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.

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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Razende reporter

I love shooting characters, models are great don’t get me wrong, but as soon as you get actors, artists etc. in front of your camera there is a whole different challenge. It’s not about beauty and a great pose anymore, you really have to find the character. Also these people often are not used to being in front of the camera so you’re coaching techniques become very important because often the person in front of the camera is out of his/her comfort zone. The best part is if the whole shoot goes perfectly and feels for all parties like it was big fun.

 

Last week it was time for a quick session with our own “Razende reporter” or in English “raging reporter”.
Today some images from that session.
A bit of back information.

In the Netherlands we have a holiday called “Sinterklaas”.
Sinterklaas can be compared to Santa Claus, only he visits the Netherlands with a steamboat from Spain and brings gifts for all the children which are delivered through the chimneys by his helpers called “Zwarte Piet/Black Pete”. He actually arrives somewhere in November and the party of his birthday (where the big piles of gifts are often given to each other) is on December 5th. During his stay in the Netherlands children can place their shoe in front of the chimney (or in front of the door) with a carrot for the horse (which Sinterklaas rides over the rooftops) and they have to sing a song to get candy the next morning.

 

During this period there is a lot of attention on television for our “Sinterklaas”.
The Raging reporter is one of the main persons in our area which always has an exciting program on television about thieves trying to steal toys, or anything else that can prevent Sinterklaas from being a big success, this is actually the fun during the weeks before Sinterklaas and will have kids glued to the television to see if everything will be allright with Sinterklaas and his team of Black Petes.

 

So here we go, some shots of our Raging reporter, the hero of all our local children 😀

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Some images from Loes with the A7r and M42 glass

Today some more images from the workshop with Sharon and Loes.
Today the images I shot from Loes with the A7r and the Zeiss Jena 135mm f4 lens.
As you can see I also played a bit with the TILT option from the Kipon convertor.

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