Badass portraiture
I wanted to try this kind of portraiture with edgy studio light for a while and my buddy was kind enough to pose for me. We were going for the badass look which hopefully shows in the photos. I used a relatively simple three light setup for these shots. Two 66cm square portalites in the back left and right. Both were linked up to the Ranger RX with has symmetrical output power on both ports. The main light was a gridded 105cm Elinchrom striplight (the grid is a Lighttools grid). I positioned it horizontally above the camera pointing down. I like to use the striplight for portraits because you get a nice wide catchlight and your model doesn’t have to be in the exact same spot all the time. We used a ringlight for a few photos too but those didn’t came out the way I wanted for this theme. I dodged and burned the photos quite a bit in CS5 to get the extreme look that I was after.
Some more portraits of Michelle
Michelle has posed for me several times now. I’m still learning and love to shoot with her because she knows how to pose and I think that she has an amazing and photogenic face.
Test driving the 85mm 1.4G with available light
The new Nikkor 85mm 1.4G is a great portrait lens that I recently acquired. Edith and I went to a nice location near Amsterdam where I took it for a spin with available light only.
Sisters
I took these sisters to what used to be a ship wharf in my area (NDSM) for a few location portraits.
In anticipation of the new Nikkor 85mm 1.4G
Once I finally decided that I want to get the new Nikkor 85mm 1.4G, it’s not available anywhere here in The Netherlands. And no ETA either. Sigh. So I decided to try a few portraits with my 50mm 1.4G instead…
2 Years to Apocalypse
We did a studio session today with two members of the band “2 Years to Apocalypse” to try and find a light setup and post processing style for them.
Photos of the new Panerai PAM372 Luminor 1950
A new post with lots of pictures of the Panerai PAM372 is up on my wristwatchphoto.com blog. I always love getting the opportunity to shoot my favorite watches. You can read the full post here: PAM372 in detail.
Beauty shoot
These pictures are the result of a recent studio shoot in Amsterdam. Everything was shot with a Nikon D700 and a Nikkor 24-70 2.8 lens @ f8
Panerai PAM322 shoot
I did a shoot with the Panerai PAM322 on the 26th of February. Except for two close up shots of the crown, the photos were shot using a Nikon 85mm PCE 2.8 tilt/shift lens. The lighting setup was more or less the same for most shots;
