It took us some time to decide on the winners of the Bounce Competition, LIME organized in association with our friends at California Sunbounce. There were so many good entries that it made judging pretty difficult. We think it’s great that so many of you made the effort to go out and make a video about how you bounce. It’s this kind of sharing that makes us all better photographers. Thanks to all those who entered.
And now we will finally reveal the winner … drum rolls …
1st Place - Bounceman by Appleblue
There was no discussion when it came to choosing the winner of the competition. The decision was unanimous. We found this video well made and very funny. But most important is that the humor makes you almost not realize that you are learning valuable lighting techniques while you are laughing. And because you don’t mind watching it again and show it to your friends you will learn more than you would think.
When we started this, we never even dreamed of a winner like this. We’ll get in touch with you about the time you’ll be spending with Mike Larson.
A big thanks to all who entered this competition. Each and every one of you made the world a better place by sharing your knowledge and bringing smiles to faces of thousands of photographers around the world. Thx!
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Bounce Competition - 2th Place
December 11th, 2010 at 10:00am
It took us some time to decide on the winners of the Bounce Competition, LIME organized in association with our friends at California Sunbounce. There were so many good entries that it made judging pretty difficult. We think it’s great that so many of you made the effort to go out and make a video about how you bounce. It’s this kind of sharing that makes us all better photographers. Thanks to all those who entered.
3th Place - The Cloud Bouncer by Steven and his Family
If our 3rd place winner was a team effort, our 2nd place winner is the living proof that good old family businesses are still a great way to do things in the 21st century. This family did it all by themselves: making a light modifier, shooting and editing video, music … we are even pretty sure that Steven made the models himself.
Too be honest, none of us thought much of the Cloud Bouncer when we saw it appear for the first time in the video. But the pictures proved us wrong. We saw some amazing and atypical children portraits.
Congratulations, you won a personal workshop with Pieter and Bert and you get to choose the topic yourself (better pick a subject that we know something about). Just make sure you bring the Cloud Bouncer.
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Bounce Competition - 3th Place
December 10th, 2010 at 10:00am
It took us some time to decide on the winners of the Bounce Competition, LIME organized in association with our friends at California Sunbounce. There were so many good entries that it made judging pretty difficult. We think it’s great that so many of you made the effort to go out and make a video about how you bounce. It’s this kind of sharing that makes us all better photographers. Thanks to all those who entered.
3th Place - LIME Bounce Competition by Guy Van den Eynde & Friends
We saw some inventive use of light and modifiers, we also saw some good pictures (some less good ones too, to be honest) but the main reason this video appealed to all of us is that it’s clearly a team effort. We highly recommend to work together with other photographers and creative people. Do like these guys and gather a group of friends for what seems to be a pretty long day of photography. You can share equipment, knowledge and … fun.
Guy, you’ll have to get your team back together and go out for an other day of shooting, this time with the California Sunbounce Mini.
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Bounce Competition - 4th Place
December 9th, 2010 at 3:00pm
It took us some time to decide on the winners of the Bounce Competition, LIME organized in association with our friends at California Sunbounce. There were so many good entries that it made judging pretty difficult. We think it’s great that so many of you made the effort to go out and make a video about how you bounce. It’s this kind of sharing that makes us all better photographers. Thanks to all those who entered.
4th Place - Bouncing Light in NYC by Guy With Camera
This is real life photography. Most of us don’t have tons of equipment, assistants and permits for cool locations. But in this video it becomes clear that all that doesn’t have to stop you from making great pictures. GWC uses his knowledge and the creative use of limited equipment to produce some excellent pictures. The “crotch bounce” sealed the deal.
Congratz Man-With-Camera, you just added a California Sunbounce Micro-Mini to your gear.
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Blame It On Me
December 9th, 2010 at 2:59pm
LIME has been dead for ages and it will stay dead but not until I resurrect it for a couple of last blog posts. That’s the least I owe to all you faithful and patient LIME supporters and to Pieter, who’s been the best companion on this incredible journey.
After about a year of doing LIME we found it increasingly harder and harder to keep coming up with new stuff and when we had ideas, we just didn’t have the time and energy to make them work. We might also have put way too much on our plates anyway.
This year started out with a huge change in my personal life. Out of the blue I got hit by the biggest metaphorical truck you’ve ever seen. The people who follow my personal blog know what I’m talking about.
For months I couldn’t get myself to enjoy photography anymore, let alone share my passion for images. The passion is returning faster and faster but at the same time my new situation comes with rearranged priorities. All these changes and responsibilities kept my head spinning out of control. I feel I’m finally regaining control. Still not there but there’s a 580EX at the end of the tunnel.
