Christiaan Leever NL
1. Escape to the Sky
Series: "Project Deepspace"
Things I've seen in my coffee...
When I make coffee, I like to look at the strange patterns that the foam and bubbles create with the coffee powder and milk. Sometimes really nice patterns show up. At some point while I was making coffee I was thinking about how I often tend to want to keep everything under control in my photos. I prefer to have subjects like landscape, nature, macro, etc, often things that stand still. I find it hard to photograph people because I wont know their reaction.
As I was thinking about how I could let go of "control" more in my photos, I watched the pattern in my coffee evolve, without me being in control. Then I immediately got my camera, and took pictures, seeing them and being impressed, I decided to photograph my coffee for a week. Playing around with those photos resulted in this series, which I am actually pretty surprised by and happy about.
Hope you like it aswell! Please let me know what you think of it and the process of how I got to this result!
I'm still spending a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with photography, whether it should be more in the artistic direction or more commercial. I would like to do travel photography, travelling all over the world, taking pictures, preferably in assignment for magazines/websites/tour operators/travelagencies/publishers etc.
Still I do sometimes like the abstract photographic artworks you can see here on flickr.
For example:
www.flickr.com/photos/jane_in_wales/4424850575/
www.flickr.com/photos/11164709@N06/3620946457/
www.flickr.com/photos/evan_farinosi/3366525622/
www.flickr.com/photos/tglow/320029282/
I'm currently studying photography at art academy AKI in Enschede, the Netherlands.
I'm trying to make up my mind whether I should continue in the artistic direction, even though I have the feeling it is not really my thing, especially not analog photography, or whether I should continue in the more commercial direction.Most of my HDR photos that you may know me through, are more commercial in my opinion.
1. Escape to the Sky
Series: "Project Deepspace"
Things I've seen in my coffee...
When I make coffee, I like to look at the strange patterns that the foam and bubbles create with the coffee powder and milk. Sometimes really nice patterns show up. At some point while I was making coffee I was thinking about how I often tend to want to keep everything under control in my photos. I prefer to have subjects like landscape, nature, macro, etc, often things that stand still. I find it hard to photograph people because I wont know their reaction.
As I was thinking about how I could let go of "control" more in my photos, I watched the pattern in my coffee evolve, without me being in control. Then I immediately got my camera, and took pictures, seeing them and being impressed, I decided to photograph my coffee for a week. Playing around with those photos resulted in this series, which I am actually pretty surprised by and happy about.
Hope you like it aswell! Please let me know what you think of it and the process of how I got to this result!
I'm still spending a lot of time thinking about what I want to do with photography, whether it should be more in the artistic direction or more commercial. I would like to do travel photography, travelling all over the world, taking pictures, preferably in assignment for magazines/websites/tour operators/travelagencies/publishers etc.
Still I do sometimes like the abstract photographic artworks you can see here on flickr.
For example:
www.flickr.com/photos/jane_in_wales/4424850575/
www.flickr.com/photos/11164709@N06/3620946457/
www.flickr.com/photos/evan_farinosi/3366525622/
www.flickr.com/photos/tglow/320029282/
I'm currently studying photography at art academy AKI in Enschede, the Netherlands.
I'm trying to make up my mind whether I should continue in the artistic direction, even though I have the feeling it is not really my thing, especially not analog photography, or whether I should continue in the more commercial direction.Most of my HDR photos that you may know me through, are more commercial in my opinion.