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Hairstyle

During our first photo event in Moscow back in 2016 Ekaterina Zueva was the last model scheduled for hair and make-up styling. As we were a bit late, we decided to leave her hair like this for the first set. Afterwards we realized that this was the best decision ;)

Focal length: 85mm
Aperture: f2.5
Shutterspeed: 1/250
ISO: 100
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Ekaterina Zueva - IG: @zuueva
Location: Cross Studios Moscow

Secret entrance

You probably noticed how much I like warm / golden tones. That's what I'm often aiming for in terms of color composition. Like in this picture which I shot on our last photo event in Sicily with beautiful Anna.

Focal length: 85mm
Aperture: f2.0
Shutterspeed: 1/320
ISO: 125
Camera: Nikon D850

Model: Anna Ioannova - IG: @ioannova_anna_muse
Location: Sicily

Spotlight

Here's another picture from last weekend. Not from the workshops, but from the coachings on Friday.

I love to work with sun reflections. Many photographers often try to work with direct sunlight, but this is mostly to harsh and has to much contrast. It's easier to work with small reflections. They give a beautiful spotlight as well.

Focal length: 85mm
Aperture: f2.0
Shutterspeed: 1/800
ISO: 200
Camera: Nikon Z7

Model: Viktroria Yarova - IG: @vi_blabla
Locatio...

In Town

Good morning everybody. I have an important notice, first for you guys.

This Saturday I have scheduled an "In town" workshop for Fujifilm with amazing Anastasia Scheglova. But this is the first workshop in 5 years I won't be able to attend due to strong personal reasons.

That's why Fujifilm and I will move the workshop to Friday 29th of March. But of course not everybody who signed up will be able to move to Friday. That's why there are  some available slots again.

If...

Flash forward

This is one of my very view pictures when I used a strobe. You know that almost all of my pictures are photographed with available light only, but now and then I like to use an old Nikon SP 900 to achieve this glamour-trash look.

It's rather off topic, but if your are interested I can do a short tutorial on this technique in my coaching channel next week. Just leave me a comment.

Focal length: 35mm
Aperture: f1.4
Shutterspeed: 1/250
ISO: 100
Camera: Nikon D810
Stro...

Back to the 70's

With cool Ana. That girl got attitude and she loves to show it in her poses. First shoot ever with Anito.

Camera: Nikon D810
Focal length: 50mm

Model: Ana Tomou - IG: @anato_mo
Location: Köln

Moody

Hi everybody. How did you like yesterdays tutorial poses on how to shoot lying poses? I hope it'll help you a lot.

This one was photographed at our 2017 photo event in Moscow. I't unbelievable. This year we will be back to Moscow for the 4th year hosting our events #6 and #7 in Russia. I never thought about this when I took my first trip there 2016. But everybody loved it so far and keeps coming back :)

Focal length: 85mm
Aperture: f1.8
Shutterspeed: 1/100
ISO: 100
C...

Lying poses

Tonight I will start a new coaching series in my coaching tier on how to shoot lying poses. So stay tuned ;)

Camera: Nikon D850
Lens: Tamron 70-200 f2.8
Focal length: 70-120mm
Aperture: f2.8

Model: Chiara - IG: @chairab_model
Location: Cologne

Pure woman

I took this picture of Taya during our photo event in Saint Petersburg 2016. She's really an outstanding model. At that time, Taya was modeling only half a year, starting at an age of 33. But she was so professional that it felt like she's doing this for years. Everybody on the event couldn't believe it.

Focal length: 85mm
Aperture: f1.4
Shutterspeed: 1/320
ISO: 640
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Taya Vais - IG: @taya_vais
Location: Saint Petersburg

Back to the beach

This picture was taken in Thailand where the sun is high all the time. When it comes to sunset it drops down extremely fast so you don't have much chance to create moody sunset pictures.

I had to change my style a bit, but still I love to shoot at bright beaches as the sand and the ocean are really cool reflectors where you can shoot all day.

The original shot was much wider, but I cropped it to make Miri fill out the frame better. Also I changed the background as the original o...

