boudoir Photography

Monique

Desna

Monique

Desna

Goodhope FM Lifestyle experience

Swimsuit selection

Dani

Krystal

Cee

Kirby

Desna

Aubany

My gear

As  indicated I started out with a Nikon point and shoot which was replaced with a fujifilm s5800.

 Currently I am shooting with a canon 20D

In support of this I use the following

50cm 5 in 1 reflector
120x108 5-1 reflector
Blazzeo radio trigger receiver
Cactus V4 radio trigger receiver
10x20 softbox
40x40 cm pro softbox with flashbracket
60x60 cm softbox with flashbracket
Manfrotto tripod
Hummel tripod
Sigma electronic flash EF-530 DG SUPER
Canon 28-105mm 1:3.5-4.5 USM
canon 50mm  1:1.4
58mm uv lens protector
58mm polarize lens protector
sandisk 1 gig CF card
Sandisk 4 gig CF card
Transcend 2 gig CF card
Fujifilm 4 gig CF card

If at first you do not suceed

  
One of my favorite R&B female artists has always been Aaliyah, besides being brilliant at her work as an artist she was easy on the eye, no doubt. However for the context of today entry Aaliyah sang a song, "if at first you do not succeed, dust yourself off and try again"

That said, if I have not mentioned it before then let me use this opportunity now. Every camera owner from you point and shoot dude to your professional tog has a field be it for work or for personal joy, a genre that (s)he would want to specialize in.

I want to be that tog that wakes up in the morning goes into the office only to discover that I will be flying out to some exotic island with palm trees, fishing boats, little villages, waterfalls and three star hotels on the beach front to do a swimsuit shoot.

Needless to say until that happens *fingers crossed* Cape Town and off days will have to do.

Sorry i was drifting, a dirty habit or maybe not.

Cape Town has good weather but it is also a major tourist attraction add to that its residents that has a large population of sun worshipers swimsuit shoots are not the easy to pull off add to this equation the day job, models not pitching and bad weather.

So with that as the foundation to my long winded story I had the honor of working with Aubz who had this cool polka heart bikini that I found totally stunning however on our first outing when we looked at the work done I discovered that the frill of the bottom was flipped up causing an eye sore.

Aubz and I were left with one of two choice scrap the work or redo it. Personally if it is possible to redo it then by all means do so, if not note your short coming and make every effort not to repeat the mistake

About the photographer

It is funny how we land up doing things. I would have to lie to you if I had to pin point the exact time and date I took to photography. If I think back I always had a camera close by be it at school functions, holidays and birthdays. If I think about it my first paid job as a “photographer” was taking passport photos of school members of  the history society who needed passports to cross through the Transkei and later those who were interested in identification documents and learners licence. 

There is that other factor that my father was a keen photographer as well, hence the easy access to equipment, maybe which was the stimulus that steered me to my love of photography who knows.

What I can say that the last wave of inspiration can came was a trip to a game farm in Kragga Kamma where both my wife and I had point and shoot digital cameras fitted with a 3 times zoom lens, sadly the awe of seeing a rhino and not having the ability to take a decent photo due to the limitations of the camera brought about the purchase of my first rig the Fujifilm S5800, in June 2008 at the opening of incredible connection for the discounted price of R1500.00.

And so started the quest for that ultimate photo a quest similar to that of my father that produced his masterpiece that hangs in his lounge today.

I have no formal education in photography however I have attended the courses both basic and extended as offered by Pine Pienaar as can be viewed at www.learnphotography.co.za

My personal library consists of  a book, digital photography for dummies, that my sister Thalia bought me as a birthday present, that brought about many “ah ha” moments, also in my collection is the recently acquired “The digital photography  step by step secrets for how to make your photos look like the pros Volumes 1-3 by Scott Kelby alongside various photographic magazines.

As one tog (photographer) said it is always best to not specialize as you might find one aspect of a genre been used to compliment the other and as much as I find this true I still find swimsuit photography my favorite, maybe been part of a lifesaving club has something to do with the draw to the beachfront.