Archive for August, 2009

The Nieuwkoopse Plassen

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Two days ago my mom, my oldest brother and I went to the Nieuwkoopse Plassen for a boat trip.
We hired a small silent motorboat with which we could enter the area.
My brother and I both had our camera with us so we shot quite some photos together, mostly for practice and some for sheer fun.

I quickly came to realize that it’s not that easy to take photos from a moving boat. Whenever I saw something interesting to try and make a photo of I had to be really quick to get it right.
The boat going up and down was also something which turned out to be quite annoying. Sometimes the subject was a lot more to the bottom of the photo then I wanted and sometimes it was just blurry because of sudden movement.

It was a very nice afternoon though and since we spent about 4 hours in that boat I also had plenty of time to just relax and lie around (like a pirate who doesn’t do anything).
Some of the photos I made turned out quite well, so I would like to show a few of these to you.

 – Nieuwkoopse plassen – Nieuwkoopse plassen
– Nieuwkoopse plassen
 – Nieuwkoopse plassen – Nieuwkoopse plassen
– Nieuwkoopse plassen
 – Grebe – Grebe
– Grebe
 – Nieuwkoopse plassen – Nieuwkoopse plassen
– Nieuwkoopse plassen
 – Canoe – Canoe
– Canoe
 – Water lilly – Water lilly
– Water lilly

The Incredible Hulk Signature

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Here’s a signature I made for a small contest I participated in.
I don’t do a lot of signatures nowadays because I find they aren’t as much fun to do anymore, so whenever I do make a signature I always try to practice a new technique to make it fun.
In this signature I used a few C4D renders and tried working with Gradient Maps. I think it turned out ok, although not everyone agrees on me with that. Then again, I don’t do this a lot and tastes differ.

 – The Incredible Hulk – The Incredible Hulk
– The Incredible Hulk