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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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Throwback time

21 Sunday Aug 2016

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bokeh, bw, lowkey, renate, shadow

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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Film Noir

14 Thursday Jul 2016

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Xenia dropped by the studio two days ago; normally she’s more into more natural shoots with natural lighting, home backdrops etc, but this time we used the studio.

I used one of my favorite light modifiers, which is a gobo spot, without any silhouette in the spot, so it’s just a round spot. The lens was a Sigma 85/1.4, camera a Canon 6D. For the technically interested, ISO 100, f/2.0 at 1/1600s. The flashes normally don’t do HSS (high-speed sync) but I’m using Yongnuo YN-622C remote triggers. The flash itself is an old Linkstar LF-250 at low power.

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Flowing

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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bw, eleonora, hair, shadow

This is another one of Eleonora the other day. Beautiful hair, lips, looks. Love this one.

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Heidi

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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bokeh, bw, heidi, jacket, leather, shadow

Here is an image I took of Heidi a week or so ago. I’m a big fan of Silver Efex Pro, which is free these days; this image was also converted to black & white using Silver Efex, using one of the Film Noir presets as a start.

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Tattoos

01 Wednesday Jun 2016

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Here’s an older one from Felicia back in November, 2015.

I revisited the shoot pictures, and even though the placing of Felicia is ‘off’ compared to general rules (she’s to the left of the image, while normally she would be more to the right of the image), I still like her soft expression and collection of ornaments.

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Tattoos

Sunglasses

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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Looking from behind her cool glasses.

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Dark Lips

10 Thursday Mar 2016

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Another one from Eleonora, with a very hard spotlight close by. But she does take it very well.

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Purple Light

16 Saturday Jan 2016

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color grading, maaike, shadow

It’s been over a year since Maaike came by, much too long. Here is one of her in a spotlight.

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