Sometimes students ask if they can bring their own model during a workshop, and that’s of course not a problem and gives me also an option to explain coaching a bit more, because how hard they will try during a workshop, the models I work with on most workshops will know what I mean during the coaching of course.
In this case the model was Imani a beautiful dark skinned model which is always nice for some more glamourous shots.

During the workshops we did several setups and combined mostly lingerie with more covered nude shots. It’s something I don’t do a lot, somehow I always am more drawn to dresses and styling, but I also have to say that sometimes there can be nothing more fitting a model than the more glamour shots. As you can see in these images glamour is indeed the best situation for Imani. Remember that some of the following images can be considered NSFW (Not Safe For Work), although I have to add to this that it’s maybe a European thing but for us it is rather safe I guess.

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On February 7th Canon was organizing a dealer event “Canon connect” in which they presented the new products for the press and in the evening also for their dealers. Because I’m working together with Canon for our upcoming small flash workshops they asked me if I could show some setups with the 430EXII flashes during this event, and of course I did jump at this opportunity. Seeing some new gear and meeting up with the guys from Canon is always a blast. The event was well organized as you might expect from Canon and as you can see in the video they made some killer cocktails, add the fact I can play around with some lights and you know I loved to do this.

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