Hein Lass South Africa

Hein Lass South Africa
Southern Light is my Internet photography home . I use the
natural Southern African light for most of my photographs. "My
studio is all around me. I have the biggest studio in the world".
The guys who make movies have 1 to 2 hours to tell their
story, I have a fraction of a second...
Sometimes nature throws misfits into the system. I am one of
those, born into the heart of darkness, into the old day
apartheid and puritan South Africa with nowhere else to go. I
questioning everything on display, the governement, the
church, the entire system (and we had quite a system). I
considered myself to be one of the very few sane human
beings and most of the others around me to be Aliens.
I earned my mechanical engineering degree from the
University of Pretoria in 1983 and is still professionally
involved in engineering. I have been involved in the design of
armaments, train brakes, ships, mining equipment and some
serious kick ass stuff in company management (where I
implemented some serious Marxist ideas and pissed of the
agents of the beast with their regulation grey suits and red
ties, lets just call them the thermometer brigade).
To satisfy my creative needs I started photography while still at
university and was co-founder of one of Pretoria's most active
photography clubs (of which VSS virtual Club is an offspring). I
quickly found a niche in Glamour Photography, With glamour I
could create and manipulate the outcome and not just
reproduce what is there as in nature and wildlife photography.
My sexy first ex-wife was a willing subject so that is the way it
went.
I hate studios and the sterileness
that goes with it. I like the Nit and
the Gritt that goes with a real
location. So a handheld light meter
it is and sometimes a long lense
so that you do not have to stand in
the horsedung for that perfect
shot.
I am increasingly using my computer skills (from engineering) to add
to my darkroom skills (which is all safely packed away as I do not
realy like the smell of chemicals) in creating out of the ordinary
glamour photographs. The debate of what is art and what is
photography does not exist for me. All pictures that contains a story
(or rather, where a whole movie is distilled into one single still
picture) is art and the camera, darkroom, computer, paintbrush, etc.
are all just tools to be used to achieve the final result. If my toaster
can take a decent photograph I will use it.
If I have to blame something for me being me it is probably my belief
system that is steeped in hermetic thought. From my teens I found a
home in the existentialist philosophy and later in holism. I quite liked
the idea that everything forms part of the whole, that everything and
everyone possesses beauty and goodness and that it is there to be
discovered and nurtured. I made an early separation with the
dogmatic church owing to their basic believe that all people are born
in sin and thus naturally bad and doomed. My management style
was the same (when I was still involved in organised and legalized
crime) and I believe that dogma is the worst demotivator of people in
their careers and personal life.
Hein Lass ‘Wildlife photography’
Winner TOP 10 avant garde December 2012
Canon EOS 40D - 22mm
ƒ10 1/60sec. (-0.7) - ISO 100
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Hein Lass ‘Chocolate box’
Winner TOP 10 avant garde June 2013
35mm colour negative film,
scanned and manipulated in Photoshop
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Hein Lass ‘Ishtar’
2nd TOP 10 avant garde March 2014
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Hein Lass ‘The Portrait’
Hein Lass ‘In one universe’
Hein Lass ‘In one universe’
TOP 10 portraiture January 2013
35mm colour negative film
TOP 10 avant garde January 2013
35mm colour negative film
TOP 10 avant garde July 2013
35mm colour negative film
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Hein Lass ‘Madness’
2nd in TOP 10 avant garde October 2013
35mm colour negative film,
scanned and manipulated in Photoshop
Hein Lass ‘Mermaid’
TOP 10 avant garde July 2014
Hein Lass ‘Conquering Salvador’
3rd in TOP 10 avant garde March 2013
35mm colour negative film,
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Hein Lass ‘Storm Witch’
TOP 10 portraiture October 2012
35mm colour negative film
