Tag Archive for: tips

Best camera

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We all know the expression “the best camera is the one that you have with you”
And nothing is more true of course.
Some people just forget that when we shoot something the most important thing is not the gear we shoot the images with, but the story it tells. And in that case it really does not matter which camera it was shot with.

The shots in this blogpost for example are all done with my iPhone 4S, I do have to add that I did some post processing on them with Snapseed from NIK and Plastic Bullet, but all retouching was done in the iPhone 4S.

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Compositing with Nadine

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Last Saturday it was time again for the new Advanced II workshop.
This workshop has recently been changed to a workshop with compositing as theme. During the workshop the students first get a 2 hour theory part about inspiration and getting shot, during this part the model gets ready for the first set. During the workshop there are app. 3 sets. After each set the model changes and in that time I show the group how to make the final images you see in this post. I do put myself up to a limit of 20 minutes per shot, so some images can look a bit rushed in some areas, but do remember they where shot during a workshop.


In this blog post some small information about how to make a quick composite.

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A small tips video on the lightmeter

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Because there are so many questions about the light meter, we shot a small video covering the basics.
And actually everything you need to know I think to start using the meter.

Anja glamour

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Glamour workshops are always special.
It’s one of the advanced workshops I teach, so there is a lot of room to play around with lights, poses, expressions etc. in other words the workshop has a very wide array of possibilities to play around. And when Anja is the model there is always a lot of fun which enhances the images of course.

But the most I just love to play with light.
Here I used the Elinchrom 9.5″ Wide Angle Reflector for Elinchrom, this is really a reflector everyone should own, it’s very cheap and it’s the best reflector to light a white background, but also rocks to create effects like this with lens flares. On the subject of using lens flares, I’m a big advocate to not create them in Photoshop but really try to shoot them “live”, this image is shot that way and for me the effect is much more convincing than when you just add a lens flare in Photoshop.

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