Whats New this year.

        About My Photography

                      Purple Raindrops                   

                  Date : 19 June 2013

                     Time : 12h15

Location : Natasha (my) home

Camera Model : Nikon D3200

         F-Stop  : f/5.6

         Shutter speed : 1/100 sec

         ISO : 400

         Focal length : 200mm

         Metering Mode: Center weighted average 

         No flash

         

Well where to begin... I am busy taking a gap year and unfortunately am unable to travel, so the year has been rather boring over the past months. However on the bright side I have really been able to get in touch with Photography. 

Gum Boot Dancers
Date : 18 February 2013
Time : 16h34
Location : Sandton Convention centre
Camera Model : Olympus E-500
F-Stop : f/5.6
Shutter Speed : 1/60 sec
ISO : 1000
Focal length : 36mm
Metering Mode : Pattern
No Flash 

Due to my boredom family friends, the Hellbergs, gave me a job for two weeks during February. The Hellbergs have their own business, Flying Pigs Branded Theater (http://www.flyingpigs.co.za/), which my sisters and I have done Kids Workshops, face painting, etc. However this job was much bigger, they were putting together a performance for South African Tourism, and I was playing the part as Assistant Stage Manager and photographer. It was an absolutely great experience and gave me so many different photographs, I worked with different lights, from hall lights to stage lights of many different colours, I worked with action, stills, close up's, long shots and many more, it was wonderful and helped me to play around with my dads camera Olympus E-500, as I hadn't got my camera yet. At the same time I was working and getting creative with my photography, I was learning a whole lot more about camera's and photography from the photo course I was attending.

Peace Rainbow
Date : 17 February 2013
Time : 07h19
Location : Natasha (my) home
Camera Model : Olympus E-500
F-Stop : f/5.6
Shutter speed : 1/60 sec
ISO : 100
Focal length : 43mm
Metering Mode : Center weighted average
No flash
Photo Course One

I was attending the Funki Fotos course, run by Andre Raubenheimer and his wife (http://www.funkifotos.co.za/ ). There are two courses, one is over three weeks, once a week, in this one we learnt the basic's of the camera, photographs and light. The second course is over a weekend, and we went more in-depth into lighting. It was an amazing course which helped me a hell of a lot to make the picture my own. As Andre said, you should not have to explain a photograph, it should tell its own story.

Vroom Vroom
Date : 16 March 2013
Time: 13h58
Location : Randburg indoor go-karting
Camera Model : Olympus E-500
F-Stop : 5.6
Shutter Speed : 1/125 sec
ISO : 400
Focal Length : 55mm
Metering Mode : Pattern
External Flash
Photo Course Two

Waterfall Clouds
Date : 18 March 2013
Time : 11h36
Location : A Randburg Park
Camera Model : Olympus E-500
F-Stop : f/18
Shutter speed : 1/10 sec
ISO : 100
Focal Length : 55mm
Metering Mode : Pattern
No flash
Photo Course Two 

I have always had a great interest in Photography, I mean just the idea alone that you can capture what you see is amazing, but actually doing it that takes some skill and knowledge. I had been taking photographs since before 2013, but always on Automatic, thinking I did a great job, but actually the creator of the camera did a great job. Back then my photographs were some other inventors and not mine, but now after learning so much about camera's, photography and light, and as well as being creative and gaining experience, I can say that the photographs I take, the memories I capture, the moments I steal, are mine. They belong to me.