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Changed a bit around on the blog, to prepare for the festival season coming up, making it easier to post wider pictures. Now to play a bit with text that isn’t 950 px wide.
But for now, enjoy these pix.
Only some RAW Enhancing (mostly white balance and a bit exposure).
You know the feeling of having that one shot, that you always think of when you pass a place, but never have been able to capture it like you want it to?
Well. My place is famous and huge: Ford Genk.
For years I have been taking pics of the canal whenever I passed it. I think I have hundreds of snaps, with different camera’s. All like this. The first one is the earliest I could find, in 2007. Last one was 2010 new year’s morning, with my dad teasing me by braking while making the shot.
Slightly (of very, very) blurry, no framing, road in the way, etc. Blaarg. All until yesterday. Thanks to _NF_. Testing a brand-spanking new D700 in the industry filled forests of Genk. A shot can work in the mind, but you have to take the time to make it.
For the ones interested: D700, 35mm f/2 lens. 1/1000 – f/9. Check out the finished shot here in a larger format.
Thanks again Nadia :).
A reflector without it’s second skin, can do wonders in the full sun.
Check out Sarah holding it.
And the results.
A great portrait depends on various factors. Composition, Light, Model. When one of those 3 fails, the picture fails. In here I will show you the set-up we did on a shot last night, in fading daylight, 2 remote triggered flashes, a reflector, and a willing Model: Fran.
First test-shot about the flash placement.
We see all light needs to be adjusted, and so does the angle (of course). So I dropped down on my knees, and made the second shot.
better, but I want there be more of a surrounding feeling, so I change my lens from the 28mm f2.8 prime lens, to an 18-105mm f3.5-5.6 lens. Since we are using flash, we can use a closer aperture.
The model placement is fine, now we need the back light to be more direct, and we need a front light. The model needs to look a bit looser, so we loosen her hair.
And the jacket
The back and keylights are fine. But we are missing a fill light. Enter a gold reflector.
That’s more like it! Now we work with the model. Fran is a musician, so not a professional model. So we have to catch her off-guard, and make her smile.
That’s nice!
And now we let her look off-camera, and make her work that gorgeous smile!
finished shot, cropped for dramatic reasons to a 8×10. All in all, a very nice day. and again, a thanks the _NF_ for the material. :)
Just gotten this mail.
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:: Schmap Galway Tenth Edition: Photo Inclusion
Hi Kris,
I am delighted to let you know that your submitted photo
has been selected for inclusion in the newly released tenth
edition of our Schmap Galway Guide:
Sea Cruise Connemara
http://www.schmap.com/galway/activities_connemara/p=86625/i=86625_16.jpg
If you use an iPhone or iPod touch, then this same link
will take you directly to your photo in the iPhone version
of our guide. On a desktop computer, you can still see
exactly how your photo is displayed and credited in the
iPhone version of our guide at:
Sea Cruise Connemara
http://www.schmap.com/?m=iphone#uid=galway&sid=activities_connemara&p=86625&i=86625_16
Thanks so much for letting us include your photo – please
enjoy the guide!
Best regards,
Amanda Brooks
Editor, Schmap Guides
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Cool :)
Vandaag hele dag in de Kathedraal geweest voor fotografie en paar shots.
Dit is een echte Blik Op Hasselt.
Meer foto’s volgen nog!
Het was me weer een dagje. Na woensdag, donderdag én vrijdag kerstfeestjes te hebben, hebben we gisterenavond met An (we = ik en Elias, m’n neef), eens Iron Man gezien op onze gloednieuwe 5.1 Surround), hebben we de dag creatief besteed met fotografie, ontwerpen en exploderende schoenen.
Enfin. Na de drukke kerstdagen wou ik ‘s avonds eens rustig voor TV hangen, werd ik opeens uitgenodigd door beste vriendinnen voor nog eens naar de Non te gaan. En waarom niet he :D
Uiteindelijk werd het Witte Non, de Egel, en daarna nog een kerstmarktje. Daarna nog het begin van Valkyrie gezien op Blu-ray (pa zijn eerste BD), en verder nog wat met foto’s bezig geweest.
Onderandere deze in een veld in Hulst, just bij ma.
Tadaaa.
Anyhow, time for bed !
Deze namiddag en vroege avond heb ik me onder eens kunnen uitleven.
Samen met _NF_ hebben we de living en tuin omgebouwd tot een studio, en ben ik ingewijd in de wereld van Flitsers en studiospots.
Ook heb ik een aantal nieuwe lenzen kunnen gebruiken en testen. Hieronder een lijstje vanuit mijn Lightroom Metadata.
De onbekende lens is de enige echte Lensbaby Composer! Interessante lens, maar zeker niet iets voor in donkere locaties mee te prullen. De focus is zo nauw, en alles ligt zo manueel dat het echt wel moeilijk is scherp te stellen. De custom Bokeh filters zijn echt wel prachtig. (sterretjes ipv rond bokeh? Brilliant!)
Wat we ook geprobeerd hebben is de shot van “Light it, Shoot it, Retouch it” na te doen, of toch het basis idee er al van. Het valt te zien hoe ver het later gaat lukken, eens de tutorial verder loopt.
Bekijk alle foto’s *hier*!
Hopelijk volgen meer foto’s snel, want ik heb nog wat hele leuke ideetjes!
An English post for once. I just got back from the lab, getting y freshly developed Nikon F4 Negatives in Black and White. Or at least inverted.
But I have no scanner here. Now what? Sure, I can wait, but I still want to see how they look.
Well, que Photo Booth. With the standard X-Ray filter, you get a grayscale view of the world, but just a little bit inverted.
So all we need is a backlight that serves as a backdrop for the negatives. In this case I used my trusty iPhone with one of the gazzilion free Light apps, and voila, an instant negative / positive viewer.
There also are extra effects (More iChat Effects) that show a colored negative, but these are not really that effect. See for yourself:
Still, for those quick grayscale views, it’s perfect!
Of Course, if you could set the iSight to manual exposure, it would be easier, but we can’t have all, can we? :)
Dus mijn nieuwe lens is aangekomen. Super ding, degelijk metaal, glas met nanocoating. Superlens!
Een lens bespreken zonder foto’s is nutteloos natuurlijk.
Ik kan niet wachten tot het volgende optreden waar ik het concertgehalte van deze lens kan uittesten!
