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Fit

18 Sunday Mar 2018

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blonde, fit, gels

It’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.

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Necklace

21 Sunday Jan 2018

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necklace

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.

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Back

21 Thursday Dec 2017

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backs, bw, muscles

Here’s another nice black & white shot from a while ago. I love the toning on her back, and the contrasty look.

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Curved

24 Tuesday Oct 2017

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bw, nude, oil, striplight

This shot was made with a single stripbox right next to the model. The light was in the shot but removed in postprocessing. Water and oil are always a nice effect on skin.

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Jeans

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.

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Natural Light

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).

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Jewels

23 Friday Jun 2017

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hair, wind

Here’s another one from a recent shoot with Marion.

One thing I did notice is the synchronization with the Linkstar LF-250 being 99% perfect; there is a small darkening at the bottom of the image, which is due to me using Yongnuo high-speed sync radio triggers, which almost work with the Linkstar, but not for the full 100%. I should test it with the Linkstar LF-400 to see if that works any better.

But if doesn’t really make the image any less. 😉

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Hair

30 Tuesday May 2017

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blonde, hair, lowkey

This shot was taken using a 90x60cm softbox on the left, and a small spotlight at the right rear of the model. Post-processing was done using Nik Analog Efex Pro.

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The Ring

15 Monday May 2017

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blonde, hair, lingerie, ring

This is Marion, who came by my studio almost a week ago. We used mostly a simple square softbox, and a gridded flashhead for the hair now and then.

This is one of my favorite pictures of her.

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Hats and red lips

30 Sunday Apr 2017

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dark, else, hat, lips, red

These are a few of my favorite things. Next to hair blowing in the windmachine, almost destroying the studio paper that is. 😉

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