Just a quick portrait session with a friend of mine, playing with ligh, experimenting with flashes, having fun.
Thanks to Erik Schütz for his assistance on this job!


















It has been a while, but for sake of completeness and chronology of this blog, I want to mention the award I recently got for the reportage about Masu. The story is not finished and I hope will manage to complete it till the end of summer this year.
Anyhow, read more about the Award at their (german) Homepage.
I had to take pictures of people who suffered a fracture and are now treated in the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin. More than 50% of their patients got admitted with this diagnosis in the past few days.






Two portrait-jobs today, one of a bishop who recently moved to berlin and the other one of a australian journalist who will write a column for the Berliner Zeitung about beeing a foreigner in berlin. Coincidence?



Today was tough! Three assignments, one after the other, no break. A quick overview.
In the morning I had to take pictures of mentally disabled children performing a nitivity-play in a hospital church. I was deeply impressed by the nurses and the other people taking care of them – they seriously must have nerves of steel and (more importantly) a heart of gold.

Next one: I had to take pictures in the newsroom of the Berliner Zeitung of… a Dog. Right. The 14th floor is his alone and he is regarded by most as the BLZ-Dog. The most difficult part of the shooting was getting him to sit still.

Last one: The news was: “A street is again open to traffic” / The editor wanted: “A cool image of the street” / The problem was: “well, it is just a street like any other” / I was like: “wtf!?” It happens really often that you get in a situation where you have to make something out of nothing. You know that you wont win the Pulitzer with it, and the nice thing is that nobody expects you do it – they just wanta nice, printable foto.

The assignment you get rather often is to take pictures of building XY, and usually these are the most unrewarding jobs. You have like 30min time to figure out a composition, make the shot, and be gone. Same here, only today I also needed to make a portrait of some guys working in that building. Needless to say it freaks you out when you have such a limited time-window to work in. And I must confess – I am kinda bad at working during stress, I need some time to think the shot trough and get an idea of the final image I want to get. But I am getting more and more used to it.
Anyhow, the results:

Today a team of Greenpeace-Activists decided to politely (but firmly) ask Angela Merkel to show some commitment at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. They pulled two gigantic banners from the rooftop of the central train station and hoped someone will notice.
When the editors saw the pictures I brought back they said one of them will run on the front page, but later that day they made up their mind because someone thought that lately Mrs. Merkel was feature too often on the front page and they need some variety… Thats how it goes I guess.


One of the assignments for today was to take pictures of a youth ice hockey team during their training. I experienced really difficult lighting conditions there because the ice was shining bright and the background was rather dark – so either the forground was blown out or the background pitch-black.
Does anyone has any tips concerning sport photography on-ice?



This post will be showcasing some of my work for the Berliner Zeitung during my internship there. I will be updating it once a week, with the new stuff on top. Tell me what you think.
Update, 22.12.2009: Allright, it wont work like this. It is to much work to gather all the .pdf files after the pictures got published in order to show them here. So here is the deal, I will only show tear sheets from “large” storys and with pictures I belive are worth sharing.

Berliner Zeitung, 24.12.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 03.12.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 09.12.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 21.11.2009

Berliner Zeitung, 19.11.2009
I continued working on the story about Masu and want to share the progress here with you. Everything, especially the video, is still in a very very early stage but I thought it might be interesting for some of you to follow this story growing.
So here we go, you can find the intro and some more images below. Tell me what you think and how I can make it better. Thank you.



I am really glad to say that I have started working on a new long-term reportage again. You may have seen the Portraits I have done some days ago of Masu, if not – go take a look! Anyhow, I decided to continue to work together with him and if everything goes well you can expect to see a nice Slideshow about him and his work till end of january.
First photos from yesterday below – tell me what you think about it!



I had another shooting with the rapper Masu two days ago. He wanted a portrait for a flyer and a poster promoting his tour. This is what he got:

Hit the link below to see the B-Selection.
Here is a little Slideshow I produced for the Wahlfahrt.
Shooresh and me had a Fashion-Shooting in the Zoo today… I know by looking at the pictures you might not have guessed it because they clearly lack any animals. True, we were not allowed to go near them, we just used some parts of the zoo as some kind of backdrop.
Anyhow, below you can find a smal selection of the stuff we did today. All the images were lit with sb900 flashes (because I know I will get emails asking that).
Enjoy!




