A new house, a completely new location, far away from friends and family. Yes it’s something totally different.
Everything is new. From transport, food, the house to clothes and times I go to bed. To make the contrast even bigger, things got really cold after 2-3 weeks of living here. So cold that we actually got snow, nice! Except if you have to use your bicycle on a daily basis.
Either way, here some pics from my new “situation”.
This is my current bed. I actually finished putting it together yesterday!
Me after I just came home.
In the cold fields out there, clothes like these aren’t a luxery. I often cycle around 10-11pm through snowy blizzards. So a regular t-shirt and a cap won’t do.
Another one!
This is a famous building next to trainstation Wehl. It has been abandonned for a while now. Can you tell?
And here two other pics I took last friday when I went to Amsterdam. Taken at Utrecht CS after my train had a 30 minute delay.
That’s all for now, hope you enjoy them!
Oaky it’s been a while but life has been crazy! I moved to Emmerich, I STILL don’t have internet there and I’ve been busy at work as well. Working 40 hours a week is quite a lot, especially if you do a lot of crunchtiming.
Photography still has it’s place in my daily routines and I occaisionly still take pictures. Especially in the weekends of course. So here are some very recent pictures all taken around my new house. Enjoy!
Okay guys, I think everyone has noticed I’ve been away for a while. I have a job. Yes, I have a job. It’s true.
Anyway took my cam to work. And I do respect the no-inside-photography-rules, so I took it outside. Here’s some pictures from my “workspace”!
Did I edit them: Yes.
Do I care about people who hate editing: No.
Why?
Simple. Photography is an interpretation of a mixture between life, how one sees it mixed with his or her feelings at that time. So there you have it. Limiting yourself within a creative branch is like creating engines to go slower. Pointless and not as much as FUN!
Bought some thick paper to create a new product studio. So far so good. I also got a HUGE black sheet so that will be fun to play with. In the meanwhile: test shots and some skateboarding action from Arnhem where I had a job interview..
And now the promised skateboarding stuff…
It already has been a week, but a good memory anyway. Me and a friend went to Ghent to have a Maxforums gathering. What’s that? Well, some 3D/photography guys in Ghent drinking and talking geek stuff! Well.. we talked a lot about design, the current economy, more design, visual stuff, infinity (don’t ask.. please don’t) and we indeed had drinks. I brought my cam, 2 lenses and had lots of fun!
Means something along the lines of “love please.”
Martini bubles, I loved them!
The Cat. What a beauty!
The roof during our lunch the second day.
A very funky and happy colored bar!
Also 3D visual designers can look very ghetto.
Next stop, more drinks.
Some stairs at the place where we stayed.
Nd more…
The living room, well, small part of it. Looks great!!!
That’s all for now.
Weird title aye? Well… kinda fit’s the pictures. Very experimental.
The first is a small path next to my house.
I simply LOVE the colors, really peaceful.
Now my fisheye lens. Oops I spoilt it. Why? Well it reminds me of a helmet. But in fact it’s my lens upside down.. Nevermind.. here it is…
Darth-Vader-ish aye?
Thats it for now, If you have any comments please leave them here. Always appreciated!!
As the title already indicates, I got a new lens. And it’s a beauty! The Canon 50mm 1.4 lens. Why is this one so special? The 24-105 covers a wide range and 50mm is in that range… Well the aperture is really nice.
Explanation
The lower the aperture number, the more extreme the Depth of field (DOF) effect is. What is in focus will always be sharp, but what’s out of focus will be blurry. The lower the aperture number, the blurrier out of focus objects are.
Anyway… Back to the actual photo’s. Here are some test shots I made with this lens:
Picture of my desk… kind of messy, 2 camera’s, phone and coffee.
A car in our street. I edited the numberplate for privacyreasons. It looks quite miniature I’d say..
Small shed in the garden…
Don’t eat them! 😛
Painted this one myself…
Attempt at product-photography..
The cat singing.
How cute… Yes it’s real btw.
Water tower in Ijmuiden.
The harbour in Ijmuiden, I ate fish with my girl somewhere there…
And at the beach.
That’s it for now! Bye-bye, and leave a comment!
