Along the Golden Horn

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Terrace in Istanbul, Mieke Strand (iPhone)

Exciting news! Through one of David’s acquaintances, we met a German journalist based here in Istanbul. She has been covering the Syrian schools opening both along the border and here in Istanbul. She’s connected us with the director of one of those schools, and we’re meeting with him tomorrow. He is enthusiastic about the project, and knows a few different schools that might be interested in working with us.

Progress!

David took his lighting gear to the streets today to play with a couple of ideas. We wound up right along the Golden Horn near sunset, not far from Galata Bridge.

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Mieke in Istanbul, David Gross
(Olympus OM-D, 25mm lens, 1/80 sec at f/8.0, ISO 200.
Flash shooting through small umbrella, with approx. 1/4 CTO orange)

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Mieke in Istanbul, David Gross
(Olympus OM-D, 25mm lens, 1/80 sec at f/9.0, ISO 200.
Flash shooting through small umbrella, with approx. 1/4 CTO orange)

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Mieke in Istanbul, David Gross
(Olympus OM-D, 25mm lens, 1/80 sec at f/9.0, ISO 200.
Flash shooting through small umbrella, with approx. 1/4 CTO orange) 

David’s been experimenting with a style of lighting similar to that in many Renaissance paintings. Here’s an image from today that he played with a bit:
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Mieke in Istanbul, David Gross
(Olympus OM-D, 25mm lens, 1/80 sec at f/9.0, ISO 200.
Flash shooting through small umbrella, with approx. 1/4 CTO orange)
Processed through SnapSeed for texture.

Mieke Strand in Istanbul. Processed through SnapSeed for texture.

Mieke in Istanbul, David Gross
(Olympus OM-D, 25mm lens, 1/80 sec at f/9.0, ISO 200.
Flash shooting through small umbrella, with approx. 1/4 CTO orange)
Processed through SnapSeed for texture.

While David was shooting test portraits of me, an Italian couple asked him to take their photo, with their photo and his lights. He did, and they gladly posed for a few more photos for David. This is Simone:

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Simone, David Gross
(Olympus OM-D, 25mm lens, 1/160 sec at f/6.3, ISO 200.
Flash shooting through small umbrella, with approx. 1/4 CTO orange)

In a side note, I started watching a few hilarious youtube videos yesterday that claim to teach you how to pose your portrait subjects. I passed on what I learned, with a heavy dose of sarcasm, to David. However, he used some of it in this photo of Simone, and it actually works. Lesson learned.

As I was posing for David, a group of Turkish photography students (we think) decided to take the opportunity to photograph both me and the sunset. Here’s what it looked like from my perspective:

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Photography students, Istanbul, Mieke Strand, iPhone

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Photography students, Istanbul, Mieke Strand, iPhone

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Photography students, Istanbul, Mieke Strand, iPhone

I love it!

Görüşürüz!  -Mieke

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