The Wahlfahrt09 is over and I want to share some stuff I have done during the trip here. This time it is all about random shots from the various citys I have been. All pictures taken while going for a walk or waiting for something/anything to happen.
Enjoy!

Leidingen

Konstanz

Sigmaringen

Leidingen

Erding

Konstanz

Bodensee

Konstanz
The Wahlfahrt09 is over and I want to share some stuff I have done during the trip here. This time it is all about portraits.
Enjoy!








This year we had to make a portrait series for university. Below you can see what I came up with.
All pictures were made on-location and with two smal strobes.

From left to right and top to bottom: Stephanie Fügen / Caroline Behrend / Tatjana Vidnevskaja / Mahtab Soleymani / Elena Fischer / Martina Füller / Joelle Delhaes / Elise Wormenor / Jila Pajutan
So here comes the second part of our little trip.
A bit more action, a little less experimenting and no flash. I think it´s time to work on a real reportage again.


I spent most of the last weekend in Saxon Switzerland on a trip with the guys from PK one photographing their training and experimenting with my flash.
More pictures soon to come.



Today me and Shooresh were scouting for a location for a job next sunday and did some test-shots. I think it has some potential. One flash used. More to come.


I was on assigment today and had to do some portraits in a clinical-environment at the MHH here in Hannover. The reason why I want to share this two pictures with you is not because I think they are especially awesome but because I am somwhat proud to have managed to set them up. If you are following this blog you might have noticed that I am slowly getting into the concept of working with flashes – and now I have encountered a situation in wich i was forced to find a way to light a scene in order to get the image I had in my head.
Anyhow, seems like all the fashion shootings werent for nothing… If you do something every day you will eventually get better at it. I am going there. I guess…

Hit the link below to see this scene without any extra lightning.
I had another fashion-shooting today, although it is not nearly as interesting as the work on a reportage it is nevertheless very educational if you want to learn something about lightning and using flashes… seriously.

Designed by Joelle Delhaes

Designed by Elena Fischer and Elise Wormenor

Designed by Nora Plieth and Vanessa von Polheim

Raoul Zöllner in an abandoned factory. Berlin, 06.12.2008

Maria Rathjen in her garden. Hamburg, 28.04.2007

Josephine Müller. Berlin, 16.05.2007

Erik Schütz and his girlfriend near the Märkeisches Museum. Berlin, 17.06.2007


- H. E. Clark
I was recently asked to take pictures of some T-Shirts and Blazers some friends of mine have made. Nothing comercial, they needed it for their portfolio.
Although fashion is not the field I usualy work in, it was nevertheless quite fun and a good exercise.

Designed by Elise Wormenor

Designed by Elena Fischer

Ezgi Polat, near Häckischer Markt - Berlin.

Ezgi Polat, near Häckischer Markt - Berlin.
My work about the Immigrants Backyard has been published in this years edition of GO!Magazin, which is an anual publication from the journalism-school in Reutlingen. The (german) text was written by Nicola Meier.
We had an assigment for school to shoot an artist from Berlin. I asked the very talented painter Grigori Dor if he was interested… and he was.


I currently have an assigment where my job is to make some PR pictures for the Medical Documentation department at my Fachhochschule which they want to use for their (yet-to-come) website. So yesterday I was at Solvey, an international chemical and pharmaceutical company, in order to photograph a graduate from the Med.Doc. department.
It was very strange for me since I usually dont tell people what to do, how to move and where to stand. But this time everythig was exactly about that… giving orders.
So much left to learn…
Back in June 2008 we had a little project with our photojournalism class where we had to cover the public-viewing in Hannover during the soccer match of Germany vs. Turkey. Then we put it in a little slideshow where everyone of us could show up to 3 images, you can take a look at it here.
Here is what I had when the day was over.





A project I had to do last year for school, I kinda like how your eyes need some time to adapt to the certain layers of the images. But I doubt that you can use double exposures in a serious reportage. Or has anyone a counter-example?
It has been a while since i got the task from my professor to cover a fashion show organized by the fashion-designer class at our university. At first I thought it will be realy boring, but because i had the chance to go behind the scenes it tourned out realy interessting and was a great exercise.
By the way, the girls did realy a great job!


I always thought that architectual photography was the most boring thing on earth to do, how was it possible to spend so much time and energy in shooting bricks and metal and glass and whatnot… I didnt get it, and after trying (and failing miserably), I still dont…
Well yes, I kinda do have my silent moments. I just forget about them.
