Silence of the Lambs...

Like the heading states it's almost been 2 months since the last blog update... hangs head in shame... and I feel like I've neglected the faithful few that made their way to the blog on a regular basis with the hope of seeing a new post and ending up empty handed every time and therefore I apologise and plan to not make this a habit!!

I had a very memorable maternity session with a incredible lady called Lethabo, we had loads of fun, laughter and tears during the shoot and the end results turned out great to match!







In the same time period I also added 5 more tear sheets to my editorial collection and hope to add a few more as time goes by.... felt incredible to see my name appear at the top of every article!


Editorial Tear Sheets - Images by Albie Bredenhann

... and finally to end off, Memory Lane Studios got contracted by SABC Baba Indaba to shoot all the entries for the Face of Baba Indaba at their Midrand show held at Gallagher Estate. 3 Days of shooting babies and toddlers and braving the freezing cold every morning in Midrand, but we ended up having a blast and got some incredible photos!


Baba Indaba Gallagher 2011 - Images by Garth Collins, Andre vd Veen, Angelique Atkinson

The Good Food & Beverage Project I ~ Lamb Flank Pies

So yesterday I started my new Good Food & Beverage Project and to make things a little more interesting I set myself a little challenge inside of a challenge, I need to prepare and make all the food myself from scratch where possible, a daunting but but exciting prospect as I love cooking.... cleaning the dishes is a whole different story though!

To 'spice' things up even more I will be shooting some Stop Motion footage of the complete process, from preparing the ingredients all the way through to shooting and ultimately eating it at the end, just for the skeptics out there that think I just drove down to the nearest supermarket and bought ready made food.... yeah shame on you!

For the first dish I made Lamb Flank Pies served with Fresh Salad and Fat Bastard Chardonnay, enjoy!



The Time Lapse footage as promised!



Good Food & Beverage Project 1 ~ Lamb Flank Pies from Albie Bredenhann on Vimeo.
This is the Time Lapse clip I made of the first project dish, a whole 23 seconds for 4 and half hours worth of work!

What I did learn with regard to making the next Time Lapse clip is to shorten the time between exposures to 15 seconds instead of 30 to 'smooth' out the motions and give a little more detail to the whole process, but thats how you learn!

Tune in next week for installment number 2 in the series!

Wine & Spirits Project IV ~ Drostdy-Hof Extra Light II

This is the last in the Wine & Spirits Project series for now as it's time to move on to the next Project which will be titled The Good Food & Beverage Project! This time round I'm going to make it a little more interactive too so be sure to check in on Friday when the first part will hit the blog.

These three individual images were also taken with the same 5 light set-up as with the Klipdrift image, in other words no comping was done in photoshop besides the layout of the three images.

Wine & Spirits Project II ~ Drostdy-Hof

In the previous Wine & Spirits Project blog post I promised, or rather set myself a goal, to post a new project shot every Wednesday or Thursday, well, that was on Tuesday which left me just one day to set-up and shoot the new one, nooooo pressure!

I arrived at the studio this morning, looked at all the bottles of alcohol and glasses I had brought to the studio for this little project standing on the floor and two things just jumped out at me, a clear glass bottle of extra light white wine and my pink backdrop.... one 8 hour work day later and this is the end result for W&S Project Photo number 2!



Don't forget to check in next week Wednesday for another 'installment' of the Wine & Spirits Project... yet another challenge I'm setting myself, but this time I'm giving myself 5 days instead of one so I'm going to have to really out do myself this time!!

Lastly don't forget to join the Facebook fan page or just follow me right here on the blog... seeing that I'm coming up rather short in that department!