A photo shoot in an abandoned military base

  Abandoned buildings and portraits, that's a cool combination. Yesterday a friend asked me if I would like to make a few images with him in them. When someone want's to be photographed and asks me to do it, I'm more than happy to help. So, where to go, is always a good question. I didn't need to think too long, because lately I've been visiting an abandoned army base quite often. A peaceful place for walking the dogs, but works as a scene for photos too. So there we went. My buddy wanted to have a guitar in the pics, so we took one with us. For the images I mostly used a speedlight with a DIY grid attached on, plus one extra flash to get some extra light on the background or as a fill.

                                     
                            

Portrait shoot, and a couple of lessons learned

  Asked today a friend of mine if he'd like to be a model for a short photo session, and luckily he had the time and agreed, despite his busy student schedule. Because it was pretty late afternoon, and the sun was setting we headed to an abandoned hotel construction nearby, for the shoot. Cool place. Never been inside so my first lesson was, good to scout the place were you will be shooting before hand, that way it will be easier and faster to make the images when you know where to pose your model. Second lesson for me was that when you are shooting a newbie model (I'm pretty much a newbie too, in shooting people), it's crucial to know something about guiding the model, something which I will be trying to learn during the coming months. Here's a couple of photos from the shoot.