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Gritty
Category: Still Life | Added 02/07/07 - 21:11 | Views : 1366 | Comments (2)
 
groen_spoelbak.jpg

Another one from the same series.
Nice and gritty and plenty of texture, just the way I like 'em.
I think this one would make an interesting life-sized print.

X-rays
Category: Available Light, Other | Added 28/06/07 - 08:11 | Views : 1998 | Comments (3)
 
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Still in the military hospital.
One of the only rooms that still has medical equipment, I suspect this was an X-ray machine.

Hydrant
Category: Available Light, Other | Added 24/06/07 - 09:47 | Views : 1289 |
 
hydrant.jpg

Same location, other room.
This one was made in the main building.
Window (north) light from the left. I did enhance the details using tone mapping here.
Possibly a bit oversharpened.

The Chair
Category: Available Light, Still Life | Added 22/06/07 - 07:47 | Views : 1197 | Comments (4)
 
kelder_stoel.jpg

Yet another one from the basement of the old military hospital facility in Antwerp.
Same light, same textures.
Still life inspired by paintings by the old masters.

Base camp
Category: Available Light, Still Life | Added 21/06/07 - 08:37 | Views : 1012 | Comments (1)
 
Kelder_vouwstoel.jpg

Another image from the same basement. Looks like someone camps here.
Nice of them to set up a still life for me don't you think ?
I liked the lovely textures on the walls combined with soft light.

Disconnected
Category: Available Light, My Favorites, Still Life | Added 20/06/07 - 07:58 | Views : 1047 | Comments (1)
 
kelder_gasteller.jpg

This is the first of a series of images I made in the buildings of an old abandoned military hospital facility in Antwerp, just before it was torn down to make room for real estate development.
This one was made in the basement. Clearly the gas supply has been disconnected.
While I was wandering around in the basement I was struck by the beautiful soft natural light entering the room from the right.
Stay tuned for more.

Gone
Category: Other | Added 18/06/07 - 08:18 | Views : 859 | Comments (2)
 
gone.jpg

My apologies if you find this image disturbing but I needed to get this out of my system.
This is how the previous image ends.
I hope to be doing more of this type of processing in the future.
I really enjoyed producing these images. Going by the reactions I received, I might explore other subject matter though.

Pain
Category: Other | Added 16/06/07 - 22:46 | Views : 945 |
 
pain.jpg

I don't know where the inspiration for this one came from but I suddenly had the urge to shoot myself...

...as in self-portrait.

It might not seem much but quite some processing went into this one.
I like the way it turned out.

Darkman
Category: People | Added 07/06/07 - 20:09 | Views : 1032 | Comments (1)
 
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I've been reading a lot of David Hobby's articles on Strobist.com lately.
He has a ton of useful information on lighting.
He also started a new lighting tutorial this week, called Lighting 102, which I will be participating in.

This is a self-portrait inspired by a) the strobist group on Flickr and b) Jack Shephard's eternal 5 o'clock shadow in Lost.
Lit by two off-camera strobes in my garage.

Lonely boots
Category: Still Life | Added 04/06/07 - 19:56 | Views : 878 | Comments (1)
 
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Hello there, we're a pair of boots just sitting here on the deck, all by our lonesome, waiting for someone to take our picture.
That's what they were telling me. So I did take their picture.
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