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Some moody Norway

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While travelling through Norway I started out shooting everything in color, and really loved the results, but some images just SCREAMED Black and White. So I decided to go through my shots again and select some images for the conversion to black and white. It was intended just for myself, but somehow I loved them so much I made a special portfolio part of them called “Moody Norway” you can find it on www.frankdoorhof.smugmug.com

You can find the color versions under travel the same site.
Here are some examples from today (still have to upload these).

Stunning #norway

Stunning #norway

Stunning #norway

Stunning #norway

Stunning #norway

Stunning #norway

 

 

The 85 mini from Hensel : QF

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Working on location can be a challenge, which modifier do you bring, and how much room do you have for those modifiers..

Well today we take a look at the Hensel 85 mini which has some really cool tricks up it’s sleeve.

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ANY light will do

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Of course I love my strobes.
Of course I shoot most of my images with strobes, panels or other modified light (or of course natural light). But in essence you can shoot great images with almost anything that emits light, as long as you position the light correctly 🙂

In this blogpost some images I shot with just tungsten lightbulbs.
Like this?
Well you’re lucky… 🙂
We actually made a video on using alternative light sources (and it’s awesome) called “Mastering the modelshoot : Any light will do” and you can get it on www.frankdoorhof.com/videos

Now the whole trick is that you have to understand that you control your light quality by moving the light closer or further away from your model. The closer you get the light the faster the light fall off and in my opinion the more moody the light gets, when you move tungsten bulbs too far away the light quickly gets really ugly. But of course this is all personal.

By the way… in the video we do a lot more than just tungsten, it’s actually a total journey through understanding light and showing that you can shoot with any light.

Here you can find the trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40vqpJ9rkh0&t=1s

 

 

Vøringfossen waterfalls

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Today we visited Vøringfossen waterfalls in Norway.
This was our “final” stop in Norway, and tomorrow we start our way back, now I have to be honest.. although the waterfall was very nice it was not the best one we actually saw, but we didn’t want to miss it.

Of course I took some images, including this special panoramic multishot.
I just love the way Photoshop stitches this together from the Sony 12-24. I shot it on 12mm and this really gives an almost bizar surreal look.

And here is a one shot.

Now these kind of views are often shot with wide angles….. but…. always also bring a longer lens, because with a really long lens you can get so much more interesting shots. The following two were shot with the Sony 70-400

Now in all honesty I also like the point before this point.
This was shot from the overview bridge on top of the mountain, but there is also a photopoint much lower, and it was swarming with tourists there, but in all honesty I didn’t like the view there (at all), and actually felt sorry we drove 2 hours for it. But I did like the views from some other angles (close to the parking spot actually).

Now you might wonder why I was a bit disappointed with these waterfalls…..
Well Norway is absolutely gorgeous and there are a lot of waterfalls, now this might be much higher, but for example this waterfall was just along the road and did impress me much more. But that can be personal.

And don’t forget the Latefossen ones on which I wrote this blogpost

So… this is todays update.
We are on a beautiful campsite again, and wish you a great night, and hope you guys love these travel blogs.