Today I feel like new things need to begin, so it seems more than appropriate to present another one from the series GLAUBE | LIEBE | HOFFNUNG (Faith, Love, Hope). It is entitled GEBURT (Birth).
Chantal, our six year old model for this image, was a real trooper and professionally endured the massive strobe power we threw at her. In fact, this image was shot in bright daylight, while I pulled a heavy key shift to create the nightly feel. I underexposed the background by 5 stops and compensated the Elinchrom strobes accordingly. I had one bare strobe head sitting in the hole in the ground in front of Chantal and large softbox to her right.
The location was the backyard of a friendly farmer in Germany. Besides his farming business he runs a holiday lodge which overlooks the location. While I was digging the hole the night before, all of his guests were standing on the balcony watching me. Until the shoot the next day, conspiracy theories about the strange proceedings went haywire. Dead dog, treasure hunt and terror attack were among them…
At the end of the day it’s a seemingly innocent picture about planting new and exciting things in the secrecy of the night.
Posted by nicolas_henri on February 16th, 2010 :: Filed under
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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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For the third year in a row I will be part of the biggest Swiss Photo Expo, the photo 09! The creme de la creme of Swiss pro and amateur photographers gather for 4 days to show their favorite work from the past year.
I will be showing an excerpt of GLAUBE | LIEBE | HOFFNUNG. The show opens to the general public on Friday 15 January and will run until Monday 18 January. If you happen to be in Switzerland next weekend make sure to drop in! (and give me a heads up so I can meet you!)
Posted by nicolas_henri on January 7th, 2010 :: Filed under
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