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"the Barn", Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence in which we demonstrate how to create different moods within the same setting by just changing the light.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
"the Barn", Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence about analyzing window light, reverse engineering it and making it yourself.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Mullem, BELGIUM
Pregnancy is one of those unique times in life and it's always worth having some visual memories of that fantastic time. That's why Sarah and Bart decided to have a photoshoot before the baby was born.
It's pretty difficult to avoid making the typical classis studio shots, but we tried. Sarah and Bart proposed to shoot in the fantastic small village Mullem. We just walked around, had fun and made pictures. Sarah and Bart were great and it was fun to me too.
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Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM - Pictures from another shoot/video I did for LIME, our new educational project for photographers.
I tried to squeeze the most out of the available light on a short shoot with professional model Sylviane.
For a making-of video and more info, please visit www.squeezethelime.com
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
Hofstade, BELGIUM
We had a shooting day / workshop for www.squeezethelime.com
LIGHTING INFO: natural light on the background. Erika was lit with a bare speedlight.
Kortenberg, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence in which we used hard(er) light to create some strong portraits.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Kortenberg, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence in which we used the natural light as a background light and 2 small flashes to complete the fall fashion look we were after.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Steenokkerzeel (studio), BELGIUM
Testing some lighting setups with my old friend Mitzy. It's so much fun to work with someone who's a dancer/artist.
Lit with 2 Hensel monoblocs. Main light is a medium size softboxfrom camera right. Hair light (also spills on background) is done with a monobloc with standard reflector.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and my lighting DVD: www.motivationallight.com
Zaventem, Belgium
I live pretty close to the Brussels airport, so when I heard that a plane of Kalitta Air ran out of runway and crashed, I hurried to the place of the accident to take some pics. I was there before they closed of the place, so I could get pretty close.
BELGIUM - Zaventem
Photographing 5 kids is always a challenge but this time it went pretty smooth.
PHOTO BY BERT STEPHANI - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Herentals, Belgium
After a busy week with two workshops it was time for a break. Kobe and Maya are always up for some adventure. Noa stayed with her grandparents while we went for a canoe trip on 'the kleine nete'. Good weather and great fun.
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Steenokkerzeel, Belgium
Most of the pictures during my 5-day portrait Master Class are taken by the participants, but here are some that I took myself as an example.
Johan in the studio
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
"the Barn", Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence about how very specific practice shoots can improve your photography.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
BELGIUM - Sint-Katelijne Waver
Noa turned 10 days, we've been married for 7 years and the family (on my mother's side) got together for a party. What I really liked is that so many members of the family got together. It's been several years since I saw some of them.
PHOTO BY BERT STEPHANI - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Everybody in our family likes good food. The dessert buffet was richer than ever.
my living room
Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
I'm teaming up with the famous wedding photographer Mike Larson (www.mikelarson.com) for 3 workshops organized by Calumet Photo and California Sunbounce in Belgium and Antwerp. To be honest Mike is doing most of the work and I just demo how I use Sunbounce reflectors in combination with off-camera flash to create a natural look. Long days but lots of fun.
In Amsterdam the weather was reasonable (cold and windy but no rain). We had a pretty nice sky so I choose to take our amazing bride Julia to the parking lot for a little shoot.
In this picture you can see how serious I take my job.
Picture by Paul Apeldoorn: www.flickr.com/photos/pa-fotografie
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
"the Barn", Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence in which we demonstrate how to create different moods within the same setting by just changing the light.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Zaventem, Belgium
I live pretty close to the Brussels airport, so when I heard that a plane of Kalitta Air ran out of runway and crashed, I hurried to the place of the accident to take some pics. I was there before they closed of the place, so I could get pretty close.
I'm pretty sure this guy was in the plane.
Viroinval, BELGIUM
Some pics of the camping trip in the Ardennes with the kids.
