Alexander Kraft: The Reason

January 24, 2014, 1:17 am

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Alexander Kraft, internationally renown businessman, style icon and luxury brand ambassador, publishes his first dance track “The Reason”. The music video tells the passionate story of a couple. Shot in a storied Parisian luxury hotel and in a vintage car in Paris’ most famous locations.

With : Alexander Kraft, Alexandra Lepoix, Cindy Colpaert

Dir : Alexander.Kraft & Thibault Walthert
Filmed and edited by : Thibault Walthert
Make up : Kasia Furtak
Steadycam : Guillaume Zekkout
Script : Henri Baudras

via http://www.2h56.com/

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Travelling

January 26, 2014, 6:26 am

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When you’re travelling a lot like me, it’s always good to know what kind of sockets to expect at the destination. My camera gear often is very thirsty and needs quite some recharging. So I’d like to share this site with all the important electricity infos:

http://www.worldstandards.eu/electricity/plugs-and-sockets/

Thanks, Smokey!

January 28, 2014, 10:11 am

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Finally, a comedy for animal lovers.

http://zoochosis.com/
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Written, Directed and Edited by Patrick Scott
A Zoochosis Production
Produced by Kevin Lee
Cinematography by Diego Diaz

Starring:
Eric Hickey
Alanna Swovelin
Holly Fletcher
Diane Le
Kellie Cockrell
Michelle Barkowski
David Tran
Sara Lydic

Unexpected Visitor

January 30, 2014, 12:52 pm

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Then an unexpected visitor turns up: Mia, a playful and self-confident girl in her emerging sexuality, appears topless at the villa’s swimming pool. Enjoy a new nude series that I photographed.

http://www.simonbolz.com/series/unexpected-visitor/

Model: Mia
Photos: Simon Bolz

Latex Stockings

February 3, 2014, 12:37 am

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I just came across an online shop for latex stockings. It’s been a long time since I last worked with such pieces. They are very difficult to use during shootings as they fit really tight and are very difficult to put on. Also you have to make sure to rub silicon oil on them every few minutes to make them shine. But the pieces themselves really look lovely. Would like to work with something like it again soon:

http://tresbonjour.com/struempfe-und-leggins.html

Remi Kozdra & Kasia Baczulis

February 5, 2014, 5:32 am

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A great portfolio with many beautiful portraits and beauty stories. It’s been a pleasure to watch these.

http://kozdra-baczulis.com/

Krolop & Gerst Light Leaks

February 6, 2014, 8:56 am

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As you may have noticed I sometimes work with light leaks. Most of the time I am making these while photographing by holding a transparent object (e.g. a glas) in front of my lens. However, sometimes you can add them in post production, too. Krolop & Gerst offers a superb collection of light leaks in a free download. Check it out here:

http://blog.krolop-gerst.com/photoschool/photoshop-retouching-tutorials/light-leaks-flares-download-paket/

Karolina Laskowska Lingerie

February 8, 2014, 5:23 am

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Here’s another lingerie line I’d like to introdue. Karolina Laskowska’s pieces are often made with black satin elastic and gold plated components. Halterneck straps that frame a female body perfectly. Great for my kind of shooting where the female shape is what really stands out. Karolina’s lingerie supports this perfectly.

http://www.karolinalaskowska.co.uk/

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Blood to Gold

February 9, 2014, 5:24 am

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Vaunt is addicted to this song and shoot herself using the 8mm & ReelDirector apps for iPhone.
The song is Boy & Bear, Blood to Gold:  itunes.apple.com/us/album/blood-to-gold/id533922611?i=533922747

Frequency Separation

February 10, 2014, 9:26 pm

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I decided to post about retouching because I get asked very often how to retouch skin. The best practice is to seperate colours from structure. This is called frequency separation and here’s a tutorial on how to do it:

Johannes Lehner not only made this video he also offers an action for photoshop that speeds up the initial process of frequency separation a bit: http://www.johanneslehner.de/blog/2013/8/1/frequenztrennung-in-photoshop

While the frequency separation is a good method for retouching, it still isn’t an automated process. You need to be hardworking with your tablet and maybe work in a zoom mode of around 200% to see all details.

