Mark Forrester - Independent digital designer and online entrepreneur

A beautiful mid-winter sunset sky, shot from our balcony on Saturday 16th July. Part of a longer series I’m shooting in and around Sea Point, Cape Town that I hope will see the light of day at some point…

Very much experimental, and lots still to learn, but if you are interested in the setup:

• Canon 7D with Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L.
• Shot at f/2.8 Aperture Priority with a 6 second interval between shots. 817 photos – until the shutter speed > longer than the time interval, and it shutdown…
• GBDeflicker used in After Effects to help with perceptible brightness fluctuations.
• Photo-JPEG Compression.
• iMovie for sound and titles.

It has been months in the making, but it is with great pride and excitement that I can finally announce the launch of our latest website venture – www.africancartel.com.

Ours being my wife, Xenia and cousin Hugh. African Cartel hopes to be a market place for African Artists – discovering, showcasing and marketing their work and biography to a global market.

We launch with a feature on the Robot Artists, watch the short film to find out more about this creative, humble bunch of mainly Zimbabwean artists.

The site built on top of the powerful content builder and Listings directory theme of WooThemes, with Cart66 integration. More on this to follow soon.

I’ve been chatting with the talented Mr Teixido about a WooThemes design over the past few days. Yesterday Juanma sent me his theme design proposal and costing document.

The detail in this proposal with infographics, and very neatly presented information about his agency really showcases his professionalism, and gives off a very healthy first opinion to potential clients. It’s not often you see so much attention to detail in what is traditionally a very boring document.

Kudos Juanma.