Flamenco Catwalk

I´ve been at the SIMOF 09, THE Flamenco fashionshow, held in Sevilla together with my dear clients Isabel and Antonio from the magazine BodaNova. They asked me to photograph the catwalk of young Fuengirola designer Melisa Lozano with some cutting edge, rule breaking designs and color patterns. A cool day out, hanging out with them means meeting people, cocktails and of course some great food afterwards.

Melisa invited top-model and ex-Miss España 2006 Elisabeth Reyes and Flamenco singer Diana Navarro amongst the 'regular' models.......damn, I love doing this!



Model & ex Miss España 2006 Elisabeth Reyes







Diana Navarro


Elisabeth Reyes, Melisa Lozano and Diana Navarro

Some fun with a class of fashion students

Hi all, Its been a long, long time. A bit of a turbulent time, but back now with some regular posts I hope :-)

Earlier this month I had a classroom full of fashion-design students. We talked a bit about photography and fashion. I really have no photgraphic or other background in fashion, so you just make the best of it I suppose. We decided to make it a rolI-play was in charge of the light and camera and the students were in charge of art-direction, styling, modelling anyway the production works and of course being the client. An entertaining roll play I must say.....

New year, New ideas, New entry......

Best wishes to all!!,

Just to let you know I am still alive and kicking. I have a few ney years resolutions and one of them is the have a scheduled entry on my blog starting from next week.....(i hope:-P)

Please stay tuned

In the meantime check out Melissa Rodwells blog, http://fashionphotographyblog.com, she put up a great video of a fashion shoot, as always cool stuff!!

Till very soon


Be good, Vincent

Marry Xmas - Feliz Navidad

To all of you a very merry Christmas and all the best for 2009

Os deseo una feliz navidad y prosperos 2009

Vincent

Elinchrom Skyports 4sale

I decided to also put my Elinchrom Skyports up 4 sale in order to move on to the Pocket Wizards: I have 1 transmitter and 2 universal receivers, they are only 6 months old and haven´t been used much, so you´ll find them in mint condition.
They´ll fire any type of flash (I used them with Nikon SB-800, Multiblitz mono heads, Metz, Canon) New price incl IVA (VAT) was € 299 I sell em for € 220 in box with guarantee......info@holandaluz.com

AF-S NIKKOR 12-24mm 1:4G ED DX up 4sale

I am putting up my 12-24mm up for sale since I really don´t use it anymore. It is not usefull with the full frame D700. For any other Nikon camera (DX) it is a great lens in very good condition. I ask € 650. Please contact me if you are interested at info@holandaluz.com.
I include some photos, TNX

DIY Striplights and Foodshots

I shot a food-assignment for a really nice restaurant here on the Costa del Sol, Tiki Tano. Their German Top-Chef prepared some dishes for us to photograph (not to eat unfortunately, bugger).
I started by setting up my 'big' multiblitz monohead (600 w/s) but I found it actually too big/much light and since we had to move around to different locations in the restaurant. I decided on the minimalist strobist approach, which I came to love over the last year. Meaning: I set up a sb-800 in the back, camera-right, 1/2 cto (to warm up a bit), shot through 1/4 spun (sort of a loosely knitted type diffusing material), set at 1/16th power. They other sb-800 was covered with a DIY striplight. I made the striplight (softbox that brings out a thin strip of light) myself out of a half umbrellabox (so I got 2 striplights), made a hole in the back for my sb-800 to fit in and made a large opening opposite. Covered the inside with alu foil and filled it loosely with some spun to spread the light more and closed the opening with 3 layers of tracingpaper, voila striplight as invented by Bert Stephani of Confessions of a Photographer (It really works Bert). The striplight was also on 1/16th power. Both flashes were triggered by Elinchrome Skyports. I attached the set up sketch as well...