Bas Hamstra

You clean up the white/lightgrey and get rid of the smudges. And perhaps you can crop a bit tighter. Otherwise stunning image, wall-worthy (which is the highest praise possible). Kind regards, Bas ...

It seems you have Gradation set to AUTO (in stead of normal) this setting does some contrast balancing tricks that can work really well in contrasty situations but does not always work great in ...

It's always a pleasure to see somebody understand a concept well enough to explain it crystal clear. Bas

Cool to have a free book on just posing with loads of examples. I saved a link to it. Kind regards, Bas

Nice use of shallowish DOF here and there,  it really works, nice images. Kind regards, Bas

Thank you for this very concrete tip. Seems like good "script", and I admit I didn't have a real plan during this exercise. Kind regards, Bas

Thanks for this nice comment :-) Kind regards, Bas

A portrait of my son, single small SB (of which I have now a larger version). Any comments apart from a hairlight would improve bg separation? Kind regards, Bas

I find the JPEGs from my RP so good that I think I will try JPEG only for a while. So in this case no RAW, no DPP. Just OOC jpegs very slightly tweaked in Apple Photo (slight exposure tweaks, ...

My first thought was that it looks like a whole new species of animal (possibly alien)... Bas

Hi Karl, Interesting, I must say that I would't be too bothered with the differences between corrected/uncorrected, on my monitor the uncorrected versions look a bit sharper even with the tiny tiny ...

It seems like you used 2 softboxes and combined that with ambient light, is that correct? What ratio did you use between the light sources? The first picture has a terrific atmosphere and is very, ...

Since a couple of days I am the proud owner of my first L lens, the 17-40. But I couldn't help checking out the 28-135 too to see if it's as good as Ken Rockwell says and this lens can be had for ...

Why not get an RP to experiment with mirrorless? I found out that it is great with light primes but also quickly found out that the heavy EF zoom lenses don't handle to well, making the RP body ...

Yeah that macro function is a very nice to have, I am not sure I would sacrifice F2.8 for that though, the price used seems not far apart between the two. Bas

Thanks for the tip, seems like a very interesting lens indeed. I see some awesome pictures taken with the 5D/16-35 combo at Flickr. There seem to be 2 versions though, a F4 and a F2.8? How do ...

I saw a couple used a while ago but was a bit worried about the age (and wear) of the lens. I also didn't appreciate them enough until I started using "the digital picture" comparisons. Kind regards, ...

I am playing a lot lately on "the digital picture" where you can compare sharpness at various focal lengths and apertures, see below. https://www.the-digital-picture.com/Reviews/ISO-12233-Sample-Cr ...

Right now I have a couple of primes that I really like (40 and 85 mm are my faves). But I have no REAL decent zoom, just the 28-105 3,5/4,5. I feel I should have tried at least ONE really good ...