My camera equipment is a Canon 1Ds Mark III, with a 24-70mm f2.8 and a Prime 85mm f1.2. Those are basically the only lenses I use.

For studio equipment I use Elinchrom light equipment. 90% of the time I use a beautydish both in the studio as well as on location. I also play around with some softboxes, reflectors & grids, depending on what results I want to become.

On location I always have my California Sunbounce reflectors at hand, I use the pro reflectors and a sunswatter for the hard sunlight. For lightning on location I prefer to work with the Elinchrom Quadra Ranger, it’s standard reflectors, my beautydish mounted on it with a mounting piece and the ring flash for the Quadra ranger. Sometimes I use the Canon 530EX flashes off camera as well.

How I use them? That depends on the situation, I try to be creative with my light and experiment a lot. Trying not to get stuck in a certain way or pattern is important I think. Every shoot I try to have a clear head and start from zero so my results are different each time.

You can find some behind the scenes pictures here on my website or on my facebook page.

Greets,
Simon

Spontaneous walking about.. and see what it gives :p

Model: Ine Nijs
Make-up & Hair: Caroline Rigo
Assistants: Roel Camps & Roberto Chin a Loi

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A little previews of today’s shoot…

Model: Debra Vermeir
Mua & Hair: Caroline Rigo

I decided to make a before and after beauty make-over.
Yesterday I was working on a beautyshot which after finishing I came to the conclusion there were some errors I made.
Today I wanted to make another one, and surprisingly I picked the exact same shot out of all my beauty shots I made…

Anyway now with a much more accurate editing.
Smooth and detailed but realistic beauty make-over.

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Today I had a very productive shoot with the lovely Estelle..
Believe it or not.. Estelle is only 11!!

The Make-up was done by Ans Brugmans.

Yesterday one of my projects was featured on fashionserved.com.
It were pictures of my shoot with Jelka..

This gave me some ideas for another rework of some of the pictures out of this collection.

here is a “scene” I made.

Hope you like it