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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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The Church

27 Wednesday Jul 2016

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color grading, hair, outdoor, skyenova

One more of Skye Nova, right in the center of Leiden.

I used flash here although it doesn’t show as prominently. The wall was actually quite bright and I dumbed that down quite a bit.

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Night beckons

25 Monday Jul 2016

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bokeh, color grading, outdoor, skyenova

This one with Skye Nova was made a little later that evening, up on a walk-around area. The sky mixed well with the flash, although you do notice that the sky gets dark very quickly, and the flash output needs constant adjusting to be on par with the sky brightness.

Skye Nova is wearing a corset here, beautiful but making it hard to breathe. 🙂 Fortunately she lasted until the sun disappeared, after which we nearly got locked up inside the building. Luckily the guy who closed the door did another round before going home to sleep, and we managed to get out.

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Foxy

25 Monday Jul 2016

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bw, outdoor, skyenova

I don’t do outdoor shoots a lot, but steampunk requires a bit of scenery. This one was shot with Skye Nova (Laura) in de Burcht in Leiden. It was a warm evening which helped to prevent getting cold until the sun set.

This was taken with a single flash, set not too hard to mix in a bit of ambient (natural) light as well.

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Sunset

28 Tuesday Jun 2016

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clouds, nature, outdoor, sky, sunset

Yesterday I went biking along the heath, which is quite close to home. Of course this has to be done around the golden hour, to get soft directional sunlight. There were some deer, two very large mushrooms, very out of place in mid-Summer and these nice layers of clouds. They look like wings, but admittedly my fantasy is sometimes a bit enthusiastic. 😉

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Piano Man

15 Wednesday Jun 2016

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beach, bw, piano

My girlfriend took this one from me, while we were at Terschelling (one of the islands here in the Netherlands) at the Oerol festival. Near Midsland aan Zee there were around 9 pianos placed on the beach. Most of them were even playable, so that was fun.

Unfortunately the weather was quite rainy, but good enough for this picture. Finally I’m inside one of the photographs on my own site. 😉

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Wheeha

21 Saturday May 2016

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belinda, bw, outdoor

Here’s an older one from Belinda, who is now traveling in Australia.

This one was taken in a small piece of woods quite near to her home in the Netherlands. I did use flash, but not a lot.

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Robin

09 Monday May 2016

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nature, outdoor

I photographed this singing robin while out walking in the surroundings of Bussum. I had some time to take several shots; the bird didn’t fly off until after a few minutes. It was the golden hour, the time when I go out cycling or running or walking. The sun color against the tree branch matches nicely with the bird’s color.

I normally don’t post nature shots here, but it might be a nice change sometimes. It seems to work well enough on my Instagram, so I thought I’d post this shot on my site as well.

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Sandstorm

20 Sunday Dec 2015

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action, color grading, eyes, gothic, outdoor, psychara

Or “When you just don’t listen”. This shot was done with Psychara, and she was actually standing in front of a large darkgreen door.

I stumbled across a few Photoshop actions and templates on the internet the other day, one of which was ‘Sandstorm’. You have to be careful to pick the right photo with this action, since it’s quite energetic.

The action was made by Sevenstyles and can be found on http://graphicriver.net/item/sandstorm-photoshop-action/10012562 (and no, this is not sponsored, I just find the action very cool).

For this photo it just seemed to accentuate the threatening look. It’s a bit extreme perhaps, but I tend to like photographs that seek up some boundaries.

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Vampire

22 Sunday Nov 2015

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castle, dreads, dress, gothic, lenses, vampire

I shot this one today from the very stylishy dressed Psychara (be sure to look her up on Instagram!). We had luck with the weather; a bit of sunshine and hardly any wind.

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