Was a typical sunday… so I went to some construction area where I had a go with my camera, and my radio controlled car. You’ve gotta do something in your spare time, isn’t it?
That’s it for now, hope you like them!
Allright quick post from the last few days. Starting with 3 pictures from my trip to Amsterdam. I’ve met up with a friend who I’ve known over internet for quite a while… we met, had lunch, walked through Amsterdam and had a great time. This is what I had for lunch:
After that I made this picture of a building close to Waterloo Market:
And on my way back to Weesp I took this picture while waiting for the train…
And this morning I saw a spider hanging around on a window, so here’s Spidey:
He started being mysterious…..
Then I fully exposed him:
And then he started doing karate:
I filmed this spider too, will post the movie later-on because it’s kinda cool!
See ya, till next post!
Hey there!
Small update, it’s getting hotter so let’s first announce…. summertime!
Soo much is on the planning. One of them is a trip to SWEDEN per BIKE! Yes people I will go on my recumbent bike:
This one is actually scaled, for the larger version click HERE.
Fair enough, I had to buy bags for it so for the rear-bag I went to Tilburg with my good friend Chantal. Here some travel pictures:
I went from Almere to Hoofddorp where me and Chantal would meet up. But thanks to my lovely Dingoo A320 I didn’t hear the train stopping, or noticed anything of Hoofddorp so instead I had to go out of the train at Nieuw-Vennep and go back to Hoofddorp. Thing is, I was raised in Nieuw-Vennep so I took this picture where I noticed I was in complete shadow while the rest looked really sunny. Nice.
Then, I met up with Chantal and we went to Den Bosch station. There we waited for the next train and I took these two pictures:
And outside the station was this waterfall:
After that we went to Tilburg, had dinner at a Chinese restaurant and bought the bags from some die-hard recumbent-bike fans. They where really nice so we sticked there till quite late.
During our walk back to the station we met some skaterguys who liked to perform in front (and above) my camera:
Of course taken with the 15mm Sigma Fisheye lens on my Canon 5DMKII haha. Don’t I love google tags?
After that we had to wait at Tilburg train station for about 40 minutes but it gave me plenty of time to tease Chantal and make this people (I’m such a multitasker):
And that’s it for now. The day after I bought the side-bags for my bike, will take some pictures soon. Take care people!
Hey boys and girls!
Thursday there was Queensday in the Netherlands. It’s supposed to be a day of parties, open market (everyone can sell stuff on the streets, some sort of national garage-sale) and the Queen makes visits to villages… well this year it was difference since some total lunatic tried to attack the Queen, failed but DID kill and injure a lot of people in that brutal act.
The party atmosphere all suddenly became bitter…
— But —
The day after, 2 friends and me had the idea to do a random travel. Victor, Erfan and me took a train to the border of the Netherlands and Germany. And the result was that we actually made it to Germany. We had some trouble finding the proper hotel so at an early hour we took the first train to Duisburg from Emmerich am Rhein. We had a great trip and thus we present you all:
It’s going to be a lot of pictures… so get some popcorn, have a drink and enjoy my pictures!
Okay, we went by train to Arnhem, then to Doetinchem and from there we took the bus to ‘s Heerenbergen (pronounced as zerenbergen).
But we didn’t know what the end-stop was so aparently we went back to Zeddam. The next bus was due in one hour so we decided to WALK to Emmerich. This picture was taken there. Look, we DO have hills!
Sun was getting lower, looked lovely.
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And the path continued…
Just a random Sepia pic I thought it fitted the moment haha.
And then we actually went over the boarder and arrived in Germany!
There the sunset still looked lovely haha:
But yes it was getting later and later.
Then we arrived in Emmerich am Rhein, and since this is in the “Ruhr area” there aparently is lot’s of industry. Yes there is.
We went to the centre of Emmerich to check out the city centre and look for a hotel.
After lot’s of hassle with hotels we went to a german pub that actually appeared to be a Polish pub and we LOVED it there!
So this was the whole travelcrew. Me, Erfan and Victor.
