the owners grant me access to the building for my art photography, it might help speed up the process of finding a new owner, what do you think? It has fine decorative elements everywhere, some are temporary, some are permanent.
Model: Eline Tandt
17-40mm
Sunburst – NSFW
beauty, Nude, Personal PicturesSingle image post.
People who’ve seen my exhibition in Gavere (about 850 of you) have seen this image ‘real life’.
Because it relates so well with the current weather here in Belgium and Europe, … free for all.
Sunburst.
Canon 5D II with Canon 17-40mm f4.0
1/60s – f11 – ISO100 – 39mm
thank you for watching,
ludwig
Cirrus – Pauline
beauty, Personal PicturesI would call it a perfect day.
Perfect weather, perfect location, perfect model.
A first single image of this shoot with Pauline. Pauline had been my first model in the series ‘at the Mansion’ shoots, about 2 and a half year ago. Shortly after that shoot she suffered severe injuries from a traffic accident. But she’s back, and she loved being in front of the camera again.
Congratulations to you Pauline, for your courage, your perseverance and your hard work, for getting back your life, I think you came out stronger.
Cirrus, named after the clouds, that so nicely accompanied this shoot.
Canon 5D II with Canon 17-40 mm f4.0, 1/125s at f 11, ISO 100.
come again soon for more images of this wonderful day.
Location: SONS
thank you for reading,
ludwig
Urbex shoot
architecture, Personal PicturesHi there, it’s been a while since my last post, but a lot has been going on here. I have been pretty busy with my Renderhouse jobs, and next to that, I have been assigned as a teacher for two evening classes in photography. YESSS!! I will be giving the basics of photography to one group (all about camera settings, exposure, composition basics, etc. …) and another evening class will handle Photoshop Lightroom 4 editing. I’m all excited, today is the first day I will be in front of one of the groups. …
I still found the time today to finish my urbex shoot post-processing from two weeks ago. I have been shooting in a place that has been abandoned for about two years I guess, but is still in pretty good shape. No vandals have passed by here (yet) The place is owned by one of my Renderhouse customers, and we made a deal. I would to shoot the ‘heart and soul’ of the villa as it is now, and then I can make use of of the location for future model/beauty shoots. Great, I love that kind of deal!
What you see here is the result of a 3 hour shoot, a short time of image selection, and about 3 hours of postprocessing. Hope you like them. click images to see a bigger size version of them.
Most of the images have been made with the 17-40 mm f4 L wide-angle zoom lens, some with 50mm f1.4, some details with 85mm f1.8. All on Canon 5D II.
Thank you for watching, please leave a comment if you feel so.
Come again!!
ludwig
North Sea
landscapes, Personal Pictures, personal tips & tricks, Tips and TricksHi,
long time since I posted some new images. I have been busy preparing the two exhibitions and that is now over, with the last exhibition opening this saturday evening. You are still very welcome to come visit the exhibition. (wednesday, saturday and sunday from 14:00 h till 18:00 h. in ‘de Oude Brouwerij’ Ronse.)
I have been to the North sea on april 22nd, and I wanted to show you some images I brought with me. I have further experimented with the ND Grey filters, I used them before in Calais/Cap-Griz-Nez too.
Here I used only the ND 1000 filter, which blocks about 8 stops of light, and let’s pass only 1/1000th of the light. This allows for long exposure times in plain daylight.
The technique is quite simple: you setup your tripod (best a good sturdy one, because when the sea surface is coming over the breakwater, you get some nasty winds blowing you almost out of your clothes.) and make your best composition possible. Verify your normal exposure. Now without further touching your camera, switch to manual focus if not already done, screw on your ND filter and calculate your new exposure time. In my situation, I had to lengthen the exposer time x1000. E.g. 1/100 sec without filter became 10 seconds with filter.
Then wait for the sea tide to come up. Get cold, try to protect your camera from waves splattering on the rocks, almost get blown over, get wet feet, get a rain shower on your head, and then decide you tried your best and try to find some shelter.
All images taken with 17-40 mm on Canon 5D mark II, exposure times of about 50-60 seconds. Aperture f1/16 up to f1/22. The first shot is composed out of 4 exposures, I converted the images to BW in Lightroom, then added a blue’isch color cast in Photoshop.
Hope you liked them, click for bigger version!
ludwig
Côte d’Opale
landscapes, Personal PicturesSome pictures I took on our family trip to Calais – Cap Griz Nez and Cap Blanc Nez.
The use of an ND filter and long exposures make for foamy sea-surface. I loved experimenting with it an will surely go back there for some more of these. All three with the Canon 17-40 mm on 5D MarkII.
Don’t forget to click them to see a bigger version.
Remember, all of my images are available for sales. they are perfect for your modern home decoration. 😉
Ludwig
tRonsenaarke 2nd Cover image
assignments, Personal Pictures2nd assignment for ‘t Ronsenaarke, a local advertising and socio-cultural calendar magazine.
Bingo shop is a shop where you can find anything for your household you could possibly think of, in a cheaper version.
Nothing was prepared for the shoot, so I had to setup a decor myself. I have about one-an-a-half hour for such a shoot. Had to be quick.
So if everybody could now please call me the master decoration chief. Thank you 😀
The top empty space will be filled with the magazine cover title. Looks kinda weird like this.
