Learn, Remember or Find Inspiration

Last Saturday 9 people joined Photo-Africa at the Centurion Country Club for the Digital Photography 101 workshop.

Starting from the very beginning and working through all the technical ‘stuff’, artistic elements of photography and even a bit of post processing the day was not only a lot of fun but a huge success.

The approach Kerry and I use at the workshops is to not only explain, in a fun and informative way, the various terms and photographic principles that can make digital photography quite daunting.

Guided by the manual and slideshow presentation, there are various exercises that help the participants to understand the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of photography but, more importantly, the ‘why’.

I strongly believe that if you know why you are doing something the ‘what’ and ‘how’ becomes a whole lot easier.

The Centurion country club was a fantastic venue and with the golf course and rolling landscapes the photographic opportunities was plentiful as we looked for all kinds of images as prescribed by the manual.  Landscapes, color, panning motion and macro.

Here are a few of the images, each a result of various exercises and mini assignments on the day.

Thanks to everybody who joined us on the workshop!  Keep on practicing and hope to see you on one of our follow up workshops!

If you want to learn, remember or find a bit of inspiration make sure to keep your eyes on the blog for future workshops dates.

Or… join David Devo Oosthuizen for his guest post tomorrow.  David is the Thursday guest blogger and he shares his thoughts, and images, in ‘Activism Through the Lens’.  Awesome images, inspiration and some food for thought.

As you are reading this I will be in the Pilanesberg Game Reserve declaring photographic war on some of the multitude of waterbirds in the reserve.  Armed with a Nikon 600mm f/4 and a 1.4x converter I have a few images in mind that I am hoping to get.

Just me, a super telephoto lens and a full day of photography.  Just doing it for myself!  Bliss…

Enjoy David’s post tomorrow and I’ll see you on Friday.

Bye 4 now!

Gerry