I have moved

It's finally happened. I  have moved house.

You can go check out my website at bernardbrand.com

I'll leave the old blog up as an archive of things passed.

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Film

Over the last year I've acquired a few film cameras. I'm not quite sure how this little infatuation with film started.

I remember buying a little Olympus Trip in 2011 (I think), just for some random film snaps and it quickly escalated in me looking around for 2nd hand Nikon's. I now have 3 Nikon's. The FM2, F3 and F4s. They're awesome!

I guess another reason I wanted to get into film is to slow myself down a bit and think a little more carefully when shooting. Is my focus correct, exposure, framing. All the factors that make a good photo, coz I only have 24 or 36 exposures, so if I f**k this up it's one less shot I have in the bag.

I'm still a long ways away from being any good at film photography, but I do believe it's helped with my digital photography.

Anyway, here are some shots from sometime last year.

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Olympus Trip; Shot on Fujifilm Superia

Olympus Trip; Shot on Fujifilm Superia

Olympus Trip; Shot on Fujifilm Superia

Nikon F3; Shot on Fujifilm Superia

Andre & Melanie Wedding: Evergreen Bushbuck Ridge Game Lodge

I had the privilege of capturing my cousins wedding this past weekend.

I was really nervous going into it, but at the end of the day I'm super happy I got to photograph it and I am happy with the results. It was nuts doing it alone, but luckily I had my other cousin (thanks so much Ivan) to play "VALS" or "voice activated light stand" for those of you that don't know.

Here's a quick sneak peek for everyone that's interested. I'll post the rest soon as I'm done :)

Thanks Andre and Melanie for letting me capture your wedding.

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Lady Gaga

Whilst most people were cooing over "Lady Gaga" a few weekends ago a small group of people were gathered in the dirty streets in the center of Joburg to watch 3 live electronic acts (The Watermark High, Vampire9000 and A Skyline On Fire) do their thing in a small independant cinema called Bioscope.

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Vampire9000

Vampire9000

More 3rd Place faces

Some more photos from my little project to document all the faces of our little community church.

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