My name is Benjamin BROLET I 29ans, I'm a freelance photographer and I live in Brussels, Belgium.

My career

I started photography in early 2005 with the democratization of the first digital SLR, out of curiosity.
I was previously a compact camera, but I quickly felt limited by the capabilities of the device. It is from there that I was interested in closer to the picture.

The SLR has allowed me to learn and advance at once to trial and error, and experiment with such portraits, complex challenge that attracted me so much already.

Introverted in the life of every day with the photo I found myself in contact with so many people, so I was just forced out of my reserve.
Technically speaking, I began to be much more careful to factor in the photo: the light. Whenever I went somewhere, I was used to observe if the light was interesting and how I could exploit. It is always a reflex today.
As for my case, it never left me when I left the apartment. Each outlet became an opportunity to test the light.

In 2006, I created a static site with my pictures, which later evolved as a blog (see below).
I found myself in a situation where the picture became no longer a nice hobby but a passion. I also began to receive requests for small jobs first photo, which have multiplied As of my exposure on the Web, as to encroach slowly on my schedule. I was working as an employee communication, and I began to "push" the next photo in my job, which was not provided at the base but ended up not taking the job on my original, more Web oriented.
In addition to the recognition of my work in the workplace, this passage helped me better understand the communicative value of the image on the one hand, and business expectations in terms of corporate picture on the other.

A goal became clear to me: to live the full picture, not just in corporate which was a compromise.
A first step in this direction was to go live in late 2008 as a self complementary, a way to combine my work everyday, with other demands of a different type. A schedule that became so loaded ...
My income Annexes I have invested in photo equipment: it has evolved with my photographic needs and desires.

Meeting other independent photographers, who became the As friends, was an important factor in my decision to make the jump too, and become independent in 2009. It was still a difficult and stressful, but exciting at the same time, and I have never regretted so far.

Meanwhile, my development of a technical point of view made me gain confidence: now I know much better what I'm looking in terms of type of images and attitudes.

The photo is now on both my passion and my work. I now working with professionals from different backgrounds, passionate like me about their job, because I quickly realized that to keep moving forward, we had to professionalize, surround himself with competent people in their field.
Now my goal is clearly to mount in quantitative and qualitative, to produce images more structured, more worked, with better consistency.

The site

The site started with a few pages in HTML with thematic galleries generated via simple viewer, I was editing a page manually to notify visitors about updates and new images.

The lack of exchange and interaction with visitors encouraged me to revisit the site and carry it on a blog platform incorporating the features I was looking for (an editor for writing news, opportunities to comment news ect ...).

Photob.be is spent Wordpress April 4, 2006. It totals about 80,000 visits per month.
Here is a screenshot of the old version and the existing version.

The site is structured around three axes: the "blog" takes a few of my recent photos posted in the form of tickets, they are sorted into thematic sections available in the right menu.

I try to post pictures of my latest work pretty regularly (once a week) by contributing a comment on the shooting conditions.

Part portfolio contains a selection of these photos, classified in thematic galleries (portraits, concerts, nightlife, urban ...).

The technical part of resumes written tutorials made by me or other users. If you wish to provide additional information, you can simply contact me or comment on the corresponding ticket. Feel free to contact me if you want to share a tutorial you made. You can subscribe to news via the RSS Site . ( more information on rss )