De Wilde photographer Brussels

Begging for votes to win photography prizes. I hate it.

Sander de Wilde — Fri, 17 May 2013 05:49:16 +0000

Another photography award.
It took a lot of time just uploading your work. It seems the quality of photography nowadays depends of your social network.
Yes, I am a loner. I work alone, I photograph alone and I’m not even on Facebook.

And I don’t have time to share my work, or to upload my work to every site on the damned net asking for it.

I need all of my time just to earn a living with photography, in real live.

But for this time, and this time only, I ask you to visit this site,
and to vote for my work or to donate 1$ here. Yes a symbolic 1$

http://wildeman.see.me/exposure2013

http://www.wildeman.see.me

exposure award

Filed under: autonomous, on photography Tagged: Arts and Entertainment, award, awards, Business, exposure, Facebook, media, photographer, photography, photography awards, see me, Social network

How to pimp your blog or how to dance

Sander de Wilde — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:38:55 +0000

This time I share a great montage on Daft Punk’s new hit. Get Lucky. Just for fun, so I’m not always only talking on photograpy and politics.

Filed under: vernacular Tagged: 70's, dance, music, seventies, TV

BDW cover image Brussel Deze Week published

Sander de Wilde — Wed, 08 May 2013 11:37:16 +0000

Yes I know, it’s a little out of focus, but it’s a nice composition, I thought.

Mama Marie and other volunteers giving asylum-seekers a cup of soup and some bread when they’re thrown out of the asylum bureau taking a lunchbreak.

They all have a number so they don’t loose their place in the queue.

I was doing this last minute assignment for the BDW and never thought it would end up on the cover of the Brussels Daily.

Read it online.

Was last week better?

Great cover for BDW Brussels this week (sanderdewilde.wordpress.com)

Filed under: photojournalism, publication Tagged: asymlum, BDW, bread, Brussels, cover, helping, Human Rights and Liberties, marie, photography, refugee, Refugee Rights, soup, volunteers

new photographers agency from Belgium

Sander de Wilde — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:06:25 +0000

At Photoshelter, an online archive and photographers site, I started a new agency just yesterday.

About 50 photographers from Belgium have their archives available on Photoshelter indivdualy, so I thought: Why not put them all together?

So whenever your looking for great photography from a Belgian photographer you can search and buy your editorial images directly from the photographer’s through the agency.

Better prices than buying it through a normal agency, and here the fee is for the photographer himself, so you’re helping photographers stay alive.

http://www.photoshelter.com/va/BELphotos

Image via CrunchBase

Filed under: commercial, on photography, photojournalism Tagged: agency, Arts and Entertainment, Belgium, Business, copyright, photographer, photography, PhotoShelter, Website

One never knows what photos editors pick

Sander de Wilde — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:15:43 +0000

PUBLICATION ON NRC

As you saw in a previous post, I did quite some photographing at the coronation of Willem-Alexander in Holland. And what did I find? Only one picture was used until now, and it is this totally boring picture of mine, at least, when you compare it to all the colorful images I shot over there in Amsterdam.

Well, this is a online publication. The other images, spread by Corbis and Hollandse Hoogte, could end up in magazines too, but a photographer only knows this at its best one month later. All that without seeing the final publication, or even knowing what paper or magazine it was published in. Just by seeing the bill the agency sent with sold footage.

That is the frustrating thing of being a photographer nowadays. You don’t know if your pictures get sold. And when you get to know they were sold, you see the bill, but often you don’t know in what publication they ended up, or in what layout or on what page they were used.

OK, never mind. The real kick of photography is the process of capturing the images. Whatever happens with them later on, is history!

De 10 best verkochte foto’s van Hollandse Hoogte (Photo credit: marcoderksen)

photography coronation Dutch King Willem-alexander in Amsterdam (sanderdewilde.wordpress.com)
Orangefest for Netherland’s new ‘King Billy’… and an invite to celebrate Twelfth (belfasttelegraph.co.uk)
Queen Beatrix abdicates Dutch throne to Crown-Prince Willem-Alexander – live … – The Guardian (guardian.co.uk)
Man with modernisation on his mind (smh.com.au)
Dutch Queen Beatrix abdicates and her son Willem-Alexander becomes King (standard.co.uk)

Filed under: on photography, photojournalism, publication Tagged: agency, Amsterdam, Beatrix of the Netherlands, corbis, Dam Square, Holland, Hollandse Hoogte, newspapers, NRC, photographing, photography, publishing, selling, Willem-Alexander, Willem-Alexander Prince of Orange

how to refocus your pictures with a Lytro lightfield camera ?

Sander de Wilde — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:12:50 +0000

It sounds like coming from the future. Taking snapshot and refocusing on your subject, or the background, afterwards. It is possible and affordable with this new camera.

OK, It’s just a fun gadget and has nothing to do with the art of photography, but I just wanted to show you. Have a look at the gallery where you can refocus all images taken by the Lytro. It’s fun, but can it ever be usefull? I guess only when the focalpoint is also zoomable afterwards, and when the reaction time is really only a splitsecond. IT looks a bit premature now, but I’d love to try it.

http://www.lytro.com

Trying out the Lytro light field camera (Photo credit: John Biehler)

Lytro Powered Eric Cheng (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)

examples contest

Filed under: on photography Tagged: buy, camera, cameras, Focus (optics), gear, iphone, Lytro, Nokia, photography, Plenoptic camera, refocus, try, Twitter

Great cover for BDW Brussels this week

Sander de Wilde — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:44:29 +0000

I just thought it was a good choice of the photo-editor choosing this image for the cover of the Brussels weekly. Ok I’m not objective, while it’s my own picture, for which I had to bike, on a sunday, for a few hours, to spot those musicians somewhere in the woods under Brussels. ( I got a little lost)

But it’s a nice atmosphere, these hiking-shoes, and the dreamy music. Though the leaves made a lot too much noise.

Always happy seeing my images being used wisely, even in the local weekly having a high level of editing, higher than some national papers!

cover of BDW Brussels weekly

Filed under: on photography, photojournalism, publication Tagged: Belgium, Brussels, cover, European Union, forrest, Grand Place, Lodging, nature, Pantone, Travel and Tourism, walk, walking, woods, zonienwoud

photography coronation Dutch King Willem-alexander in Amsterdam

Sander de Wilde — Thu, 02 May 2013 13:44:22 +0000

I really looked forward photographing the coronation, but as a freelance photographer I was denied all access to photographers pools. Even with a nice letter of my photographers-agency, I just couldn’t get in. But well, I still made the best of it, and tried to document the surroundings of the coronation, the crazy Dutch in my homecountry.

30th April 2013 Amsterdam, Netherlands. Dam Square. Queen Beatrix’ abdication takes place, and her son Prince Willem-Alexander will be King of the Netherlands. Women from Staphorst in traditional self made clothes laugh are waiting for the arrival of the new King on the balcony in front of the royal palace.

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