All shot with the Panasonic Lumix GF1 and the 20mm with available light
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Cullera, Valencia, SPAIN
Walking around at a congress for professional photographers with a 25 Euro plastic toy camera, provokes some strange looks sometimes. I only had time to shoot one roll of Kodak Portra 160NC film (medium format). Looking at the very particular look the Holga gives these pictures, I should have shot a lot more frames. It’s not that these are great pictures, but I still like them.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Zaventem, Belgium
I live pretty close to the Brussels airport, so when I heard that a plane of Kalitta Air ran out of runway and crashed, I hurried to the place of the accident to take some pics. I was there before they closed of the place, so I could get pretty close.
Aalst, BELGIUM
We did this series of pictures in an old factory near Aalst. I'm not used to shooting strobist-style so this can hopefully get you over your fear to just try it & be amazed by the results you can get using only 1 off-camera flash.
Check out the cool making-of video we made at:
Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
I'm teaming up with the famous wedding photographer Mike Larson (www.mikelarson.com) for 3 workshops organized by Calumet Photo and California Sunbounce in Belgium and Antwerp. To be honest Mike is doing most of the work and I just demo how I use Sunbounce reflectors in combination with off-camera flash to create a natural look. Long days but lots of fun.
In Amsterdam the weather was reasonable (cold and windy but no rain). We had a pretty nice sky so I choose to take our amazing bride Julia to the parking lot for a little shoot.
I bounced just one Vivitar 285HV on a Sunbounce Pro reflector for some soft yet directional light and still keep detail in the sky. We used the zebra to warm up the main light for a nice contrast with the blue sky.
Putting Julia on a couple of pallets and shooting up allowed me to get rid of the pretty ugly buildings in the background.
Picture by one of the guys at Calumet Amsterdam
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Oostende, BELGIUM
I recently did a guerilla shoot together with my friend and fellow photographer Jean. The goal was to test the California Sunbounce Micro Mini reflector with flash attachement. We decided to go on a completely unplanned mission: no location, no make-up, no models, not much gear and no concept. Just shoot what we came up with at the moment.
LIGHTING INFO
I underexposed the background by a stop. The Sunbounce with a Vivitar 285HV flash attached (camera left), lights the subject. I think the flash was at 1/4 power.
Here's the YouTube video of this shoot.
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Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
I'm teaming up with the famous wedding photographer Mike Larson (www.mikelarson.com) for 3 workshops organized by Calumet Photo and California Sunbounce in Belgium and Antwerp. To be honest Mike is doing most of the work and I just demo how I use Sunbounce reflectors in combination with off-camera flash to create a natural look. Long days but lots of fun.
Today In Rotterdam, we were in a large studio. Great spot for studio photography but not much available light to find. A couple of small tungsten lights were pretty much everything I could find. I used them to create an out-of-focus background. The model was lit with a single speedlight at 1/16 power bounced of a Sunbounce Pro (zebra fabric). On the shadow side we put a silver Mini reflector as fill light.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Kortenberg, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence in which we used the natural light as a background light and 2 small flashes to complete the fall fashion look we were after.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Zaventem (Belgium)
wedding E & E
PHOTO BY BERT STEPHANI - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LIGHTING INFO:
The use of dry ice gave a pretty cool atmosphere ... at least to the naked eye. In my pictures it just seemed that the bottom of my lens needed some cleaning. To make the smoke more visible, I put my speedlite 580EX on the ground in slave mode (on manual) and triggered it by the ST-E2 infrared transmitter.
BELGIUM - Melsbroek
Lately I've been incredibly busy. I'm really grateful that business is going so well, but sometimes I really need a break from it. That break doesn't have to be two weeks on an exotic beach (but if you offer me I'll gladly accept it). Yesterday my two eldest kids went geocaching (www.geocaching.com) with my friend David and his kids.
These couple of hours outdoors with happy kids and a good friend gave me such an energy boost.
Forget all the expensive toys, kids like to play with sticks. Lensflare turned Kobe's stick into a lightsaber
Aalter, BELGIUM
The Belgian association of Professional Photographers organised a lecture/celebration about the life and work of Filip and Ria Santens. It was great to see how they still have this crazy appetite for creating images and we had lots of fun.
