Great advices! Thanks for the tips and taking the time to share them with us. Very usefull. =)

Beautiful work, love the little tricks. Thanks for sharing! Your choice of music was awesome and brought back so many memories, Unfortunately, the first piece was not available, any chance you may know the name and or composer? A good Hungarian Csardas can get anyone's blood flowing and that leads to great photography.

Can you talk more about creating photographs at locations that you don't have the proper location release for?

I know you're not a lawyer (or are you?!) but any information would be appreciated.

for any proper sized commercial jobs you should most definitely get proper location release forms.

For something small - sure you're not supposed to sell them but the way I see it is that it's nothing big - kinda like shooting weddings at known locations. You're not supposed to but people turn a blind eye.

Brilliant and inventive, thanks!

Von, you are not a photographer. You are an artist which happens to use a camera.
I love your work. You make it look so simple, while I know it takes a lot of creativity, time, practice and dedication.

very useful technique and photos also...it goes into my list

Hey Benjamin,

first off: cool work, great pic, nice atmosphere.

I have more of a legal question. You mention that on these premises "no professional photos are allowed". Usually this means the owner of the premises exercises his property rights and does not want his buildings, places, architecture beig used in other peoples commercial work without consent.

Funny sidenote: The light show at night on the Eiffel tower in Paris is copyrighted, so you can take pictures and sell them at daytime, but not pictures including the illumination you have to pay a license fee...

So, my question is: What could happen when the owner of the place finds out that you used his premises without consent (even if they didn't catch you while shooting)? Can they force you not to publish or use the pictures? Can they sue you to pay a "license fee" or similar?

I think that you have to keep in mind what exactly the pictures are going to be used for. In our case, these photos are only going to be used for website and facebook, nothing more so we're not looking at any sort of money making machine. They're not going to be resold as merch either so really... there's no money being made off the photos.

The minute clients get into the commercial game there WILL be a budget allocated and then at that point its usually not your job to worry about it anymore.

Its all about context IMHO.

Very cool :) thanks for the tip. Love the photo :)

Looking great, the deconstruction was nice too.

I don’t comment to often but this time its …. Wow – iam really impressed how the photos turned out , amazing work . – I have to try this technique.
Thx for sharing

Godspeed

Thanks so much - glad you liked my video (and my voice) ;)

great stuff :) You're on fstoppers again too!

Excellent post, as always !
You have great skills in your field and passion.
Thanks for taking the time to show us how you achieved those amazing results.
I've been a long time fan of yours and always refer your work to my friends who wants to learn more from someone who makes it seems easy and fun.
Keep it up !

hanks for the compliments Jo :) <3 When do I see you on another one of my shoots.