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Holistic Massage Studio – PR Photography

konrad — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:39:02 +0000

Some of you might know that I moved to Brussels (Belgium) for professional and work-related reasons in September 2009. Having more luck than anything else, I had my first Brussels-based customer for PR Photography a couple of months before actually moving to the capital of Europe.

Holistic Massage Studio - PR Photography

It’s not a secret (if you read the title of this blog post) that my October customer was Jari Menari, Holistic Massage Studio (www.jarimenari.be) in Brussels. Tom Ackaert, the owner and manager of the massage studio, asked me to take few pictures for a new website. It was a very exciting experience for me to work for PR photography with him and his models. I must admit that it was also quite challenging for me because the room we worked in was about 7 m2 (square meters). I was really afraid that working in such a small room would be impossible but looking now at the results, I think the pictures turned out pretty well.

The good and very helpful thing was that Tom knew what he wanted from the very beginning. This saved us a lot of time but also put some constrains for me at the same time – because he knew exactly what he wanted, I didn’t have much room for my own creativity. I don’t complain here at all! I guess that I have to get used to limiting my creativity in times when customers know what they want and just do what a customer says. In other cases, I let my creativity, imagination and innovation take over my mind, body and soul

I guess that my adventure with Jari Menari (Holistic Massage Studio) is not over yet as Tom mentioned lately he would like me to take some more pictures for his new massage project (it’s a secret at the moment so I can’t reveal what it will be). I think it’s a good sign when a past customer comes back to you asking to do some more work for him, also for PR Photography – another happy customer who wants more of my work and services!

Portraits of children – Tim

konrad — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:43:10 +0000

If you have ever taken pictures of small kids then you know how hard it is. Posing is out of question as well as any chances they would stay in one place for longer than 2 seconds without moving. However, these and many more challenges connected with photographing small children can lead to interesting results. I also always say that challenges are always exciting for me.

Portraits of Children

I met with my high-school friend in Poland during summer 2009. It was a great pleasure to meet her husband for the second time and even a greater pleasure to take few pictures of their kid Tim. While the kid is awesome, it was not easy at all to keep him stay in one place for longer than 2 seconds. So what did I do? I made a mistake – I was snapping pictures like crazy. Honestly, I didn’t have much of a choice, especially shooting with high aperture of f/1.8 and f/2.2 (shallow depth of field). I decided to use my AF-S NIKKOR 35mm F/1.8 lens for shallow depth of field as a special effect.

Portraits of Children

Well, I ended up with around 450 pictures out of which I have chosen only 45. Imagine that you have to go over 450 pictures and not only choose the best ones but also to edit them and do post-processing. You can imagine how much time it took. In fact, it took me 8 days (more or less). But I think it was worth it at the end. I believe that some pictures came out better than I actually expected. I’m presenting you only some of them here.

Tattoo Shop Music Video

konrad — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:33:13 +0000

I arrived to Poland this afternoon (well, depends when you read it so: Saturday, July 18, 2009) and I was welcomed by a huge storm, intensive rain and thunders. That was a drastic change of weather in comparison to what I left behind in the Netherlands and in Germany.

There is nothing much to write about it at the moment so I think I will leave you with this music video made out of pictures I took in Players Club Tattoo Shop in Maastricht (the Netherlands) in June 2009. You can treat it as a sneak preview for the pictures, which I will publish online soon on this website and on my Flickr Account.

(for those of who prefer a flash version, you can find a High Definition -HD- video on YouTube.com HERE)

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