In august I went on a boat trip on the North Sea. The target was the offshore wind farms on the Thorntonbank approximately 30km from the coast. Visibility that day wasn’t great and the sea was a bit on the rough side, but that didn’t stop us. Source: De Tijd, 5 Read more…
Last year I completed the Lightroom module, which was the last of the basic modules in the photography course I’m following. This allowed me to move the more advanced “thematic” modules. From those I picked “Nature” as topic for the first semester. It had three focus points: landscape, animal and Read more…
The last 9 months have been very busy… In may last year I became dad of not one…. but two beautiful girls. We knew we were expecting twins, but we didn’t expect that they would be born at 30 weeks. Those first days where tense… Being born that early means Read more…
After two modules focussing on the technical side of photography it was time for a more creative module. The goal of photo analysis is finding your own style and what you like or dislike in photographs. Many great photographers and pioneers like Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Sebastião Salgado, … passed Read more…
Intro to flash photography For the past few months I’ve been learning to use a flash unit in photography classes. Starting with the ground-rules and using it as a fill-flash. Every week I got more and more control of the lighting. Later on I bought a remote-control set, so I Read more…
Boardgame Imagination In my previous blogpost I talked about the assignments I got during photography classes. In this blogpost I’ll be talking about the last one: “creating a photo collection”. For this task we got a lot of creative freedom to make 5 pictures, our subjects could be anything. But there Read more…
Photography lessons I was very excited when the 2nd photography module started in september. In the first module we had an all-round introduction to photography. The main focus was on the technical aspects of photography: camera functionality, exposure triangle and some basic composition. But this semester we would get an Read more…
4 Moments Hopefully by the end of this month I’ll have passed my exam for the second module in my photography classes. It was at the start of this module that we got the task to search for an interesting landscape or building in the area. So I went looking Read more…