Portrait of a furniture Designer

I just got back from a photoshoot in Althengstett in Germany, and have just finished retouching the selects.
The selection has really boiled down to two images, which isn’t all that many to be honest, but seeing as they’re visually quite strong I think they’ll work pretty well.

Rainer Killinger 1#

Rainer Killinger, the furniture designer in question who has around 30 years experience in the furniture industry decided to set up his own business 2001 under the name, ‘Wohnobjekte Rainer Killinger’.

Utilising the most modern of Design Trends, Rainer, aided by his wife Erika has continued to develop the product series, always combining their traditional values for his craft with the most cutting edge in materials and modern design. All their exclusive tables are hand crafted in their Althengstett studios in Germany.

The company holds itself to two very simple principals:

1:  Build the best tables in the industry, at the very highest quality.
2:  The product needs to be ready for the customer at the arranged time, no excuses.

Pretty simple I guess. Check out his website at http://www.wohnobjekte.de/

Rainer Killinger 2#

The photo setup was pretty simple with a beauty dish to the right of the subject and a directional light on the left for a bit of a kick on the  lower half of the chair.
My assistant for the day was Julius Ise.

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The beginning of something wonderful

Dunmanway Landscape

Hey Internet Buddies!

This is my very first blog entry so please excuse all the emptiness the blog has to offer.

Essentially, I’ve decided to use this blog to give my hobby in photography a little momentum, not necessarily in a commercial sense, but rather in the hope that that it lets me review my work in an organised way,with the added benefit of using the blog as a portal to share some thoughts and ideas on all things photography and image post-processing.

Above you’ll find one of my more recent images, a landscape I took close to the town I live in, here in the West of Ireland. It’s a manual HDR image in that it’s made up of 3 individual exposures which have been combined in photoshop using masks and plenty of brush work. This is pretty much my preferred technique when it comes to landscape photography, which when coincided with the use of a polarizer and a decent grad filter, can really bring out a natural-looking image.

I love critical feedback (productive of course), so if you have any comments then get typing!

For a broader sense of my style please feel free to check out my portfolio at www.christianhaubold.com or my photo stream on flickr

Cheerio for now