29 Monday Aug 2016
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This one is from a few days ago with Xenia. It was taken as the sun was setting, right next to a bicycle lane, so we had to make a bit of room every couple of shots. 🙂
Next to that, we were walking her dog at the same time, so it was a bit of messing around, trying to get some nice shots while juggling with all the other plates at the same time. But it was fun doing so! And a wonderfully almost non-Dutch warm evening.
29 Monday Aug 2016
Posted in photography, studio
This one is also not really recent, but I’m glad to be able to post it nevertheless. My studio is not that big so it’s always a bit of a hassle to get the angles and lighting right, without everything getting a bit in the way. So it’s always good to see something nice come out of it!
28 Sunday Aug 2016
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28 Sunday Aug 2016
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28 Sunday Aug 2016
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I shot this a couple of days ago near Xenia’s house. The background is the border of Delftse Hout. The lens was a Sigma 85/1.4 EX DG HSM at f/1.8, ISO 50.
21 Sunday Aug 2016
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It’s kind of silly weather today here in Holland; rain and sun that overlap every now and then. Not really cold, but not great to go outside as well. So it was a good time to go through old photographs and shoots.
This picture thus is really an old one, with some new paint. I shot this back in November, 2014, with Renate standing in front of the camera. I took it through Photoshop and Nik to accentuate her light hair, to brighten her eyes a little and to bring out her body a bit better.
So even though the picture is 1,5 years old, the postprocessing is from today.
19 Friday Aug 2016
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Here is a photo from a shoot quite some time ago. It’s summertime and it’s nice to go through old shoots, looking for nice shots.
13 Saturday Aug 2016
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Summer here in Holland can be flaky; one minute it’s warm and you want to go outside, and the next it’s gray and cool. This is really a reason I don’t do that many shoots in summer; it can get quite warm in the studio and you might want to be out in the wind next to a bit of water instead of shooting.
So summertime is also a good point to do some digging through older shoots and pick a few nice shots to ‘develop’.
Here’s one from Shona and Dané.
13 Saturday Aug 2016
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This one was shot in January, 2016 of Maaike. A bit experimental with the light placed almost right above her. Doing that is a bit difficult in my studio with some light wires being in the way, but it was worth it. 😉
04 Thursday Aug 2016
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This one is from Chanelle, a year ago. The postprocessing was hard to choose on this one; making the hair with more contrast, or giving it a softer look; I liked both.
The end result is a mix between Nik’s Silver Efex Pro and Nik’s Analog Efex (adding a slight defocus) somewhat. When viewed as a smaller image, it looks a bit like a pencil drawing more than a photo really, but I like it just the same. I don’t mind photos that are a little off the beaten path.
Ruud van Gaal 