Hougaard Malan

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Name: Hougaard Malan
Age: 20
City: Stellenbosch
Country: South Africa

Joined: Aug 2007

I’m 20 years old and I live in Stellenbosch, South Africa.

I started studying engineering last year but it took me a full 7 weeks to determine that it ain’t for me. After dropping out, daddy bought me my first DSLR, a EOS 400D….and within 2 or 3 months I was obsessed with photography.

I’m a landscapes guy, though I love any nature photography…and I would love to learn to shoot people. It started out in a more artistic, HDR-ish, filtered look but is now taking a more purist direction…

I am obsessed with how photo merging can distort lines and make a normal place look like some alien world viewed through a fisheye.

I will be studying a 1 year commercial digital photography course next year but until then I’m enjoying the highly lucrative microstock business and just building up my portfolio with photos.

I’m currently shooting with the following…..

EOS 40D
Sigma 10-20mm
Canon 24-105mm L IS USM
Canon 50mm F1.8
Manfrotto 190XPRO
Manfrotto 322RC II head
Large variety of Cokin Z filters and a B+W 110 for long exposures.
All processing done in PSCS3

My favorite photographers would have to be the following…

Marc Adamus
Ingmar Wesseman ( google him, minblowing purist work of Bavaria)
Maciej Duczynski
Bernando Medina( you can get lost in his photos for days)
Robert Mekis ( best panorama photographer ever, hands down )