X-rite webinar online
Last week I taught a free webinar for our friends at X-rite.
Today you can find the link to the webinar here :
http://www.xritephoto.com/ph_learning.aspx?action=webinarsarchive&eventid=1501&eventdateid=5526
About technique and more.
add some speeeeeed
As you know I’m always carrying a camera, this way it’s always possible to take a picture.
The best way I heard this described was actually by Jay Maisel who said “If you don’t have your camera with you it becomes incredibly difficult to get the shot”. Most of the times you will see yourself shoot in situations that are not the run of the mill locations or situations and sometimes this gives you some amazing shots. I do have to be honest that the following shot I did not take myself, I was driving and asked Annewiek to take the shot the way I wanted it, a bit of the hood of the car and a slightly longer shutterspeed, this way we captured the speed effect I think pretty nicely.
Always remember that when you shoot something with motion in a forward moving vehicle that you will see a sort of “stretch” effect, this effect is something that I LOVE to use in tunnels etc. as you can see here.
Fleamarket
Now a lot of people ask me how I became interested in street photography.
Well indeed it’s a bit different from the fashion work we do, but I think it also has a lot of similarities, in my street photography I always try to get the story, the feeling, the tension or movement, Jay Maisel for example calls it Gesture, I call it…. well after hearing that also Gesture 😀 (who can argue with Jay right?)
Finding that special thing, that special feeling is something that I try to do in both my fashion work and streetphotography, in my opinion that’s what sets the snapshot apart from the street photography. Now let me make clear that I only do streetphotography as a hobby and no way claim to be a pro at it, however over time I did find some things that I think can be very interesting for someone starting out with this kind of photography.
One of the most asked questions is always “Where to go?”
Well if you live in a city like New York that’s not hard, it’s a circus coming into town 24/7/365 it’s just not fair, but if you live somewhere else (like most people) some cool places are always close, let’s for example look at some images I took at a standard flea market.
Ooh that hair
We all have it,…. well at least most of the models 🙂
But what to do with it?
Some will just put in a ponytail, others will let it hang, some will color it etc.
But we as photographers can be much more creative of course…..
The following images were shot during the Studio Technique I workshop from last week with our new model Loes (this was her first workshop) and I just decided to let her play a bit with her hair. We started out simple.
Now I have to be honest, this is already one of my favorite shots, but when she started to play more…. well you will see what I mean.
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