So I just started out with my minor. The next five months of school will include photos, graphic design, art direction and more artsy stuff. Suffice to say I’m looking forward to (finally) doing a lot of assignments that include photos.
This is the result of my first assignment. The theme I had to use is ’space’, in the broadest sense of it’s meaning. I had some pretty good ideas, but none of them were possible to do in less than a week.
It’s hard to be original with this theme, but I did my best, and I’m quite pleased with the result. The model in the photo is my friend Eva (thanks again!). She had to endure pretty harsh conditions; it was cold, very foggy and you really don’t want to know what her shoes looked like when we were finished.
Be sure to press the ‘Full Screen’ button on the bottom right!
This is the first time in years I shot some images on film. I recently bought a Vivitar 35ES rangefinder and these pictures are the result of it’s first test run. It is really awkward to shoot film again. I have to admit that I’m a bit lazy when it comes to aligning horizontal lines correctly while shooting. It’s a lot easier to straighten photos in Lightroom. It’s a bad idea to do this while shooting film though, as you can see on the photos.
Anyway, I really enjoy this little camera. And shooting film is fun too. There is a downside though. I’m really (unpleasantly) surprised by the cost of developing film and printing the photos. I’ll have to find a solution for this if I want to continue to shoot on film.
Well, enough with the talking. Check out the photos after the jump. I used Ilford Delta 400 for these photos if anyone cares ;) (more…)
Happy new year guys! I hope all of your wishes and dreams may come true in this year.
I got out of bed early yesterday, to participate in @scotbaston’s New Year Sunrise Challenge. About 35 photographers from all over the globe got up early to photograph the rising sun. I really hate getting up early, so it was quite an accomplishment for me. Especially after barely four and a half hours of sleep.
The panorama (5×21mp photos, so the original file is really huge) above was one of the resulting shots. You can see my other image on Flickr. Check out the photos by other photographers over here.
New website
Anyway, I’m kind of proud to announce my new portfolio website! I’ve been designing this for a while now, and I thought it would be a good idea to release it on January the 1st. I know it’s January the 2nd right now, but it was actually released yesterday evening. So some people might have seen it already. It isn’t completely finished yet (I’ll be adding a ’series’ page in a while), and the photos will be continuously updated, but most of it is pretty final.
If you’ve got any feedback on anything, I would appreciate it if you would let me know. Preferably by using the contact form, by DM on Twitter or by MSN.
In my short life, I’ve seen thousands of truly horrific photos. Lots of deaths, wounds, tears and blood. I’ve seen countless of suffering people and bodies ripped apart by explosives.
I don’t get shocked easily any more when watching photos or video footage of these horrors. Don’t think that I don’t care about these people, on the contrary, but most of the images just don’t send those cold shivers down my spine any more. Well, those shivers came back last night, after seeing one of the most shocking photo essays ever. (more…)
