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In the 2 main arenas expect to be wowed by the biggest line-up of speakers yet, from international guest speakers such as the world renowned Rufus Deuchler flying in from Italy to top local photographers like Roger De La Harpe, Kevin Shoulder, Dror Eyal, Lou Coetzer, David Larsen, Brett Florens, David Rogers, Deryck Van Steenderen, David Oosthuizen, Ian Mitchinson, Darryl Van Niekerk, Sean Nel, Mia Ziervogel, Mike Tippett, Anton Van Niekerk and many more…

See full schedule once completed at www.photofilmexpo.com

UPDATE: looks like we’re on the main stage on Sunday afternoon – http://www.photofilmexpo.com/WORKSHOP_MAINSTAGE.pdf

I’m going to be giving a talk at the Photo & Film Expo (with Ian), it will be about inspiration, getting better at photography and developing your brand – come say hi.

On another note, if you want me to come speak at your club, to your group, class etc, drop me an email.

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I was invited last week to talk to the third year photography students at the Tshwane University of Technology, it’s been a long time since I’ve been on a campus. Glad to report that they still look the same (campuses, not students, although the students looked the same as well), and have the same feel about them. So we grabbed some coffee and I started talking. It was actually a very cool experience, the students were on the ball technically and it was nice to be able to talk about the zone system and reciprocity and all that and have people following.

The photography program there also looks very organized and covers some serious ground, a lot of stuff there happening with 4×5 view cameras and digital medium format. Definitely recommended if you want to get a good solid grounding in commercial photography (and they bring in cool guest speakers).

It seems a lot of people are talking on their blogs about shooting with film, going on about the tones and colors and all that. I really don’t get it. My take on it, if you have to tell people that you shot an image on film for them to know that it was shot on film … {fill in your own ending} …

It was kind of sad saying goodbye to the RE.INVENT series of workshops, I really enjoyed doing them and meeting so many new photographers, but it’s time to move on. So a couple of months ago the last group of photographers attended a sold-out RE.INVENT III. Serious business talk coupled with some creative out-of-the-box thinking. We were at Moon and Sixpence, it was looking like rain, big rain, Africa big, was coming, we were pointing out the edges of the wedding photography box and showing people where we cross it and how to look at a venue like the Moon and Sixpence with fresh eyes.

We also hatched some marketing plans, dissected a few pricelists, cast an SEO eye on some websites, our favorite wedding coordinator was on hand to give some tips on how to work with the venue on a marketing level, and V, Andrea and I shared advice and tricks on how to create a brand.

More info on future workshops and mentoring.

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We shot our last wedding of the season yesterday, and now it’s time to catch-up. First up is the Next Level Workshop. Amazing to meet so many new people I’ve only ever seen as avatars or facebook profile images, really great to see so many familiar faces supporting us again, even more cool was to meet so many wedding photographers wanting to push through to something new, and the standard of the work produced at the workshop was pretty insane. Photographers came from all over South Africa to Studio C in Cape Town … Joburg was well represented, Pretoria, Durban and some places I’ve never heard of, apparently on the west coast. I also got to see Ian at work, rocking photoshop the way only he can, and revealing some pretty twisted techniques. I did feel a little less out there on my own after watching him work. We did trash the studio a little, very rock ‘n roll … but they repainted it by the time my plane left Cape Town.

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. Much appreciated. That phone kept vibrating throughout the service!

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It’s been almost a year since the last RE.INVENT workshop. This one is going to book out fast. If you’ve been to the previous RE.INVENTs or are thinking of coming to this one, or just like the idea that Andrea and I are holding workshops, we’d appreciate a click on the like button

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