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Italy

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

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backlit, italy, nature, travel

A picture not from a shoot this time; this was taken on me and my girlfriend’s recent holiday to Italy. We went to the south of Napels (Cilento) and drove around to various places like Amalfi, Pompeii and even crossed Italy to end up near Polignano a Mare.

There was a lot of opportunity to take pictures; this one is actually one of my favorites, since it is a nice backlight image.

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Animals

05 Wednesday Oct 2016

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bokeh, bw, dog, xenia

Here is a picture from the shoot with Xenia the other day. We were actually at the same time walking her dog, which was pretty funny, and at times a bit cumbersome because, well, a dog needs attention. 🙂

Most of the pictures didn’t include Printie, as is the dog’s name, but this one did, and in fact I like the combination here. It’s something different from the usual pictures, so why not? Besides, yesterday was World Animal Day so it would have been appropriate, if only I had posted this one day earlier. 😉

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Sparkling

29 Monday Aug 2016

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bokeh, bw, outdoor, xenia

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.

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Lying down

29 Monday Aug 2016

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boudoir, indoor, lowkey

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!

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Chair

28 Sunday Aug 2016

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boudoir, lowkey

This one is from some time ago, but still worth posting. The chair hasn’t lasted, fortunately the girl did. 🙂

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Looking up

28 Sunday Aug 2016

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bw, lowkey, melanie, shadow

This one from Melanie was shot at the beginning of 2016. Harsh spotlight, high viewpoint. I particularly like the strong expression in her face.

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The Green Dress

28 Sunday Aug 2016

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bokeh, color grading, xenia

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.

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Throwback time

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.

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Shadow

19 Friday Aug 2016

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color grading, shadow

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.

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Friends

13 Saturday Aug 2016

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bokeh, dane, indoor, shona

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.

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