I also love to play as an actor and direct movies, I shot three short films as a director and just completed shooting a movie in which I am the lead actor called The Hollywouldn’ts. I love what it does to the cloud and the water, usually it works better on black and white shots.īut sometimes you get some happy accidents with cloudy sunsets. I also shoot a lot with the ND 1000 filter for long exposures effects. I love the ability to tone map different parts of the photos: When I want to do HDR I now use Aurora HDR PRO. My workflow has really evolved from a lot of Photoshop to 90% Lightroom and 10% Photoshop. I retouch most of my photos with Lightroom, and if I really need to I do the finishing touches in Photoshop. I continue to use the Sony A7R, A7R II and for videos the Sony A7S. I shoot mostly sunsets and do a lot of hiking, so having to carry light gear was essential. I loved the idea of having a light camera that you can travel with and that has a better dynamic range than the 5D Mark III. Since two years I totally switch to the Sony A7r after watching Trey Ratcliff’s videos. But I would say I work 90% of the time with the 17-40. When I shoot portraits I also use the Canon 70-200 F4. For my landscapes I mainly use the Canon 17-40 F4, sometimes the Canon 24-70 2,8. I started to shoot with the Canon 5D Mark 2 and the Canon 7D. What matters to me is the emotional impact, do people get something out of it or not? Some of my photos are heavily retouched, some not. I shot a full series of photos for about 8 years in Paris where every shot would look like they came straight out of a movie. Right at the beginning I also became a big fan of Trey Ratcliff’s work, we share the same vision of a very colorful and dramatic beautiful planet. I cannot help myself but when I take a portrait I try to make it into a movie poster. I like very dramatic type photos, inspired by world famous movies such as Amelie Poulain by Jean Pierre Jeunet, Angela of Luc Besson, War Horse by Steven Spielberg, Gone with the wind by Victor Fleming and Gladiator by Ridley Scott. With time and competence, I started teaching. I discovered Scott Kelby and decided that he was going to be my mentor, years later I had the honor to become his friend. I started spending over twenty hours per week studying photography and post processing. Making it the number one channel on Lightroom in the world and number 4 on Photoshop and number 7 on photography in general. I host a Youtube Channel that has over 310 000 subscribers. The sales have been good all over the world. With the Publisher Teneues I have published a coffee table book on Paris and one on New York. They have have 85 galleries around the world. My fine art photographies are being sold in one of the largest gallery networks in the world called Yellow Korner. As a landscape and urban photographer I’m happy to say that today I have accomplished a few things that I’m proud of: What I like about it, is that all it took to create a great piece of art was a camera and a software, the rest was up to my skills and imagination. I was amazed, since my earliest childhood I wanted to create art, images and videos. In 2005 a friend of mine showed me what you can do with Photoshop and turned an ok portrait into a magazine cover. All my programs at the bottom of the page.
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