Sessies
De Therminal
Enkele weken terug woonde ik de strobist meetup bij in de Therminal in Gent. De Therminal is een oude elektriciteitscentrale die omgebouwd is tot studentenhuis voor de Gentse studenten. Het is een moderne omgeving die een beetje breekt met onze traditie van urbex locaties maar voor een keer mag dat wel. Het haalt tenslotte je creativiteit naar boven en daar draait het allemaal om.
De eerste resultaten zijn binnen en ik wou u die niet onthouden.
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Ravenhof
Eind december had ik de mogelijkheid om met Paul D’Aubioul een fotoshoot te houden in het Ravenhof te Stabroek. Paul zorgde voor de locatie en de modellen, en verder was het carte blanche. Het hoeft niet gezegd dat ik dan helemaal in mijn element ben. Het was een korte shoot, 3 uurtjes maar, en ze vlogen ontzettend snel voorbij maar de resultaten kunnen mij wel bekoren:
Preview: Yessica & Yade
Vorig weekend had ik het genoegen om 2 model tergelijkertijd voor mijn lens te krijgen. De twee zusjes hadden graag enkele mooie, heldere foto’s van zichzelf gehad voor verschillende doeleinden (bv. Kerstkaartje, cadeautjes, herinneringen etc…).
Ik ben momenteel halfweg het post-processing proces en ik dacht dat ik jullie misschien een kleine sneak-peek kon aanbieden van de resultaten.
Strobist Meetup @ Citadelpark
De strobist meet-up voor oktboer was normaal gepland op een militaire airstrip in Ursel, maar door omstandigheden is deze locatie geannulleerd op het laatste nippertje en dus zijn we moeten terugvallen op onze backup locatie: Het Citadelpark te Gent. De groep bestond uit 15 fotografen en 5 modellen, dit creëerde toch wel een kleine menigte.
We verdeelden onszelf in groepjes om op zoek te gaan naar onze creatieve alter ego terwijl we experimenteerden met reportageflitsers en omgevingslicht.
De resultaten komen zachtjes aan binnen gedruppeld op de flickr groep maar hier zijn alvast mijn resultaten:
De Nieuwe Molens
Last week I had an impromptu photosession ‘just for fun’ with a good friend of mine in some abandoned industrial building in Ghent. The shoot only took 2 hours but I like the results a lot.
My gratitude goes to Sandra who was willing to pose for me in such a dirty location and her husband Karel who proved to be an able assistant during the shoot.
Enjoy the set…
Strobist meetup Doel III
This is the last batch of images from the Doel strobist meetup. I’m going to wrap this up with Lynn’s slideshow, enjoy!
Strobist meetup Doel II
The next batch of images from last weeks strobist meetup features my niece Jana, who I presented in an earlier post as camera-shy…
Things like that tend to change when I’m around 
Strobist meetup Doel I
Last sunday I organised a strobist meeting in Doel, probably one of the last times we’ll be able to go there. The meeting was a huge success and contrary to the last meeting there was an abundancy of models to work with. FYI: 6 photographers and 8 models to choose from…
After having plowed through the majority of my shots I hearby present you the first model to appear: Nathalie
Strobist meetup Deinze III
Last one in the series (for now at least). Since we had 6 photographers on the scene and only one model, we came up with the brilliant idea to just ask one of the parc visitors if they were interested to model for us, and apparantly we look really thrustworthy because the first person we asked immediately agreed to work with us.
So withouth further ado, I bring to you: Lisa, impromptu strobist model.
Strobist meetup Deinze II
Here’s the next batch of images from the strobist meetup, ready to leave my computer and follow their path on the internet.
Model this time is Sarah, who you might remember from the Doel shoot a few weeks ago.
Lighting setup was a single flash through a white umbrella, camera left/right depending on the shot;
Strobist meetup Deinze I
Today I attended the monthly strobist meetup organised by the Belgum Strobist Group. As always we had a lot of fun, learned a lot from/to each other and created some wonderful art in the progress.
Here’s the first batch of images that’s been processed. Due to a lack of models we used Tuffer as a stand-in, which proved to be a very good choice.
Lighting setup for these shots was a beauty dish to camera left, slightly above the subject.
[UPDATE] Added 1 more picture of this series because it fits here.
