The one thing we have been doing during the quite period over Christmas and New Year is installing and learning to refine our prompts to generate illustrations and stock-photo-like images using the open source AI image generator, Stable Diffusion. Bit scary to install, huge amounts of VRAM and space gobbled…

Towards the end of last year fellow FHPS member Keith Lyle and myself got the opportunity to be stand-in photographers at some of the weekly paddle competitions on Fish Hoek beach. This is expected to continue till the end of summer. It’s a fascinating opportunity, because it sometimes happens in…

Over the last few months we have been doing some fascinating corporate shoots for Viadex and ENSafrica – we hope to be able to share the photos once they are approved and in use. Green-screen The ENSafrica shoots have been interesting not only because it has involved three trips to…

I am periodically asked to do a gratis shoot for a production at The Masque theatre, in Muizenberg. In this case I was asked by director Lynn Moss to shoot the cast of Billy Liar, a play based on a book I read well over twenty years ago. The shoot…

What a fascinating shoot – the aim here was to show a well-maintained, clean and secure space without inctruding on any customers that may be there, as their privacy is part of the message. The result included some pretty formal shots with a de Chirico-esque barrenness – you almost expect…

We had only quoted for a single shoot at a specific time, but I was not happy with the time of day and lack of clouds, so returned for a follow-up shoot. Click on thumbnails below to view slideshow.