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 III ~ Klipdrift Premium

I indirectly got set a little challenge from Seagram Pearce, after posting the last Wine & Spirits image, that I should try to achieve this in one shot without blending in Photoshop, well I gladly accepted!

5 lights in total was used, 2 Elinchrom Style Fx400's, 2x Canon 430EX's and a Canon 580EX II speedlight to get the end result. It took a while to get the studio strobes and speedlights to sync, but that was part of the fun and a good learning experience for next time!

I know this is posted a day early, but I did shoot a few extras and will be posting a new one on both Wednesday and Thursday.

Here is the end result.

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!

Liefling Die Movie Premiere

On the 10th of November I helped Photo Elements, a good friend of mines company, shoot the premiere of Liefling Die Movie, the first South African Musical in more than 30 years! The premiere took place at Emperors Palace and the entire NuMetro was booked out for the night and each theatre, thats 6 full theaters, were used to screen the movie to the select guests that evening.

Below are a few of the shots from the night, both at the premiere and the after party at Rhapsody's which only ended at 4 the next morning, for me anyway! 

NuMetro, Emperors Palace, venue of the premiere.

Red Carpet drop off entrance at Emperors Palace.

Main NuMetro screening theatre for the premiere.

Kurt Darren and Fiance Dunay Nortje

Willem J Botha (right) and Gert Wolmarans (left)

Paul du Toit and Clair Anderson

Paul Kruger and family.

Elvis Blue, Idols SA season 6 winner, and wife Cherize

Brumilda van Rensburg and Louise Moodie

Erik Harm Holm

Bobby van Jaarsveld

Regardt van den Berg and Jana Cilliers

Terrence Bridgett

Sonja Heroldt and Lika Berning

Wine & Spirits Project

This is a portfolio project I started that will cover a broad range of alcoholic beverage products in all sorts of advertorial scenarios both in studio, on location & with and without extensive photoshop work... although the latter will more than likely beat the former!

In the following 3 months there will be a few of these projects each one with a different theme that will include either products, food, fashion, cars or jewelry. I will be posting a new project photo every Wednesday or Thursday so keep an eye out for new ones being posted on my Facebook Fan Page, just click like right there ---------------------------------------->
posted right here on the blog, so remember to subscribe and share, and last but not least on the Memory Lane Studios website.

This is Numero Uno in the Wine & Spirits Project.



Not new, but one from the archives that fit the theme so well I just could not, not post it!

Fujifilm Professional Awards 2010 - Bronze Award in Architecture

So as the heading states I got awarded a Bronze in the Fuji Professional Awards under the Architecture category, needless to say I'm seriously happy and extremely honored for receiving it!


The photo was taken at the abandoned Orlando Power Station in Soweto, South Africa while out on trip with fellow urbexer's.