Gerard Maas Images

Exploring a bit beyond the initial ‘ focus on the eye’ images that we produced at the beginning of the shoot. By pulling the focus to the make-up in between the eye and the eyebrow I find that you can better appreciate the detailed make-up work of Daisy and the rest of the image takes on a dreamy, peaceful look.
Make-up: Daisy van Winkel.
Model: Annelies
Copyright: Daisy Van Winkel and Gerard Maas.
Light info:
One 580EX in an Ezybox Hotshoe 11 o’ clock with the camera at about 6 o’clock .

This is not the beauty you often find in this blog, but it certainly has its charms.

Portrait of an earwig (Forficula auricularia), an that got its name from tales of ear-crawling into a man’s brain.
It can strike a nice pose, don’t you think?
Pic info: MP-E65 (somewhere between 1x-2x) and a macro ring flash MR-14EX. It was handheld and a real challenge to keep up with the frentic movements of the insect. The ringflash is certainly a great aid when handholding. In the past I would have been holding one 580EX in one hand and the camera in the other, making it quite hard to keep a stable setup. On the downside, I do find the ringflash light often flat. It won’t be long until I get the 580EX in my left hand again and start experimenting with the C-group wireless capability of the MR-14EX.

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Still exploring every day stuff from another point of view. This time, with another kind of light. I masked a 580EX speedlite flash with a black card where I made a hole in the middle and placed it behind this litchee skin. The result was a great red glow like a SF cocoon that is about to explode.

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Horse Fly at 5x optical magnification. The fly was standing on a blue hortensia (it’s not an artificial background!) and lighted with a hotshoe flash off camera on the side.