I’m not looking for excuses, it’s the way things went. I tried … hard … as hard as I could … many times … to keep up with all my obligations. But I just couldn’t get it done. I still feel responsible for letting people down and for not being able to keep my promises. There’s not much I can do about it except for tying up the loose ends and keep doing whatever I can to make others Learn, Motivate, Inspire and Experience through other channels.
Practically this means that from today on we’ll reveal the other winners of the LIME Bounce Competition, one each day. And this time it’s for real, I wrote all the blog posts and scheduled them. And then there’s some stuff that’s still on the dusty LIME shelves that’s as good as ready to publish.
To those who still need to get an answer from me, have a bit more patience. With the help of some friends I’m slowly but steadily getting rid of the backlog.
I’d really like to thank Pieter for doing this together, for pushing me to go on when LIME started to get a bit heavy on my shoulders and for forgetting about LIME when more important things almost crushed my shoulders.
So that’s it for my Mea Culpa. I hope you still had a blast with LIME just like we did? Pieter and I won’t retreat to a hut in the middle of a dessert. We’ll still be sharing stuff alone, with others or together. And maybe we can arrange to do one last podcast …
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WORKSHOP - Producing and Lighting Successful Location Shoots - by Drew Gardner - 4 & 5 September
August 10th, 2010 at 11:18am
We are so excited to announce a 2-day workshop by Drew Gardner in Belgium on 4 and 5 September. Drew is a world famous commercial photograper AND he’s one of the most inspiring teachers we’ve ever seen in action. We expect this workshop to fill up really fast, so if you are interested, you better book your spot right away.
ABOUT DREW GARDNER
Drew Gardner is an award-winning photographers based in the UK with nearly 30 years of experience. After many years as a photojournalist, he now shoots primarily for editorial and corporate advertising accounts, specializing in people and locations.
Drew has traveled worldwide photographing people as divers as the Bushmen of the Kalahari to the street children of Romania. He has also traveled extensively across Europe ad America photographing the zaniest Guinness World Record holders.
During 2009 he released a DVD that takes viewers to the sets of his “Forest” shoot to reveal his innovative lighting techniques. Drew’s web site is www.drew.it and his blog is www.thedarkart.com.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
Learn about PLANNING:
Creating photographs that stop viewers in their tracks in today’s visually saturated world is an exciting and complex endeavor. In this workshop, Drew Gardner guides students through the steps, from initial concept and pre-production, to shooting, through post-production. This will help you get the best results in any situation.
Learn about TECHNIQUES:
No matter whom you’re working with, no matter what the budget, Drew shares his approach and techniques that produce the most exciting and effective photographs. Technical discussions and exercises address concrete steps including brainstorming image ideas, creating a set, simple and complex lighting schemes, directing models, shooting, and refining the final image in post-production. Drew focuses on field craft, especially how to successfully light on location, and how to think on your feen to find creative solutions to unexpected challenges on set.
Learn about MANAGING PEOPLE
Throughout the course, Drew leads conversations about the interpersonal skills that are crucial in winning people over to gain their buy-in to yor photographic vision. Whether with clients, models, assistants or the myriad other people involved in producing a shoot.
BOOKING INFO:
The workshop will take place during two full days on 4 and 5 September and is limited to 15-20 participants. Bert Stephani will be present to assist Drew during practical exercises. The price for this workshop is 560 EUR (incl. VAT) and includes drinks and lunch during both days. As this is a unique learning opportunity, we expect this workshop to fill up very fast, so without hesitation, book by clicking HERE.
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Guest Post - Better Pictures by Shooting Less (by Konrad Dwojak)
May 9th, 2010 at 6:59pm
LIME is still a two-man-band. Two people can create quite some music together but the amount of performances and their style are limited. To offer a bigger variety of articles, views and techniques we want to start working with guest contributors on LIME. If you have something that might be suited for LIME, please contact is.
We’ll start this series with an article by Konrad Dwojak. Konrad is a young talented and motivated photographer who wrote an article on his way to improve his pictures. Here it is:
Better Pictures by Shooting Less (article by Konrad Dwojak)
I was looking over some of my older photography gear few weeks ago and obviously I ran across my old film cameras and old memory cards from my first digital cameras. I started to recall the times of film photography and compare it with the experience of the digital world.
