Behind the closed DOORs September 10 2016

In todays episode I visit some flea markets and shoot some images for my “the portrait project”

Also included a small tip for older PCs, and of course the MacPhun competition.

tip with wide angles and backlighting

One of the things I absolutely LOVE to do on location is use backlighting, it can be sun, a door, a window, a …. well anything.
During a recent Urbex workshop we found this amazing control room, the problem….. it was VERY dark, but… that’s why we bring strobes 😀 so we used one strobe in front of our model (Nadine) and one strobe in the back.

This backstrobe lit up the complete room and also created some really cool backlighting effects when I just let it shine through Nadine but positioning myself in different angles (seeing the light, not seeing the light is literally sometimes a matter of shifting slightly to the left or right).

Although I loved the shots, they really came to live when I added a wide angle lens in the picture, in this case the 12-24 from Sigma. A lot of people are afraid of the distortion of these extreme wide angles, but trust me… when you USE the distortion it can give you great results.

To finish the look we added a blue gel in front of the front strobe, to give it a more “futuristic” look.

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Behind the closed DOORs September 9 2016

Today a pretty long episode.

You get to see the final images from a recent workshop “Smoke and props” and some new images in my “the portrait project”.

Further my thoughts on the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
A quick teaser about professional imaging….
Announcement on my worldwide photowalk in Amsterdam on October 1st.

A tip for your portfolio online and a quick Lightroom tip for syncing your images, plus my opinion on Lightroom vs Capture One. And you see my setup.

Plus I have to clone a harddrive for a MAME machine, and that was not as easy as expected….

BTS UK tour 2016, Amersham

Join us behind the scenes of the UK tour 2016. This was the workshop in Amersham Studios, close to London. We brought Nadine as our model and she did an amazing job with styling & design.