Photos taken in Sydney CBD and Surry Hills

The best time to photograph a landscape is during the golden hour. This rule still applies even when using a telephoto lens. The golden hour is the time of day shortly after sunrise or before sunset. The light is usually softer and a slightly golden colour. It can make your photos look magical.

If is far more important to get close to your subject rather than using a big long lens like the 800mm or an extender. Know your gear and shoot RAW. That is the best advice I can give. Stunning photos take time, patients and effort. Don’t expect to get a spectacular shot the first time.

Fog is beautiful, potentially dangerous and eery. It changes the mood of a setting completely. Fog usually appears in the mid to late evening and often lasts until the next morning. Foggy days can ruin a photo or it can create a stunning scene. Rather than be put off by fog and not take photos, foll

I regularly take photos in a vineyard close to where I stay in Stellenbosch. Every time I try to take ...

I regularly take photos in a vineyard close to where I stay in Stellenbosch. Every time I try to take photos that look different from my previous photos. These photos were all taken while walking around in the vineyard. I did not use a tripod. I just took the photos handheld. All the photos were tak

I will discuss some gear needed for macro work, the background and how it affects the photo, point of view, lighting and the minimal depth of field associated with macro. The most unique problem of macro photography is the extremely shallow depth of field. In macro photography the background usual

How to Merge Easily Photos in Photoshop I used photoshop to merge the photos together and then did a little bit of retouching and cropping to produce this wonderful image. To just merge the images together was easily done with Photoshop in just a few step. Step 1: Open the images in phot

A light tent is used in product photography to get a uniform background and a shadowless subject. Many sellers of products use a light tent to take a catalog photo. With a light tent you can get consistent shots. With a light tent you can easily get a completely white background. A light t

These pictures where taken from a distance in March 2015 when there was a big fire on Stellenbosch mountain. I mostly used my Canon 100-400mm telephoto lens and in some of the photos used a Canon 24-105mm.

A waterfall can make some of the most impressive photos if using a long exposure. Waterfalls are a very popular subject for landscape photographers. The milky water effect in all great waterfall photos is not difficult to acheive.

These pictures where taken from a distance in March 2015 when there was a big fire on Stellenbosch mountain. I mostly used my Canon 100-400mm telephoto lens and in some of the photos used a Canon 24-105mm.

All these cat photo’s were taken using the same lighting setup. Only one softbox with external speedlite was used. I moved the softbox closer and used a higher flash output to get a black background for the first photo. For the other photo’s I put the softbox further away.

This timelapse of Stellenbosch Mountain consists of about 530 shots playing back at 24 frames per second (fps) giving a 22 second video. I used Timelapse Assembler to merge together the timelapse sequence.

According to Wikipedia stock photography is “the supply of photographs, which are often licensed for specific uses.”