Frank Doorhof

Santa Cruz (California) September 14th

May 7, 2013/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

On September 14th we will be in Santa Cruz, California to teach a very special small flash workshop.
Together with our friends from Rogue (Expoimaging) I will guide you through several setups with the flashbender products. We will be shooting both on location (outside) as inside to give you a complete overview of what’s possible with small flash and the Rogue products.

This is NOT a “commercial/sales” workshop but a real workshop with the topic small flash.

Topics will be :
Working with E-TTL, why/when E-TTL fails and how to solve it, color calibration in your workflow, using strobe as fill in/fight the ambient/create day to night, coaching the model, learn your angles to create interesting shots, creating high contrast lighting with 1-2 lights max, understanding light behaviors and how to manipulate light to do what you want, working with strips, soft light, hard light, gels, grids and much much more.

All the workshops are 100% flexible to the needs of the group and are started with an intense Q&A and information part in which “everything goes”.
Book your seat now for the early bird offer of US 350.00 (normal price US399.00)
Max group size is 15 so be quick normally they fill up pretty fast.

Answers X-rite webinar

May 7, 2013/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

During the webinar for X-rite there are always questions I answer right away, but sometimes that’s not possible and I get the questions after the webinar. Today the answers from the webinar.

Q: Hello Frank, some photographers, including me, mainly rely on Lightroom actions to process the images. It seems that you only involve Lightroom as a library and to color-correct with the X-rite Colorchecker. Don’t you consider using Lightroom to do the main processing of your photos in order to speed up your workflow as you can avoid a photoshop step?

A: You know it depends. I love Lr a lot, and don’t worry I’m not only using it as DAM system I use almost all my filters also straight from Lr, however with most fashion work I do I will have to retouch the skin (a little bit or a lot) because this works faster with layers I will make the jump to Photoshop, this is really easy (one click) and after saving it stores the files in Lr so there is no extra import. Whatever works fastest. If I can I will stay within Lr, however sometimes it’s faster to go to Photoshop.

No blog today….

May 6, 2013/11 Comments/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

No blog today, because……
I’m celebrating my 42nd birthday……

But I do take time to thank all of you for visiting my blog over and over again and leaving comments on most of the post I do. Maintaining the blog is a big task because I want to update it daily but thanks to you guys I love doing it, and when we hit the 1 millioned visitor not so long ago I thought it would take some time to double that, however much to my surprise we’re already very close to 1.7 Million at the moment which means the blog is really growing extremely rapidly, and that really needs a thank you to all of you.

Keep reading and spreading the link to the blog 🙂
Thanks guys…. but now it’s time for some party time.
CU tomorrow.

Ok normally you get gifts for your birthday but I’m in a giving mood 😀

We have a special super deal for ALL our instructional downloads :

Fashion and glamour 1 and 2 : 20.00
Guide to model photography : 20.00
Light 1 and 2 and 3 : 25.00
Live in Boston : 35.00

All prices in Euros and per video.
Now if you think “this is insanely low !!!!” you are right… but if you order between now and May 7th 0:00 and use the coupon code “birthday” when checking out you will get a cool 15% discount….

Feel free to spread the word, because the more people download the more you support our work of course.