Anita helped me with holding the reflector while shooting the HR-photo for Tomislav. Of course, when already present in the room I asked her for a portrait as well. 

Next to her work in our firm, Anita writes (and photographs) a delicious blog about food. You should have a look at her instagram page of you like cooking.

Five seconds, window light and a reflector.

Tomislav came to me and asked me for a normal portrait. He needed one for the HR department. Of course I was willing to do him a favor, but it would cost him: a multiple second portrait. We did this one first and the second (out of three) did it. 

Window light, six seconds and a reflector.

I took a look at the images made from the other camera (a great one, the fuji x-pro, which I always carry) and then from my ‘special’ camera. The latter sees things I don’t even see. To me, the background (a whiteboard) is white. To the fuji as well.

The ‘special’ camera captures so much more detail, it is amazing and so look the prints. It is a shame I use this camera only for this project, but then I want it to remain special. For this project only. Call me silly.

At the end of the working week I found Katarina still being in the office. Most people had left already and I was preparing to go as well. That said, there is always time to create a portrait. 

Being dressed in white, I thought it would be a great fit with her black hair and with my whiteboard (which obviously was not cleaned that well by me).

We did four images, this one lasting five seconds. Window light and my reflector.

Some weddings one simply will never forget …

It was friday night, I just finished off a small intimate wedding, and I had to take the last plane to Dubrovnik. I was doubting though. A wedding was booked for Sunday but after the booking (and payment), I never heard back from the bride. Never. Simply Never.

The only thing I know was the name of the bride, that the wedding would be somewhere in Dubrovnik and coming Sunday. But all this I know before ten months, and then the bride simply ignored all my mails and phonecalls. May be the wedding was off? What to do? Go, or not go?

As the wedding was paid in full, I decided to go. In worst case I would enjoy a weekend in Dubrovnik. So I took the plane, and had a nice Saturday morning coffee on Stradun. Still no sign from the bride. I decided to go to every hotel in town to ask if they may be had a wedding on Sunday. Happily, Sunday weddings are not that frequent and happily, hotels doing destination weddings are to be counted on two hands. I was lucky though. The first hotel confirmed they had ‘my’ wedding: the receptionist looked a bit strange though when I told him I lost my bride …

So, now I had exact location and I got even a time when preparation started in the hotel, so I felt a bit better knowing I had a job to do. When on Sunday I finally met the bride and asked her why she never came back to me, her response was strinking: “oh, I know you are a pro, you would show up …”. That simple. Who needs wedding stress?

My last series shot with the Sigma DP0 Quattro. Though a great camera, a great tool, it doesn’t fit my style. I do people and if possible from close. 

The DP0 is simply to wide for me for this purpose. It is a great tool for story telling, for cinematic use. However not for me. I don’t need wide, I need medium format :)

The series below is a follow-up from this series. Patterns are every where. You just need to see them. Shot in monochrome mode, split-toned with NIK.

Patterns are a great subject to photograph in cinematic view (21:9), especially when done in black & white. Images below were shot with the Sigma DP0 Quattro, in monochrome mode.