Photographer and Photo of the Year 2014
This is the big day, we all waited for! The Photo Critic Photo of the Year and the Photographer of the Year Competitions for 2014 has finally been decided by our panel of 6 judges. Here they are
The Masks We Are
My idea for this project actually started out as a simple portrait shoot with some masks that I would source, but it slowly evolved as I planned it out. It became a little more personal as I tried to present little pieces of myself in each idea. This then evolved further when I realized through this process, that I often present myself to people in a manner which corresponds to the situation I am in and that I vary rarely show the real me. From this I decided to twist the mask idea a little, still showing these little bits of me, but in each shot, the mask reveals more than it hides.
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: January 2015
Photo Critic Photo of the Month competition winner for January 2015 is: Gareth Heasman with "Oliver's First Photo" an image of his newborn son!
Phenomenal Bird Photography by Brutus Östling
This week's featured Photographer is Brutus Östling. Brutus is a Canon Ambassador and a remarkable bird and nature photographer that boasts with a number of great photo collections and several best selling books on birds and their nature. View some of his work below; This is bird photography at it's best!
How to Critique a Photo
I would like to expand on the importance of giving people good, useful and most importantly honest feedback. As beginner photographers embark on their journey they amass a huge number of images. Generally they produce prolific quantities of work, which inevitably ends up on social network pages. When you upload to a site such as Facebook and tag friends and family members the comments start rolling in. These comments offer great self-esteem boosts causing us to add more images to get our fix of ego stroking.
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: December 2014
Photo Critic Photo of the Month competition winner for December 2014 is: Gustav Brandt with "Middle Eastern Culture"
Adobe’s Subscription Based Plan for Photographers
Adobe's Photoshop CC and Lightroom is now available for $9,99 per month for South African Photographers!
Shoot with Intent: Why Kevin Richards Loves and Hates DPC!
Those 3 little letters W-H-Y just about knocked me for a six and has made me re-evaluate what it actually is that I am doing with my camera. Naturally, this made me depressed as photography suddenly went from being fun to frustrating in no time at all. (Thanks ALOT DPC). When you start thinking about WHY you are taking a picture, it completely over shadows the what, how, who and where in an instant. The other questions, to a degree, all have tangible answers to them but the WHY leaves me floundering and is now forcing me to really think a lot harder about what it is I am trying to accomplish as a photographer and what it is that I what to communicate in my pictures.
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: November 2014
Photo Critic Photo of the Month competition winners for November 2014 are: Glen Fouche with "Hagia Sopia" and Nolan Lister with "At Peace".
Press Release | Danie Bester featured in the Collectors Guide to Art and Artists in South Africa
DPC's founder and chief, Danie Bester's fine art photography has been featured in the latest edition of "The Collector's guide to Art and Artists in South Africa". Read all about it...
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: October 2014
Photo Critic Photo of the Month competition winners for October 2014 are: Nolan Lister with "Exhale" and Michael Blain with "Beach Sunrise Abstract".
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: September 2014
Photo Critic Photo of the Month competition winners for September 2014 are: Belinda Gibson with "Mother's Milk" and Leon Pelser with "Man's Best Friend".
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: August 2014
Photo Critic Photo of the Month competition has been won by two photographers, they are: Rina Gertzen with "Serenity" and Nolan Lister with "Copper Freckles".
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: July 2014
Photo Critic's Photo of the Month Photo Competition has been won by Reino van Wyk with his winning image titled "Serious".
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: June 2014
June month's Photo of the Month competition is once more shared by two Photographers. Winning images are: "Hotrodders" by Sarel du Plessis and "Pienza" by Christina Holt.
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: May 2014
May month's Photo of the Month Photo Competition by Photo Critic (our sister website) has been won by two photographers, the winning images are: "View From The Pier" by Danie Coetzee and "Sashika" by Lee Lahner.
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: April 2014
Photo Critic's April 2014 Photo of the Month competition was won by two photographers. They are, Leon Pelser with his image "View At Mabhida Roof" and Jes Hunter with her image titled "(s)AINT".
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: March 2014
Photo Critic's Photo of the Month competition for March 2014 has been won by two photographers, Cara Wilton with her image "Midland Morning" and Mohan Tipre with his image, titled "At Salt Pan"
Travel Street Photography by Mike Tagg
Danie Bester asked me to share some of my experiences in my approach and development in travel and street photography. My aim is to assist those who are keen to start and also to persuade photographers how relatively easy it is to progress and achieve the very rewarding results it can yield. Many of the shots taken in the streets can be classed as photojournalism if they tell a newsworthy story.
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: February 2014
February month's Photo of the Month competition is shared by two photographers. Cobus Eksteen with his image "Fire In The Sky" and Kevin Richards with his image, titled "Ghost Drummer".
Photo Critic Photo of the Month: January 2014
This month's Photo of the Month competition is shared by two photographers. Glen Fouche with his image "Natural History Museum" and Leon Pelser with his image, titled "91"