Doel I
After letting my camera gather dust for the first half of summer I decided that it was time to kick everything back into gear. I started missing my camera and doing what I love so after some gentle pushes by my wife I setup a shoot in the half-abandoned village of Doel. My models for the day where my niece Sarah and her boyfriend Sven. The shoot was ment as practice and fun but it turned out to be very refreshing and it made me realise how much I had missed going out to shoot.
So here a few shots from the shoot, more will follow and I hope to get a few more shoots before the baby arrives.
City Documentary "Ostend"
One of the assignments for this first year of photography was a small photo documentary of a city. I choose Ostend for the job and after a lot of hard work I’m finally ready to ship them off to the printer. Here are some images from the series. The complete series can be found on flickr.
Strobist Meet-up Dadipark (part 3)
The next scene we tried on the strobist meetup in Dadizele involved two models and a single speedlight. Models are Rikard and Adelien.
Strobist Meet-up Dadipark (part 1)
Yesterday I attended my very first “Strobist Meetup”-experience. And it was totally awesome! We had a great location, shooting in the old abandoned “Dadipark” entertainment park. The models where very easygoing and made this a really memorable experience. My gratitude goes out to my fellow photographers who tought me so much. Working together with a model and another photographer really opens up your view on shooting on location.
And a final “thank you!” to Sam for organizing all of this!
Subject of the first series is Richard. Enjoy!
Portrait in work environment
One of the assignments for school is a portrait in work environment. Yesterday I had the chance to take a few shots that qualify for this and I thought I’d share this.
Take a look and let me know what you think.
Alternative ending
The beast is slain
The last one from the LEGO series, at least for now…
Here’s an alternative ending for “slaying the dragon”…
Slaying the dragon
One of the assignments we have to do for school is a still life image. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now and after hours of trying and testing I’m still not quite there yet, but the results aren’t that bad either. So I thought I’d post a few for your entertainment
The pictures seem to tell a story but I’m not quite sure how it goes yet. I might elaborate on this and shoot the missing scenes. If anyone feels like making up a little story around this I’m open to suggestions…
After the beast is slain the noble warrior claims his prize…
Enjoy!
Meet the make-up artist – Part 3
Our third and last setup was a little more daring than the last two. We tried to change the lovely sweet Sofie into an sadistic nurse. Appearantly it is very hard to make a ‘vicious’ photograph of Sofie. Even with all that make-up and blood on her face, she still looks sweet; I think she deserves a medal for trying so hard to be something she’s not, just to please me
Again Martine did a great job at painting Sofie and helping me find the right artistic feel I needed. I just had to utter the words blood and scalpel or she would be on her way of finding both of them and adding them to the setup.
This is the last post about this shoot and I want to take the oportunity to thank both Martine for her help and creative input that made this shoot work, and my beautiful wife Sofie for her willingness to spend hours in the make-up chair just to help me out. Thank you both very much!
Behind the scenes it got very messy…
Fetishist
Third setup during my collaboration with Martine.
Technical
Model: Sofie
Make-Up: Martine
- Vivitar 285H in umbrella to camera right at 1/8 power
- Silver reflector camera left for fill
- Postprocessing in Lightroom / Photoshop
Classic Portrait?
This weekend I had a photoshoot over at my sister in-law to get some shots for their annual Christmas card. This is the second time they invite me to do this and I’m thrilled that their still placing their trust in me.
This time I came prepared with all, mild exageration, my gear stuffed in the car (black backdrop, flashes, triggers, …). They wanted to do a shot where their little boy, Robbe, would wear a Christmas hat and a big smile 
. The only problem was that he really, really doesn NOT like to wear that hat…
Apart from the hat problem you have to realise that I’m trying to do a professional photoshoot with semi-professional gear, a semi-professional assistant and a not-so-very-professional 2-year old model, who just got out of bed. To keep him sitting quiet during the shoot we fed him with loads of gummy bears and potato chips, which works, well, at least for a short while.
While going through the post-shoot selection process I found this beautiful shot at the end of the session. Isn’t my nephew just adorable? ^^
RAW
Another shot of Walter during the “Meet the make-up artist” – shoot. This time with heavy post-processing to get a very dark and raw effect. (click for larger view)
Hope you like it.
