Utilizing my kitchen studio for low key photography.

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Tags: Photography Techniques, Photo Shoots, Light Conditions, Low Key

Meeting wild horses and Welsh mountain sheep.

A short weekend trip brought us this June to Wales. Since absolutely nothing was planned about this trip, but it all being a spontaneous idea, I opened Google maps on a Friday morning and looked what area could be of interest. So, we ended up in the Bryn, a small village near Abergavenny, the self proclaimed "Gateway to Wales" on the foot of Brecon Beacons National Park. We stayed in the Old Rectory Bed & Breakfast in the Bryn, an absolutely lovely and charming place with Liz and her daughter Kate being wonderful hosts. Coming from the west in the A40, the mountain range of the National Park towered by the Sugar Loaf Mountain lay in front of us and became already in the car my target destination for the weekend. Read More...

Tags: Photography, Photo Shoots, Light Conditions, Nature & Countryside

Summer sunshine tourist photography - or the spirit of Life just happens.

Sometimes life just happens. And one has to hop on. That would be the gist of this story.

On the day of arrival I took our weekend guest, my good friend from Norway to one of my favourite spots in the neighbourhood: to the Iron Trunk Aqueduct. This Aqueduct lets the Grand Union Canal cross the River Ouse in Stony Stratford - so it is an open water bridge (Maybe this is part of Wolverton. It does not matter.). Along the Aqueduct is a mooring place for the canal boats. A peaceful place, what many boat dwellers call their home… Read More...

Tags: Photography, Photo Filter, Photo Shoots, Light Conditions, Seasonal Impressions, Grand Union Canal, Short Movie, Nature & Countryside

An approach on photographing grass.

Last week I was talking about photographs which mainly consist of texture or where texture plays a significant role in the photograph. I found that texture is captured very well with side lighting, where the natural light enhances shadows and highlights without drowning the shadows in black or blowing out the highlights. I experimented some more on this subject this past week. Read More...

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How the texture of materials impacts a photograph.

Over the last few months I payed more attention on how to emphasise the texture of an object that I photograph and how the texture of such objects can impacts a photograph. Actually, I was looking for images whose main compositional element is the texture itself.
Texture relates us to the feeling of a surface. Usually we explore a texture by vision and by touch. However, in a photograph, we don't have the luxury of experiencing the texture by touching it. The viewer of a photograph needs to be convinced by vision on how that photographed surface actually feels like. Read More...

Tags: Photo Shoots, Photography, Light Conditions, Urban Decay

Being at the right place at the right time.

On one of my last trips along the norther East Coast in the U.S. I made it up to Cape Neddick in York, Maine. My destination was the Nubble light house. Since this was a rather spontaneous decision I made it there in the mid afternoon on a sunny Sunday - amongst busloads of other tourists. But being patient enough, I managed to capture the image of the Nubble Light house below.Although it looks rather unreal, this is done at the right time with the right equipment.

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Tags: Photography, Photo Shoots, Photo Filter, Photography Techniques, Light Conditions, Maine, Nature & Countryside

The art of photogarphing building blocks.

In one of my previous posts I was talking about the power of indirect light in photography and where and how to find it in your house. No studio setup, no fancy lights. Just simple photography. This time I approached photographing building bloks in my pro kitchen studio.

Tags: Photography, Photography Techniques, Photo Shoots, Light Conditions

The art of photographing kitchen utensils.

On my current mission to photograph things around the house (and make them look interesting) I decided to finally utilize the wonderful indirect light coming trough the back kitchen window in the early morning hours.
If you are a photographer like me and you don't own a closet full of lighting equipment (and does not want even wan to own a closet full of lighting equipment), utilizing indirect light coming through any window in your house is absolutely fantastic for photographing... well,things. Have you ever seen those dreamy type flower portraits? The rose for example with the water drops on it, with the blossom being kind of underexposed and only partially visible? This mystic looking pile of coffee beans? If this is something you like, than indirect light is something for you. Read More...

Tags: Photography, Photo Shoots, Light Conditions, Photography Techniques

Another visit to the old stone baptist church in Boylston

On a Sunday afternoon cruise I drove by one of my favorite locations, the old stone baptist church in Boylston, Massachusetts. This church sits aside the reservoir and is the the last reminder of an old town, which was located in the valley below the church before the reservoir was flooded in the early nineteen hundreds...

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Tags: Massachusetts, Boylsoton, Wachusett Reservoir, Light Conditions, Photo Filter, Nature & Countryside