HDR photography has been around for a while and continues to be a ‘love it’ or ‘hate it’ type of thing. I am not one of those people who avoid HDR like the plague and, at best, I have dabbled around with multiple exposure images. I do enjoy playing around with it and can most [...]
Guest Post: “Blending Landscape HDR Images” by Hougaard Malan
First and foremost, I want to clear a certain disillusion that has entered people’s minds about HDR. It is in no way some miraculous technique to make a mediocre photo an amazing one ,neither is it the gateway to becoming a great digital landscape photographer. Post processing will always play a minor role in creating [...]
A Lioness, Zebras and an African Sunset
Welcome to Monday! I was originally going to do a Daily Photo but decided to post a few images instead. Why? Well, we had quite a good weekend out in the field and I don’t really have enough time to write too much right now so posting images will have to do. Also working [...]
Guest Post: ‘Southern Africa in HDR’ by Morkel Erasmus
I must be honest, I was a bit taken aback when Gerry asked me to be write a “guest photographer” blog for Photo-Africa. After all, I am the one with the newish blog supposed to be asking guys like Gerry to post guest blogs on my page. Nevertheless, I am honoured to do just that. [...]
How To: Process a Sunrise
African sunrises are spectacular and sometimes seem to carry on forever. Photographing these amazing colors sometimes turns out to be quite a disappointing exercise as the images do not always show your viewer what you saw. Had an experience like this a few morning ago. Sat watching the sun rise behind a dead leadwood and [...]