Nicole Pietruschka

Sep 30, 2013

Hitchcock

The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.

(Alfred Hitchcock)

(polaroid px600 with error)

Sep 23, 2013

The Flower

The flower is the poetry of reproduction.

It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

(Jean Giraudoux)

Sep 16, 2013

I started thinking again about my printed portfolio and the business cards I have to make for myself. While making a portfolio book I suddenly thought: it might be much nicer to have a big folded piece of paper with an arrangement of work on it. One could unfold it and it would be like a poster one could put on the wall instead of shutting a book and putting it away again. And looking at business cards I realized that I do remember much more the cards, where there is something done to the paper than the cards with a nice picture on it.

A business card could/should feel like a little present you can feel and play with. At least that's what makes me remember certain business cards. So I started to do some folding experiments to find out which ways of foldings:

- have an interesting shape when they are closed/opened

- leave a nice trace of lines when they are opened

- are easy to fold up again

- fit into the wallet (business cards)

Sep 3, 2013

Corporate Design - McCarthy Audio

I was busy for quite a while designing the housestyle, logo, CD and business card for my brother.

Now it's finally time to promote! Check out his talents on his new website:

www.bartosch-mccarthy.com

There you will also find photographs taken by me.

You can also watch him playing the piano on YouTube:

go to YouTube

And last but not least; a little hint on how I came up with the design of the Cs .

I got inspired by his audio monitors :)

Aug 22, 2013

Deliberating: my first paid job as a photographer

The night before I have not slept well...and the next morning I was far more nervous than I thought I would be!

But as you can see from the results above - it went fine :)

The people were so nice, honest and warmhearted and our main model Katrin extremely talented!

I learned a lot and want to share it with you!

1. one speedlite and one reflector screen is not enough light for a big room
(thank god, there was this smaller room in the building which already had beautiful natural light!)

2. shooting a group is much more difficult than shooting one person - be very clear in giving directions

(otherwise one person will look into the camera, the other one doesn't, another person smiles, the rest is serious xD )

3. Take something with you to cover distracting things in the room
(I had a white sheet with me)

4. Don't forget the details

(I realized that sometimes I was so busy with having the right camera settings, that I missed out on some details, such as clothing related issues, someone still having a watch on, etc. )

But to sum up - it was great working together with people who are passionate about what they do!

These photographs were made for the pilates/yoga/beauty studio of Katrin Mieling.

Model: Katrin Mieling and employees

Art Director: Ina Bode

Visagie: Betty Amrhein

Photography: Nicole Pietruschka

Jul 16, 2013

The Big Day (Weekend)

You might remember the earlier blog-post "before the big day".

Well this day has just passed and it was a great and exciting experience!

The day actually became a weekend, because there were so many things to prepare. With my two wonderful and indispensable helpers, I bought 140kg of soil and a huge bouquet of flowers. We built the set, made a lot of testshots and rethought the consequences of composition for the content of the story.