One of the assignments for the photography course was a triptych with a black background. So I figured I’d take an old theme (to hear see and to be silent) and take a little different approach. So last Thursday we were painting the house at my parents-in-law and I askedPeter, my brother-in-law, to pose during our coffee break. This must have been my shortest shoot ever: 8 minutes! Thanks to Ton and Peter for loaning the equipment and holding up the black fur coat as background on some shots. Used Ton’s 5D + 580EX handheld left, zoomed in to 105mm, fired with Peter’s ST-E2 module.

Sorta theme of this day: “Lost and found”, or how to include stuff that is allready there in your images.

For our portrait photography course we had to shoot a self portrait. I had this idea about shooting myself through a lens so worked this out. It proved not that easy but, you live, you learn and I learned some stuff. Or more remembered some stuff actually. It was mainly the space available that bothered me. Included setup diagram (used the psd from Kevin Kertz) and setup pics. Also included some shots made on the third evening of the course.

So, the other day I was thinking about packing stuff and what I was going to drag along with me on a short trip and came across my omnibounce. I thought it’s quite a pain in the … when it has to go in my bag. I had some A4 folders I had bought for a next mini softbox but I figured I could make a nice foldable omnibounce out of this stuff. So after some heavy origami I ended up with this concept which works pretty well. I started out thinking I could do something like the way a shopper bag folds but that would need some gluing and this stuff just won’t glue. After some toying around with paper sheets I made this one. I am working on a V2 which will be able to hold a gel as well. Template is here, it’s for a 70×45 flash head but you can scale it down when printing or . Check out the images for more details.

Last week I started on this course at Griffioen at the VU and these are some of the results from day 2. (Or actually evening 2) The “models” are fellow photographers. Mainly using one light setups, continuous light at high iso’s.