickly settled in to a comfortable rhythm and it was great fun to direct a real photoshoot! The early morning light was really good and produced some very nice soft portraits, but soon the sun became quite harsh which had most of us battling against the highlights. However, our models were absolutely brilliant and in the end it was difficult to get a bad picture.
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