Rodrigue Fernandez at Le Salon du Chocolat

Rodrigue Fernandez is a great (and very cool!) French furniture designer. This year, he has the chance to exhibit his creations at Le Salon du Chocolat in Paris. Here is a part of his designs. For more informations, feel free to visit his website here.

Fashion photo shoot in Montmartre, Paris

Yesterday, we were at Montmartre, Paris, to shoot Coralie Joos for a fashion magazine and a website. We were lucky to be under the sun during almost all the day, but the temperature wasn't really warm! A bit hard for the model, but not only...

Here are few pictures from the making of I took yesterday.

Photographer : Quentin Caffier
Model : Coralie Joos
Hair : Vee Gomes
Make Up : Coline Roussel
Style : Lorraine Diard
Assistant : Richard Bord

Lukas Kandl : a fantastic world.

Yesterday night, I was at the Lukas Kandl's exhibition launch in St Germain-en-Laye, in the west suburb of Paris. Lukas is a friend of mine and a great well-known painter who use to show his art all over the World for more than 30 years. His paintings are very specials, between fantastic and surrealism with a lot of strange creatures you can only see in your most craziest dreams... or nightmares!

This exhibition shows a big part of his art through an impressive "several years work".
Lukas Kandl website : http://www.kandl.net/

Exhibtion : Manege Royal - Saint Germain-en-Laye (France) - October 23 / November 14

A nice meeting at the Roc d'Azur...

I had the chance to be at the Roc d'Azur which is one of the biggest Mountain Bike event in Europe. As I worked with the Vélo Vert magazine team, Tibaut, one of the full time journalist, asked me if I was able and if I wanted to welcome Richie Schley in the Vélo Vert tent. For those who don't know, Richie is one of the pioneers of the Mountain Bike Freeride movement, he had a part in the most popular videos, was photographed by the best action photographers and had some articles in every mountain bike magazines around the world. So, you can imagine that I didn't say no!

It was a really good experience to meet a such rider and, above all, he is really cool. We spoke during something like half an hour or more and I took a few pictures of him and his new Rotwild bike in the front of the tent. Not an easy task because of all the people who were here walking around us... I also had a problem with one of my Pocket Wizard (as usually...). I wanted to use my flashes to push the dark sky (I love it) and also to try to forget all the people aroud us. Finally, I've found the solution with the camera built-in-flashcamera which is able to trig the 580 EX. Thanks to my 7D!

You can read the interview (in French) here : http://www.velovert.com/article/3161/rencontre-richie-schley-etait-au-roc-

A video clip filmed in 2000 images/sec!

Two days ago, as my friend Pauline was in a studio waiting for her part in a video clip, I decided to come to see her and to attend the shooting (yes, I'm curious!). The Abel 14 studio in Paris is big, and I've never been in a such place. It was a good surprise to me to discover all these people working on the same project. I don't know a lot about how to make a movie yet, but it seems very interesting.

Anyway, I was there for one hour and I had my camera, so I decided to take a few backstage pictures of Pauline during her hairdressing. As I didn't know the director, I didn't take any behind the scene pictures, except a couple of images to show you the decor. I discovered that the guys filmed with a RED camera and another one I didn't know at all : a Photron. For those who knows, the Photron camera is just amazing! It's just a 2000 images/sec camera. Easy! And it costs only 300 000€. Very cheap! As I was here, I had the opportunity to watch the raw images taken with the Photron. The slow motions are incredible, very fluid and VERY slow with a high definition image. Trust me, it's crazy! Now, I'm looking forward to see the result through the video clip. I'll tell you when it's done.

Pauline backstage

Fashion Week vs Roc d'Azur

Since I'm back from the USA, I had almost no rest. Lucky me, I've had a lot of work for Getty Images and then for Vélo Vert Magazine. It's crazy how a photographer can work with so many different people...