I'm not really blogging, because I have a wedding today. I'm just posting one random shot, of Jay and Sarah, which hardly counts as 'blogging'.

In general, I'm not so good with change (I have a tendency to find a comfort zone and to cling to it for dear life).

It was with this in mind I first agreed to present RE.INVENT with Dror, since public speaking is very much outside my comfort zone.

So, you will understand why I was equally nervous (as I was excited) for RE.INVENT, which was convened at The Forum Homini Hotel, yesterday.

Previewing the participants' websites and blogs beforehand did not help the jitters, as I knew we had some serious talent and amazing photographers lined up for the workshop.

 
We had such an amazing group in attendance, along with gorgeous models, which were a picture of perfection, Gen worked her little butt off to achieve the images the attendees were striving for.

 
I can't wait to check out the blogs to see what images were captured yesterday. ...and, if anything, I hope that the participants have picked up, that Dror and I attempt to get picture-perfect photos straight out of camera and use PS/Lightroom purely as a an enhancer.

For the first time ever, I  can say I took the least amount of shots on the day, as I was more occupied with questions from the photographers themselves.
Naturally, no post without a pic, so here you are - Just one photograph, which I took demonstrating a point to one of the participants.

The first one developed ......in Lightroom. Yes, I discovered a few tips and also tried my hand at Lightroom.

For all those that attended:

Canon 5D | 24-70 2.8
Settings: Aperture Priority, f 4.5, Iso 400, WB Manual.

Processing: Those gradient things taught by Dror and conservative tweaking of sliders in Lightroom (So conservative that I can not, for the life of me remember). No presets used. 

 
In the second, I used the same image and played around with the "darker side"

Less has really become more these last couple of days. Less sleep = getting more work done.

Deadlines and a to-do list that is turning out to be an instruction manual; busier than ever, I have had some great shoots I still need to post, but, for now, my priority as promised. . . Nancy and Paul.

It was a fabulous marriage ceremony at Leopard Lodge.  I absolutely loved working with Nancy and Paul.  Both were so relaxed, natural, full of laughs and made us feel like part of wedding!

The weather was totally gorgeous, cloudy at just the right times, with the sun peeping out during the creatives, which made it all too easy for Ursula and I.

I'll leave the chitter-chatter short, so I may now scratch one more item off that list of mine and give you the images of Nancy and Paul.

How gorgeous are these shoes?

This entire week I have been steaming ahead with my workshop presentation and, I'm pleased to announce, it's finally done and dusted.   I have been up all hours, morning and night, trying to get it together for this coming Tuesday, so I'm chuffed to have finalised it in good time. 

 
As a result of these self-imposed extracurriculars, my obligations to the blog have gone somewhat astray and, although I promised Nancy and Paul their wedding would be posted this week, I quite simply just didn't manage any blog-time, at all.

In the meantime, however, I did eke out this sneak and I assure you I'll go through your pics over the weekend, so I can post something on Monday. Promise.

I had been checking the weather forecast all week in an attempt to gauge whether it would rain at the weekend.

Those of you not residing in Gauteng will be oblivious to the fact that for the past four/five weeks or so, we have had rain virtually every single day.

Well, Saturday at Diane's and Trent's wedding, we had rain; not normal rain, but, true highveld thunderstorms with lightning bolts and all the extras.

During the creatives session, Trent miraculously escaped being struck by a flash of lightning - not really, but, the way he dashed down the hill leaving his new wife behind, one would have thought the electric bolt must have just missed his left foot. ;-)

The skies held on until the shoot was done, we got our crackers and Trent made it out in one piece!

From the laughs we had on the golfcart, right through to the gorgeous lattern release at the reception, the whole day turned out beautifully. Thank you Diane. Thank you Trent.

No Photoshop magic, the sky was that dark. Straight out of camera and sharpened in Photoshop. 

The lovely lattern release shot in pitch darkness, sans flash at Iso 4000.