visual marketing, utilising images and/or video

Winelands Anniversary

It’s been a year since we moved from Johannesburg to the magnificent Western Cape Winelands and we feel so privileged to live and work here, especially when we get to film and photograph breath-taking properties, including farms, lifestyle developments, homes and historical buildings. Shooting property is one of our specialties, in part because Dave and I both certified as estate agents years ago, so we understand the requirements and have insight into what works to highlight key features of properties.

We love this work as it draws on a number of our core skills, including my diploma in interior decorating, which contributes to shooting interiors, and Dave’s extensive experience and skill as a licensed aerial drone pilot. In addition to recently filming and photographing the various buildings and vineyards on a beautiful wine farm, he captured a stunning time lapse sequence of the sunset from a spectacular vantage point. Here are a few behind the scenes pics to give you an idea of what we did:

Our interior and exterior, aerial and ground based images and video combine powerfully to create compelling portfolios that assist owners in showcasing their properties and promoting their associated businesses and services, or else support the sales objectives of appointed estate agents. Depending on the specific purpose of each shoot, the content can be enhanced with our product and lifestyle photography and videography too, shot strategically in our studio or on location in enchanting settings.

We’re also passionate about crafting impactful promo videos that leverage top quality, evocative content with captivating scripting and professional voice overs that convey the essence of our clients’ vision and message, while effectively demonstrating what they deliver, because ‘showing’ prospective customers what you do is so much more meaningful than ‘telling’ them. Contact us today if you’d like a no-obligation conversation to explore inspiring ideas to showcase your business or property.

Special shoutout and thanks to all our clients and associates who’ve contributed to our successful business transition to the Winelands, and to our wonderful family and friends for all they’ve done to help us establish our new home here!

Dave Estment of Outdoor Video & Photographic

Giving Thanks

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 πŸ˜„

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

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!

β€œMy 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!