Johannesburg Wedding Photographer Kat Forsyth » Workshops

Sammy Marks Part III: Wenda & Jacques

Kat Forsyth — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:47:01 +0000

Sammy Marks Part II: Nina and J.G.

Kat Forsyth — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:00:33 +0000

Ah, winter: the time when we catch up on all the images we had to leave unedited because we weren’t actually paid for them. Here are some more from the Sammy Marks get-together I attended in April! You can see Pieter and Hanchen’s vintage-themed photos here.

Nina & JG were such fun and so completely adorable to shoot! Thanks, guys!

Olive Mystery Venue workshop & photographer shootout

Kat Forsyth — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:06:19 +0000

Last Friday I attended another photographer shootout-workshop organised by the talented husband and wife team, Deon & Natasha Du Preez. You might remember some of my photos from the April get-together at Sammy Marks, and there are still more to come from that awesome day! So watch this space! June and July are my quiet months, so I’m going to use them to showcase some of the workshops and “days out” I’ve shot which had to take a backseat to my paid work over the last few months.

In the meantime, here are some images from this workshop, which was held at Olive Mystery near Pretoria. All the dresses are by Immagika, except for the crazy-awesome blue one in the first three pictures, which was by Papilio.

Photographer Shootout at Sammy Marks: Vintage goodness Part I

Kat Forsyth — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:17:15 +0000

Nearly a month ago, a bunch of Johannesburg and Pretoria-based photographers got together for a fun day of shooting and learning from each other at the ruins at Sammy Marks. It was organised by the ever-awesome Natasha and Deon Du Preez, and despite the fact that I was pretty well exhausted from Mia & Francois’ wedding the day before, I had THE best time. Yes, everyone who was there: I had a better time than you did. So there!

Natasha and Deon organised four gorgeous couples to come and pose for us, and we took turns at making them smile, kiss, lean, sit, climb, and all the usual things we make couples do for the sake of a good photo! Later in the day they all changed into vintage outfits (giant swoon on my part) and the fantabulous Mario Sales showed us how he poses large groups. I then stuck to Mario like glue as he took one of the couples for another couple shoot in the sunset. And just because I like to be different, I’m starting there at the end and working my way backwards. More posts to follow!

Here are Pieter and Hanchen, vintaged up!

Wedding Workshop at Forum Homini

Kat Forsyth — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:30:49 +0000

Back in January when I heard there was going to be a workshop given by Andrea Carlyle and Dror Eyal, my first words were “Heck yes!” These two are giants in the wedding photography industry, and a chance to learn from them wasn’t something I was about to pass up! The workshop was held at the fabulous Forum Homini in the Cradle of Humankind (PS – will somebody please go and get married there, and hire me to be your photographer? Thanks. ) We shot around the hotel for a bit, and then took our cars out into the nature reserve, where we fought off mosquitoes bravely. Thanks to our models, Gen and Greg, for being superstars and standing anywhere we wanted them! And thanks to Dror and Andrea for sharing your knowledge and secrets with us! I could have stayed another whole day, asking questions and learning.

Here are some of my photos from the sunset shoot:

And a more arty one…I thought this photo was rather abstract and therefore deserved a bit of different treatment:

Christine Meintjes Workshop Part II

Kat Forsyth — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:50:28 +0000

I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath to see more of the fantastically gorgeous engagement session we shot at Christine Meintjes’ workshop. And if you haven’t, pretend you were. This shoot was so adorable I could eat it up with a big bowl of custard. And I suppose Nicola and Wynand were a bit of help too

See Part I here.

Wynand did the cutest jump in the history of Stellenbosch:

We made him do it a bunch of times, so I got one of Nicola watching him:

And another of him jumping alone. This was the only image I could bring myself to make monochrome, by the way, because the colours in this location are too gosh darn pretty not to use.

Oh, look, he’s at it again:

The most adorable shoot ever. Thank you Christine for organising it!

Christine Meintjes workshop Part I

Kat Forsyth — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:00:54 +0000

The weekend in Cape Town was fabulous. I learned so much about not only photography, but about running a wedding photography business as well. I have to give a huge thank you to to Christine Meintjes for organising, teaching, sharing and just generally being awesome, and to the other seven photographers I met for sharing your knowledge and experiences as well.

Early on the Saturday morning we drove out to Stellenbosch to photograph Nicola and Wynand’s sweet, country-chic engagement shoot. The weather was perfect, as was the location!

And some Behind The Scenes shots:

Some people will do anything to get a shot.

See Part II here.

How awesome was the workshop?

Kat Forsyth — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:19:16 +0000

THIS AWESOME:

J & D Workshop Part III

Kat Forsyth — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:48:57 +0000

All right, this is the last one in this series, I promise. At least, I can almost guarantee it

J & D Workshop Part II

Kat Forsyth — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:03:22 +0000

Here are some more photos from the J & D workshop last weekend! And there are lots more to come; we were shooting until past midnight on the Saturday night. I still don’t know how I stayed upright. Anyway, these are some more of my favourites:

J & D workshop Part I

Kat Forsyth — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:33:13 +0000

Over the weekend I attended a workshop hosted by Jaco Fourie of J&D Photography. Driving from Johannesburg to Pretoria was a bit wearing, but completely worth it as I learnt all sorts of things about video lighting and off camera flash and posing, as well as the best way to make pigeons take flight and that bananas are ridiculously expensive when bought from a vendor’s cart in Church Square.

Here are the first few images that caught my eye. More to follow!