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Engagement & Wedding Photography, eSession

eSession · Loes & Stijn

Posted on by Tom Leuntjens

Don’t I have the coolest job? Spending a fun afternoon in a crowdy town called Antwerpen on a hot Saturday in the company of a super natural crazy in love couple. They were so fun to shoot and had little or no restrictions so I thought why not do a part on my favorite little piece of public transport … “den tram”!

Loes & Stijn, thanks for bringing the fun and I hope you like the results!

It’s so hard for me to choose favorites from this session, I’m in love with every image so take your time and check out the full set HERE! or scroll down for the embedded flash slideshow.

Flickr Slideshow

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A special thank you to today’s little miss sunbounce Sofie for helping me out, spotting the superman sign, hauling gear (although I packed very light) and supplying the chit-chatter while I took a couple of wrong turns driving in Antwerpen trying to avoid the bloody traffic jams. She even caught me in action during the shoot and was so oh so kind (@#|@) to tweet that. I’ll have my vengeance ;)t

Portraits, Strobist

Not your classic Rembrandt lighting

Posted on by Tom Leuntjens

This week I had a very fun evening session assisting Sofie on her salsa-school shoot. Who would have thought I’d ever set foot in a dance school …. Salsa is about rhythm, I knew the shot I wanted to make but I ran into a bit of a wall when I wanted to combine the ingredients Canon, PocketWizard Plus II, 580EXII and 2nd curtain flash. It just wasn’t possible, but the Nikon CLS system saved the day and claimed victory. I’m sure Sofie will be posting the results of that very soon, so do drop in at her blog.

So I happily played my role as assistant, helping out with the light setups and I got to work on my boom-arm skills!

But I wouldn’t be going home happy if I wouldn’t have been able to make a creative portrait of Tom.

Not your classic Rembrandt model

One in black&white but being the colorful person that Tom is I think color suits him best.

Set up
A couple of boring curtains where lit up by a red-gelled-580EX on the background, 1/32th power zoomed at 85mm. Red for salsa passion! I keep finding the amazement on the subjects face very pleasing if they say “wow, where did that red light come from?”. The main light was a vivitar 285HV at 1/16 fired into a silver brolly positioned close to 90° camera left of the subject. Moved in rather close and slightly higher than the subject. Even at 90° the parabolic shape of the umbrella makes the light wrap around the subject and it’s doesn’t look linear. On shot 3 & 4 I payed attention to the fact that a part of the (camera)right eye was visible but that is personal taste.

5D – 50mm – 1.4 – 1/200th – ISO100

Engagement & Wedding Photography, eSession

Charlotte & Dirk · eSession

Posted on by Tom Leuntjens

WARNING

Some of you might already have seen previews on the blog and/or twitter but I felt I should warn you before looking any further, this couple will make you feel all warm & tingly inside, you’ll just want to go home and hug your girl, boyfriend, man or wife. Hell you’ll might even want to contact me and book an eSession or beLoved session yourself 😉

The full set is linked in the pictures.