X-Photographer

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A gear tip on how to set up and use Back Button Focus and how this benefits the photographer.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A FUJIFILM Feature gear tip on the importance and the benefits of using a lenshood.</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">A FUJIFILM Feature photography tip on the value of printed photographs….</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">All of this is my dad’s fault. He wasn’t only French, loved red wine and strong cigarettes, but he also loved photography. He had been taking pictures all his life and made sure that he would pass on his passion to me very early on in my life. I was only 8 when he gave me my first camera and I haven’t stopped taking photographs ever since….</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I can’t draw and I can’t paint. And I tried, I really tried. I did however develop a love for great filmmaking, great story and that beautiful light. I swapped my surfboard for a skateboard when my mom, sisters and I moved to Bloemfontein and since then my skateboard has travelled with me everywhere…</p>

<p style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I often get asked when I started with photography. it is a question with many possible answers. I prefer to say photography found me when I was 5 years old. My dad had an SLR from somewhere in the 70’s which he let me hold, manually focus until the image was clear, and press the button. It was like time stood still for an eternity and that moment was cemented in my memory. from that day, I could not go anywhere without it being a visual safari of epic proportions…</p>

<p><a href="http://blog.nathalieboucry.com/collection/a-24-hour-photo-marathon/">Last year I took part in the 24 Hour Project for the first time</a> and it was so crazy that I professed I would not do it again.</p><p>Low and behold, this year I found myself slap-bang right in the middle of co-organising a group for the 2018 event. How did that happen? Well, I asked myself the same question.</p><p>It all started with a camper van…..</p>

<p>I could tell you that I started photographing for National Geographic aged 6-and-a-half months old, in Tanzania (on horseback), armed with only bug spray and two rolls of film… But that would be a blatant lie…..</p>

<p>At the launch event all the camera’s on offer for testing were snapped up by the journalists in attendance. I was not going to miss out on photographing the motocross riders and grabbed a Fujifilm GFX that was available...</p>

<p>TICKET GIVEAWAY: Conceptual Photography with <a href="https://business.facebook.com/andrebadenhorstphotography/?fref=mentions">Andre Badenhorst Photography</a>.</p><p><a href="https://business.facebook.com/FujifilmZA/?fref=mentions">Fujifilm South Africa</a> have purchased the remaining available tickets for this incredible workshop on the 7th and 8th of April and all you have to do to grab your spot on this workshop is...</p>