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.

Winner NIK competition

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For the last 2 months we have been running a NIK competition on Google+ and today I’m proud to announce the winning image.
It’s always incredibly difficult to do a judging when there is so much good material and this time there was a load of great content, because there were some stunning images it was extra difficult to not go just for the perfect lighting or model shot.

I asked the photographers to send in different images, meaning from most we got 2-3 images this way it was also possible to see the quality of their work in their submissions (not just a lucky shot), and where I also looked for was something that was not “easy” to do. For me that meant that almost all studio/posed etc. work would be very difficult to win, I wanted something that struck me in my core as a human being and photographer.

When I saw the images I got from Aldwin Cusi this happened and I asked him to do a guestblog on my blog about his work. Everything just clicked with his images and seeing the responses from the readers of this blog and the visitors to the online album I was not the only one that liked it. In the end I went for this image.

Congratulations Aldwin.

NIK seminar tonight

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Tonight I will teach my third free online webinar for NIK. You can still register here
I will be discussing several techniques for model photography, but also street photography and some sports, of course there will also be some HDR in there. I will be using several NIK filters, but will also show some tricks where you only need Photoshop. It’s free so you really can’t miss this one 🙂

If you can’t register please change the country to UK and go to training, then you will find the webinar.

Images from Marie

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I love to shoot fashion, and most of all I love to shoot the more classical dresses, so when Marie came to our workshop with a selection of classical dresses I have to say I was in heaven :D. Today the images from the first day with the dresses, because Marie was doing 3 workshops in a row (1:1, advanced and DSLR filming) you will see Marie coming around a few times on the blog this week, but I don’t think you will mind.

 

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Looking into the camera or not

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The last few days you have read some tips and saw some images from the workshop with Susanne, today just a post with the rest of my favorite shots from that workshop. And one last tip from that series.

A lot of people struggle with the question “Should my model look into the camera, or not?”
Well I think there is no real 100% answer that will fit all situations, for me it’s often more interesting if a model doesn’t look into the camera, but sometimes it’s so much stronger if she does. When you are in doubt, always shoot both. It sounds like a very obvious tip however it’s one that is often overlooked. Somehow you sometimes seems to be locked into a “program” mode and forget to think about the other options. Especially with the “looking into the camera” shots it’s however very easy to shoot both very quickly. In most of my light setups it will however not work because I often place my light sources under a more extreme angle, but in a case like this I will always try both…. my personal favorite ? the second one 🙂

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