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.

the UK tour

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I can’t wait to arrive in the UK for our very first real UK tour.
In one week we will visit London, Birmingham and Edinburgh.

 

 

For the workshops Nadine is traveling with us as our stylist and model, but also to teach the students a few things about styling and being creative. The locations are absolutely breathtaking so this is going to be portfolio material for both me and the students. We kept the groups small so this means that we only have seats left for Edinburgh for the workshop, so if you don’t want to miss this event make sure to visit our friends at the Flash centre and book your ticket at http://www.theflashcentre.com/frank-doorhof-uk-tour-2013-c529.html

 

 

During the day I will teach the workshop for a small group, but in the evening there is still room for the seminars.
The will be filled with tips and tricks on using light, manipulating light and of course, workflow, light-metering, model coaching, finding models, social media and as an added bonus a whole section on improving your travel and street photography. For the seminars we still have room on all locations due to the flexible room sizes, so we won’t disappoint anyone 🙂

Uk tour Frank 1 Mei 2013

 

This is the kind of workshop/seminar that will keep you motivated to shoot for the rest of the year 🙂
So join us next week on our tour through the UK !!!

Album PSW 2013 Fantasy of Flight

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During Photoshop World I was not teaching a Pre-con myself this time because of the workshops I taught in New Jersey a day before PSW so I decided to hang out with Moose Peterson during his Precon at Fantasy of Flight. And although it was “blistering hot” I managed to get a nice collection of images which I’m sharing with you guys today.
This is probably my favorite of the bunch by the way.

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The dark side of light…..

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Today I’m proud to show you some images we did last week with Nadine with “black light”.
These are actually for me the first images I did with black lights in these kind of settings, so it was a bit of a surprise how it would turn out. During the shoot day we actually did 2 totally different setups including one that did leave a mess in the studio, but more on that on a later date 🙂

 

Today the session with Nadine.
All designs are by Nadine of course.

Nadine Mei 10 -15

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Adding pets

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Now some people will say during a photoshoot that “pets are not allowed in the studio”, for me however it’s always an option to do something else, because let’s be honest in the end it’s most of the times “model”, “background”, “lights”, “smile/or not” and there we go….

 Coaching a Pet and finding a Dog Trainer 

I’m a strong believer in the fact that we can do so much more with a session by adding some props, however never add a prop that doesn’t make any sense. In the case of pets you can have a unique selling point for your customer however, it’s like with children, the images from the client themselves they often like but don’t buy, however if you shoot their children (or pets) they want them all….. so take advantage of this. Now for model/fashion/beauty photography I think adding a pet/animal can lift the shot to a next level. Over the years I’ve shot with snakes, dogs, cats, chickens (yeah really) etc. but when Lenaa asked me if she could bring her “dog” with her during a workshop because the babysitter was not able to sit I never expected her to bring the perfect model.

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