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Teaser · Lotte & Jeroen

It is very hard for me to pick images for a preview or a teaser. I want to keep the tension high for the couple, I want them to long to see the pictures. (yes I’m a bit of a sadist). You want to keep your best pictures for the final showing but still you need to live up to your standards when presenting the first images… I also try not to show too much very soon after the wedding, it makes the impact on the final showing that much bigger!

But Lotte & Jeroen so kindly asked me if I could show a couple of images because someone dear to them could not attend the wedding. (and see her in her lovely dress!)

I hope I picked just the right images. The extended tease can be found here.



Teaser · Griet & Fré

Wedding Season kicked into overdrive !

… and I’m a running a bit *kuch* behind on the post processing part of things, partly because I’m still trying to optimize my workflow and I’m trying to find a good balance between photography related work and life away from a camera or computer. Therefore me and Wenti decided we could do with a little roadtrip to France, we packed our car with a mini fridge, strolled the market in the mornings and went for picknick in the afternoon. In the late afternoon we started looking for a place to stay and the outcome of that chambre d’hôte hunt turned out very very nice.

But we are back now, batteries charged for the wedding season, August & September are looking to be a rather busy period and to kick some life back into this blog I have something special for Griet & Fré today.

We were actually setting up for a larger group shot with the bridesmaids and groomsmen when Fré took matter into his own hands.

I kinda feel bad about this shot knowing that he had a back-surgery planned for after the wedding. But I looove the outcome, it has this hollywood, casablanca kind of feeling. (Although the pose might have been a bit daring back in 1942…)

And I just love it when the wedding party is all dressed to match and come up with ideas by themself, it makes my job just that much more fun!

Griet & Fré (and the rest of the über friendly family, friends, bridesmaids, groomsmen & master of ceremony) , thanks for a fun day and there is more where this came from!

Wentiti’s

It seems that @wenti found her creative outlet and to celebrate the unveiling of her new product line I got to turn the house upside down for some funky looking product shots. But of course it’s the mutskes that steal the show.

May I present to you : “pinnemuts”, “bloem”, “pompon” & “bij”.

More pictures & hats will be added to her flickr page. The facebook fan page is in the works! :)

Setup
The trick was to find a way to mount the hats, since we don’t have babies in different age groups freely available we turned to balloons instead. At first the balloons were held upright by putting a magnet inside the balloon and one underneath a glossy piece of paper, but 999 balloon bursts and 2 very scared kittens later we went for a different approach: suspend the hats from a crossbar with a nylon thread. (this involves a clever mix of sewing, taping & cursing)

Cluttered setup shots here & here

Strobist
580EX at 1/16 through softbox camera left.
White cardboard (box) for bounce/fill shadow camera right.
FL40 with colored gels underneath shiny surface table aimed at white wall.
Camera on tripod ISO100, 1/200, F4