What an edition again! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a houseparty go this mental as was the case with David Guetta’s performance. Even though I’m not the biggest fan of his music, his crowd interaction will give me goosebumps for quite some time to come. In my opinion Tomorrowland is certainly one of the best parties of the year with a great atmosphere, relaxed people, amazing stages and a simply well though out event.
Three massive panoramas, 8000 pixels wide!
Ten years of Q-Dance, “representing the harder styles in dance music”, had to be celebrated by a massive party. And fully-blown it was, a fully decorated ArenA stadium in Amsterdam was the venue for this absolutely insane partynight. Hot, humid and loooooud!
Client: Q-Dance
© 2010 Fotograferen net
James Holden uhm, rocking?, the crowd…
Photo was taken at the 10 year Anniversary party of Awakenings: Awakefest in the Recreation Area Halfweg. June 26th 2010
When I entered the tent where James Holden was performing I immediately saw this couple at the front of the crowd.
I always have one camerabody with a telelens ready to shoot at these large events (which means: set at Av). Sometimes you have to act so quickly there is no time to adjust your settings properly on manual. So this one was taken with a maximum open aperture (f5) with my 100-400mm Canon EF f4.5-5.6. While shooting I adjusted to -2/3 of a stop in order to get a darker image and a slightly higher shuttertime (at 800ISO). I was hoping to get the couple frozen (they weren’t moving, so that was easy) with a blurred crowd behind them due to movement.
Fortunately the lens has stabilization so I can take really low shuttertimes (1/13th in this image) with my pretty steady hand. Took a whole bunch of shots and this one came out nicest (some are sharper but I like the people moving next to them, like the guy on the left, in this shot).
Converted it to B&W in Photoshop to get some more focus on the couple: reds turned up in the B&W control panel and then used levels to deepen the blacks and finally slightly upped their mouthes with a mask and then adjusting with the curve tool as there was a bit of shadow in that part of the shot.
Client: Bacardi-Martini NV
© 2010 Fotograferen net
Defqon.1, the 2010 edition ruled big time! With incredible weather, an unbelieveable mainstage and sick laser- and fireworks show to end the day with this years festival was one for the books. Wallpapers will be ready Tuesday Wednesday
The night before our son was born I was still working late at another cool Bacardi Visita event in the Las Palmas II venue in Rotterdam. After a somewhat slow night (not in quantity of people or drinks being consumed) things went massively crazy in the last hour. With so much red and purple lights in a mostly dim lit room exposure settings are a nightmare. This was taken on a manual of 1/15th of a sec. at f2.8 and 400ISO. The red flares are usually a problem with this sort of light but in this case it adds a nice bit of extra power to the shot.
See the full nights gallery here.
Trance Energy 2010 in Utrechts Jaarbeurs. Great edition with Nic Chagall, Markus Schultz, Sander van Doorn, Armin van Buuren (live by satellite from New York) and Above & Beyond really getting the masses jumping at the mainstage.
Trance Energy 2010 Wallpapers coming later this week!
Full gallery here or click the slideshow below:
Images from the 2010 edition of Sensation (White) Belgium. From a sold out Ethias Arena in Hasselt. Line-up with Erick E, Martin Soveig, Mr White, Sebastian Ingrosso and last but definitely not least: Sander van Doorn.
Images from two weeks ago, long overdue to being abroad too much lately, when Bacardi Visita went sailing on the Pureliner ship in Amsterdam. Simply a very hot edition! Enjoy the slideshow…
A three-day visit to an island which is ten hours by plane and a couple hours in jetlag. Crazy? Not really, considering I was there to photograph the famous Caribbean Carnaval on the tiny Dutch Antilles island of Aruba. It’s the second-largest carnaval celebration in the whole caribbean and famous for its laid-back atmosphere and accessibility.
And boy was it worth the trip! Two days of sunny and happy people parading the streets of both major towns on the island: the very easy-goinh parade on Saturday in San-Nicolas and the massive and crowded Sunday main event in Oranjestad. Hours and hours of incredibly colorful people and costumes. I don’t think I’ve seen so many feathers. I guess the images speak for themselves, please enjoy and make sure you’re in the neighborhood next year!
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