A few tips for your wedding day

Here's a quicky to remember on your wedding day. 1. Heads up In our culture women tend to bow their heads a lot as to appear respectful, some are just shy. And unfortunately this also happens almost throughout the wedding day causing your photographer to always shoot from the ground or have a lot of prayer shots. some submerge a bit now and again and let your guests see you. 2. Camera, camera on thy hand. Who's the fairest of the all. Plain truth. A reflection never lies. It shows you things as they are. Beauty pageant smiles, grumpy bride, etc. We've seen them ...

How to find the right photographer for you

So you’re getting married. Congrats. I want to help you out with a few tips on the photography side on how to find the person you should trust to capture your once in a lifetime event . Things you should look for in a photographer, I guess some of these you can apply to some of the other service providers. Now I’m not going to go into details of why photography is important , that is bread for another day, I’m just going to cover the basics. 1. Referrals. Before going out into the wild wild world to look for a photographer, ...

Your guests are ruining my/your shots

So which one of your friends or guests is shining on your shine? Since becoming a wedding photographer I've had the opportunity to attend my first wedding as a guest. My little big ego wasn't sure which choice of camera to bring. Little point and shoot for happy snappies. D90 with a long lens to try out some SLR video or my main body to steal some good shots. Afterall it is a family wedding and I'm family, right? Wrong. I remembered a certain wedding i shot and there was something about little point and shooters of that wedding I really hated. ...

Educating the Client

As photographers we all assume they are getting married for the first time. While they may have attended a wedding or two, they do not really know what it feels like in the firing lines of organising one. With all the panic and madness that will go on in the final stages of the preparations, it is important that you sit down with the couple and discuss a few issues that will help you as a photographer to get better shots and things that they need to help you with to document those moments. This must happen atleast 2 week ...

Good Client Service

Listening to some of my favourite photographers, Dane Sanders, Gavin Seim amongst many always on saying  there is no substitute to good clientele service has paid up greatly. Under promise, then over deliver. I got the ultimate compliment I was hoping I would get sometime before my career is over. Yet raw me at the entry point of my career, I made someone cry over what someone would regard as just a bunch of photos. Mosadi and Lesiba, also were bowled over by our professionalism, we've had a ton on compliments on our work and they have yet to see a ...

Where are the young photographers from our townships?

I shot a couple

So I got my new body two days ago, and obviously was a bit excited as i had senior portraits set with this couple. I had rented this camera body before so I had a very good idea that this was going to go well. Now i must say I was impressed with the results that i got straight out of the camera, but more taken by how so much in love this couple is. I didn’t have to direct much and wherever you put them, they just pull an “aaaahhh” out of you. And offcourse I was lucky to ...