My favorite shots from the Wibi Soerjadi Christmas concert

February 13, 2024/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

Wibi Soerjadi Christmas Concert

Every year we close our business year with a special event. The Christmas Concert from Wibi Soerjadi in the Amsterdam Concert Gebouw. An amazing place with awesome sound. In this blog, I share my favorite shots from this Wibi Soerjadi Christmas Concert.

As a photographer, I think it’s vital to get to know your subject as well as possible. This doesn’t just make the shoot go easier. But it will most definitely get you results that are more fitting the person/character you are photographing.

Wibi Soerjadi

I’ve known Wibi for years and consider him a close friend which makes photographing a concert like this at one point much easier, but also a lot harder.

It’s easier for me because I don’t really have to think about disturbing the artist. He knows I’m there and there is trust so in essence, I’m invisible to him. So, no worries on my side about interrupting him or doing something that is not allowed. This makes it much easier to move around and shoot from different locations during the concert. Now don’t take that too lightly. Because although I don’t have to worry about the artist I do have to be very aware of the audience. It’s not a rock concert. Meaning I have to walk and move like an invisible ninja and choose my timing very carefully to not stand in front of people. Or let people jump up because I scare them to death by just being there out of nowhere… Well you all know my length so this makes it pretty hard.

During the concert

A way that works really well is that I always introduce myself to the audience in the locations where I think I’m going to be moving. Make a little joke that they can always kick me when I’m in the way as long as it’s not too hard. In the end, it means that during the concert I’m actually often helped by them instead of that I get irritated responses. I do have to add, that when I introduce myself I mostly end up taking pictures of them with the room in the back so that also gives me some goodwill 😀

Also because we have worked together for such a long time I have a pretty good feel of the mood he wants in the images.

Anyway, long story short the images are my favorite ones from that evening.

See the video we made about Wibi’s birthday in Disneyland

In 2011 I was at a CD presentation from Wibi Soerjadi

Happy birthday Annewiek

February 5, 2024/in blog/by annewiek doorhof

As many of you know, when you ask me for an event I never travel alone 😉

Annewiek has been assisting me from the start. But what you might not know is that she’s responsible for almost all our products and customer support.

We always joke that I’m the creative part and she runs the business part. Personally I just think we work like ying and yang. In balance but lost without the other part.

Today it’s Annewieks birthday so happy birthday 😉 up to many many more years.

Behind the scenes during the Zebra photoshoot with Nadine and some great styling

January 31, 2024/in blog, Visions and technique, Webinars and instructional videos/by Frank Doorhof

In todays blog post we take you behind the scenes during the Zebra themed photoshoot we did with our Model, Stylist and good friend Nadine.

See how we build the set, which lighting we used and of course you get to see the end results.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

read the blog about Creating Patterns with Adobe AI

Creating awesome zebra patterns with Photoshop AI

January 29, 2024/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

Creating patterns with Photoshop AI

WOW.
I knew that the generative fill from Adobe was great. But sometimes it all works great in demos, but not in real life. And to be honest that was a bit my experience so far. It was a bit hit-and-miss. But Adobe constantly improves and that’s visible. In today’s blogIn today’s blog, we take a look at what Photoshop AI did in this amazing zebra set with stylist and model Nadine

Generate fill in Photoshop

I don’t use generative fill a lot to add things to a scene. Mostly to extend backdrops, add some hair or skin, etc. You could say I use it to speed up my workflow but not really change my images. Well ok, during the cosplay workshop, we go all out but that’s also clearly visible 😀

Creating zebra patterns with Photoshop AI

Today some images we took with our model/stylist Nadine.
For months, I had this idea with zebra prints. And we started buying material until we thought we could pull it off.
Nadine owns a great vintage store so the clothing was not a real problem in this. The main issue was that we did not really have enough material to cover the whole wall and for the floor, we only had a relatively middle-sized rug.

As you can see in the images…. Photoshop did very well. I was mostly impressed by the perspective on the floor.
In some images I actually hid some zebras in some of the final results… can you spot them? 😀