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Rockchick

21 Sunday Jul 2019

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I usually use Social Media these days; Instagram and Facebook, rather than post here. Seems having your own website is nice but doesn’t get the reach you get from good old IG. 🙂

Anyway, time to post one here I guess; it’s Marion. We went for a day to a museum, shooting both inside and outside in various places. This is one of my favorites.

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Home shoot

24 Wednesday Apr 2019

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home, natural

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My second post today, to catch up on things. I’ve been inspired to do some more shooting. Here are four shots of Melissa, a French girl living in the Netherlands. We met at her home, where I used a few new LED continuous lights to tweak lighting just a bit. Other than that most of it is natural light.

 

Springtime

24 Wednesday Apr 2019

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maaike, nature, sun, tree

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Here are three shots I took last Easter weekend of Maaike. It was the warmest Easter since recorded history and the apple trees were filled with blossom, so a great opportunity to take some beautiful shots.

We took these in the Betuwe, an area in the Netherlands with lots of fruit trees and places to do some walking or cycling.

Hope you like them!

Autumn 2018

24 Sunday Mar 2019

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Here is an image I shot at the end of last summer. Today marked the ending of winter here in the Netherlands, where the sun was as nice to the skin today as it was back in autumn last year.

After some reading in the sun in the garden things got pretty chilly, so a nice excuse to go through some images and put one up here.

Although global warming isn’t a good thing, it’s nice to see the sun again; perhaps it will be as good a summer as it was last year.

Credits to beautiful Xenia for modeling & styling.

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When it was 2017

03 Sunday Mar 2019

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Here is an oldie from my first shoot with lovely Marion back in 2017. There are still so many pictures that look great, and the Dutch weather today was a good excuse to revisit that shoot and turn one those pictures into black & white and post it here.

Hope you enjoy it!

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Tommy

24 Sunday Feb 2019

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Here’s one I shot the other day in November, 2018 of Daantje. The lens was a Sigma 50mm f/1.4 ART, opened to f/1.6.

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Something in the Woods

04 Sunday Nov 2018

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A month ago I went to see Xenia and we did a small shoot in a park nearby her place. It’s nice to have a combination of light and varying trees nearby with which to play around.

Also, an 85mm lens makes distant lights so nice and soft.

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Beach

26 Sunday Aug 2018

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A few days ago the summer was still going strong here in the Netherlands. Just about the last warm day, Marion and I went to the beach to catch some last pictures. Right now, the weather is shifting, rain now & then but also some warm sun still.

The rainy and darker parts of the day are good to get back at some photoshopping. I often find that color pictures work better with Marion, but I liked this in black & white slightly better.

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Sunny

28 Saturday Jul 2018

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Here is a shot I took with Maaike in the Blauwe Kamer, near Rhenen. Always a nice place to walk around, inbetween semi-wild cows and horses. It was in the evening, the sun not that low yet. Lots of large high yellow flowers around.

I still love backlight images, it’s great for hair like this.

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Autumn

12 Tuesday Jun 2018

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I haven’t done many shoots lately, so here’s one from November last year with the lovely Marion. It was actually quite dark in this particular spot, which was surrounded by trees. Fortunately the Canon 6D (mkI) is very sensitive to light, so you can still shoot at high ISO’s without too much noise.

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