{"id":900,"date":"2019-11-25T12:27:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T11:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hanspieterse.wpenginepowered.com\/about-me\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T09:17:13","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hans-pieterse.nl\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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About Hans Pieterse<\/span><\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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This enables me to create any desired atmosphere or setting. Lighting technique is one of my strongest skills. With an extensive arsenal of flash and artificial lights, flags, spots, mirrors, and Magic Arms, I can manipulate light in limitless ways. Whether it\u2019s creating the brightest daylight or a dreamlike ambiance, this is a world in which anything is possible.<\/p>

For most of my studio work I use my technical camera in combination with a digital Leaf background. I do, however, still very much enjoy working with my older, digital Leica M9. A far more \u2018primitive\u2019 camera with beautiful lenses, on which all the settings have to be changed by hand. Excellent quality and a pure joy to work with!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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I see my studio as a laboratory or operation room: clean and full of technical possibilities. I insure that the object to be photographed is dust free by using compressed air; an almost surgical process. I learnt my craft during the analog age, when cleaning up dust particles through photo editing software just wasn\u2019t possible. \u201cI have never seen images this clean before\u201d is a phrase that has been uttered many times by various editors.<\/p>

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