Pleasure & Passion

Hey everyone, how are you today? So here's the final picture of the video tutorial from yesterday where I showed you inverted highpass. After that, I used my skintones technique and luminosity masks to achieve the nice golden skin tones and bring more depth into the picture. If you don't know about these techniques, please check my video tutorials that I postded before.

Focal length: 50mm
Aperture: f2.0
Shutterspeed: 1/320
ISO: 100
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Ana Tomou ...

That moment

I'm always looking for that special moment when the model is not so focused on posing.

Focal length: 50mm
Aperture: f2.2
Shutterspeed: 1/160
ISO: 400
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Julia Zu - IG: @realjuliazu
Location: Helvetia Suites, Düsseldorf

Touched by the sun

This is one of my all time favourite pictures. I did it a couple of years ago in Spa, Belgium with lovely Lorenza.

Next to her amazing expression it was also the first time when I handled to shoot in direct sunlight. Quite difficult, but so beautiful.

Focal length: 50mm
Aperture: f2.5
Shutterspeed: 1/4000
ISO: 100
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Laurence
Location: Spa, Belgium

Obey

It took me a long time to get into girl girl shoots, especially with some interaction. There were just to many things to concentrate on and mostly I wasn't happy with my results.

I can definitely say that I'm very happy with this shoot of beautiful girls Vikra and Kitrysha. But you can imagine how much I had to concentrate to not mess up this shoot ;)

Focal length: 85mm
Aperture: f3.5
Shutterspeed: 1/160
ISO: 800
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Kitrysha & Viktori...

Showroom

A picture from my testshoot with beautiful Kate Chromia in Budapest. Usually I always try to test with the models before I invite them for a workshop. Not only because I want to see how good their performance is, no I also want to know about there personality.

Our workshops have a quite friendly atmosphere so it's very important that the model fits in well. And Kate does for sure ;)

This picture was taken in N'Dustrial studio in Budapest. A very nice place with 4 different studi...

Body language

Another one from last weekend. Natalia photographed during my workshop in Cologne.

Focal length: 85mm
Aperture: f1.8
Shutterspeed: 1/125
ISO: 500
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Natalia Andreeva - IG: modelandreeva
Location: Loft Studio Cologne

The couch

From my workshop last weekend with beautiful Natalia Andreeva :)

I did some more testing with all my cameras D850 / D810 / Z7. Slowly I'm getting more used to the Z7, but right now, on analogue color composition D810 is still my favorite.

Focal length: 50mm
Aperture: f1.4
Shutterspeed: 1/200
ISO: 400
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Natalia Andreeva - IG: @modelandreeva
Location: Loft Studio Cologne

Blue jeans

Blue jeans and nude skin... Always a good combination :)

Focal length: 58mm
Aperture: f2.0
Shutterspeed: 1/2500
ISO: 100
Camera: Nikon D810

Model: Julia Liepa - IG: @julia.liepa
Location: Cross Studios Moscow

Welcome

Hey there, I'd like to welcome our new members from the last 2-3 days.

Somehow Patreon is not working perfectly at the moment and I can't send a message to new members. So I can't welcome you personally, that's why I like to do it this way.

I hope you enjoy my Patreon site and get all the infos you want from the coaching tier. I'd like to keep this site as interactive as possible. So please use the comment or message function to ask questions or let me know about topics which ar...

Provocateur

Hey everyone, how are you.

The last post was a little bit mixed up, as Patreon put the site into maintenance right in this moment again. So here's a little update.

You see a picture of sexy Miri which I captured during a test shoot for my new studio in the beginning of 2018. Back then there were no accessories and not much furniture which I could use for more scenic looks, but I had a great tie to discover my studio in terms of light distribution and found the first cool light s...

Nude portrait

Hey everyone, I hope you're all having a great weekend :)

Next week we will start tutorials on lighting techniques for beauty portraits and sensual nude photography. You will learn that there is a huge difference on good portrait light and good body light and why this picture is rather an untypical way of lightning a sensual nude picture (and why it's still working fine).

For all of you who didn't have time to read "Right level of contra...