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 :)

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!

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• 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

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.

Of course there were moments of desperation, because there are so many things to consider and think about...

I made a series of sketches to help me visualize my thoughts and remind me during the shoot of what I have planned.

And finally...to give you a sneak sneak preview...

We had a really great day with our wonderful, experienced model Annemarie, 

who made this shoot such a joyful experience!

The post-processing which starts now, will take quite some time,

 because I want to make sure to get the best out of it.

Stay tuned!

Maand 6

Zo snel zijn 6 maanden alweer voorbij...

we waren in België voor Scapa

hebben lol gehad met "Droog Brood"

werkten voor de Volkskrant en voor Basil

 en aan Arjan's nieuwe website:

www.arjanbenning.com

Bedankt Arjan voor deze fantastische tijd en ervaring!

Ik heb veel geleerd over fotografie, teamwork, ondernemerschap en over mezelf.

Tijd om aan de stageverslag te beginnen.

Amsterdam xxx

Amsterdam, I'll be back.

xxx

Burning Like A Firefly

The next single by Stefany June is out with my image-design.

itunes

Melkweg Gallery

As I mentioned in an earlier blogpost, I printed 3 photographs of mine (at Fotolab Kiekie) to take part in the project 1000 Photos Amsterdam. Now they are hanging in the Melkweg Gallery. I've been there last thursday and really enjoyed the atmosphere, the speech and of course the photographs! Looking forward to the Expo Sale Party on June 16th!