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.
Last week DJ Roy visited our studio for some new shots.
I love to shoot artists because somehow I can concentrate more on their music/work and character that you normally do with fashion. As always I will select some of the shots of the session I particulary love and share them with you guys. This time I choose some of the images that I shot while playing with lens flare and strong backlights.
Also read a small interview with Roy.
Well as many photographer (I guess) I hate being in front of the camera, but because I did not like my promo shot and also wanted a new avatar I decided it was time to do it again today…. Annewiek was willing to press the shutter, and trust me that’s a daring task because I’m never happy with how I turn out in a shot. But much to my surprise we found an image I really like, so here it is the new promo shot and avatar, hope you like it.
A few weeks ago I got a very friendly mail from Sarina Kay asking me if I would be interested to shoot some images for promotion and her new album. When someone like Sarina asks you can’t say no of course so we planned a photoshoot, I can’t show you all the images of course but here are a few I absolutely love, and a small interview with Sarina.
Part of the photoshoot was to use them for the Hairextensions from Beauty hair extensions.
Today a blog post in reply to 2 questions that were asked me on twitter and on the blog.
You can always ask questions and if there is something I think that would be interesting to blog about I will write a small article on the topic, so today I will blog about :
Printing
A question that was asked on twitter (and the blog) was about printing and presenting your work to customers.
Let’s start that I’m a huge supporter of printing yourself.
When I print myself I have 100% control about the end result and I know 100% sure that what I deliver to my customer is as perfect as I can get it. Because we hardly deliver anything bigger than A2 prints I choose the Epson 3200 which I still use. Our studio is also part of the Epson Gemini project which means we also have a Gemini system based on the Epson 4800. I choose the Epson line of printers because they use a print technique that is not using heat, this means that when you use the same original inkts and papers you will have a very stable output over time. I’m also a big advocate for calibrating but with Epson I have to add that their own profiles are very good, our Gemini is fully calibrated and the 3800 uses the original profiles and to be honest colorwise there is hardly any difference (I do like the output of the 3800 a little bit, but that’s not strange because it’s a newer printer).
One big tip for Epson !
You probably have read about this on the net, or experienced the problem yourself, all standard prints from Photoshop on the Epson printers are coming out too dark. To be honest I really don’t know why this happens with the standard settings, but it’s solved very easily. So if you experience this problem do the following. Go into the paper settings in the Epson driver/control panel and set the the color density to -15 for PLP (premium luster) en -20 for Gloss. Save these two settings and you should have picture perfect prints.
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