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Scanning Old Pictures

July 19, 2010

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Four years ago, when I left The Netherlands to move to the US, I hardly took any time to sufficiently clean up all my old mess. In just two weeks I moved the majority of my stuff onto a boat to be shipped for the US. I left a bunch of old stuff in the attic of my apartment in Amsterdam. Between the garbage, collectible records and old 80’s clothes were all my old pictures. Over the last couple of weeks, when I was spending my vacation in The Netherlands, I finally got the chance of cleaning up the attic. I also got the chance of taking my pictures and the negatives with me to the US. With my new Canon CanoScan 9000F, I can scan all negatives directly on highest resolution onto my computer.

One of the old collectible pieces of paper I found was a picture from the now almost bankrupt Dutch newspaper: “Het Parool”. Here you see one of my best friends Brian and me, taking designer Marina Prokopiva on our shoulders just after she presented her fall- & winter collection. Brian and I had walked in the fashion show, where we had more fun than being serious.

Dennis & Brian in Parool - Marina Prokopiva fashion show

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Bee Close Up Photo’s

June 18, 2010

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Last weekend I checked the lavender plants in front of our house. It was a busy come and go of the bees collecting honey. Dozens of worker bees were flying between the purple flowers to suck the nectar out of the flowers. I decided it was time for me to try to make some close up shots with my Macro lens.

All of the pictures below are made with the Canon 5D 12.8 mega pixels, and the Canon 100m F2.8 Macro lens. Anybody who would like to reprint these pictures, or use these commercially, please use the contact form to write me.

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Little Men in Macro

March 14, 2010

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Playing with my camera and macro lens, I just saw a great object to take some experimental photo’s off, the two little happy men.

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The above picture was taken with a Canon 5D, and a Canon 100mm f2.8 USM Macro lens.

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At a visit to my grandmother, I saw a little picture of myself. I took a photo of it with my macro lens.

Self portrait

It’s a self portrait… sort off.

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Mavericks Surfing Half Moon Bay 2010

February 16, 2010

Overall RatingNo Ratings Early morning on a Saturday I woke up to go to Mavericks Surf contest in Half Moon Bay. It was supposed to become a beautiful day with big waves rolling in on the beach. At around 7 we arrived at Half Moon Bay, just in time to get the sunrise over the [...]

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Photographer; Clean Your Lens

January 2, 2010

Overall Rating Sometimes you whished you had checked the photograph before you ate the subject! In the case I’m going to describe you, it does not matter too much, as I can easily get more sushi for new photo’s. But if you don’t check your photo’s, you can be in for a surprise! Tonight I [...]

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Winnie The Pooh Burning Candle

October 1, 2009

Overall RatingNo RatingsI tried to make a time lapse series of a burning Winnie The Pooh candle we had. However, I failed to set the lens on manual focus, so not all pictures are zoomed in at the same sharpness or focal length. Wilton Winnie the Pooh Honey Pot Candle Sale Price: $3.92 Average Rating: [...]

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Photoshop Tricks

June 2, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings I just got some really nice action scripts for in my Photoshop to play around with. These action scripts make it really easy to manipulate pictures and give these an interesting effect. Here is an original picture of a flower I made with my Macro lens; With the impressionism action script the [...]

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Fisheye pictures

May 29, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings I recently got a new toy, a new Fisheye lens of the minimal 4.5mm! The pictures you can make are just amazing. You even have to be careful not to get your own feet into the shots, while you make the photo. I bought the Sigma 4.5 mm Fisheye lens for Canon. [...]

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Roses close up

April 9, 2009

Overall RatingNo Ratings After the Macro pictures of the flowers I posted a couple of weeks ago, I recently took new Macro pictures from some roses I bought for my wife when she returned from The Netherlands. I keep finding it difficult to get the whole subject sharp in the picture, but maybe that is [...]

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