Here be my (b)log(file)s, writing, or factoids I found otherwise noteworthy to jot down for everybody.
Older writings can be found in the archive.
2010-03-14 13:58 - Orange people make blue skies
This weekend I went to Amersfoort to do a photoshoot for a fantasy LARP group: The Inquisition of the Church of Kriegrimm. It was a fun day of shooting, and everyone was pretty enthusiastic about it! We met at the Koppelpoort in Amsersfoort, and I let them run all over the place for various individual and group shots. ;)
A downside of having many people gather in the same spot from all over the country is that you cannot easily move to a different date when bad weather happens. So, this being the Netherlands, bad weather happened. It was pretty cold, with ugly big patches of greyness in the sky, boring colors of continuously varying intensities, and the occasional rain shower.
Luckily, bad weather also presents opportunities! I got to be creative with of camera lights, to which I applied orange filters to make everybody looking orange. It's a neat trick that is all about color contrasts: if you make somebody too orange, the camera white balance wants to correct this, but it'll have the added side effect of making the sky more blue. Exactly what I wanted!.
I added the grainy structure and the almost desaturated warm "medieval" colors afterwards.
A downside of having many people gather in the same spot from all over the country is that you cannot easily move to a different date when bad weather happens. So, this being the Netherlands, bad weather happened. It was pretty cold, with ugly big patches of greyness in the sky, boring colors of continuously varying intensities, and the occasional rain shower.
Luckily, bad weather also presents opportunities! I got to be creative with of camera lights, to which I applied orange filters to make everybody looking orange. It's a neat trick that is all about color contrasts: if you make somebody too orange, the camera white balance wants to correct this, but it'll have the added side effect of making the sky more blue. Exactly what I wanted!.
I added the grainy structure and the almost desaturated warm "medieval" colors afterwards.
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2010-03-12 00:09 - Photoshoot with Sanja
Here are some results of a short test shoot I did with Sanja, who's both beautiful and very creative! There was no set theme for this shoot, so we explored a variety of simple themes. We got a lot of cool plans prepared though! :)
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2010-03-09 11:48 - An early morning shoot
Waking up at 05:00 in the morning really isn't my thing. Driving for an hour in what seems to be the middle of the night even less so, but.. it was sooo worth it!
The cause of all this was an early morning sunrise photoshoot I did with Annet for Marianne, one of her characters. I really like the results myself! I must do this waking up thing more often! ;) :)
The cause of all this was an early morning sunrise photoshoot I did with Annet for Marianne, one of her characters. I really like the results myself! I must do this waking up thing more often! ;) :)
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2010-02-26 08:55 - So many things!
Wow! The last few weeks feel very, very busy!
I've gone overboard with working on my thesis. It's really nearing the final stages now, and still soo much needs to be done. Just a little more... and... then... finish!
In the mean time I've been secretly working on Unity, a scifi/post-apocalystic LARP event where I do some tech stuff. I've just packed the lights, the servers, the laptop and all the other stuff I'm going to need this weekend.. and it'll probably get interesting! Just a few hours more, and then we shall see...
I've gone overboard with working on my thesis. It's really nearing the final stages now, and still soo much needs to be done. Just a little more... and... then... finish!
In the mean time I've been secretly working on Unity, a scifi/post-apocalystic LARP event where I do some tech stuff. I've just packed the lights, the servers, the laptop and all the other stuff I'm going to need this weekend.. and it'll probably get interesting! Just a few hours more, and then we shall see...
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2010-01-26 00:07 - About Daemons and bubbles
Last week I had the opportunity to do a photoshoot with the beautiful Hannah. We had enough time to combine and try some stuff, and we ended up doing a shoot about "uncanny cuteness" and one for my "There's EVIL in my BASEMENT!" series! We started out very friendly, with bubbles and carebears, and ended up... definitely a lot less friendly :)
We had much fun during the process though! :)
We had much fun during the process though! :)
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