This year marks the 5th consecutive year a Tamron lens has won the EISA (European Imaging and Sound Association) Award. EISA presents awards each year to products judged to be the best in photographic, audiovisual, and video product categories. A panel of editors from over fifty leading imaging, sound, and electronic industry magazines in nineteen European countries review and vote [...]

September is around the corner and Spring is in the air. [Image source unknown]

The 2010 Sappi African Printers of the Year gala event held in Sun City on 12 August 2010 was a celebration of print excellence where printers and their winning entries shared the spotlight. This year, Paarl Media won the Magazines Sheetfed category with PiX Magazine as its entry into the competition. At the glittering event hosted by Master of ceremonies [...]

Adobe Systems South Africa will be hosting three of the world’s top evangelists from the United States as they showcase Adobe’s flagship Creative Suite 5 integrated design and productivity tools. The Ultimate Adobe CS5 Experience is a full-day workshop taking place on Thursday, 26 August 2010 at the Alexander Theatre in Braamfontein. Greg Rewis, Terry White and Jason Levine will [...]

In PiX this month we look at the Tech of the World Cup and how to master your external flash. We show you how to do test shoots and we also review the new Sony NEX-3 and NEX-5 hybrid digital camera. Click here for more info…

Last month we were invited to join the Academy of Creative photography as they embarked on a Wildlife and Landscape Photography course. It took place at Bushwa Game Lodge in the picturesque Waterberg mountains, a mere 200Km from Pretoria. The group consisted of ACP Students and we were joined by ACP’s resident wildlife and travel photography expert, Graham Baird. The [...]

Music and photography are my two passions in life and I always jump at the chance to ‘shoot music’. Recently, a friend and fellow photographer, Ravi Panchia invited me along to a performance of a band I have not yet heard of, The Sick Leaves. The performance was for a live broadcast of MK’s Studio 1 on DSTV channel 324. [...]

We received a massive amount of emails for our cover shoot event, thanks to all who mailed us. We would have loved to invite you all but unfortunately we have limited space available in the studio. We are planning to do this with every cover shoot so keep an eye on the website for more details. Below are the names [...]

As you may have noticed, the July issue of the digital magazine has not been uploaded yet. Unfortunately there are still a few kinks in the system which we are working on, these include optimized loading times and a download option for the digital magazine so that you can enjoy it offline. The world cup did not help much either [...]

We received a few impressive entries but in the end Tim Molepo’s entry came out tops in our office poll. Congratulations Tim and enjoy the memory card and PiX subscription. Taken on a Canon 50D with 18-55 IS lens. Not exactly the look I was looking for. Wish I could get both sides reflecting but was short on hands and [...]