Dec 28

Hercules (not his real name, DUH) got this shoot through FOK! for the 13th of December, and wanted me to tag along, so I did, as I didn’t have anything else to do, and I though it might be a good opportunity to test out my D700.
The event was held for PABO (NSFW people), a website that sells erotic stuff to enhance your sex life. They had nearly 1800 women enter a contest, Miss PABO 2008, and 10 chicks remained. And on the evening in question one of those ten would win. Martijn and I had to each deliver ten to fifteen pics to FOK! of the entire event. I shot more than 600 pictures, so I shot a bit more than necessary.
I delivered my pics to Martijn, and he forwarded them to FOK, then dumped his batch on his website. The guys from FOK! weren’t that pleased, especially since it took them eight hours to get our twenty pics online. Suddenly they wanted all our pictures, and they even took their article offline. And they didn’t even have any upload facilities at that time. :’)
Anyway, I gave them my unsorted, unedited pics, just as they wanted (even though formally the agreement was 10 to 15 pictures). Even the rubbish. Of course I removed any alterations I had made before uploading to FOK!. And I resized them all, so they wouldn’t take as much disk space, and what does a website want with hi res pictures anyway?
Anyway, I used the Lightroom sliders to get more out of the picture, as the shots straight out of the camera were either too light or too dark (good thing I always shoot RAW). I used a new way of sharpening my pictures. Enjoy.
O yeah, b.t.w. this is one of their models, not a contestant :D .

PABO model

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Jul 13

On thursday, the third of juli I did another shoot for partymania. It was “N.O. presents Biets” in Paard van Troje, a typical student night. Partymania had been asked to do a shoot for a while now, but on a working night it’s a bit difficult to get working people with DSLR’s to cover an event. Luckely, I happened to be free the next day.

There were two halls, one virtually empty, the main hall packed, and I got my fill of pictures. The lights were awesome.

Didn’t do any fancy photoshop work this time. But I got you a pic of a pretty girl and a lucky guy. ;-)

chick, dude, NO, paard van Troje

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May 16

I met Aurora on one of my party shoots. As well as being a really nice person and fun to talk with, she has an angelic face, in my opinion really photogenic. So unable to resist, I asked if I could take some portraits of her.
She agreed, and we did the shoot in Clingendael park, together with one of her friends.

It was a lot of fun, but I had to work quickly; it was going to be a hot day, and they wanted to go to the beach, I wanted to go home and get some shuteye, as I had gotten very little sleep ’cause I’d photographed Frame the night before.

Anyway, I did all my usual photoshop stuff on the picture below. I had two that I thought were really good, and I asked Peter to pick out the one he thought I should put here. So if you don’t agree, flame/blame him ;)

Aurora, Clingendael Park, the Hague

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