On New Years’ Eve, I flew down to Cape Town. Luckily I managed to get a window seat, so I spent part of the flight taking photos of the scenery out the window.
And when the clouds cleared, fields and roads on the earth below made for gorgeous abstracts.
Over the Christmas holidays, my family (my parents, 2 guinea pigs, and 3 beagles) and I stayed for a few nights at Saamrus Guest Farm in Magaliesburg.
Even the guinea pigs enjoyed the fresh country air! I shot these while the dogs were out for a walk – the guinea pigs sat on the table, and I fired my flash through an umbrella from camera-left.
Don’t miss my previous posts from the trip:
Over the Christmas holidays, my family (my parents, 2 guinea pigs, and 3 beagles) and I stayed for a few nights at Saamrus Guest Farm in Magaliesburg.
I took these sunset / blue hour shots from the balcony of our cottage. We had a stunning view over the sun catching the clouds at sunset every evening.
If you missed my first post from our trip, you can see it here.
Over the Christmas holidays, my family (my parents, 2 guinea pigs, and 3 beagles) and I stayed for a few nights at Saamrus Guest Farm in Magaliesburg.
The guest farm is surrounded by stunning English-like countryside; perfect for long walks and, of course, panoramic landscape images.
Stay tuned for more images from our trip!
A few weeks ago I met up with a group of photo-walkers to capture the sun rising over the railway lines. The sky was stunning – an soufflé of purple clouds curved over the Sandton skyline, and an ever-expanding sea of pink and orange rose from the east.
After-Before Friday is an event which allows photographers to share their processed images, and, if they choose, their post-processing steps. On the first Friday of the month, all participants have the opportunity to edit the same photo in the “One Photo Focus” challenge.
It’s been a while since I’ve taken part, but I hope to be more consistent this year.
1/ First off, I cropped the image and filled in extra sky with Edit > Fill > Content Aware. Then I added a Camera Raw Filter to darken the exposure and remove the highlight spot in the sky, which was produced by the sun.
2/ Something was still missing, so I added a moon.
3/ To create the illusion that the moon was behind the sails, I duplicated the lower layer, changed the blend mode of the duplicate to Darken, and added a layer mask.
4/ I merged all of my layers and applied a Camera Raw Filter to increase contrast and clarity, convert to black and white, and add a blue tint.
5/ Finally I tweaked a couple of things in Lightroom and added a vignette.
Once again, the before vs the after:
I hope you enjoyed my edit! I’d love to hear your thoughts and suggestions on the end result. Images from other contributors can be seen here.
My family and I recently went to the Ichingo Chobe River Lodge for a week; we stayed on the Namibian border and went on a cruise up the river every morning and evening.
I have so many decent photos from the trip that I decided to split the posts into categories (in conjunction with my blogging revolution to write shorter posts). These are my sunset images.
Though I think sunsets can easily be cliché, I also can’t resist them.
The previous image is technically a sunrise, but I didn’t think it deserved its own post. I used a slow shutter speed, with my camera on a mini tripod and my 70-200mm f2.8 lens.
My family and I recently went to the Ichingo Chobe River Lodge for a week; we stayed on the Namibian border and went on a cruise up the river every morning and evening.
I have so many decent photos from the trip that I decided to split the posts into categories (in conjunction with my blogging revolution to write shorter posts). Before we left I read an article on 500px ISO about How To Turn Your Panorama Photos Into 360-Degree Little Planet Images; these images are the before and afters of two of my panoramas which successfully underwent the process. Out of the four or five panoramas which I tried, these were the only two which were able to blend seamlessly.
My family and I recently went to the Ichingo Chobe River Lodge for a week; we stayed on the Namibian border and went on a cruise up the river every morning and evening.
I have so many decent photos from the trip that I decided to split the posts into categories (in conjunction with my blogging revolution to write shorter posts). This post features images from the plane ride from OR Tambo to the tiny Kusane airport on the Botswana border.
The photos required slightly more enhancing than usual thanks to the very thick glass, but I was quite impressed with the quality nonetheless.
Through the Viewfinder 