My name is Torben Jensen. I live in Denmark and I’m from the decade when a quick boy was wearing a bow tie when he went to the photographer.

My dad was an avid amateur photographer, but that was not for me, because he spent a lot of time in the darkroom playing with chemicals.

I got caught in 1989 when I – with a compact camera in my breast pocket – cycled around Switzerland with my children. Of course, these were ordinary holiday photos, but I was already then focusing on composition.

My first experience with digital photography was in 1991 with a Canon ION camera. But with 0.2 megapixels and very poor light intake, the usability was limited.

When I bought my first SLR camera (Canon EOS 500) just before a bike ride around Corsica in 1996, I acknowledged my destiny.

After many cheap (and poorly) developed films in a discount photo shop, I finally got my first Digital SLR – Canon EOS 300D in 2004 just before a trip to Greece. It was 5 megapixels and very slow. But at that point, my clients moaned over my apology; “Wait a minute – my camera are saving the pictures”.

I have photographed many genres. In my jobs I have mostly worked with product and company-portrait photography. A bit boring – so in my spare time I went for completely different genres. In the beginning it was mostly natural landscapes and later it became macro photography – especially dragonflies and other insects. I was so captivated by photographing dragonflies that I traveled to Greece, Bulgaria, France, Andorra and Spain – solely for photographing insects.

In Barcelona I got captivated by the spanish architect Antoni Gaudí and photographed his buildings in Barcelona and traveled north to photograph a garden and his cottage in Comillas.
Later I discovered Santiago Calatrava in Valencia and this started my interrest in photographing architecture.
After investing in studio lighting, I went through a period with model and portrait photography. First in a photo-studio and later on location both urban and in nature.

After teaching layout for many years I have been focusing on composition. Whether you are shooting with a mobile phone or with a super-professional camera, bad composition can often ruin the picture”.

I use Capture One for RAW-editing, Photoshop for batch editing, Photomatix Pro and Luminar Neo for HDR and finishing.

However, I rather spend time taking pictures than sitting at home editing.

Feel free to ontact me at tj@bellus.dk