Rotary Event
Last weekend, our rotary club inducted the new president. Even though, I was not the official photographer for the event, I had of course my camera with me and decided to try a different approach to event photography. I made a few decisions. 1) No flash 2) Be confident to use ISO 3200 and focus [...]
An important tool to improve your pictures
How important is your photo equipment to produce better pictures? My answer is that a good photographer can produce good pictures with any camera. The photograph is not made by the camera, but by your view of the world. The camera is only the last part of that expression of creativity. You might have seen [...]
Cape Town Photography Meetup Announcement
We meet on Saturday for our meetup on will photography action and sports. We will be meeting in front of the Lifesavers Club at Eden on the Bay and aim to photography kite surfers. This is heavily weather dependent and we might have to change on very short notice. Please check your emails on the [...]
Cape Town at full moon
Cape Town at full moon. Please click image for larger view. The image print is available for sale. Please email jurgen@jurgen-photo.com for more information.
Looking
I have been fascinated by a particular view for the last week. One of Cape Town’s highways has a beautiful view over the harbor. Whenever I returned from town this week, I stopped to take pictures from a particular point. Today, I experimented a with HDR photography. HDR stands for high dynamic range, which means [...]
My first digital camera was a Panasonic DMC LC-1
My first digital camera was a Panasonic DMC LC-1, the twin to the Leica Digilux 2. When I bought, I loved the simplicity and classic setup of the camera. Aperture is changed on the lens and shutter speed on camera top with a mechanical dial. Interesting features of the camera are the slightly bigger sensor [...]
Engagement Session with Kathy and Pomy
As you might know, I went for a destination wedding assignment to Vancouver, Canada. Kathy and Pomy gave me lots of opportunity to photograph them before the wedding. There were a few gatherings with family and friends, which gave me some great opportunities for informal shots. We also scheduled an engagement session. You might wonder [...]
New Personal Work
End of April, beginning of May, I visited Los Angeles and Vancouver. I was photographing a wedding in Vancouver and spent some days before the wedding in LA. At the local BNI chapter in West Hollywood, I met the architect Todd Conversano, who I quizzed about interesting architecture in Los Angeles. Todd told me of [...]
Architecture in Los Angeles
Click the image to view the slideshow I am traveling and spent most of last week in Los Angeles. Good architecture has always been one of the things I truly enjoy. Standing in front of or being in a well designed building is one of the beauties of life. Luckily, I met an architect during [...]
Cape Town Stadium
As part of a project, I am working on, I was able to enjoy a site tour of the Cape Town Stadium today. Please click the above thumbnail to view the two panorama shots, I compiled today.
Carry Your Sun With You
There are moments, where you find yourself in the right place at the right time with the right light as with the image above. This shot is part of an corporate assignment for a dried fruit farm and producer. When I took this photograph, I was actually looking for a large group of guinea fowls [...]
Running
Every year on the Saturday before Easter, we have the Two Oceans Marathon happening in Cape Town. The name is misleading, as it is actually an ultra marathon with a distance of 56km. I ran the ultra a couple of years ago and aim to run it again next year. Part of the preparation is [...]
Food Photography – Working Girl’s Pasta
During my visit to Germany, my parents gave us as a present a new cooking knife. I love cooking, almost as much as photographing. In both, you can create with some simple ingredients something really nice or … not. Over the years, I became a great fan of Jamie Oliver’s cooking. Hardly any of his [...]
Travelling
I am currently sitting at Amsterdam airport and wait for my connecting flight back to Cape Town. It’s been the first time in a long time that I travelled back to Europe and my hometown, Aachen in Germany. It was a short trip for a special occasion, my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. There have been [...]
Actress Headshots
Last week I head the pleasure of photographing the young actress Ntsebo Lerotholi. Here are some of the results from the session. Ntsebo’s Headshots – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann Looking for a headshot or portrait photographer? Please contact me.
3 Things to Consider for Your Profile Picture
I am a firm believer in social networking and general business networking. Just a few days ago, I was able to connect with old school friends, I haven’t seen in twenty years via Facebook. Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook connect me with people, I would not have met any other way. It is simply amazing! There [...]
Picture Of The Day – 11 February 2010
I wanted to do this shot for a while. This morning, I got up early enough and instead of making coffee first, I took pictures. Clicking on the image, will open a slideshow with more images from the Magical Light gallery. Leave a comment, with what you think about the picture. Follow me on Twitter [...]
Excitement
After my later afternoon photo shoot today, I passed again the new stadium in Cape Town. I drove not on the road, I normally use, but Main Road, which is a bit further away from the stadium and then I realized something obvious. This part of town is totally changing. Where it was an area [...]
What’s New At Jürgen’s Photography This Year?
At the beginning of January, I wrote a post called: “Whats’s coming in 2010?” It was a overview of what changed in 2009 and some general ideas, on what I have planned for 2010. Since I started Jürgen’s Photography, I always had the question in my mind on how I can make the experience of [...]
Picture of the Day 1 February 2010
I went for a run this evening at Muizenberg Beach. On my way back to where I started my run, I observed the surfers and was fascinated. It looked like so much fun. The sun was disappearing behind the mountain and I tried to capture the atmosphere of the evening. This is one of the [...]
12th Cape Town Photography Meetup
It’s time to meet for the 12th Cape Town Photography Meetup. The main platform for the meetup group is on our Facebook Group Page. This is the place, where we will present and discuss the images in the online forum. During our next meetup, we will discuss these and other images in the convenience of [...]
Picture Of The Day 28 January 2010
I took this shot during sunrise a few months back. I love the atmosphere of the morning light, the warmth and cripness.