One more advice from me: Don’t overdo it! Skin is skin and not some plastic wrap.

Koray Birand

February 11, 2014, 5:39 am

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The digital portfolio of Koray Birand looks great. Since I was young, I love browsing through fashion editorials. The storytelling and serial production is lovely. Have a look for yourself:

http://www.koraybirand.co.uk/works.asp

Sumarie SS14

February 12, 2014, 10:24 am

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I really like some of the pieces from the new SS14 collection of Sumarie.

http://www.sumarie.com/high.php

Adding Skin Texture

February 13, 2014, 5:32 am

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After I blogged about frequency separation, I figured, I’d share this video of how to add skin structure when necessary to an image. Most important are the settings to your brush tool in photoshop. With the right adjustments (as explained in the tutorial) it looks good. With the wrong ones, it will look nasty. As usual, don’t overdo it. I often see retouched images that look perfect in a way but somehow you can tell something is wrong. Too much perfection, skin structure should never be too even, in my opinion.

Thanks to http://phlearn.com/ for this great tutorial.

Sensor Gel Stick

February 15, 2014, 9:29 am

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A clean sensor is always helpful. Just recently I had so much dust on my sensor it was a big pain. Luckily it’s fairly simple to clean a digital back. With a regular DSLR it’s more complicated. So maybe this sensor gel stick is a good tool:

http://photographylife.com/product/sensor-gel-stick

Mimsy Photography

February 17, 2014, 11:21 am

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Wonderful sensual photos with just the perfect touch of erotism (for me) can be found in the blog of Mimsy Photography. Thumbs up and congratulations!

http://mimsy-photography.tumblr.com/

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Phase One IQ250

February 19, 2014, 7:52 am

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Today I was invited to check out the new Phase One IQ250 digital back. It really is a great back. Quality-wise as all backs by Phase One, actually. The new live view feature is not really working for my type of photography (and not necessary) but the chance to use high iso numbers is something I definitely will try out shortly. If I can go up to ISO 1600 without problems, the camera system is something for shooting without flash light. I’ll keep you posted how it works when I tried it out.

Mania Lingerie

February 20, 2014, 10:15 am

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You have seen  lot of lingerie post here lately. That’s simply because I am restocking to have new sets for my shootings. So here’s another label I really dig. Thanks to Erika for recommending it to me!

Mania from Berlin with a collection full of straps and strings, just how I like it.

http://manialingerie.com/collections/spring-summer-13-2-2/

Playboy Exhibition

February 22, 2014, 9:18 am

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Today I went to see the current exhibition in the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt called “PLAYBOY ARCHITECTURE 1953–1979″. It’s about how Playboy pictorials influenced the society, helped to from and establish the image of a cool, single male and a lifestyle inspired by freedom, architecture and pleasure. It’s similar to what you can see incorporated in the figure of James Bond. Some of the cool places the pictorials were shot in, cool houses with crazy architecture and exaggerated homes are shown.

The best part of the exhibit is a newsstand with original copies of all American Playboy magazines from 1953 until end of 1980 (and an online archive that goes until 2009). I was very much interested in seeing the old pictorials. And I was astonished to see how inhibited our society is today. The 1970s and 1980s pictorials often were much more sexual than today. Yet always with style and a matter of course. Some issues were over 400 pages and even the stories were much more about sex and erotism.

I hope that our society finds the way back to being more open about displaying sensuality.

Here are some images I took at the exhibition showing nice covers. Feel free to have a look for yourself in Frankfurt until April, 20th 2014.

http://www.dam-online.de/portal/en/Exhibitions/Start/0/0/74618/mod1176-details1/1843.aspx

Esprit Montmartre

February 24, 2014, 1:34 am

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My next shooting is in a beautiful flat in Montmartre, Paris. So I figured, in order to get attuned, I jump to Schirn Kunsthalle (one of the big art museums in Frankfurt) to visit an exhbition devoted to the Bohème around 1900.

http://www.schirn.de/ESPRIT_MONTMARTRE_2.html

Lady Train

February 25, 2014, 6:42 am

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Here’s the portfolio of a mysterious Italian photographer who graduated from art school of Bologna. I like his style for being so random, natural, snapshot like but charged up with sexyness.

http://www.ladytarin.com/