A day on the road with Nadine Guestblog

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Today a guest blog by Eddie who assisted Nadine during the Belgium workshop on September 17th in El Paso.

‘A day on the road with Nadine Stephan’
Written by her personal assistant, a.k.a. Eddy the Eagle.

6 AM – *beep* *beep* Argh! There goes that dreaded alarm clock! Snooze time…

6:25 AM – Time to rub the sand out of our eyes and grab a shower.

6:48 AM – Loading up the car. It’s packed with loads of clothes, make-up kits and shoes… Lots of shoes.. Nadine brought some of her own clothes and a few awesome haute couture dresses supplied by Ajnemra.

7:00 AM – Time kick the tires and light the fires, blast-off to Wuustwezel Belgium!

8:35 AM – Grabbing some brekkie at a petrol station.

9:15 AM – Arrival at El Paso cowboy village and meeting the famed Frank Doorhof and his number one supporter: Annewiek.

9:26 AM – Prepping for the first set, Nadine used a black dress and I cut up one of her old dresses to add some details to her hat. While I was at it, I cut the sleeves of that old dress as well..

10:05 AM – Shoot in front of the El Paso Graveyard. While I was watching I tried to make myself usefull and I wielded the smoke machine like there was no tomorrow. In that proces, the smoke machine constantly overheated, which gave me the opportunity to warm up Nadine while the smoke machine was cooling down. 😉 Frank showed us the results straight away on his macbook and I was stunned. The smoke added a gorgeous dramatic effect!

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Guest blog James Digiorgio

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This time in the Guest blog James Digiorgio or :
(JimmyD is a long-time, professional, glamour photographer who resides in Southern California.
He refers to himself simply as, “a guy who makes his living with cameras in his hands.” He’s been authoring a popular glamour photography blog, http://prettygirlshooter.blogspot.comfor nearly six years. His ebook, “Guerrilla Glamour,” is a highly-praised cyber-text on the subject of shooting glam, with special emphasis on keeping the processes as simple as possible, resisting multiplying difficulties beyond necessity. His ebook can be purchased and downloaded at http://guerillaglamour.com. His upcoming new ebook, “Guerrilla Headshots,” will soon be available.)

The Language of Love, Lust, Seduction and Photography

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Graciella 14 September 2010

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Today Graciella was in our studio for a portfolio session, and we wanted to do something a bit different at the end of the session. It was the first time Graciella was in our studio but I guess it won’t be the last time.

In this blog post you will find the results of the session and also a small iPhone4 backstage video we shot during the shoot.

We started out with a pink theme which was the idea of Graciella herself.
After that we switched to a bit more low key settings and we ended with something I’ve been wanting to do for some time, working with hard backlights and lots and lots of smoke. I think the end results are very close to what I had in mind, but it will be something I want to get back to in the future.

I will probably also start using Graciella for the workshops in 2011, so make sure you book one when they come online 😀

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Results workshop Dublin

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As you have probably read on this blog September 8th was the day of the Dublin workshops, I already uploaded a small iPhone4 video from that day but as always I also show my personal favorites of a workshops a few days after the workshop. During the workshops the main focus is of course to teach but as a good photographer should I also can’t resist to shoot some images myself of course 😀 and in this blog post you will see my favorites of the workshop and read something about the stories behind them.

If you have any questions about the images or the workshop, feel free to ask so by using the comment option.

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