Logo approved, Italian way :)

Posted May 17th by Bob van Ooik in Graphic Design, Photography

Yesterday was a pretty eventful day. Saturdays are suppose to be weekend days and not so much working days, right? But being a designer and photographer such things turn out to be totally different. The day started out very bad. My iMac crashed in the morning and it was not working at all anymore :( Thanks to the back-ups I was up and running again by the end of the day. While the new machine was working hard mimicking itself as the old one (great Mac feature), I shot an event in Tanzwelt Movement. Volker Rosin, a well known German (kids) entertainer was giving a performance there. It was great to see how one person can hold the attention of a bunch of kids for an hour with just a singing and clapping. You can see the coverage here: http://vstudio-international.com/movement/2009/05/volker-rosin/

When I came back the iMac was not yet finished setting up but I had to present logos for a new restaurant :( Fortunately they are Italian, easy going and as restaurant owners working late. So it was not a problem to reschedule the appointment to the end of the evening. Finally at 10:30 in the evening I was presenting them the logos. I can’t remember ever doing that so late! And they liked what they saw! As a matter of fact they even choose one without any alterations (yes this does not happen often). For now I can’t say or show much more as the restaurant will open in September and they are not yet public with it. But I wanted to share the logo because we are pretty proud of it! When we can, we will show more of course!

So all in all a long and eventful (Satur)day but with good results! After the break you can see 2 more pictures with the logo.

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Beautiful Suki & proud Andreas

Posted May 4th by Olga Vasilkova in Dance Fashion, Photography

Recently we had a very nice shooting with my new ballroom couple. Suki and Andreas dance together for only a few months but they developed a very good and successful partnership. Last weekend they danced their 2nd competition and got silver medals (I still think they deserved gold on that day). The guys wanted a small shooting in their dance outfits. Here is what we’ve got from the day. It was a very nice shooting and we all had tons of fun.

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Scenes around town with Sigma DP2

Posted May 1st by Bob van Ooik in Photography, Sigma

Today I got the chance to stroll around town with the new Sigma DP2. Unfortunately the weather was not so great, the light was extremely boring and my time was limited so not much spectacular stuff. The DP2 turned out to be clearly faster than the DP1, the colors are superb and I love this FOV. It looks like the files are pretty free of noise! Oh and yes, the lens is incredible! I think it is the sharpest I have ever seen :)

The weather looks to get much better in the coming days so hopefully I can give you much more interesting stuff in the next couple of days!

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Upon request I made 5 Raws available to play with (± 70MB): http://vstudio-international.com/temp/raws.zip