August « 2011 « Jurgen Doom

Photography for Ansul – fire protection

18 August 2011 om 17:32 door Jürgen geplaatst in de categorie Uncategorized

I was contacted by Ansul Belgium to provide them with images that could be used for their annual report. The wanted a whole range of images, from action shots to studio photographs of their products.

As a professional photographer specialising in corporate photography, you should be able to tackle a wide range of shots and situations whilst dealing with the most difficult lighting conditions.

Herewith a short overview of the “catch of the day”.

Ansul - fire protection.

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Architectural photography – interior of a showroom

15 August 2011 om 15:53 door Jürgen geplaatst in de categorie Architecture,corporate photography,Photography

For an advertising agency from Eindhoven, Holland, I had to photograph the interior of a newly build showroom near Brussels.

The interior of the Mercedes Benz showroom has been exquisitly decorated by magnificent Philips lighting. For their case study, Philips needed high quality visuals that shows all the aspects of the lighting of the showroom.

The images are made on a Nikon D3x with a 24mm tilt shift lens. All images are made on a sturdy Manfrotto tripod.

To be able to photograph in such a location is just a thrill. All these fantastic cars in a rather fantastic setting is a real pleasure and a treat for a photographer. Glad I was able to capture these images.

Interior photography of a showroom

Interior photography of a showroom

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Personal drive – dynamic images for a dynamic duo

12 August 2011 om 16:42 door Jürgen geplaatst in de categorie advertising,corporate photography,Photography

Personal drive is a young and dynamic company run by two extremely healthy and friendly personal coaches, Ruth and Filip.

After they had seen the images I had made for Sporta, which you can see here, here, and here, they asked me if I could photograph the visuals for their website.

I teamed up with my stylist and make up artist Ans Brugmans for a shoot, which we set up in …. a gym!

I used about all my lights and equipment, going from a white seamless on a support system, my Elinchrom flashes as well as my Nikon SB900 flashes, all sorts of flags, gobo’s, snoots and gells …. but ultimately it was the willingnes of Ruth and Filip that made the images come alive!

All images are shot on a Nikon D3s with a variety of lenses.

All images have been photographed against a white seamless background, also the ones with a black background in the image. Remember, if you don’t light your background, it goes black. If you do light it, it goes white ….

This is the result, which can also be seen on www.personaldrive.be

Go check it out (and improve your health too!).

Personal drive.

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Portrait photography – profile photos for social media

2 August 2011 om 15:00 door Jürgen geplaatst in de categorie Flashlight,Photography,Portrait,Uncategorized

It comes to no surprise that choosing the right profile photo for social media – such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook – can be fairly important.

OK, it’s a different story for when you want to post something via a private Facebook account. But that story changes a bit when you look for a profile photo to use for your company Facebook profile, your Twitter stream or – most important of all – your professional LinkedIn profile.

The people at INXCO were well aware of this and asked me to make portraits of their employees and specifically to use with social media.

INXCO is a young and dynamic company, active in the field of communication and innovation for companies.

They wanted tight headshots against a fairle dark background and the images needed to be used in a square format (which is the format of profile photos in social media).

All the images were made in their kitchen, against a grey wall. I used two different lighting setups by using Nikon SB900 Speedlights and Nikon’s CLS system. As for the camera, I used the Nikon D3s with an 85mm Tilt Shift lens (manual focus). All images are cropped in the square format, but I left one image in it’s original format in order to see how it also could be used for other purposes (print media, etc …).