Posts about Bern
“Bern” (or “Berne” in French and historically in English) is the federal capital city of Switzerland, as well as the name of the canton which contains the city.
Photographing groups
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Tips on lighting, herding and photographing groups of people when time is limited.
Studio workshop
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I ran the latest of my photographic workshops last weekend and chose (mainly because of the time of year) to hold it in the studio. Thanks to the ready availability of the studio space at Satzart in Bern, we were able to use the spacious room to cover basic introduction to the Elinchrom equipment and
Studio training course in Bern
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I ran a course earlier in the year on the subject of portraiture and lighting, which was very well received by the attendees and which I really enjoyed organizing. I’ve been planning to run a similar photo course for a while now, and have decided that the next event will take place on the weekend
The thronging crowd
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As I wrote earlier in the week, I was honoured to be allowed to show 20 of my photos from the One Frame Movie series at the 50th anniversary show of Pix Mix in Bern this week. I hadn’t quite anticipated the number of people who would be attending and during the break, I quickly
The Unexpected Twist
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A photo shoot in a cellar cinema in Bern adds a new photo to my One Frame Movie series.
First lighting workshops completed
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I’ve carried out the first of my photographic lighting workshops for 2011 and there are still places available for the next one in Zurich in June.
Rose garden… before the roses
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The Rosengarten (Rose Garden) in Bern is high on the hill to the east of the city, with fantastic views across the Aare meander and the lower part of the old city.
Moving across Bern
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After two and a half years with international marketing and p.r. agency Burson-Marsteller, today is my last day in the Crossmedia team in Bern.
Habi and Nina in the studio
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One of the reasons I organize photographic meetup days is so that I can learn new techniques and use equipment that I might not have encountered before.
New role with web agency !frappant
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After two and a half years with the Burson-Marsteller Crossmedia team in Bern, I’ve decided to return to my roots as a programmer and technical developer and I’m moving across town to work for web agency !frappant from 1st April 2011.
Simply Yannick
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A portrait of a friend and work colleague, shot for a work project earlier this week.
Where Toblerone comes from*
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A recent blog post by a fellow Brit resident in Switzerland prompted me to head out into Bern. My goal for the lunchtime trip was a university building to the north of the railway tracks; a blue-painted building in the style common throughout the city, which dates to the end of the nineteenth century and…
Motor racing in the old city of Bern
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I watched the trailer for the fifth version of driving simulation software Gran Turismo with great interest, when I saw that there are segments of the film containing computer-generated sections of the historic city of Bern.
Desk Memories – Burson Marsteller
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I’ve been going through my website recently to tidy up some of the older archived articles and came across this collage of the desk where I worked in Brienz until 2008. Since then, I’ve been working in Bern and I decided that about time I took a new collage of photos here too.
Swiss Strobist Studio Day
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Photos from my day in the studio with the Swiss Strobist group.
Metempsychosis
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A stern portrait of a fun guy and friend at last weekend’s studio meetup near Bern.
Studio fun
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I return to the studio this weekend, to use full studio lighting for the first time in many years and share experience and ideas with a number of colleagues from the Swiss Strobist group.
