I’ve owned flashes for a decade now. I never ever ever used the stroboscopic setting before. Time to give it a try. Zime to blackout the room and time to start moving around!

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This one wasn’t planned. I tried to get a certain shot, but just couldn’t get it to work. I quit. Then I decided to test something. I already have a light up there, how will it look if I use it as the only light? Let’s find out. Quite happy with these unexpected results: Continue reading →

The idea is simple: Throw enough light at the background to make it white. Throw no light at the model to make it black. Enhance contrast. If you do it well enough you get some silhouettes. Continue reading →

Every year around this time Germany is covered in yellow rapeseed fields. I’ve always wanted to do a photo shoot there. And so I scouted out a location and we went there. Soo much yellow! Then we waited for the sun to set and give us a dramatic evening light. Continue reading →

This week I wanted to try something simple: Just some classic portrait lighting setups. And I wanted to use a particular piece of gear. I have this foldable roundflash (link) that packs really small, so you can easily carry it everywhere. It’s a weird light former, being a little bit of a softbox, a little bit beauty dish, a little bit roundflash – whatever. I used it before, but now I wanted to give it a proper try. Continue reading →

Sorry for not posting updates, I have just been lazy. But: The project is still going on, we didn’t miss another week, I just procrastinated the editing and blogging.

So the city of Bonn planted a bunch of cherry trees in some of the streets in the area calling itself “Altstadt”. Every spring these blossom and it looks kinda nice. This has become an actual tourist attraction, ever since photos appeared on the internet. Yep – Bonn is that lame that a couple of nice trees are seen as a big event here. We went with the flow and used it as a background for the that weeks photo shoot.

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