Ultimate weekend results final day

The ultimate weekend is always one of my most intense workshops I teach.
In 2 days I try to give the group everything they want to know about model photography (and loads of fun), and you literally never know what will happen (later more on that in another blog post).

 

Today some of the images we shot during the second day of the workshop.
Models : Nadine and Jonathan.

 

Do you also want to visit one of the Ultimate Weekends?
There is one planned on May 22-23rd (see the banner above this post)

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Finland Pt III the workshop

Today some of the images I shot during the workshop/seminar for the National Association of professional photographers in Finland.

 

The first day I arrived I visited their annual meeting and I must be honest…. we came directly from the airport and these were the first people I really met and I was a bit surprised/worried/afraid, imagine getting out of the car and being visited by people that are dressed like they were beamed back from the 70-80’s disco times….. so I was a bit like “Ok this is gonna be fun for shoots”, it took them at least 15 minutes before they probably understood my surprised look and explained that they were all dressed up for a disco party….. NOW that explained a lot. The next day they were all in their normal clothing and I actually had to figure out who was who 😀

 

Anyway a long story short.
The quality of the photography that I saw was insanely high and I decided to keep the seminar aimed at styling in a photoshoot, a topic that is always handy. During the live shoot I aimed for the tricks you can do with very simple light setups, remember these shots were taken as SAMPLES so not portfolio material. But I always like to share them so you guys can see what we do during these kind of days.

 

Many thanks to the awesome audience and the models (and my model from the audience)

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Finland Pt II

Today the second post on our trip to Finland.
In this gallery some of the nature shots I took.
Now the people showing us around kept apologizing for the “not so nice” scenery… it was supposed to be a lot better when there was a real winter, or summer…. well to be honest I was already stunned by the scenery, I could only say wow and kept shooting 😀

 

Click on the smaller tumbnails to open up the gallery.

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Finland Pt I

We are just back from our trip to Finland.
In a few blogposts I want to show you some of the shots I took and tell you a bit about how I shot them and share some tips.

 

In this blog post some overal shots that have no real story, let’s call it a warm up post 😀

 

We started out trip in Tampere where I did a seminar for the professional photographers association.
Incredibly talented photographers which became very clear the night before the seminar when I was present during their competition, wow what a quality…. in fact it made me quite nervous for the following day, but luckily they loved the seminar and live shoot.

 

So today some images I shot during the city walks.
Click on the small images to open the gallery and browse the images.

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