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Building a cool set with clickbackdrops in your own studio or living room

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A background helps the story

When I started out with model photography studio work was… well studio work.
It was mostly seamless paper and some nice fabrics or canvas backgrounds.
For me personally I love working this way, but I have to be honest my heart always beat faster when I find a cool location to shoot.

So why not bring locations to your studio?

As you probably know we use ClickBackDrops in our studio, we actually started with my own signature series and ended up being the distributor for the Netherlands.
Of course you can just use the backgrounds as… well backgrounds.
And although that already looks great, you can do so much more.

I already showed you guys some of the shots we took during the clicklive event in the UK where we build a complete set with 3 backgrounds and a floor part.

So I thought let’s create something in our studio again

During a recent workshop with Claudia I used two backgrounds and a floor part to create a quick set.
At the moment I was calibrating a projector for a customer that came into a huge flight case so that was the perfect prop to create something cool.
When Claudia entered the set I immediately got some huge Freddie Mercury and David Bowie vibes so I tried to get a little bit of that “rock/70’s” style into the shot.

As you can see it’s super easy to use two backgrounds and a floor part to create a small set.
Add some props and you’re ready for the shoot.
Now as you can see these backgrounds are not really meant to be shot together, but they still work very nicely I think.

Want to visit one of our workshops?
They are in Dutch, but if you book a few weeks in advance we can switch them to English.
Visit fotografie-workshops.nl for more info and booking your workshop.
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ClickLive event 2024 Results from Day 3 with our amazing model Tion

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Results Day 3 with Tion

In the previous blog we showed you the behind the scene video we shot during the ClickLive event.
Today in the blog some of the results from Tion

Shot with the Geekoto GT400 and the new Geekoto Lantern and striplight.
On the blue tinted images I’m using a GT200 with the Rogue magnetic system and a blue gel.

This was the third day and the backgrounds were not mounted 100% anymore, but I still love the results from these sessions.
Also many thanks to Tion who did his best with loads of different outfits and never too tired to pose for me or the attendees. This day was a bit more quiet on the show so I had some more time to shoot, so sorry for the many images 😀

For the first series I’m using the new Geekoto Lantern and striplight on the Geekoto GT400

It’s always a challenge to shoot images during a trade show, but with a set like this and a great model it becomes a lot more easy.
Do you want to build a set similar to this?
Check out our professional quality backdrops at www.clickbackdrops.nl

Here I placed the striplight close to the wall for some nice side lighting.
I always love this setup and with Tion it worked extremely well.

Finally I added a Geekoto GT200 with the Rogue magnetic system and a blue gel in the back, and use the Geekoto striplight as mainlight for some final more moody shots.

 

 

ClickLive trade show workshops results Day 1 and 2 with Macy

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Results from day 1 with Macy

In the previous blog we showed you the behind the scene video we shot during the ClickLive event.
Today in the blog some of the results from Macy.

The cool thing about the ClickLive event were the more than 10 portfolio pods which were all unique and build only with ClickBackdrops. Next to our booth we sponsored the portfolio booth with our Geekoto strobes and a fitting theme for me.

A great way to introduce our brand new collapsable striplight and awesome new lantern softbox.
Of course the booth was setup for the visitors, but I also took some shots myself 🙂

Do remember this is a portfolio booth and the model probably doesn’t play guitar.

Check out our professional quality backdrops at www.clickbackdrops.nl

 

 

 

 

 

 

ClickLive trade show workshops results Day 1 with Jess

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Results from day 1

In the previous blog we showed you the behind the scene video we shot during the ClickLive event.
Day 1 was a busy day for us.
At 8:00AM it was time for a 3 hour workshop with a very tired group of attendees, but they didn’t fall asleep luckily.
The model for the workshop was actually an impromptu model….. Jess.
Jess is actually a very well known photographer herself and was actually not prepared for the shoot, and pretty nervous.

She actually told me that it was almost impossible to get a good shot of her, so I made her a bet.
If you are not happy with the results I’m going to stop teaching 😀

Luckily for me she liked them.
I hope you do too.

Shot with the Geekoto GT200/250 and the Rogue Magnetic system en Frank Doorhof Flashbender XL3