My blog, although I don’t see myself as a blogger but as a Photographer I will try to blog some interesting material during the weeks.
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How to make the best of it…..Part II

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Yesterday we looked at the first/second set from the workshop I did in Groningen with Sharon. (thanks to Bianca for the amazing styling and makeup)

After the parking garage we hoped it stopped raining, but…. well it’s the Netherlands and it kept raining.
I still wanted to shoot some images outside so we decided to just go outside Lichtzone (the homebase for that day) and shoot the images with natural light. Now in all honesty… there was no real interesting natural light, it was pretty bleak and sober…. so what do you do?

Well remember that as a photographer you can change the scene to fit the mood you want, you can use strobes of course to change the look but you can also manipulate the scene by using exposure compensation. Because it was so sober I decided to go completely overboard and create an “almost” blown out look which would in fact make the reds in Sharon’s clothing really pop (I just love reds).

I shot these images with the Techart module on the Sony A7RIII (thanks to cameraland.nl for lending it to me) Lenses used were a 55mm Takamur (zebra) and a 135mm Zeiss Jena. As you can see in the images these older classic/vintage lenses are VERY prone to lensflare which creates an almost surreal end result. This is I believe one of the main things that I love so much about these older lenses, they really have character. Modern lenses are great, don’t get me wrong… but these older ones…. well they are different, not as perfect. And in some situations (like here) the perfection of the modern lenses actually work against it, although they might be sharper, have better (more perfect) color, flare less etc. these old lenses just go all over the place creating stunning looks (if you know how to control them that is, but that’s very easy to learn, just do it).

Ok so here are some of the images.
Sorry for the overload, but I just really loved this set… which sounds weird because it was actually the most simple one to do, no light, crappy situation… but… well judge for yourself.
Would love to see some of your images in situations where the weather was REALLY bad.

Perfect calibrations with Palette master DC June 26 2018

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Calibrating your monitor is one of the most important things, but often people don’t know how to set everything up and end up with more problems than they need.

In this video I run you through the settings from the BenQ version of Palette Master, but settings should be app the same in all calibration software.

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A not so good day to shoot but stunning results BTCD June 25 2018

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Today it was time for the street workshop in Groningen with our model Sharon.

However sometimes things don’t go as planned, and today was one of those days, we planned a nice street shoot, but ended up having to improvise. However I think the results are still very nice.

So join us for todays episode of Behind the Closed DOORs.
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How to make the best of it…. Part I

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Yesterday it was time for the workshop in Groningen.
We actually planned to walk on the street with our model Sharon (styling and makeup by Bianca) and shoot some cool fashion images on the street with strobes… but sometimes things don’t run as you want, and yesterday was one of those days…. it rained.

So we decided to start the workshop actually in a parking garage.
The cool thing about photography is that in essence you can make great images anywhere, even if you might thing it will never work.
We started out with some shots on the lower level and using the lighting they use to light up the parking garage.

After this we moved the whole set app 3 mtrs and used the curves of the parking garage to create a shot with some more depth.
By playing with the shutterspeed you can literally change the complete look of a set.
Remember that aperture is controlled/set by the strobe and the ambient light can be controlled by the shutter speed, meaning you can get a lot of different looks from the same location.

 

As you can see, two totally different looking shots just by changing the shutterspeed.

All shots were shot on the Sony A7RII with the Techart convertor and the Takamur 35mm lens (bought it for 5.00)
The second shot was done with a Takamur 55mm which I bought for 2.50 (but is worth a lot more).
Using these old lenses on the Sony really gives you some unique looks, add to this some processing with Alien Skin, or Lightroom/Capture One and I just love the looks.
Many thanks to cameraland.nl for lending me the Techart, make sure to order it from them when you’re in the Netherlands.

Feel free to show me your images that you shot in parking garages 🙂