I finally got around to edit some of the behind the scenes footage from the shoot for LIEBE (Love), which was one of three principal images of my latest project GLAUBE | LIEBE | HOFFNUNG (Faith, Love, Hope). As it was the case with the other images in the show, I took the term “love” a step further, expressing what usually happens when humans are in love. In essence, it is a constant fight. A fight for yourself, a fight for the other one or a battle for the both of you. So the subtitle of this one is: “The Battle of the Hearts”

"Love" - from GLAUBE | LIEBE | HOFFNUNG
We shot this in June 2009 at an old warehouse in the harbor of Basel. Once again the Zurich based agency FOTOGEN provided us with two very talented models for this story. Sarah and Zacharias were a blast to work with! Also on set we had Thierry Leyva acting as my fellow assistant. And very importantly on this one: Fräulein Scharlach who did all of the SFX make up.
More juicy details and a behind the scenes video after the jump!
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Posted by nicolas_henri on January 30th, 2010 :: Filed under
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My new show GLAUBE | LIEBE | HOFFNUNG (Faith, Love, Hope) has finally opened last weekend (Details here and here) and I am very happy how well it was received! As promised in my last post I will be sharing a lot of background info and BTS video from the shoots involved in the production. The project itself derives it’s title from three principal images. Today we will start with a closer look at the creation of GLAUBE (Faith).

It all started back in November 2008, when we set out on a beautiful autumn day to create the image above. In facty it started a lot earlier than that, because the planning and pre-production for this one took almost two months. And as the title of the image suggests, quite a bit of it had to do with keeping the faith…
(Keep on reading + video after the break)
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Posted by nicolas_henri on November 5th, 2009 :: Filed under
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I recently shot another installment of promo images for the Swiss handbag label RoyalBLUSH. Things were a bit rushed, because the images had to be ready for the GREENshowroom, part of the Mecedes-Benz Fashion Week in Berlin. All in all we had little more than a week to shoot, process and get things printed.

In this post I’ll cover the speedy shoot and in part two I will explain how I used the powerful tools of Adobe Lightroom 2 to process and retouch 9 images in less than a day! We’ll have behind the scenes video and a free Lightroom Preset for download!
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Posted by nicolas_henri on July 2nd, 2009 :: Filed under
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