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Holistic Massage Studio – PR Photography
Some of you might know that I moved to Brussels (Belgium) for professional and work-related reasons in September 2009. Having more luck than anything else, I had my first Brussels-based customer for PR Photography a couple of months before actually moving to the capital of Europe.
Holistic Massage Studio - PR Photography
Holistic Massage Studio - PR Photography
It’s not a secret (if you read the title of this blog post) that my October customer was Jari Menari, Holistic Massage Studio (www.jarimenari.be) in Brussels. Tom Ackaert, the owner and manager of the massage studio, asked me to take few pictures for a new website. It was a very exciting experience for me to work for PR photography with him and his models. I must admit that it was also quite challenging for me because the room we worked in was about 7 m2 (square meters). I was really afraid that working in such a small room would be impossible but looking now at the results, I think the pictures turned out pretty well.
The good and very helpful thing was that Tom knew what he wanted from the very beginning. This saved us a lot of time but also put some constrains for me at the same time – because he knew exactly what he wanted, I didn’t have much room for my own creativity. I don’t complain here at all! I guess that I have to get used to limiting my creativity in times when customers know what they want and just do what a customer says. In other cases, I let my creativity, imagination and innovation take over my mind, body and soul 
I guess that my adventure with Jari Menari (Holistic Massage Studio) is not over yet as Tom mentioned lately he would like me to take some more pictures for his new massage project (it’s a secret at the moment so I can’t reveal what it will be). I think it’s a good sign when a past customer comes back to you asking to do some more work for him, also for PR Photography – another happy customer who wants more of my work and services! 
Low-Key Lighting Photography – Portraits of Musicians
I don’t take low-key lighting pictures often. Don’t ask me why, I just don’t know. But sometimes, I can’t resist to take such pictures. I personally believe that low-key lighting photography can have a particularly strong effect for certain type of portraits. I like to use low-key lighting especially in those portraits where a person’s personality and background are enhanced by a tool/instrument/object within a picture that is associated either with a personality, a hobby, background or an occupation. Those of you experienced with low-key lighting will realize that it might be hard to use such type of lighting both for a person and an object within a frame. I understand that some of you might not be familiar with low-key lighting, so what is it?
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Portraits of children – Tim
If you have ever taken pictures of small kids then you know how hard it is. Posing is out of question as well as any chances they would stay in one place for longer than 2 seconds without moving. However, these and many more challenges connected with photographing small children can lead to interesting results. I also always say that challenges are always exciting for me.
Even a housemate can be…
… an interesting model. I write ‘interesting‘ and not ‘good‘ , ‘excellent‘, etc because I think (or rather I hope or even expect) that he will read this article and I don’t want him to become narcissistic, although he already is! 
. After all, the most important thing a housemate should do is to read your articles and follow your website closely, right
Three types of people in photography
I have noticed recently that there are 3 types of people and everyone falls into at least one of a category.
Who let the ghosts out?
Did you see any ghosts or paranormal activities last night? If not, then you should! Or maybe you were a paranormal activity yourself ?
A lion in a pussycat’s skin
Life itself is a lifelong learning process (and wikipedia doesn’t have all the answers for that anyway ). When you think you have experienced everything and everything happened to you, then surprise happens and that applies to various experiences and people we meet. It’s just a quick thought, not particularly connected to the rest of the post but related to the picture and the title
Where are you going, lady(bug)?
Sit back, close your eyes and imagine a beautiful sunny day, nature, forest, birds singing in the background….
Settled in Brussels
Sorry to everyone for such long silence and thanks to all of you who sent me emails asking what was going on. Most of you are probably already aware that I moved recently to Brussels and I was busy arranging everything and settling down in the capital of Europe.
It’s time to move (on)
I think this is the first post for a long time where the picture corresponds not only to the title but also to the content
People, people, give me more people!
As you can imagine from the title, I’ve decided to take my photography a step further and to concentrate on portraits, portraiture, fashion, people documentary or any other type of photography that involves people. Why? There are many reasons, way too many to mention all of them here but to name just few: I realized that I had spent not enough (photography) time on taking portrait pictures or just pictures of people. It is one of the photography domains which I need to master. Another reason is that people are very interesting subjects for photography. Their faces or expressions give not only a general tone to a picture but they also subconsciously send out messages in pictures.
Creativity: Here I come!
There is time (or actually many ‘times’) in every artists’ life when changes have to be done. These ‘changes’ vary and sometimes they are changes in artistic approach, changes in personal life influencing the artistic outcomes or self-concious decisions influencing the creativity. It’s time for me to take on those changes and I will concentrate on one of them for the time being.