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Hein Lass ‘Chocolate box’
TOP 10 portraiture December 2012
35mm colour negative film,
scanned and manipulated in Photoshop
Hein Lass ‘ Joan of arc’
Winner TOP 10 avant garde February 2014
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Hein Lass ‘Venessa’
Hein Lass ‘The Watcher’
TOP 10 avant garde March 2013
35mm colour negative film
TOP 10 avant garde August 2013
35mm colour negative film
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Hein Lass ‘Witches’
Winner TOP 10 avant garde September 2013
35mm colour negative film,
scanned and manipulated in Photoshop
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Hein Lass ‘Gustav Klimt rip off’
3rd TOP 10 portraiture December 2012
35mm colour negative film,
Hein Lass
‘Bot no13 is breaking up sir’
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Winner TOP 10 portraiture April 2012
35mm colour negative film
Hein Lass ‘the day after’
Hein Lass ‘Witches’
TOP 10 avant garde February 2013
35mm colour negative film
TOP 10 avant garde February 2013
35mm colour negative film
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Hein Lass ‘ Columbus’
Winner TOP 10 avant garde December 2014
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Hein Lass ‘The Elf’
Hein Lass ‘The Curse’
TOP 10 avant garde May 2014
TOP 10 avant garde December 2014
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Hein Lass ‘nude photography’
2nd TOP 10 avant garde January 2014
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Hein Lass ‘a different train’
2nd TOP 10 avant garde April 2014
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Hein Lass
‘New world Nymph’
2nd TOP 10 portrait
Decemberl 2014
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Hein Lass
‘Fey’
3rd TOP 10 portrait
Decemberl 2014
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Hein Lass
‘Olwen’
3rd TOP 10 portrait
January 2014
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Hercu du Plessis South Africa
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Hercu du Plessis
‘Marabastad chef’
TOP 10 photo journalism December 2012
Handprinted from 35mm Hp5 Ilford
black and white negative film,
Hercu du Plessis ‘Roadblock’
2nd TOP 10 photo journalism December 2012
NIKON D90 - 105mm - ƒ6.3 1/640sec. - ISO 200
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Hercu du Plessis
‘Moss and rust’
3rd TOP 10 avant garde
February 2014
Hercu du Plessis ‘Colour attic’
Hercu du Plessis ‘The Lie’
TOP 10 avant garde March 2014
TOP 10 photo journalism June 2014
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Jaco Ackerman South Africa
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Jaco Ackerman
‘An old Massai’
3rd in TOP 10 Nature
October 2013
Fuji Velvia slide film
Jaco Ackerman ‘About fish on
lake Victoria’
TOP 10 photo journalism October 2013
Fuji Velvia slide film
Jaco Ackerman ‘Taberma boy’
Jaco Ackerman
‘The crossing’
TOP 10 nature
October 2013
Fuji Velvia slide film
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TOP 10 photo journalism July 2013
Fuji Velvia slide film
Jaco Ackerman ‘going out Lake Vic’
Jaco Ackerman ‘Massai fashion parade’
TOP 10 photo journalism February 2014
TOP 10 photo journalism January 2014
Fuji Velvia slide film
Jaco Ackerman ‘yellow carpet’
Jaco Ackerman
‘Pulu bow and arrow musician Kabong’
TOP 10 nature September 2014
TOP 10 photo journalism October 2014
Fuji Velvia slide film
Jaco Ackerman ‘Gabon’
Jaco Ackerman ‘Impressions of Africa 4’
TOP 10 pictorial November 2014
Fuji Velvia slide film
TOP 10 nature February 2014
Fuji Velvia slide film
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Jaco Ackerman
‘Giants at the foot of Killi’
Winner TOP 10 nature July 2013
Fuji Velvia slide film
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Jaco Ackerman ‘Ngorongoro Crater’
TOP 10 photo journalism September 2013 - Fuji Velvia slide film
Jaco Ackerman ‘Serangeti sunset’
TOP 10 nature September 2013 - Fuji Velvia slide film
Jaco Ackerman ‘Serangeti canvas’
TOP 10 photo journalism September 2013 - Fuji Velvia slide film
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Jens Heyde Germany
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Jens Heyde
‘Poeler Umland 2013’
TOP 10 pictorial
November 2013
Jens Heyde ‘Poeler Umland 2013’
2nd in TOP 10 pictorial August 2013
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