Oh wauw not the most interesting introduction ever. But hey we all have to start somewhere.
As a photographer by profession an introduction must be accompanied by an image, right? So with this first post I hope you understand that photography is not only my profession but also my passion.
For my job I make portraits and work for a local magazine to show companies from a different, more personal side. I love to take time to let people really be them self.
That being said, my passion is photography so when the working day is over I take out my camera and put it to a whole kind of different use. Looking for dark spots to put up my camera and make so called light paintings. Photographs which take sometimes up to several minutes to make.
Having the advantage of a studio I also work with people to make a portrait that doesn't show the every day pictures you normally see. It is great to see peoples reactions to the art work they are a part of. It is like you are more magician then photographer to them.
It always puts a smile on my face with these reactions. Also when I teach light painting in workshops it is amazing how people seem to be more relaxed in making the simplest drawings. I believe that light painting brings out our inner child without all the hesitations we build up in our years of growing up.
The first name I thought of for this kind of work is based on LOL. I'm a Dutchie and translated it would mean FUN. But the fun is, that in our online language it would mean the same. Therefor I still love this name. To give a bit of more seriousness I named the my first website for this content "Ladies of Light". Working together with my friend on most projects, fun is most important - that is why we make these photographs/light paintings.
For those of you who would like to know just facts:
Female
52
Mother of 1
Married
Dutch
Living near Rotterdam Netherlands
Canon 5D Mark IV
Light painting tools: Lightpaintingbrushes, Pixelstick, Liteblades, Magilight (and anything that produces light)
Just started here on Steemit so please be patient with me, live and learn :D.
Hey Petra, fellow Rotterdammer and photographer here on Steem as well! :-) Feel welcome on Steem and ask me questions if needed! The beginning is hard but be persistent and you'll succeed :-) Cheers!
Thank you Soyrosa, nice to be welcomed by a neighbor photographer :-). Will do my best and read up on all info. Is a lot to take in first time around.
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Welcome to STEEM Petra. It is more than Steemit...
STEEM have many interesting DApp like Phone client, Games and many Tools like:
Btw, I recommend you to use Share2Steem so you can post your photographs on Instagram, FB and STEEM simultaneously. Hope you have fun here. 😉
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Thank you for your recommendation. I already isntalled Partiko, but Share2Steem sounds promissing. Will have a look at that!
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STOPHi,
This is a lovely introductory post, Thank you for taking the time to write the post and say hello to the community!
I am here to help!
I would encourage you to keep posting and comment on others users content to help make a name for yourself and to get the most out of the platform!
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Currently I’m supporting for the Planktons by our small upvote. You may like it, check my support here.
Welcome to Steemit & Wish you luck - success with Steemit!
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