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.
Expect at least 2 updates a week.

Voltaic V60 minireview/tip

We all have a digital life, don’t we all get nervous when our laptop or phone dies?
Well when traveling it’s a matter of reality, especially when travelling long there will be a moment when a laptop battery simply dies, you can’t help it. Of course it helps if you only watch movies on a laptop because with the modern Hasswel laptops they will actually probably survive most long flights on one charge if you only watch movies and lower the brightness a bit. However I don’t just want to watch movies… I want to be able to play some games, do some work and with me that means Lightroom and Photoshop and somehow this drains the battery much faster of course.

 

So how do you solve this?
You can take a plane charger with you but not all seats in a plane have power connectors.
When you own a Mac there are many options from companies like HyperShop, which I can really advise, we owned several of their solutions and they just work flawless (and look great). But when you’re using a PC or other laptop I had to start searching all over again.

 

In the end I choose the Voltaic 60W external battery solution.
Here you see a quick iPhone shot of the Voltair next to my Vaio DUO13 which is not a large laptop, so you can really see how small the Voltair is, and this last part is incredibly important for me. When flying every pound counts and also size is important, with the Voltaic I really found something that hit the sweetspot for me.
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The simple light

According to some you always need strobes, according to some you never need strobes.
According to me you have to vary, use whatever you have available but most of all use it all.
Today a sample with some tips of how to transform a scene completely with the use of light, many thanks to Nadine for her amazing styling and posing.

 

Let’s first see how this scene looks with strobes.
Oh by the way this location is an old building just across the street from our studio, and streets here are 10 mtrs 😀

Nadine November 11 2013 (273 of 435)-EditIn this shot I just aimed the Elinchrom Ranger RX with Maxilight + grid straight at the model, a very simple setup that creates a high contrast image with a nice vignetting effect, but in this shot it’s all about the shirt, now let’s see what happens if we start chancing or own angle.

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FujiFilm vs Sony A7(r)

Ok, now this is a blogpost that I never planned on writing till I got a question about it.
Let me start off by saying that I love the Fujifilm cameras A LOT, I own a X-E1 and in my opinion it is/was one of the best cameras for street Photography, and the X-trans sensor is just awesome. Now there is a price difference between the Fujifilm X-E1 and the Sony A7r I’m now testing but I thought let’s just look at the X-E1 vs the A7r and see what happens. In this blogpost you will read my personal opinion.

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Wibi Soerjadi

Many years ago I did one of my first sessions with a famous person for Wibi Soerjadi.
Wibi is well know as a genius behind the piano and does concerts all over the world, for me it was at moment a challenge to shoot him for the simple reason that my only experience was in a non-stress situation and with models, shooting someone I did not know that well and also the fact that Wibi was not a run of the mill artist made the shoot something of a very exciting thing.

 

Over the years we became friends and I’ve been shooting Wibi for the last few years almost exclusively for his concerts and CD/DVD/Book releases.
Today I can show a few images from the latest session.

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