2011 Photo & Film Expo

Last weekend (sorry, it's taken a little while to write about this) Rainer & I traveled up to Johnessburg to attend the annual Photo and film Expo, hosted by Nikon and Adobe.  What an awesome experience.  Our trip up was very last minute so we were only able to spend a single day there, but the expo itself runs for 4 days and is about everything photographic.  Throughout the 4 days there are workshops and courses which are open to the visiting public.  We attended as many as we could although I would have loved to attend more.

Panoramic of the entire expo.

While we attended a talks on lighting and photography skills, for me the most interesting talk was on using your digital SLR for videography by Richard Finn Gregory of the Ginko Agency.  Wow!  What an eye opener.  It was so interesting to see how things are progressing in the industry.  We were very honoured to be the among the first viewers of the latest Watershed music video, which was shot using various Nikon DSLR's, by richard and his team at Ginko.

Richard getting ready for his talk on using your DSLR for videography

The view from the top

Nikon was one of the major sponsors of the event.

All the "big" names in the industry were there, including Epson who are the leaders in the printing world.

I can't wait for next years expo.  Also, I can recommend going for all 4 days as there are so many workshops and talks and many of them are simply once-off's.    We'll definately be there for the full expo next year. 

See you again soon

Denise & Rainer