steve's photography: Blog

New galery "cross processed" added

Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:00:00 GMT

Well, recently I tried some new presets in LR4 and was a bit hesitating about a preset that is called "cross process".

It gives a color rendering that goes a bit "70's", but I think that even if it look like "old stuff", it is still far better than the actual "Karl Lagerfeld"-style that you see almost anywhere.

So I made some tests and custom settings and found that the results were pleasing, at least for some photos.

Maybe you want to have a look?

GO CROSS PROCESS

New Galery "Squares" added

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:43:55 GMT

I like the square format very much, not only because it is more conveniant for fitting prints.

So I decided to publish some of my work in a separate galery:

GO SQUARE

Back from south of France II

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 13:29:19 GMT

It was a wonderfull week in sout-of-France, I will soon publish some photos of this event.

Till then i have to pay my traffic ticket (driving to fast to Nizza) :-(

south of France test shooting

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 17:12:48 GMT

Finally back from a five days shooting trip to south of France, testing models, make-up-artists and new locations. Wow! What I liked most was the variety of locations, the great light (not so easy to handle) an the quite atmosphere. We had the beaches almost for ourself.

Anyway, this was a good preparation for our upcoming workshops and meetings we plan for the near future.L1008460

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You will find more pictures of this tour on my website once I found the time to make a decent selection and some post-processing.

shooting with Zoi

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:48:02 GMT

This monday I had the oportunity to shoot with Zoi, an amazing fashion and nude model located now in Den Haag. We rapidly found some common points (we have both degrees in engeniering) and so communication was easy from the beginning (I just found that I have to polish my english skills as she talks incredibly fast). Starting shooting I realized what "out of this world - beauty" she is and how naturaly she poses. A real pleasure to work with her! We mostly shot nude for my bookproject, so I will not exhibit much on my site now.

I'm actually setting up a new super-computer, as always higher resolution of the pictures needs more processing power and storage place. So processing the pictures of Zoi will need some days...

But to show you what I mean, here an unprocessed image from the shooting

Welcome to my blog

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:38:05 GMT

Hello to all my visitors

Since Zenfolio, where my website is hosted, offers a blog from now on, I will now regularly update some news about my photographic work.

However, I'm confronted with the problem that my readers may expect my blog to be in several languages, in german, french or maybe english, so it may happen that some articles cannot be understood by everyone.

So I have choosen this image to make my blog a bit mysterious :-).

What is it?

I took this picture during a portrait and fashion shooting in Strassburg/France. While walking the streets in search of good locations, we discoverded this graffity. Normally I'm not a big fan of savage graffities, but in this case I found it funny and even lovely and I invited my model to participate by "entering" in the scene. The girl on the left is just a print (unfortunately, I don't know the artist).