At 4 in the morning we where wating at the Emmerich am Rhein Bahnhoff. This was our lovely view. Well Vic and Erfan where waiting inside the station, I took a walk.
More Emmerich am Rhein Bahnhoff stuff… and more to come:
Here.
And here. This train was at quite a distance but I walked there and walked on the track to make this picture. The day after I took another picture in broad daylight with my new Canon EOS 3000 analog camara.
After a VERY turbulant journey to Duisburg, we actually arrived. Here we where standing on a bridge looking at the morning light.
In the far distance we saw this massive building. Just thinking of buying it to do photoshoots and host huge parties just makes me shiver!
Another harbour shot.
We climbed over a fence and went to the large building. Especially from up close it became obvious: it needed some renovation lol.
The older harbour crane from up close. Looks like a mech warrior for some reason…
When we left I saw this pole at a gate. And yes I forgot to add the borders haha.
The large building had some old compound close so I took a picture from within. Quite some over exposure there haha.
The building itself was quite dark. I think it was built just before World War II.
Then we left. After this shot I saw my battery was extremely low so I had to save for film (since I was filming with my 5DMKII all the time)
In the afternoon we went home, so we took the train:
And arrived home safely around 18:00.
It was a hell of a trip but I loved it. Tired as I was, I went to bed around 22:00 and woke up the next day around 6:00 am haha.
Can’t wait for my next trip. This was it for now hope you all enjoyed this update which took me 2 hours to create haha!
-Steven.
Just another random post… the last 2 weeks I made some pics that didn’t belong to a serie or what-so-ever so this is the random post with these pictures…
OR the guy was kicked from his apartment, or he is wasted or tired. Fact remains with a bag of stuff he was just sitting there for more than 5 minutes. Then I took the picture and walked off… he didn’t seem to want any help either. Poor buggar.
Lakeside Almere Buiten where I was chilling with me mate Feraaz, was really nice and peaceful.
Here I tried to make my bike to look really small. The trick is to zoom in zo there’s a LOT of DOF (Dept Of Field), when zoomed in you take 12 pictures (three rows of four) and you merge them together into one image. This is the result. Original picture was (with smallest source files) about 80 megapixel… Yikes.
Here I tried the same with Victor. These where eight pictures merged toghether. Don’t think it worked that well but it’s still a nice picture haha.
That’s it for now, if you live in the Netherlands or any other location with nice weather like we do at the moment: Enjoy!
In addition to my previous post, here some more work! All with the 5DMKII and the Sigma 15mm Fisheye.
This was like 2cm from the watersurface hehe.
I really like the cold colours here..!
I see a smiley in there:
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Like an alien face… okay never mind let’s continue haha.
Almere Stad the old part of the city. This is the roof of the shopping mall.
Saturday around 5:30 pm… these are the main shopping streets… can you believe it how silent and empty it is?
The muscles of Almere Stad haha!
That’s it for now, already go the next post kinda prepared so check back regulary!
Been a while, but I got 13 pictures ready for you! Now I present the first 6 since I don’t want the posts to be too large. I will add the rest later on in the week…
Let’s start with some abstract architecture, shall we?
Oh small side-note… ALL (except one) pictures are, apart from the border and resizing, UNEDITED!!!
People who have been following my blog have probably seen this scenery before. However, today I took the picture quite differently. I only had my 15mm fisheye (how unpracticle, but how much fun!) with me so this is the result.
It’s quite a funky effect with the fisheye properly used and buildings that have strange shapes and corners. Love it!
The road to the sky, a futuristic road-scene… well okay it’s just a big shiney building with lot’s of plastic and glass… but it looks nice this way hehe.
I’m not sponsored or whatso-ever… but yikes this stuff is delicious! Gave me enough energy to walk all day!
This picture IS edited (only one) since I used the famous HDR technique to show everything.
Liked the building and the fence…
Last but certainly not least. My 2 mates who joined me today in Almere Stad. We walked through the city’s streets all day… while I captured a lot of stuff they patiently watched how I used the camera. We talked, we laughed, we discussed and we ate dinner. We had drinks, we talked to other people and chilled out at the waterside.
Jeffrey and Feraaz thanks for the great day!
