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25 Sunday Mar 2018
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in25 Sunday Mar 2018
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in18 Sunday Mar 2018
Posted photography, studio
inIt’s been a while. I’ve recently done another shoot with this girl, who has been training hard to shape her body. We did some experimentation with color gels; here is a shot with a regular white light at the front and a red spot pointing partly at the background, partly at her by opening the barndoors of the flash and removing the grid.
10 Saturday Feb 2018
Posted photography, postprocessing, tips
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When post-processing photos, not all of them require the same steps. But still, I’m following these steps roughly every time I edit a picture. Note that the workflow changes somewhat over the years as I learn new things, or just get new tools, or my style changes.
I’ve been writing this flow when doing the picture shown below. Hope this is of any use to you. 🙂
21 Sunday Jan 2018
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This one is from a shoot in July last year. I added some color balancing, firstly based on of the color LUTs from https://www.iwltbap.com/, then some extra Color Balance to bring out the blues in the shadows.
The white blob in the background is actually part of my studio; it’s the television where I display the photos I take. That day we didn’t bother with background noise too much; that’s why you have large diaphragms which blur out quickly. 😉 And it makes pictures a bit more natural, which I like these days.
This one was taken with the Canon 6D, 50mm Sigma ART f/1.4 lens at ISO 100, f/1.8 at 1/100 sec.
Model & styling: Marion Edens.
21 Thursday Dec 2017
Posted photography, studio
in17 Friday Nov 2017
Posted outside, photography
inI shot with Marion a week ago, over the course of a few hours in a park. Later we got back to the car, which was standing underneath a bridge with beautifully painted walls. We took some more photographs with the colorful backgrounds.
The camera was the Canon 6D mark I and the lens was the Canon 24-70 L (mark I as well). I mostly shoot wide open for the bokeh to be soft, so f/2.8 in this case.
Postprocessing was done using Radlab Pro Retouch: Skin Foundation, Hair Blonde Shine. Some dodge & burn on the cheeks, sharpening the eyes a little bit (and making them slightly lighter). Then a tiny bit of Nik Analog Efex Pro 2 for the vignette and slight structure enhancement. Plus one of the awesome IWLTBAP (I Would Like To Be A Pony, no really) color grading schemes. This color grade was Aspen.
It may sound like much processing, but the effect all-in-all is rather subtle compared to what I started with. Just to give it more punch, more focus on the eyes and face.
24 Tuesday Oct 2017
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bw, nude, oil, striplight
24 Tuesday Oct 2017
Posted home, photography
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Last weekend I had another shoot with Maaike, which happens about once a year. We shot at her home, with beautiful soft light from the windows, but also in the woods with some autumnly looks.
This shot was all natural light. I’m beginning to appreciate this type of light; its softness is unparalleled compared to flash. It’s also much easier to play around with various shots while not having to move around your lights. It’s relaxing, or perhaps that’s also Maaike, who is wonderful. I hope you enjoy the image.
19 Saturday Aug 2017
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I had a shoot last Tuesday with this really fit girl. I like the combination of roughness and softness in this shot. In postprocessing I used some Clarity to lift the brightness of the shoes a bit. Especially when softboxes are standing reasonably close, the falloff is steep and you quickly lose quite a bit of lighting in the off-center areas.
02 Wednesday Aug 2017
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blonde, bw, glass, natural, naturallight
A new shoot with Marion; this time I wanted to throw some things overboard and try some more loose photography. Just showing some background, studio stuff, homely things. And also some natural light (for the most part).
This one was shot in front of a window facing north. I love the softness of the light; better than any softbox I’ve encountered (due to the larger size of the light source of course, but still).