Filed under: Random thoughts | Tags: album, design, Engagement & Wedding Photography
When taking a picture, I have my desired outcome ready and waiting in my head .. it’s just there.
I know what I want, I just need to set-up, dial-in, point & shoot.
When making a wedding album, I’m faced with dilemmas …
I want everything to be perfect, a fixed set of margins to create white space so my pictures can breathe in the album. No mixture of layout styles on my pages, but an idea throughout the album. I want to stick to that. But after a couple of pages, doubt creeps in…
Will clients even notice my tidy margins? They will probably just flip the pages. Will they appreciate the clean layout or does it become boring after a while? Do I go for white or black background, do I mix? Do I call and show the couple 2 ideas, let them decide (and ruin the surprise) or do I blow them away on presentation day.
How do you deal with your album designs?
I suddenly remember promising a blog article about my wedding preparations & shoot.
I’ll make that my next priority when I’m having a new case of “wedding-album-designers”-block.
For now, a behind the scenes look… (with pink shirt and all)
Disclaimer:
If there are couples out there getting nervous about this blog post, fear not, this belongs to my normal workflow and insures top quality 
Filed under: Travel | Tags: bolivia, landscape, pano, photography, uyuni, wide
Without a doubt the highlights of our trip, a 3day jeep tour to & through the Uyuni salt flats.
The variety of landscapes was overwhelming.
Original 9191 x 1850 set can be found here
All pictures where taken with the 400D and the 18-55 kitlens. I didn’t have any ND or polarizing filters so I bracketed all the shots to have a ‘correct’ exposure. Landscapes where stitched from up to 8 portrait pictures with canon’s photostitch. Even with the equipment used I’m still pretty happy with these stitches. Now to find a service to print this format. (tips are welcome)
Well, we are back from our great South American adventure and things are starting to fall into place in our new house. Yes, there are still plenty of little chores to do and on a professional level there are some changes coming as well (more about that soon) but, the important thing is that I’m finding some time to update the blog and process some travel pictures. (and Roosje & Jelle’s wedding album)
Before we set of I set myself the goal to make interesting portraits of the people we meet on vacation.
Yes, there is an old lady with a llama in there but that doesn’t count since after the picture you have to pay them for it … you’ll make that mistake once. The next one you’ll try a sneaky zoom lens approach … yet they still spot you (it’s like a 6th sense they have). The third time you hide the camera and try to ignore the “hey mista, picture with llama?” all together.
So coming back to the real people we’ve met : meet Douglas.
We met with Douglas and his wife Teresa on our trip to Uros, the floating islands and Isla Taquile on lake Titicaca. At 6am in the morning a cab picked us up at our hotel in Puno, I was still nibbling on an unfinished sandwich when I stepped in. “Thanks for bring me breakfast!” was the first thing he said to me 
I think we chatted for the next 3 hours on the boat. And a good couple of hours more after that.
On one of the viewpoints Douglas was taking a rest away from the tourist touts and something about the picture felt ‘out of place’, but on the other side it all connected. I had my portrait.
Douglas & Teresa, it was great meeting you and if you ever visit Europe/Belgium (again), we’ll have the guestroom in use by then