That’s it for now, more to come!
And thanks for all the comments so far! Really kind!!
Tonight, Quinten called me if I came over to Almere-Stad to do some skating photography. Loyal followers of my weblog will know him from some old skating-action already. Also Jens was there and we had a great time doing some fisheye luvin’.
I really like it that you see his whole deck here. The camera was actually UNDER the deck… I risked my camera here haha! Poor EOS 5D Mark II haha!
Just like the rest also shot with the 15mm Sigma Fisheye lens… it just does justice to skateboarding-photography!
And yes friends, Jens landed this trick. Amazing, not?
Quinten looks kinda funny in air. Trust me, on the ground as well haha!
Both of you guys thanks for the great evening and thanks for doing all the tricks!
No I wasn’t high, or drunk (as far as I can remember) or on acid. But in the train. And that is a trip as well, just a bit different than the others mentioned… hehe.
So here are some pictures (oh and YES, it’s all 15mm Sigma fisheye…AND it’s all UNEDITED! ) :
This is how it all begun at Almere Buiten, my train arrived.
And there we are at central station. The people thought I was making a picture of the sky… well… fisheye rocks!
A BIT over exposed but well… I still like it. I wanted to adjust the exposure but then I heard the whistle… and since I had too much gear to jump on the rear of the train I just took it for granted and normally entered the train…
Then finally this was in Alkmaar. I loved the atmosphere and the old Dutch buildings. This is a picture of a small cafe/restaurant. Then I saw this old car (I believe Volvo…) passing by and it just completed the whole scene.
OH NOES Steven doing cliche’s? Well yes it’s as cliche as it can get but I like this one since it’s all red/yellow/orange with blue bars. Also the fisheye makes the lines go funkeyyy!
This is in Alkmaar as well, as you guys might know I like shots like this. Symmetry and well.. emptyness. I dunno just catches me I guess. And well yeah forget the I guess part, I know exactly why it catches me.
That’s it for now. Enjoy your week and send me some comments! ^_^
-Steven.
Okay I really had a crazy weekend!
Friday: party Came home at 9AM. (first train…)
Saturday: 2 parties, my brother’s daughter, Nina turned 2 years old. So this one is for her:
Happy Birthday li’l one!!
And here some pictures from Friday-evening where we partied and eventually me and Jeffrey walked from Amsterdam Amstel to Amsterdam Central Station…
Lot’s of friendly people… the guy in the background tries to strangle me too, so don’t worry it’s fine. Hehe.
The Amstel, a river that flows through Amsterdam.
Image created for an anti-alcohol campaign… lol!
I bet Jeff will go crazy if I didn’t post a picture of myself, so yeah that’s me.. Thanks Jeff for the picture! Next time I’ll explain how to FOCUS the lens…. Hehe.
That’s it for now, lot’s more to come soon I already got lot’s of stuff ready.
Don’t forget to comment and if you got any questions or remarks: post ‘m or mail me!
-Steve.
Being in a postingspree is nice, especially since there isn’t much content yet… so I thought to update it on a more regular basis.
I Really liked that the clean teapot and cups are dark and the dirty cup is in the highlight. Dunno why…
Random forrest picture.
Taken the same day as the forrest picture… this is around the corner at my house and it’s a train-bridge.
Yay got a new pc, and this is something that caught my eye… it looks like a part from a car haha. Never had a pc before with cooling-pipes. Funny stuff looks a bit like a steampunked pc haha.
That’s it for now, please leave a comment!
-Steven.
P.s. changed the layout, hope you guys like it. I love the black since the pictures are easier to see. And the rest is just funky!
Okay the new weblog is really nice for me. So I thought it update it with some recent shots. Here they are! Oh about the blog: going to update the layout soon.
Still I love the black background, makes my pictures way more easy to view! Awesome!
Yes I love my 15mm Sigma Fisheye lens haha!
This was taken through a Pentax lens… at 300 mm and I just loved the colors. I only made the car purple instead of red which is more… funky. Except that no editing.
Shot from Amsterdam, just liked it I guess haha!
That’s it for now, keep checking back and I’ll keep updating it.
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