FD-Pictures — BLOGPhotography by Florian C. Dahm

To summarize Wednesday I would say 1 word: chaos.

Firstly the weather was not as good as I expected, I could not shoot as long as I wanted to and then my camera broke. Sadly I wasnt able to fix it instantly so the photoshoot found a pretty fast end after just one rail-pic….Marco was so kind to let me use his 7D (which he normally films with) for the 2nd location but all the tricks where on tape already so I was able to use his camera for at least 2-3 shots.

After looking through all the pics I found one that I really like and might get printed soon but more on that next week. Unfortunately I am therefore not allowed to show you this photo from yesterday…bit of patience until it´s published is needed

Might go to the spot again on Friday as I fixed my camera today so I can do some shots with mine as well and Marco can continue to have fun with his 7D – filming!

Perhaps I can show you some pictures after Friday

`till then,

FloH

Finally finished with my IB @college in UK.

Which meeeeaaaannns: More time shooting

I have a pretty big thing coming up next week for a germany skateboard magazine with 2 guys to shoot an interview which will HOPEFULLY get printed. More Info´s next week…perhaps also some videos. However I feel like concentrating a bit more on fashion stuff in the future instead of sports. I love sports and will always continue to do that but fashion is what i started to prefer. Let´s see if I can pic up some shoots there

Veryspontaneous session yesterday. Steffen Hürter, teamrider of blacksheepsports asked me to take some pictures of him.  Unfortunatly the conditions were not great to take pictures: cloudy and only 30cm of podwer. @2.30pm the sun finally came out and we got at least one shot:

The bad weather had one thing for good: I had lots of time to ride myself

We finished the day with some portraits

All in all a nice day with 2 photos I like Thanks to Steffen and his Crew for the fun session.

There are 3 ways of taking pictures i love: 1st. beeing around with your friends and realising in the end what a great light it was and having many good pics that you haven´t expected 2nd. beeing around with a good friend and having no pressure that the pictures have to look in a specific way…just shoot for fun and number 3: editorial shoots where you have a very specific idea about what you shoot, where you shoot and how the pictures will look like in the end. unfortunatly it will always cost you a little bit of money cause there is no person paying you but it is much more complex than just snaphsots so the models and stylists want to be payed….but if you can eliminate the last 2 things (find some persons that do it tfp)…its just like a real shoot where you are the client, creative director and photographer in 1 person yey

So as editorial shoots are so nice I decided to grab 2 models and shoot a series of pictures I had in my head for quit a while now…we also discovered some other nice locations so perhaps there will also be a new picture for the current portfolio….not sure yet. Still working on the postproduction of the pictures.

The idea behind the shoot was to creat some cold and contrasty images with a slight touch of fashion. After some warming up we found that super cool Opera building in the middle of munich…eva was a big support finding it as I´m not the best with locating something without GPS haha. The buidling was perfect: shaddy side, amazing architecture and the colour tones of the walls fitted 100% to the colours of Nicks blazer.

When Nick started to play around with the reflector in a small break we made I realised that the hair of Eva looked great with a little bit of “wind” in it. The smooth hair and body position in contrast to the static background created a very interesting look so my faveourite picture in the shooting turned out to be the following:

The only thing that made me freak out at home is the position of her hand..it is not as I wanted it to be…havent realised that onlocation which is something I am SO annoyed about (not about Eva..more about myself)

The whole setup was very easy: a big 70cm beauty dish with a 400Ws flash from the front (1st pic)/the right (2nd pic) on around 2meters heights. The daylight was very strong so it filled the set with a slight gold touch of sunlight that was reflected from the building on the other side. All shots on canon 5D Mark II with 70-200, processed in aperture and photoshop.

2nd part was at a public park in an aisle with these wonderfull archways all over…changed to my 50mm and opened the aperture to 2.4 to capture all of the light that was reflected by white ground.

After that, a cold beer and a snack together with Eva and Nick made the day

In the past weeks I seriously thougt about shutting this blog down. My weekly picture was kinda a fail as I have not taken a single picture for weeeeeeks. First week of holidays haning out with mates, second third and partly fourth week windsurfing in sardegna where I haven´t taken any pictures either as I spent all the time on the water surfing

After the holidays an internship in an hotel followed (which was great by the way) and I had to work from morning till night-> no times for pics again -.-

Buuuuut the last week I was able to plan a photoshoot for today. I´m very excited how my brandnew Flash and Beauty Dish will perform…updates/pics coming the next days

greets

FloH

This is how my season ending last weekend in Hochgurgl, Austria looked like. Still can´t believe that in mid-april the conditions can be that good and that I found untouched snow. Loved it!

But with the end of the season the end of snowboarding and skiing pictures is coming, too. When I look back at this winter I am actually quite frustrated. Hardly had time to shoot as I was most of the time in college on the isle of man or WHEN I had time in holidays I prefered to ski on my own….so I have not more than 2 shots from the hole season that I´m happy with -.-

But with faults there comes improvement so I´ll definetly use my time better next winter and takes the cam with me more often. At least I got some photos I took with my mobile from the weekend haha Enjoy and be jealous :PPPP