We had only 3 days to prepare the shoot, the location was only confirmed the afternoon of the shoot,  some gear that we needed was still on it’s way from Germany, and this was our first band shoot ……. all these elements and the lack of precious sleep created quite a sense of pressure that day.

But in the end we’ve had a lot of fun, and the result was well worth the effort. The location was the Rockhal Club in Luxembourg/Belval and it’s entry hall which provided us with a total of 4 sets. For these sets we used quite some gear: 2 Canon 5d’s,  24-105F4L, 70-200F2.8L, 17-40F4L, 15mm F2.8 Fisheye, 3 Flashguns Elinchrom D-Lite 4’s and 2 continuous lights, 2 Elinchrom remote triggers, 1 Flash as a back light, reflectors and a fog machine (thanks guys), and some HLS’s ….. thanks Mick and Tania.

It turned out to be a great experience, the guys from Pale Obsession were great and very patient. We’ve had some trouble in finding the right light setup for the fog and I wish we’ve had one or two more flashguns for the more complex shots, but in the end there was nothing we couldn’t handle and by having to deal with the gear at hand made us learn some interesting stuff.

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This shoot was on short notice as Adam was nearly ready to be born. Adam was born last Tuesday just a bit more than a week after we’ve done the session.

We did a mixture of “styles” here, a lot of high key, some low key pictures and the classic ones. We kept the lighting to a minimum as well except for one or two shots that required some special “treatment”. I noticed that our watermarks need to be slightly changed because of the white framing as well…..

The gear was pretty standard as well, it consisted out of Elinchrom strobes, walimex one for the background. Octobox, Softbox and Beautidish.

The little hand at the end of the slideshow is Adam’s two days after he was born

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This was the first shoot in the new studio that required more complex lighting. Claire’s make-up was done by the wonderful Jamie. I can only recommend Jamie, she’s very professional and her work speaks for herself. Working with Claire was very nice and easy as well. We spend a few hours talking, laughing and taking some pictures.

For this session we were working with a huge Octobox as a main light and alternating between a Beautydish and small Softbox as a fill light. For the background we used a mixture of different modifiers. We used some of the pics to do some heavy post processing using photoshop for some promotional work.

I really love the light that the Octobox produces but using it in the studio greatly reduces light flexibility due to it’s size. You really need to balance the need for flexibility against light here.

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Raphael’s parents actually contacted us to take some photographs for Raphael’s christening but we decided to make more of a family shoot out of it.  We met on a hot Saturday morning in the Vineyards in Luxembourg and started with some standard family portraits before focussing on Raphael himself.

The gear used in these photographs is:

Well this was a somewhat special photo session as it was the first one in our new studio. It was a simple portrait session which should have resulted in one picture …….. Elijah was very photogenic and a treat to photograph.

The whole shot was kept technically simple with two 5D’s equipped with a 24-105F4 and 70-200F2.8, a big Elinchrom Octobox and a Walimex Strobe for the background.

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Two weeks ago we headed out for this family portrait session on multiple locations. We had two hours to make it work, so as usually planning was key here. The sun was quite bright already when we started which gave us thinking to do  for some of the spots we had chosen for several portraits.  The sun really became an issue after we moved to the second location in the field, the yellows got really bright here and a haze made the sky quite dull, but the set was planned with a strobe in mind which solved both issues. A little piece of advice here : if you ever have to walk into a field like that, …. leave the lens cap on.

For the last location we prepared only one set and left the kids running around and photographed them playing and interacting with eachother. We felt that this was a more natural approach and it actually worked quite well.

The gear we used :

• 2 Canon 5D’s
• 24-105mm F4
• 70-200mm F2.8
• 17-40mm F4
• Elinchrom D-Lite4
• Canon Speedlite
• Lastolite Tri-Grip Reflektors
• Explorer battery pack

You can see some behind the scenes shots here.

We had a wonderful session with Megan for her communion a few weeks ago. We combined the classical session in a church with a more fun portrait session in the studio on that day. It was a long shoot but we had a blast.

Here’re our pictures from the band promo shoot last month. Some might know the pics already from the www.3songs.lu blog.

This was a new idea that we came up with a few month ago. Follow a couple from before the pregnancy to the birth and a few weeks/month later. It was a lot of work, but the result is definitely worth it. That being said the whole shoots were a blast

We took this shot in a ski are in Italy. We used ambient, plus one off camera strobe.