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The lighting setup for awesome glamour

April 24, 2025

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I love vintage glamour and pinups Starting with George Hurrell, Avedon, Newton to David Lachapelle. And when you also want some insights into one of the best models in this genre pinup/burlesque make sure to check out Dita Von Teese who wrote a great book about both being the model, style and makeup. In the next two articles I'm going to show you two of my absolute favorite setups, but on both sides of the spectrum. Today I'm showing the always awesome high contrast/flat lighting setup.

The power of the expression

April 12, 2025

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We probably all know that proper lighting and styling is essential for a successful photo, but for me personally it's the start. During the photoshoot I try to think about the proper posing of the body, the hands, the shadows, the background etc. In other words a lot of stuff going on. This also means that we often forget to think about expression.

Black and white or color or let’s do both

April 6, 2025

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Some things I never do We all have said something like this when it comes to our work. One of the things I hardly use myself is selective coloring, and yeah sometimes it looks great but somehow in my work it's always a matter of keeping all colors and even enhancing them, or convert it into black and white. But sometimes...

Light from different angles

April 2, 2025

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One rule most people will agree upon is that light from below is often not something we use in our photography, unless of course you want that freaky horror look, I actually always call this lighting "halloween lighting". But one light setup I also don't see a lot of people use, but which is one of my favorite ones, is the light from above.

WOW that shines like crazy

March 31, 2025

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Reflective material is a great way to spice up your photoshoot. You can use it as a set, backdrop or even wrap it around your model. but today we are using it in a set with some colors and hard light hitting it to get a beautiful glow in the material.

Cheap can be more fun than you think

March 28, 2025

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"my lens is cheap", "I have an old camera", "I only have one strobe" etc. In all honesty, of course gear is important but you can create awesome art/photos etc. with your phone nowadays. My moto over the year has been "if people look at the quality of the pixels the image is not strong enough" that doesn't mean you can just "wing" it and don't care about your gear, but it shouldn't be the main focus.

A new model and this is the first shoot

March 17, 2025

And believe it or not... it's getting harder and harder. But today I can introduce Ysanne, she will be helping us out with workshops and live streams. So you will see much more in the near future, but today the results from her test shoot.

Always build in a fail-safe even if you think you don’t need it

March 14, 2025

Shooting tethered might look very safe, but a lot can go wrong, today some of the best tips I can give to prevent you losing photos during the shoot.

Using a data projector for some really cool lighting effects

March 1, 2025

Projectors are great for presentations and movies But did you ever think about using a projector as your main lightsource? Think about all the options you have when you can literally paint all your lights, sharp or soft edges, all colors you like or maybe even a whole photo. When using a projector as your main lightsource you will never run out of ideas.

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