When I saw this accidental shot of Ake on the back of my camera, I immediately yelled: I've shot the next National Geographic cover.
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Viroinval, BELGIUM
Some pics of the camping trip in the Ardennes with the kids.
All shot with the Panasonic Lumix GF1 and the 20mm with available light
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM
For the last 6 months my friend Pieter and I have been working really hard on this new big secret project. We are about to reveil what it's all about. In the mean time, you'll have to do with this tasty preview.
More on www.squeezethelime.com on december 18
Yeah, this is me
LIGHTING INFO
2 Vivitar 285HV's on each side (slightly behind subject) with gobo's to prevent light spilling on the background. One Canon 580EX to camera left for just a little fill.
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Kampenhout, BELGIUM
Christina and I went out for a magic walk/talk/shoot on the longest day of the year.
All shot with wonderful available light and the Panasonic GF1 + 20mm pancake lens.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Aalst, BELGIUM
We did this series of pictures in an old factory to illustrate how you can 'flow' from one lighting setup to the next. Check out the cool making-of video we made at:
Aalter, BELGIUM
The Belgian association of Professional Photographers organised a lecture/celebration about the life and work of Filip and Ria Santens. It was great to see how they still have this crazy appetite for creating images and we had lots of fun.
Pieter testing out if Joe McNally's steady grip trick, helps to stabilise a beer.
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Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
I'm teaming up with the famous wedding photographer Mike Larson (www.mikelarson.com) for 3 workshops organized by Calumet Photo and California Sunbounce in Belgium and Antwerp. To be honest Mike is doing most of the work and I just demo how I use Sunbounce reflectors in combination with off-camera flash to create a natural look. Long days but lots of fun.
Here are Waldemar aka the real Sun Sniper and Stefan from California Sunbounce. Amazing how hard these guys worked to make the tour a succes. I also had so much fun with them.
You can see there in love with www.fotofolio.be
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Cullera, Valencia, SPAIN
Walking around at a congress for professional photographers with a 25 Euro plastic toy camera, provokes some strange looks sometimes. I only had time to shoot one roll of Kodak Portra 160NC film (medium format). Looking at the very particular look the Holga gives these pictures, I should have shot a lot more frames. It’s not that these are great pictures, but I still like them.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
BELGIUM - Kraainem
A while ago I did a model shoot with the fantastic Kim Van Noten. We didn't have a real plan except for having fun while creating pictures. Ake was my kind assistant for this shoot and she also shot some video.
PHOTO BY BERT STEPHANI - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LIGHTING INFO:
I made a video to show how we did this:
youtube.com/watch?v=sqMI72jsXRQ
More info about this session will be on my brand new blog soon: www.bertstephani.com/blog
"the Barn", Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence about how very specific practice shoots can improve your photography.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
"the Barn", Steenokkerzeel, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence about how very specific practice shoots can improve your photography.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Zaventem, BELGIUM
I doesn't happen very often but sometimes it feels like you know someone pretty well without ever meeting each other. Veerle is Belgian but lives with her husband and their adorable daughter in California. I've been reading her blog about their American adventures for ages and Veerle was one of the first readers of my blog.
On their recent visit to our country I finally had the pleasure to meet Veerle, Sven and Nina for a photo session and a nice chat. I really hope I can visit them in the US one day.
TECHNICAL INFO
When shooting babies, it's often best to keep the lighting simple. We used a single Vivitar 285HV in a lastolite softbox to camera left.
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Zaventem (Belgium)
wedding katia and michael
PHOTO BY BERT STEPHANI - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Lighting Info:
I do a lot of weddings and I'm allways looking for ways to make more interesting pictures in challenging situations. It's pretty hard to make dancefloor pics that are clear and yet don't kill the atmosphere. I often stay a bit longer then required at a wedding to try out some new ideas. For this picture I wanted to use the flexibility and speed of E-TTL flash for the foreground in combination with a manual flash effect light.
