Lightchronicler, Photography of Marcell Bendik » Portrait

Experiment with light

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:07:22 +0000

It is not the first time I used this trick but now I spent lots of time experimenting.
How it works? You need some light sources out of focus. And a shape cut of a paper. You put this paper with the small hole on it in front of the lens – and that’s all. It is a trick that is known for ages, I’ve seen examples of this from the second world war.

A good question

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:38:56 +0000

To capture the real personality of your model you need a good question.
It makes him / her thinking and all the layers that could hide him / her just disappear. Of course you have to have some general understanding to find that question. Like you know it before the whole photo session starts – or you have 10 minutes to find it out. Challenging but lovely moments.
However that question do not have to be a sentence. Objects can be really good questions – what the model will do with that object. That night the bean bag was a perfect question – so it was easy to record the perfect answers!

Go for sure

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:33:10 +0000

Capturing a whole family with children is not an easy task…
You have to go sure. Find a date when every one of them is free. And not sick. Wait they are tired enough but not too tired.
Sounds impossible, right?
One more thing! Find something that is interesting for all of them. And here my secret weapon: the beanbag!

Have a reason

admin — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:33:13 +0000

I had a good reason for a photo session…
Dora was in a beauty shop where a make-up artist showed some new product for her – live.
So we have to make some pictures :)

Prayer

admin — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:52:33 +0000

When nothing else helps we start to pray.
It could such an intimate moment.
I feel lucky that we did have to play it, as currently everything is fine. The only thing I could pray now is some cool air.

Illustration

admin — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:24:24 +0000

Sometimes we create raw material, not the final piece of art.
I’ve already done some work to Tomi who is actively developing his web page. And he needed some portrait – matching the style and message of the web page.

The power of music

admin — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:36:06 +0000

Music has amazing potential – even for photographers!
It is said that one of the most important equipment in a photo studio is a … HI-FI system. Why? Because it makes your model relaxed, happy!
Does it work? Look at these pictures. He arrived. I’ve started the music. It took less than half an hour to produce all these great photos. And had lots of fun!

Really simple – part 2

admin — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:34:54 +0000

Here is the second part of the “average day”.
As I’ve written I was fighting keeping things simple. Here I lost. I could help looking for something special. That was a scoring moment. That we have repeated several time to capture the right expressions.
It was good to see that the players enjoyed it as much as me!

Really simple

admin — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:38:06 +0000

I had a job where the task was to make it really simple – that is not so simple to do.
They needed pictures for illustration into a student book. Where children can use the pictures to make up stories.
So they needed pictures where everything looks… normal. Like no flares, over-processing, flashes, … Sounds simple however I realized that every time I was thinking how can I make the picture to be more interesting. So I had to concentrate hard no to use such techniques.
To be continued with the basketball field!

Cherry time

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:56:59 +0000

Picking fruit can be fun!
I’ve always had trouble finding fun in picking fruits. Being behind the camera and watching my cheerful friends gave me a new idea.
Was it effective? Well, I might have collected more pictures than the cherry they collected :) As most of the cherry ended up in their stomach of course!