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 [...]
Make Believe
Restaurant Moyo – Images by Jurgen Banda-Hansmann Depending on your connection, it might take a few seconds for the slideshow to load. Some assignments are simply irresistibly fascinating. Moyo, one of the more interesting restaurant chain with an ethnic South African touch hired me to photograph, one of their new restaurants in Cape Town. “Photograph [...]
What's coming in 2010?
2009 was an interesting year for Jürgen’s Photography. The Web site went through some major changes and brought back to it’s core, what it is all about: Good photography. A good friend gave me valuable insight and advice on how the online presentation of Jürgen’s Photography could be improved. I started the year, using a [...]
What’s coming in 2010?
2009 was an interesting year for Jürgen’s Photography. The Web site went through some major changes and brought back to it’s core, what it is all about: Good photography. A good friend gave me valuable insight and advice on how the online presentation of Jürgen’s Photography could be improved. I started the year, using a [...]
Louw Bubeka – Portrait of a Jazz Musician
Last week I had the opportunity to photograph jazz musician Louw Bubeka on location in Nyanga, Cape Town. We photographed most of the portraits in the streets of Nyanga, which was good fun, but had it’s own challenges.
Events Photography for Insurance Awards
This South American subsidary of the Spanish insurance company Mapfre organized an awards evening at the Table Bay Hotel in Cape Town. It was one of those events, where the organizers decided in the last moment to confirm the booking with me, which makes things a bit more complicated for me. I didn’t have time [...]
Headshot Photography Transformation Part 2
This is the second instalment from the Headshot Photography Transformation. Liezl went for a more dramatic look in her makeup and her headshots reminded more of a fashion shoot. Again, I was amazed, what Anneline Black from Brushstrokes, achieved with her makeup design. Renate from Photo Boudoir, assisted me again during the shoot. We worked mostly with natural [...]
Headshot Photography Transformation Part 1
Two weeks ago, I offered three individuals a free headshot session via Twitter. It didn’t take long for these three people to make contact with me. Last week, we met for the photo shoot, which was incredibly great fun. I was able to work with some of my favorite people. There was Renate from Photo [...]
Boudoir Photography
Renate, a photographer friend of mine has developed a new aspect of her photography business, boudoir photography. We have been talking about our businesses and exchanged ideas and help for over a year and I am glad to see that she found her niche, which she truly enjoys. She asked me, if I can help [...]
Sunflower Fund Fashion Show Pictures
I mentioned the Sunflower Fund Fashion Show fundraiser event twice before. Check here, the backstory for the group portrait, which was used for the posters. There was lots of activity on the runway and I decided to cut the images down to 3. Even though the colours were interesting, I found reducing the photographs to [...]
Lifestyle Photography for Website Live
A few weeks ago, I photographed lifestyle portraits for a British Diary System, called Organise Us. Victoria Butler, the owner of Organise Us, contacted me over the weekend that the site is live now. It’s always great for me to see, how clients use my photographs in the final product, especially when the photographs are [...]
Portraits for a Coach
About two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to photograph Dominique Ripoll-Dausa, a business coach in Cape Town. Dominique and myself worked a few years back for the same employer. We met at a training event with Nancy Kline (author of the book Time to Think) in Cape Town. Dominique needed some portraits for the [...]
Headshot Photography
I’ve spent several, recent weeks editing and re-launching Jurgen-Photo.com’s Headshot Photography. The new site will go LIVE on 01 JUNE 2009. I look forward to reading your comments on my BLOG. You’re invited to stop by on that day to take advantage of special offers on headshots and portraits. Three (3) Cape Town residents will [...]
Marketing Team
Sue showed me yesterday this postcard. I have been doing a few shoots in the past for Catalyst Communications, including several session for Moore Stephens Chartered Accountants.
Technology Company Portaits
This assignment goes a couple of months back. Psitek is a South African telecommunications company focusing on the underserviced market and develops their products with focus on the developing world. The company needed to update their website with some fresh portraits of the staff. The goal was not to photograph staged images, but rather “natural” [...]
Networking and your public image
Forbes.com recently published an article called: Yes, CEOs Should Facebook And Twitter. Matthew Fraser and Soumittra Dutta say: “Social networking has clearly reached a tipping point. Sites like MySpace and Facebook boast hundreds of millions of members.
5 Tips For Better Children Photos
Change your perspective The easiest way of improving your children portraits is by changing your perspective. Go down on your knees, lie on your stomach, crawl. See the world on their eye level. It will change your pictures! I often photograph babies, while I am lying on the ground. You also find a different way [...]
Headshot Portfolio
This is updated version of my online portfolio for portraits and headshots. Move your mouse over the portfolio and select fullscreen view to enlarge the images. Enjoy. [issuu layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Flight%2Flayout.xml documentid=090425140643-8501d8ea0b7943f2b0ce7a48fea32f58 docname=headshot_portfolio username=jhansmann loadinginfotext=Headshot%20Portfolio%202009 showhtmllink=true tag=south%20africa width=600 height=574 unit=px]
Baby Photography on the Beach
This photo session, was one of those events, where Cape Town weather made feel like cancelling the appointment and surprising me during the session. We arranged to meet at Camps Bay. When I drove to the venue via the mountain, I saw fog and lots of fog. That would be interesting! Anke and Florian were [...]
BMW Financial Services
BMW Financial Services asked me to take portraits of the staff in Cape Town. This was a standard corporate portrait session, including a neutral background for the individual portraits. As I was working on location, I had to setup a ministudio in one of the conference rooms, including a grey backdrop, I brought with. Looking [...]
Marketing Campaign
A few weeks ago, a marketing company hired me to take portraits on location for a campaign. This required taking dozens of portraits in a relatively short time span in mostly noisy environments, also called night clubs. This brought some interesting challenges with it. Night clubs tend to be darkish and crowded. Luckily the marketing [...]
Headshots for Louise van Rhyn
I have been busy with portraits and headshots lately. This session was with Louise van Rhyn from Symphonia. Louise hired me last year to photograph the series of events with Ben and Roz Zander during their tour in Cape Town. Louise decided that she wanted to work with a makeup artist on the day of [...]
Photographing Headshots
I love photographing headshots. It is one of the areas, of photography, where you can focus on the person in front of you and your camera. These images were part of a session