It took me awhile (being so deep in digital cameras nowadays) to realize that film cameras limited me by certain number of pictures a photographic film roll could contain (not like digital cameras, which can take from few hundred to few thousand RAW pictures, depending on the capacity of a memory card). The limitation of a number of ‘exposures’ (in photographic jargon of course) in film cameras forced me to spend some time and think about a composition of a picture, how to frame a subject, inspect closely foreground, background, double check the lighting and any other details that could improve a picture so that no film would be wasted. This limitation of a film camera was (and for someone who uses a film camera still is) a very important step in the learning process of the art of photography and I personally believe that it still should be a part of the learning process of photography.
I think that digital cameras with their huge memory cards give us the freedom that actually does more harm than good for those who want to learn photography – we don’t take that extra time and effort on checking a composition of a picture like in a film camera because we know that we can re-take a picture countless times and delete easily ‘bad’ pictures without any financial costs (as it wasn’t the case in the photographic film roll era).
I think I have found a solution for those who own only digital cameras and who want to learn composition in a way it was done before. The solution is quite simple: next time you will go for a photo walk, do an assignment for yourself or just take pictures, leave your 8 or 16 GB memory card at home and take with you only one memory card of 1GB or even less (the less capacity, the better; I just checked that 1GB for shooting 12.1 MP RAW will give you about 68 exposures). Depending if you shoot RAW or JPEG and how many megapixels your camera has, you should find a memory card that enables you to take not more than 30 exposures. And remember to leave all other memory cards at home! This way you will limit your gear but you will definitely expand your knowledge and experience in composition!
I strongly encourage you to try it out few times and I guarantee that you will see improvement in your photography soon.
Happy Shooting!!!
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At LIME we believe in offering a platform to views and opinion by photographers we respect. It’s even possible that we don’t agree with some of the views of our guest contributors but we do respect every opinion.
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Bounce Competition - 5th Place
May 9th, 2010 at 6:16pm
It took us some time to decide on the winners of the Bounce Competition, LIME organized in association with our friends at California Sunbounce. There were so many good entries that it made judging pretty difficult. We think it’s great that so many of you made the effort to go out and make a video about how you bounce. It’s this kind of sharing that makes us all better photographers. Thanks to all those who entered.
5th Place - Using Bounce as your Main Light and Fill Light by Jesus Esquivel
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We like the simple setups that Jesus shows us in his video. It may seem like nothing incredibly spectacular, but often it’s the simple setups that get you the best results. Jesus created some spectacular pictures because he really masters the setups he uses. It’s not enough to “kind of” know what you are doing. The devil is in the detail. Congrats Jesus! we’ll be in touch with you so we can send you the California Sunbounce Sun-Mover you won.
So that’s it then, 5th place of the competition? Not quiet, we had two candidates for this spot. Both had their supporters amongst the judges. In the end we couldn’t decide so we kindly asked the guys at Sunbounce if they would mind giving away TWO Sun-Movers.
the Other 5th Place - How We Bounce by Jay Scott
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To be very honest, we were not too impressed with the pictures Jay and his friend made. Judging by his website, Jay certainly has more in him than he shows in the video. But we still found his entry very inspirational. Being in a wheelchair certainly throws some challenges at Jay but with some creative outside the box thinking, he finds solutions. It’s a lesson for all of us. Lighting on location always comes with some surprises. And a good photographer always can make it work with what he has available. Keep up the good work Jay, we’ll be in touch with you.
Fourth place will be announced in a couple of days, so keep coming back!
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LIME’s Happy Hour - Episode 23 - The Renaissance
May 9th, 2010 at 5:32pm
Episode 23 of LIME’s Happy Hour is the Renaissance episode of LIME. As always we hope you enjoy it and we are hoping to get lot’s of feedback from all of you using the comments or by sending us an e-mail.
In this Episode :
* What’s up with LIME ?What have we been doing the past week & what have got in store for you in the near future ? This is where you’ll find out !
You can listen to this podcast by using the player below or download it as an mp3 (right click/Save As).
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LIME’s Happy Hour - Episode 22
December 18th, 2009 at 12:24pm
Here is Episode 22 of LIME’s Happy Hour. As always we hope you enjoy it and we are hoping to get lot’s of feedback from all of you using the comments or by sending us an e-mail.
In this Episode :
* What’s up with LIME ?What have we been doing the past week & what have got in store for you in the near future ? This is where you’ll find out !
* Dear LIME In this section we will be answering your questions. Got a question ? Please send it to us @ dearlime@squeezethelime.com
* The feature segment Every week we will be talking about one specific subject. In this episode we’ll be discussing what we would buy if we were to start out as a professional photographer today
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