All the film shots are natural light using a gold reflector and pretty much unedited. I love the feel of the Bronica shots and the colour film I am using. A lot of people go black and white on medium format and I understand why, but this gorgeous colour is just too good to miss out on in my opinion!
Once again my good friends from Archetype Apparel asked for some pictures - this time there were no particular instructions except for "do whatever you want". Well, I didn't need more and finally got to use my new (old) Zenza Bronica (medium format) for a proper shoot as well as finishing a roll of old black & white 35mm film in my Minolta SRT. All the film shots are natural light using a gold reflector and pretty much unedited. I love the feel of the Bronica shots and the colour film I am using. A lot of people go black and white on medium format and I understand why, but this gorgeous colour is just too good to miss out on in my opinion! Of course I had the digital camera with me as well and there were a bunch of other takes, of which the ones under the bridge were lit with a single speedlight or a reflector: Unfortunately, this was also my first shoot that had an injury. I egged everyone on to jump off this stage and it led to a broken bone... at least I have the shot of it though:
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Helmet is currently on tour for the 20th anniversary of their legendary album "Betty". As such, I had the chance to shoot them at ((szene)). There were no support bands and they started quite early, however the hall was quite full of die-hard Helmet fans and the gig really satisfied their needs! For their only show in Vienna in 2014, Chaos Beyond performed a long set with some of their own extra lighting which made it a unique event, not to be missed by fans! Openers for the night were Thesis, Legion of Bokor and The OverAlls: A minute before Chaos Beyond went on stage, I met with them at the entrance in order to take a quick picture: ...and then of course their gig - it was really a great show, unfortunately I was not able to stay until the end as I had been away from home all week and needed to sleep... getting old I guess... Fitfabrik has a promotional offer for their 8th anniversary and I was asked to produce a shot to use on the advertising material. Since the offer includes a drinks subscription it needed to have the Fitfabrik bottle in it somewhere. We came up with the idea of water being shot out of the bottle at someone while exercising.
The most difficult thing about shooting at a gym is having mirrors on every wall! I spent most of the time while setting up trying to get everything into a position where the flashes wouldn't be visible - often only to find that suddenly I was in a picture (try shooting in a spot that has mirrors on three walls). We moved around until we finally found a spot in the cross-fit section where the bench and dumbbell don't really belong and then managed to set up all the equipment so that it would work. One test shot with the water to make sure that our model knew how hard to press the bottle and off we went! Of course, after having messed around for such a long time and having kept the area clear until the actual shot could be taken, someone went and started training in the background, completely oblivious to our activities - see below. The shot was just right though, so we decided we would cut him out in post. I had a test shot which was used to overlay and Robert's your father's brother. |
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