Eric Palmer
Born: 26 July 1983
I'm a photographer/rollerblader from Stellenbosch South Africa.
I'm relatively new to photography myself (bin shooting for just over a year), but my mom Nicole Palmer is a professional photographer & has been teaching photography for the last 15 years or so & I have picked up a lot of the theory over the years being subjected to her lectures & preparation for the workshops.
I studied animation for 3 years & did a short editing course & started to become more active in the workshops with the photoshop side & a good family friend & photographer Willem Oets was kind enough to send me his old D70 body as he moved to Canon. This was just a little over a year ago & from not being very interested in photography & wanting to take a few snaps of my friends skating, it has completely taken over my life & I often find myself choosing the camera over my rollerblades these days.
I'm quite heavily influenced by my mother for obvious reasons & she is an art photographer & even though I shoot completely different subjects to what she does, her philosophy about photography is a strong driving force behind my approach. I will shoot anything... bands, portrait, sports, landscape, macro... literally anything that catches my attention. My preferences are action sports... (mainly BMX, Downhill MTB, Skateboarding & Rollerblading) and macro on insects. I'm seriously addicted to flash photography & have recently gotten some pocket wizards & am loving them!!
to get a shot of me.
Well... that's enough about me for now...
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Went on a shoot with some friends that are in a band The Pretty Blue Guns on Wednesday & the weather in Stell was rather gloomy. We met at Mystic Boer & was actually a really great venue for a shoot & we got lucky & the sun came out for a few minutes & we managed to get some more shots in front of the Moederkerk.
A few of my favorites I've edited so far.
Warming up with a game of pool
An HDR done in Photomatix of the guys in the girls bathroom in Mystic Boer Stellenbosch. We had a bunch of desperate girls after the shoot ;)
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