Vintage Suzanna
Today some images from last weeks workshop with Suzanna.
Experimenting a bit with a more vintage look in some of the images, hope you like them.
My blog, although I don’t see myself as a blogger but as a Photographer I will try to blog some interesting material during the weeks.
Expect at least 2 updates a week.
Servix demo day 1 video
This weekend we were in Belgium for a 2 day demo/workshop series for the Belgium company Servix.
Main attention for me during the demos and workshops were the Elinchrom, Lastolite (backgrounds), Sekonic and of course Phase One products.
Today a small BTS video from day 1.
Video by : Annewiek Doorhof
Editing by : Frank Doorhof
And one of the results from day 1
Arms
Including arms in a shot can be a problem, so some people just give the advise to not include them… well that’s too easy.
Let’s look at some tips that I often share during the workshops.
Images are shot with a Beautydish with grid and the Lensbaby 80mm tilt lens.
In my opinion you always should try to include both arms.
In this shot I only included one, and although I like the shot… well there’s something missing.
Also her elbow is on the absolute limit of what I find acceptable, if she would have moved it a bit more towards the left (image left) you would not see the upper arm and that gives a “weird” effect for me. Now I also have to add that all these rules are great, but if you “hit” that perfect image and the arm is a bit…. or the face is a bit ….. well in the end it’s all about the emotion a picture gives you, I have several images in my portfolio that are far from perfect (the perfect image actually doesn’t exist I think) but just gave me the emotion I wanted. So just take these tips as guidelines, to know the rules is also to know when breaking them (or better accepting a technical “error” for emotional perfection)
Marie at CameraNu.nl
Last week it was the finale of the big CameraNU.nl 10 year event, a period in which one of the largest camerastore from the Netherlands celebrated their 10th year anniversary.
I’ve know them for a long time, even a bit before the official beginning so to say, so it was cool to be asked to do a seminar and live shoot during the opening of their “toppers weekend” with several speakers, today I share some images I shot during that event. Please do take not that the situation was not ideal so don’t judge these images as portfolio images, it’s just to give you an idea of the results we get during an event like this and for the fun of sharing 🙂
I started out with a seminar on the importance of styling and story telling within a photoshoot. After that it was time for Marie to do some portraits with me, we worked our way up from the boring portrait with flat light to more expression, like this example.