To make this work I had an ST-E2 transmitter on my camera to controle the 580EX strobe in my left hand. The camera was set to manual to get a reasonable amount of available light in the picture. The 580EX was zoomed in to 50mm to allow me to focus on the subject in the left of the frame without spilling too much light on the background.
A sigma strobe was put in the background on a stand with a blue gel on it. If I remember it correctly this strobe was at 1/32 power. The sigma was triggered by the build in optical slave. I probably spoiled some pictures from the point-and-shoots from guests by using the optical slave, but they should leave taking pictures to the pro, right? ;-)
This technique needs some refinement and next time I will trigger the Sigma with a pocketwizard, but the results are promising. It may take another 2 or 3 weddings to get it right, but experimenting is what keeps the job interesting.
Zaventem / Sterrebeek, BELGIUM
Always fun to spend a day with a friend and fellow photographer. Jean brought his fantastic son Zoran and we all had great fun: indoor playground, go-carts, pancakes, Wii, ...
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Steenokkerzeel (studio), BELGIUM
Testing some lighting setups with friend/model Ine
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and my lighting DVD: www.motivationallight.com
BELGIUM - Overijse
The wedding of Liv & Gert. The DJ was a nice guy and asked me to take a quick picture of him behind his discobar.
PHOTO BY BERT STEPHANI - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
LIGHTING INFO:
This picture is shot with a Peleng 8mm fisheye. So you can actually see the flash in the picture. Usually I use my remote flashes on full manual with pocketwizards but in cases like this, I like to work with Canon's E-TTL system. The flash is a 580EX and it's triggered with an ST-E2 transmitter on the camera.
For this quick and dirty kind of work, the system is nice but if I have the time I'll rather have the complete controle of working on full manual.
I like red-haired people. The first boy I ever got a crush on, a long time ago, had wonderful blondish-red hair, and he was only the first of a long series of beautiful, beautiful, beautiful people I've fallen in love with, stared at in fascination, even photographed. Not to mention envied with all my heart.
So, when I finally decided to change my hair colour from the usual muddy brown to something a little more interesting, red was the obvious choice. Not just any red, though: the reddest red I could find.
Manual: Rotation automatique des images, page 112.
Images: Bert Stephani.
Zaventem, BELGIUM
Just some assorted family pics from the last two weeks (easter holiday for the kids).
Kobe throwing a snow ball.
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Viroinval, BELGIUM
Some pics of the camping trip in the Ardennes with the kids.
All shot with the Panasonic Lumix GF1 and the 20mm with available light
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
I'm teaming up with the famous wedding photographer Mike Larson (www.mikelarson.com) for 3 workshops organized by Calumet Photo and California Sunbounce in Belgium and Antwerp. To be honest Mike is doing most of the work and I just demo how I use Sunbounce reflectors in combination with off-camera flash to create a natural look. Long days but lots of fun.
In Amsterdam the weather was reasonable (cold and windy but no rain). We had a pretty nice sky so I choose to take our amazing bride Julia to the parking lot for a little shoot.
I bounced just one Vivitar 285HV on a Sunbounce Pro reflector for some soft yet directional light and still keep detail in the sky. We used the zebra to warm up the main light for a nice contrast with the blue sky.
Putting Julia on a couple of pallets and shooting up allowed me to get rid of the pretty ugly buildings in the background.
Picture by Mike Larson
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Oslo, Norway
I'm having a blast teaching a two day workshop in this wonderful city with an equally wonderful group of photographers. Linnea was our model for today. Despite the fact that posing when 25 photographers are watching you is really difficult, she was amazing and unleashed one killer look upon the other.
Check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
or our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com
Kortenberg, BELGIUM
After six months of work, MOTIVATIONAL LIGHT, my instructional video about lighting is finally available.
For more info, trailers, bonus footage and purchasing, visit:
This image was shot for a sequence in which we used the natural light as a background light and 2 small flashes to complete the fall fashion look we were after.
Also check out my blog: www.bertstephani.com/blog
and our photography project: www.squeezethelime.com