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.

Give me a smile….. please

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We all know the drill, you shoot a certain look and you’ve done it a million times… so how do you keep it fresh. Well very simple change the expression, pose, angle etc. The following shot I’ve done many times during our glamour workshops, even with the same model. But people loves this setup and it’s a great conversation piece for choosing angles, composition etc. but somehow I always try to do it differently, and today we decided it was time for some fun and shoot the model full out laughing.

Always remember that images can be boring without any expression and be transformed to something completely different with just a little change in expression. So your assignment for this week :-), do the shoots with different expressions 🙂

 

 

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Inspired by Gia

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I think we all sometimes have that moment where you watch a movie, a videoclip or whatever and that something hits you like a brick wall…. whatever you do the image is BURNED in your mind…. this can be a bad thing (oh man I saw some scenes that I wish that didn’t burned into my mind) but in this case it was a positive thing.

 

Gia tells the life story of Gia Marie Carangi a stunning model with a tragic life story.
Somehow Gia has an incredible appeal to me, maybe it’s the way she is portrayed in the movie by Angelina Jolie, but I think it’s everything put together. As many of you know I don’t particularly like the “posed” images, sometimes I do, but most of the time I love movement, passion, speed and “style”. And Gia…. well she had it all and I agree with the idea that she is indeed the first real super model.

 

Now I’ve talked before in the past about being inspired and shooting something that inspires you. However I also strongly believe that there is always something that you have to change, making a 1:1 copy is a great learning tool, but if you want to do something for your portfolio I believe you have to make it “your own”, give it a twist, change it……. now in the movie there is a scene where Gia puts on mens underwear and poses for her boyfriend, this scene has actually nothing that could be considered “flat” or “unrated”. But it stuck in my mind like bubblegum. So when Lisanne was in the studio for a glamour workshop I asked her to bring mens underwear (which in fact she had to borrow from her dad because I wanted the really old fashioned ones), and Lissanne of course delivered.

 

I did not want to copy the scene of course, I wanted to give it some “swung”, some “fashion” but keep it “dated” to that period. Now I’m also a fan of the work of Avedon, Newton etc. and somehow I decided it would be cool to mix everything up and create the following look. Now the images you can see when clicking the link below because I know in some countries they MIGHT be considered “not safe for work” although (as you know by now) I disagree 😀

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Light meter calibration revisited

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Over time I’ve written a lot of articles on the use of the light meter, and also some about the calibration of the meter. This has fueled some discussion and also made some people doubt their methods even more than before, so I thought that it was time for a revisit of this topic.

 

Why calibrate the meter
In fact you are not calibrating the meter, but the combination of the meter and the camera/lens combination.
Remember that every camera can be different, and that if ISO100 is correct it could be off for ISO200.
Knowing all this makes it easier to understand why the meter out of the box is not 100% accurate.

 

The quick and easy way
I’ve been experimenting a lot with the calibration process and found that if you calibrate to a QPcard101 and get the numbers to read app 128.128.128 for the gray patch you are pretty accurate. However there are some things you do have to realize.

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Some more from Carmen

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Today some of my favorite shots from the workshop we did with Carmen last week, I already shared the X100 shots, but I also loved these, and these were shot with the Leaf Aptus, light : one Elinchrom Quadra

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