David – David Philippi

Flow states

I love photoshoots with water. Especially the flowing kind. It gives the images an inherent sense of dynamic and flow. That doesn’t mean you can be lazy and solely rely on it. Composition, light, and posing have to be as on point as always, if not more so.

But when you have a good model in front of you, with her own ideas and experience in posing, you can easily get into a flow state and the pictures just pour out of your camera like the water that flows down the river.

Luckily, Marina knew this very nice place and the light was just right to get these nice pictures you can see below. I had to get my feet wet as well, to get some of the shots, but it wasn’t too cold and in the end it was absolutely worth it.

The Smell of the Poppy

Marina was nice enough to take some photos with me in the afternoon, where the light was nice and the temperatures were kind.

Enigmatic Encounter with Mythical Forest Creatures

One of these days I went on a stroll through the woods, as one does, and happened to come across this gathering of mythical forest creatures. They were in the process of summoning a demoness to tear down the patriarchy, or some other worthwhile pursuit of that nature. I managed to capture a few images, before they demanded to feast on my soul as a reward.

Britta, Battle Angel

Britta is an incredibly creative person and I love shooting with her. She is the nicest person and so easy to work with, and in addition to that, she comes up with all those costume ideas and builds lots of her own accessories.

These are just a few of the results from our recent studio day.

In Bed

A few weeks ago, I was at one of those group shoots again. We had rented a small studio together with a group of photographers and models and had planned to shoot a bunch of fantastic fantasy outfits. The models had brought some fantastic dresses, headpieces and accessories which you will see in a later post. But then V., whom I already knew from a previous photoshoot, discovered the bed in the back room, the lingerie in the dress collection and some accessories in a box under the bed. We both instantly knew that we had to take the opportunity, so we went to work.

The space was quite narrow and the lighting was a bit tricky, but with the help of the curtains, moving some furniture, and disassembling half the bed, we made it work.

What do you think about our results?

Men

I know you’ve been wondering: “Can he do males as well?” You tell me!

“I’ve got an idea …”

“… we have to do the perfect photo.” So no pressure at all in my Instagram DMs, when planning this photoshoot.

But for her 100th Instagram post, I think we pretty much nailed it.

Can fruit be sexy?

If you are into the history of photography, you might have heard about Edward Weston and his Pepper #30. Many have attributed a sensual quality to this image.

The pictures in this post are my take on the subject. Not as refined or involved as Weston’s approach, but maybe a little more adapted to modern viewing habits, and people who have seen the photos already have described them als “almost a little sexy.” What you you think?

Time, what is time?

You might have noticed that I pretty much stopped posting on here for a few weeks now (or at least I hope somebody did). It’s not that I lost interest in posting or even photography, but that life got in the way.

I have a full time job with a long commute, a house that needs fixing, and three small children that need constant looking after. That combined with the fact hat I live in a sparely populated area, where there seem to be very few people who are into modeling makes it hard to find the time, opportunity or energy to set up a photo shoot.

I’ll get back to it, I promise.

Cinestill is hard

Next time I’m going out with Cinestill 800T, I’m bringing a filter.