UPC Amsterdam "Up Close" March 23, 2013

Hi all,

Saturday afternoon in Amsterdam with the Urban Photo Collective. A monthly event to go to a certain place and make your photo’s based on a theme set by the organisation. This month’s theme was Up Close. Location: the Botanical garden of Amsterdam. A good place to be as outside it felt like minus 10c, but once inside you had to take off your coat due to the tropical conditions.

I brought my 105mm f2.8 macro lens so I had the opportunity to get real close to the subjects. A photographer once told me that on every square meter you should be able to make at least 10 macro photos. Anyway I had a pleasant afternoon and as usual some of my pictures are published on my website.

http://urban.iamnotsimple.nl/#34.0

Have fun,

Arjan

Theatre Photography at the Kunstlinie Almere

Almere, 12 March 2013

Last Thursday we had the opportunity to make photo’s of some young dancers at a theatre of Almere. 4dancers of the balletschool showed us some modern and classic dances and really I had no idea that it was so hard to make a good photo.

First you have to deal with the moves which are not really familiar to me and then there is the light. During the modern dancing it was a red and blue light and I found it very hard to make some good pictures. The second part (classical ballet) the lights went white with a black background curtain. Much better to make a good picture.

          

Some more pictures you will find at my website: http://fca.iamnotsimple.nl/#home

Enjoy,

Arjan