HPS/Hermanus Joint Evaluation Meeting Wed. 11th Feb.’09 7.30pm

Our joint Evaluation Meeting promises to be a ‘not-to-be-missed’ event, and I hope that many of our members will take part.  Provisos and logistics are a little different from what we normally do, so please read the instructions carefully, and do not enter your images later than noon Friday 6th February!!!!  All the digital images [...]

WnSoft PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.6

Wings Platinum is the de-facto standard software for preparing AVs in our club but others use PicturesToExe and seeing this announcement prompted me to publish this, thinking that some of you might like to give the trial version a whirl and see how it compares to Wings. WnSoft PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.6 – Digital SLR Blog [...]

The Biggest Secret of Photography

The Biggest Secret of Photography You’ll hear this over and over from the photographers that I interview: Take your dang camera with you everywhere!

DIY Photoshop Brushes

DIY Photoshop Brushes One of the most popular searches involving Photoshop on the web is, perhaps not unsurprisingly, for free Photoshop brushes. Photoshop brushes can be used for a range of editing and creative tasks and while it’s fun to find and download great looking brushes it’s also possible to create them yourself and to [...]

50 amazing Flickr streams

50 amazing Flickr streams by Photocritic Beyond the stuff I’ve been posting in my twitter stream, I haven’t really had much time to post proper blog posts here on this blog recently – and my apologies about that. What I have been doing, however, is browsing Flickr to get some amazing inspiration, ideas, and tips [...]

Report: AV Evening Wed. 28th Jan.’09

A small group of members – including Harry and Susan who are once again out from France – attended the meeting.  Contributors were Neels Beyers who presented two AVs – one on windsurfers, and the other on kitesurfers … he is a master at nailing the action shots.  Elsa sent her AV on the Richtersveld [...]

Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009

Welcome to Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009. I’m delighted you are considering taking part this year and hope you do. For Mark Carwardine’s complete introduction to the competition and suggestions and insider tips to help you to win, see the February issue of BBC Wildlife (on sale 22 January – 19 February). [...]

Audio Visual Evening Wed. 28th Jan ’09 7.30pm

All members are welcome at our AV-evening (AV-workers, or not) – why not join us at this casual and friendly get-together?

PhotographyBB Magazine – Issue 12 is Here!

PhotographyBB Magazine – Issue 12 is Here! VANCOUVER, CANADA – PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the twelfth edition of the PhotographyBB Magazine Online. The PhotographyBB Magazine Online is quickly becoming a leading resource in the future of free information distribution, offering our readers: Digital Photography tips and techniques, DSLR camera function training, and image [...]

Lodge & Hotel Photography Workshop

We have received notification of a workshop that might interest some members. David Rogers will be hosting the 2009 Hotel and Lodge Photography Academy at Steenberg Estate in Tokai, Cape Town from 20 to 24 April 2009. The five-day certificate program will be aimed at photographers wishing to gain experience, improve their skills and further [...]