Photo Journey

How to be a good client

I just came across this on the site of a (very good) fellow designer. Funny - and amazing how many times I have had some of the thoughts expressed here. Not all of them, but most of them...

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 Fortunately most of my clients are great!

3 Portraits - Kevyn Major Howard style...

I am an admirer of photographer Kevyn Major Howard. His work is amazing. He makes portraits of people out of his garage in Los Angelos, simply using daylight and a reflector.

Last night I set up a strobe and a simple reflector. Sophie was kind enough to pose for me. Next, I took the best images, imported them into Lightroom for some simple adjustments, and then into Photoshop CS3 for extensive retouching. I don't think Mr. Howard does all that... But I am trying to improve my retouching skills, so I followed a tutorial on Lynda.com by Chris Orwig, which was quite helpful. Then I uploaded these three images to dpreview.com (here and here)to ask for feedback... I know that sounds like a lot of work - but trust me, I learn so much this way...

Would love to know what you think of my images, though!

Olympic Opening: an amazing collection!

Check out this fantastic set of images from the opening of the Beijing Olympics. Absolutely stunning!

People in Aix

I've spent the last week in Aix-en-Provence in the South of France. We went to the market (a fun experience in itself). While there, it struck me how beautiful and capturing many of the people were. I spent Saturday afternoon in the centre of Aix, together with my trusted Nikon 70-200/f2.8. Here are some of the images I shot...

The whole gallery on Flickr (80 images)...