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Simple props and weird angles

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Creating new ideas and looks is always a challenge.
When you start out often you will shoot following the rules, meaning a certain lens, a certain light setup etc.

 

Today a very simple light setup with some cool results, this series was shot during the workshops I taught at Studio76 in Eersel last weekend with Nadine. But most of all I post this series to trigger you to not over think your light, often the most simple light setup works best, but also add some small props which gives you a lot of options for expressions and posing, and finally…. think about shooting with a wide angle from different angles for a unique look. Having an expressive model helps a lot of course.

 

Point is that styling and the proper use of props/story telling will make a shot much more interesting than just placing a model with jeans and tank-top in the same scene.

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Model photography tips

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A small tip for starting shooters:

 

I get a lot of questions about finding models so let’s give a bit of attention to this topic.

 

1. Friends and Family
Believe it or not but these are often the best choice if you want to start.

 

2. Websites
There are many websites offering models browse through them and find one you like and mail/PM them.

 

3. On the street
If you see someone you think could model just slip them a card and do a QUICK explanation of what you do, don’t take too much time. I found out that quick works much better, just before that moment that the “model” would feel like her personal time is consumed by you.

Nadine Juli 27 2013 12802-Edit

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From MacBook to Windows8 machine

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I guess this title will already have some people questioning my motivation, and over the last few days I’ve had a lot of questions when I posted something online about this “switch” so I thought let’s explain it in a mix of a review and tips/technique blogpost so I can point people towards this post when they ask 🙂

 

Let me start that with I love Apple products.
We own several iPhones, iPads and our studio runs on a few MacPros a MacBook Air, MacBook Retina and iMacs.
According to some we would qualify as Apple Fanboys, however I’ve always said that I just like the products and if something would come up that better suited my needs I would without a doubt start using that products. So let me introduce the replacement of my MacBook Pro Retina 15″….. the Sony Duo 13 i7,8GB,256GB.

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Seeing things differently

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Today a small/big travel photography tip about “landmarks”

 

We all visit those places where we think “I really have to see this one”, however the biggest problem is often that the landmark has been photographed so many times that it’s almost impossible to shoot something that is different, and although in some cases it’s indeed impossible, I do hope to give you some tips in this blogpost to spice up your own travel photography shots next time.

 

I’m a huge Queen fan, so when visiting Montreux last week there was of course only one spot I wanted to go first, the Freddie Mercury statue, now this statue is placed in a rather busy boulevard and to be honest I hoped/expected it to be rather quiet, the weather was not so nice and it was not a real holiday period, but…. as usual with these kind of things it was rather busy. But I wanted to make the most of it (I was looking forward to this for a long time). Now most people will shoot the statue like this :

September 29 2013 (56 of 301)And yeah well…. this is actually how it is in real life. This was by the way the only shot I could take without any people around the statue, we have been there for about half an hour and this was the only time there were not at least 5-10 people around the statue and then I only got this shot pffff. Well anyway let’s look at the statue a different way.

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