compose - focus - create

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ian segal — Tue, 31 May 2011 13:08:21 +0000

dear readers,

this blog has been discontinued. i will continue to write at www.iansegal.be/blog. you’ll also find all the old blogposts there. please update your rss-reader.

thanks for stopping by!

ian

jump

ian segal — Tue, 24 May 2011 13:22:02 +0000

quick snapshot to keep this blog alive. life’s been busy and new things are coming. i’ll keep you posted.

sheep

ian segal — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:18:00 +0000

flair

ian segal — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 06:36:54 +0000

last week i had a photo published in flair magazine. it was a picture of a dress. nothing groundbreaking, but i never had a photograph published in a print magazine before. here’s another dress i photographed but this one did not get selected.

as you can see in this picture (taken with my cell phone) i used a large softbox to light the dress and a bare strobe with reflector to accentuate the ruches with hard light/shadows.

photo contest

ian segal — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 06:20:36 +0000

the university of antwerp held a photo contest for its students and employees. the topic for this contest was “equal opportunities and diversity”. i spent a few hours walking around campus with my camera and thought a lot about how i wanted to translate these topics into images. this was a very tough assignment . i wasn’t looking for the obvious photographs and had to come up with a clear title for each image that supports the message. at first i wasn’t satisfied at all with the result, but now i’m really starting to like some of the photographs.

here are 3 of the 5 images i submitted. feedback is very much appreciated. it was fun and interesting to hear what readers thought about the images from two weeks ago and these images should be even more thought-provoking. i already received negative and positive responses to the photographs so don’t be afraid to be honest: go nuts in the comments section!

equal opportunities in education / gelijke onderwijskansen

pigeonholing / hokjesdenken

student mobility in education / mobiliteit in het onderwijs

lina

ian segal — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:00:50 +0000

i had never worked with a model and make-up artist before, but there’s a first time for everything. katleen and i met on a photoshoot and we’ve wanted to do some personal projects together. lina helped us out as a model and niko dropped by and did a great job with the california sunbounce reflector. the theme for this shoot was: ‘dreamy’. the weather was great, we had a lot of fun and i’m looking forward to doing this kind of shoots again. i hope you like the results!

model: lina

mua & styling: katleen lison www.lisonstyling.be

assistence: niko caignie www.nikocaignie.be

curiosity – photo critique

ian segal — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:41:19 +0000

once again i find myself posting pictures of the boy. lately i’ve been taking a lot of pictures of what surrounds me. a lot more than i used to. we’re expecting a baby in june so i’ve been doing less assignments to prepare for the birth. this means i have more time to spend with the family and a lot more time to take personal pictures. it’s great: i’m trying out new things, learning, failing and thinking more about composition and storytelling. learning to be a better storyteller with my images is one of the main goals i set for this year. storytelling is the most important thing in photography, it’s very hard to achieve and it’s very often overlooked.

so for this week i want to try something new: i’m asking my audience for feedback. here are two pictures taken at the same time and place but from a different angle. the title is curiosity. which photograph do you like best and why? what do both photographs tell you? which one conveys a stronger message? which composition is better? maybe you hate them both? that’s fine too. what would you have done differently? you don’t have to answer in english. dutch is fine. i’ll buy you a beer if you respond in the comments section!

picture a.

picture b.

a bit of info for the gearheads: both images are shot with a canon 5d & 50mm 1.4 lens at f1.4 in aperture priority (shutter speed was 1/800 & 1/600)

mac outliers

ian segal — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:45:47 +0000

the first official release of mac os x came out exactly 10 years ago. that’s a long time in technology. i didn’t use a mac back then. not many people did. i bought my first apple computer in 2004: a white 12″ ibook 1ghz g4 that ran os x 10.3 panther. it was the start of an addiction. i love(d) that thing. i thought it died on me a few weeks ago, but it seems to be working again. the design is still amazing. even now it looks small and futuristic. 2003 or 2004 was the year the ipod got really popular. then the iphone was released and now the ipad is taking over. eventually people got interested into macs and the hardware became more affordable. apple gained a lot of marketshare.

when i got my first mac to write my master’s thesis, i was probably the only one in my class that ran os x. when i walked around the university today almost 50% of the students had an apple laptop. the outliers became the norm. amazing. happy birthday os x. we’ll see what the future holds for the next 10 years.

here comes the sun

ian segal — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:19:45 +0000

sunny afternoon at the playground with the boy. shot at 1.4.

defence by lauwri

ian segal — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 11:24:27 +0000

check out this work of art made by lauwri. she is a talented young artist and about to graduate as a master of advertising design. visit her blog for more amazing work.