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Amelia Bodenstein

My name is Amelia Bodenstein, married to my husband Jannie for the last 26 years. We have 2 children, a son and a daughter, both married. I love photography since childhood, and started to do it more seriously about one and a half years ago. I have I fully equipped studio( I make use of Falcon Eye lights, as well as Jinbei, soft boxes and triggers ect. I have a 5DCanon full frame camera with 580EXII flash. I use a 28mm-135mm USM IS canon lense, 27-70 L USM as well as a 70-200mm canon L Lens. Will we ever be satisfied with the equipment we have? I don't think so! I live in the Benoni area, and work as a marketing consultant for an attorneys office in Bedfordview. I enjoy it very much as I am a peoples person. I do studio photos, on site, any special occasions as well as weddings. The photography is such an enjoyment in my life that I will love to do it full time "one day". My objective to be part of this forum is to learn more from the Camerazzi Community as well as to share the little I know with you.

Photos submitted by Amelia Bodenstein:

50 and very beautiful

Posted 1 September 2011 by
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Did I mention in my previous post that this child of the sun will be 50 next week? Well I did a couple of studio shots as well. You will never say that she is turning 50! i used my canon 5D, 24-70mm lense with 2 studio lights. Settings ISO 100, 1/125 sec and f/8. [...]

Child of the sun

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This photo was taken in the late afternoon, I usen my flash off camera for a bit of fill in flash, as I wanted to retain the nice ambient light, coming from the sunset. My camera settings was 1/160 sec, ISO 100, f/14 with the 70-200mm canon USM L lense and I used my husband’s [...]

Girl 3

Posted 30 August 2011 by
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This girl is a real sweety. She has eyes that talks to you without saying a word. I like that. We made use of a “another huge octabox” worth about R20.000 (a bit better than the previous one) and this is the results. I had my camera on manual, ISO 100, with Mike you almost [...]

Girl No. 2

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This Girl was photographed with a huge huge octabox, they call it a….. I think you must ask Mike, all I know is that this thing cost R80.000!!! I will really have to break a bank for this one. I used my Canon 5D, 24-70mm L lense, settings on manual, one of the experts told [...]

Saturday Light workshop with Mike

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Hallo all, I thought it well to post some of the photos I took on Saturday. I wil post them seperately otherwise I might invade too much space. I will post Girl number 1 first. This girl’s photos was done under continious light, with my canon 5D and 24-70mm L lense. You have to set [...]

Re Do of Johan’s photo.

Posted 7 June 2011 by
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just saturated the photo a bit more with the saturation brush in LR and toned the exposure a tiny bit, I also pushed vibrance, saturation and clarity up a bit. Hope you don’t mind Johan?

Ronel & Phillip New Town JHB

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I did this shoot on Sunday @ Newtown JHB. It is a stunning location for photography. Jannie my husband was my assistant. I used the flash off camera and had a little diffuser/softbox on the head that gave me directional light. I also made use of a reflector from time to time. I use my [...]

NewTown JHB Location shoot

Posted 17 May 2011 by
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We did this shoot on Sunday at New Town in JHB. I used my canon 5D camera with 24-70mm L canon lense. ISO varied between 250 and 500. Higher ISO was used when I did not use flash. The phot owith the “red glow” in the hair by the wall, I used a flash with [...]

Redo of Morné’s “Beautiful sunset”

Posted 6 April 2011 by
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Morné, if you don’t mind, I thought to crop your photo into a panoramic style, as the tree in the original photo is too centered. Ideally I think you should have cropped the tree either to the left or to the right, (don’t forget about the rule of thirds) with less sky on the top. [...]

Kindergesiggies by dieretuin

Posted 4 April 2011 by
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Kinders is nooit skaam nie, en hierdie viertjies het maar te graag vir my “gepose” Ek het natuurlik die ouers gevra, en hulle het met trots na hul fotos op my kaera skerm gekyk. Al die fotos is met my 5D kamera geneem met ‘n 70-200mm canon USM L MarkII lens. ISO 100, want dis [...]