Photography and Videography Tips by Outdoor Video & Photographic

Dave Estment of Outdoor Video & Photographic

Giving Thanks

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Happy Thanksgiving to our friends in the USA and, in the spirit of gratitude, heartfelt thanks to every one of our valued clients and associates, also for our 45 fantastic Google reviews! 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 It’s thanks to you that we’ve been in business for over 21 years.

We’re so grateful also to have set up our studio recently at Devonbosch near Stellenbosch (as per our last post) and listed OV&P on Google for the first time, because we had our studio at home in Johannesburg and wanted to retain our privacy there. It’s wonderful to freely share our address now and we welcome visitors here! Please just check before popping in that we’re not out on a shoot 😄

Google listing for Outdoor Video & Photographic

In the pic above, Dave was photographing super rugged, very colourful wheelbarrows for a client at Devonbosch a few days ago, which was so much fun and provided a range of great setups to depict commercial, industrial, domestic and farm oriented scenarios. It also led to lots of interest and a business enquiry from local cyclists, who frequent the development for early morning coffee.

Do you leverage the power of sharing client testimonials about your business, including Google reviews, and behind-the-scenes photos or videos of you doing what you do? In our experience, this can typically generate valuable interest via social media, blog posts and emails, and contribute to conveying an authentic, approachable vibe for your business by showing rather than telling.

With this in mind, please contact us if you or someone you know needs beautiful, compelling photos and videos to showcase what they do or their products. And for those who are the face of their brand, a fresh personal branding portfolio may be just the thing to start 2023 in inspirational style. We’d love to help with studio and location shoots in or around Stellenbosch and Cape Town!

Dave Estment - Photography & Videography Training

Opportunities to Upskill

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As we step into the second half of 2021, how satisfied do you feel with your personal and business progress this year? One of the keys to achieving this is to develop your own or your team’s skills, especially as these apply to current circumstances. We can likely agree that the economic fallout from COVID has added pressure for personal and business brands to differentiate themselves, especially online. This includes showing up effectively in your on-screen meetings as well as sharing high quality photo and video content.

We’ve been responding to requests for assistance with this, and we’d love to help you too. Drawing on our 20 years of professional experience, we offer individual and/or group training, in person or online. Opportunities for you or your team to upskill include photography and videography courses and Zoom setup support sessions that cover all the aspects required to achieve great results, tailored to your personal or professional needs. Above is a screen grab from a Zoom training session that Dave was giving for our wonderful clients Tim & Yvonne Driman, and here is the testimonial that Tim shared afterwards, with our sincere thanks!

“My wife Yvonne and I have just completed an awesome online Zoom course on video with Dave and Naomi Estment of Outdoor Video & Photographic. Yvonne has been shooting video and I have been shooting stills since the late 1990’s, but I needed to learn how to shoot video, as Yvonne needed to gauge her progress, and also to learn how to shoot as a team. It was a lot simpler than I had envisioned, and I learned so much more than I had even anticipated. The course has certainly opened both our eyes to the vastness and intricacies of shooting video, and we enjoyed every moment of it. We are both really excited to put this new knowledge to the test, out in the field. Would I recommend this to other people? Absolutely, without a doubt.” – Tim Driman, https://timdrimanphotography.co.za, Ballito – KwaZulu Natal (South Africa)

Contact us today if you’d like to find out more or discuss your own learning requirements. It will be our pleasure to support your success in representing yourself and your business in the most impactful and resonant way with your followers and clients.

Wishing you an outstanding second half of 2021!

Outdoor Video & Photographic Team

20 Years in Business!

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Today we’re celebrating being in business here at Outdoor Video & Photographic for two decades! What a phenomenal journey it’s been, including more adventures and highlights than we could possible summarise in this post. Huge THANK YOU to every one of our team, clients, associates, suppliers, family, friends and followers for all that you’ve contributed along the way!

Special mention to Dave’s daughter Terri-Lee, pictured with us above, who was the original inspiration to launch the studio side of our business, and to Dave’s son Michael for his expert creative input over the years. It was a wonderful, full-circle moment for Naomi to recently photograph Terri’s daughter Mykaela, who we can hardly believe is already fourteen, in our studio:

If you know a teenager who would enjoy a beautiful confidence boost, we’d love to help. And also if you’re an aspiring photographer or videographer who wants to fast track to being a passionate, capable amateur or a budding professional. Dave has spent 40 years honing his craft and has decided that this is a great time to start sharing his experience and knowledge!

Here’s an introduction to the brand new series of tutorials that he’s putting together, each addressing a different element to assist aspiring photographers and videographers to raise their game and for the few who really apply themselves, to start their own business in the industry. Take a look and be inspired to join him here on our blog and our YouTube channel:

Dave will be giving away gems of insight and experience about technique, technical challenges and shortcuts as time moves on, but they say it’s not clever to give everything away because the recipient doesn’t appreciate and utilise the product as they may if they invest in it. So, we won’t be giving Dave’s courses away, but will make them affordable and extremely good value.

Please let us know if there’s any particular aspect of photography and/or videography that you’d love to learn about, from studio to wildlife, ground and aerial, and everything in between. We welcome any positive, constructive comment or input and hope that this content becomes a go to source of inspiration and information in our exciting world of photography and videography!