Santa Cruz workshop, only 2 seats left…

Today we are actually in Germany….. “Hallo” that’s german (and Dutch btw)
I’m teaching a workshop on location in a beautiful castle (part of our castle tour in Europe), and as you know teaching on location is the most challenging and also most awesome thing to do for me, I love the interaction with the group, every location has different challenges, every group has different questions… in short EVERY single workshop is different.

Now on July 15th I’m teaching a one day workshop in Santa Cruz (USA) and this whole workshop is about small flash/speed lights.
We have a great model and some cool locations, the fun thing about this workshop is that I’m only gonna learn the group techniques they can use themselves at home straight after the workshop, plus we will be shooting on standard locations (a cool skate area and inside a storage building), sounds nothing like a castle right…. well that’s the cool thing. Creating engaging and cool shots in locations like these are actually reality for most shooters, not everyone can rent a castle and when you have to shoot an entrepreneur on location that often isn’t beautiful, but you are expected to create some stunning images… well that’s what this workshop is all about, loads of techniques, model coaching etc.

At the moment we only have 2 seats left so make sure you don’t miss out.
For more information and booking your seat check Watsonville Santa Cruz workshop July 15th 2016

 

Behind the closed DOORs July 1 2016

In todays episode a glamour photoshoot with Ingrid, recording a new video segment, we’re packing for the workshop in Germany, picking up the RV and…. the winner of the MacPhun competition.

Tip : colors and expression and styling and….

In a good photo everything has to fit together.
During a recent cosplay shoot we had one of the final setups with a beautiful young lady holding two guns and blowing bubble gum… now in my opinion that didn’t belong in a side lit dark situation, but I wanted something more like a spotlight.

During sets like this you always have to look at the outfit, the look you want from the image (the mood) but also of course what the model wants. So we decided on (my choice) the pink backdrop with a spot on the model creating a focused light source where the model really jumped out. So lighting ok, colors ok, outfit ok… now the rest.

The first shot was easy, just blow some bubble gum (see top image).
After this I wanted more so I asked the model to smile like crazy, almost insane… well she did ok but it was not what I wanted.

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A cool tip to get this MUCH MUCH better is let the model MOVE… yeah you heard it right MOVE… in this case I asked her if she heard about “scarface” and his final scene where he screams “say hello to my little friends” while he waves his machine-guns around. After 2 testshots we ended up with the final shot you see here… the guns might be a bit blurry but the result of the smile is (in my opinion) MUCH better.

So don’t overthink the technique… sometimes it’s better to have a slight blur in a gun (they were moving really fast) and an awesome shot, than have everything sharp and an OK shot, dare to be extreme boys and girls 😀

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