HDR photography

after editing in HDR

before editing in HDR

For this project we had to find any interesting landscape, natural or urban, that had an interesting mood or atmosphere. I went to the walkway along Seapoint beachfront, just as the sun was setting over the horizon.  Using a tripod, three photographs of the same scene were taken, with different shutter speeds, in order to capture different levels of exposure - over exposed, correctly exposed and under exposed.  The three shots were then merged together in Photoshop's HDR (high definition range) mode.

Long Street interiors shoot

Wow, what a crazy week it's been! 

I spent most of this week in and out of hotels and restaurants photographing their interiors, for a project for VISI Magazine (fictional of course!). 

come see these postcards

Soon it will be time to start working on our end of year exhibition/campus campaign. This is very exciting - even though it's going to be a huge amount of work - we have to photograph all the 3rd and 4th years, which is apparently about 500 students!! but I'm excited, this a big honour for me and Stu and will be a great portfolio piece too.

Above are some of the postcards that went with the poster series in our original proposal

Watch your head!

Some of the best seagull pictures I took last Sunday

harbour trip

Last Sunday I went for a drive around Chapman's Peak and Hout Bay and took some pictures along the way...

poster design

a quick poster design for a workshop happening next week

the original drawing - my dad holding his beautiful old camera

Ok, so these will most probably give me terrible hayfever, but i just had to put them in my room!

Here are some new photos (well, not that new!) but I needed to clean up my camera,

and I found these! This top one was taken at college, a few months ago when the trees still had leaves...

  

and these are some funny ones of pegs on our washing line... 

I just liked the colours and the way the light is filtered through this purple one

College Advertising

some drawings

These are from an observational drawing project that we did a few months ago, it took me hours to finish these, but i think they came out all right in the end! The brief was titled, 'Unpacking the Bag' and we basically just had to a series of tonal pencil drawings capturing a bag being slowly unpacked.

The last one here i took when i was about halfway done with the last drawing of the set - I always think it's nice to see how drawings (or any other artwork actually!) progress...
(Sorry about the bad image quality).

POPcorn

Something that I just finished, magazine cover layout using Adobe InDesign.

Learnt so much about leading, kerning, positioning and colouring in the past week, but looking at this picture now, I can still see a few changes that need to be made!

We shot these movie poster photos last term, and now we used them to do a layout of a fictitious film magazine.

Thanks to Niklas for being a great model.

Tissue box design

This is a project from earlier this year - we had to redesign a tissue box so that it was both visually exciting and had a second function once the tissues had been finished.

My design was for Kleenex's antibacterial tissues, and was inspired by vintage photographs of nurses in the 1940's and 50's. The outside of the box features the "Nurse Nancy" character with some helpful hints to fight colds and flu in the winter season.

Once the tissues have been used-up, you can cut out and make your very own Nurse Nancy doll!