by Bernard on January 24, 2012
Still some pictures from 2011.
I met Laurie during a bachelor party @
Dare-2B-Different and asked her if she would be interested to work on the
Old project. To my surprise it didn’t take her long to decide to cooperate. We planned the shoot a few weeks later, worked from 8 till around 11 o’clock in the evening. She had never modeled before (in this way at least) and gave the best of herself for every picture. Real fun to do, and something that makes pictures special (natural people prepared to experiment and create).
For the OLD series I use a pair of halogens with an 2 by 1 meter Lasolite diffusor. I try to get all pictures right out of the camera (because I’m not such a PS guy) and apply one of my NIK Silvereffects presets to get the old picture effect.
by Bernard on January 4, 2012
Again a new year to look forward to.
Dance and movement will take a big part in what I want to realize this year. So, if your interested to model.. just let me know 
2011 can be summarized by the book ‘Body Of Art’ I compiled. It should have been ready just after the expo we did on February 6th. And is was more or less. Only, I had some specific pictures in mind that I needed to add. Thanks to the cooperation with Jessica (she worked for Cirque du Soleil and now for Cavalia and who know what great project will come up next for her) I could realize the images I had in mind. Add to this the images of another project and the book grew from 20 pages to +60.
During 2011 I also started the series ‘Old’. Using fixed halogen light, a Tilt & Shift lens (the create the specific depth of field and unsharpness) and long shutter speed I’m searching to emulate the feeling of the glass plate photography. First impressions can be found on the
site .
It must have been September when I did the session for the ‘Old’ series with the great Victoria Rose. It was one of those shoots I will remembers because of the fun we had in creating the images. It was also one of those shoots I will remember because so many things went wrong. I tried some light setups that didn’t give the result I was looking for, the tethered connection failed at the most inconvenient moment, we ran out of time so quickly, etc. In the end I got out of it what I wanted.
Hereunder the result of my studio shoot with Victoria Rose:
This series shows a typical flow of my work in studio. I start with the main project (‘Old’ in this case), experiment with some ideas and end the last 30 minutes with a portrait session I do with every model. Here I always use the same conditions of light, clothing and lens (60mm @ f4). Have a look at the site to
see more.
by Bernard on November 9, 2011
Every time I was asked to show my work I had to tell the site didn’t reflect the latest work. This is finally resolved. A new site, updated blog, links to Flickr and Facebook. I hope you have as much pleasure watching the different albums as I had sleeting the pictures and building the site.
