Image taken during the golden hour. I spooked the birds during the shoot. This image was taken with the camera on a tripod, using the Cactus V5 radiopopper as a remote. I had to backup some 200 meters before the seagulls started swarming around the tractor again.
Abstract of a very beautiful, big and rare anemone in the Grevelingenmeer.
A crab, up close and personal. Standard macro setup for stobes. (inon z-240 on TTL camera left on axis, inon S-200 on TTL camera left up).
Practicing for the Open Dutch Championships. If I want to stand a chance: practice, practice, practice....
Finally, I can use my macro lens underwater, and the results are quite impressive. Handling the lens is a bit difficult, as the magnification is 1,5:1 (1:1 macro lens + the effect of a flat port).
I need more practice....
My first try with off camera strobes. Well, One strobe, an Ewolux 9800A, semi-automatic. There is no way to set this strobe in manual mode (it hasn't got any). Instead, I set it to full power and vary the distance between strobe and subject. Still, this worked out nocely - as if a streak of light hits the mushrooms. Luckily, I received two Yongnuo's to be able to play a bit more with light. Now I have to wait for my camera that is at a repair centre to fix a serious back-focus issue.
Got myself the Tamron 90 mm macro lens. Excellent sharpness, just what the doctor ordered.
Ok, an anemone is an animal, but spring is here, and the bottom of the Grevelingen Lake is covered with them. Like a huge flower field.
Still no underwaterhousing for my Nikon D7000, so I will have to cope with the Oly for a while....
Concert Photography. A bit of a challenge, but very rewarding. Taken with my Nikon D7000, which has an excellent high ISO performance....
Autumn, the wet season. A dark/light contrast study.
In this image I tried to re-create the mood seen in old Dutch paintings from the 16th, 17th and 18th century ("de oude meesters") , where dark / light contrasts are dominant. I've seen a similar technique used by another photographer, Gerrit de Jong, and I find the resulting images quite interesting and inspiring...
My submission to the photo contest "Zeeuws Kampioenschap Onderwaterfotografie 2010" reached the second place.
The goal: submit an interesting tryptich of underwater life in the province of Zeeland.
Rules: no photoshop tricks, only colour adjustments and local contrast enhancements if needed. (note: the original submission was comprised of the above three, but uncropped, images.)
It goes without say that i am pretty proud of this achievement.
At last, I've managed to find time to relax and go diving again after a periode of a lot of overtime. Although the viz was horrible (<1,5 meters), this little hermit crab was sitting still long enough for me to take it's portrait.
