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 first…..

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We all have a first right?
Well ok this blogpost is not going to where some are thinking it is…..

 

When I was a member of a local photo club we visited the studio of a local professional photographer (George Appelo) some years ago, coupled to this was a competition. At that time I was shooting models for maybe 1-2 years and I included a shot of a model…. much to my surprise it won 🙂

 

Last week during a open house of FifoLabs in Lelystad I met up with him and he asked me to shoot some images during the demo he was teaching, he prepared the set with a model and a bike and out of blue (well for the audience) he asked me to join him for the demo…. now to be honest I love to do demos and workshops but I also feel that when someone else is teaching I feel much more comfortable as a spectator than as an instructor, but I had to do it….(all in good fun by the way) so I decided to throw him a curveball. Instead of shooting the model I said that the best thing to shoot is someone with character and I dragged our photographer back on stage to stand in front of the lights. I only took 5-6 shots so it was not the way I normally do a shoot but I still wanted to share the images due to the connected story…. we could say that George was the first professional photographer to grand me a price :-), thanks George.

George Appelo Maart 19 2013 Fifolabs - -4-Edit

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Smokey glamour

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Some images might be considered NSFW (Not Safe For Work) so be careful….
As you might know I shoot mostly fashion, but sometimes I also like to experiment with some glamour, like during the glamour workshop. Today a few images we shot during a very short in between session just for fun, and when we have fun…. well there might also be smoke.

Roosmarijn Maart 26 2013 -_-1029 BW

 

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Whair images

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I love working with hairdressers and every time I get a call from Whair I’m even more excited, they always want something a bit different. Today I can share some of the shots we did for them. A video was recorded during this session which will be released in a future episode of “The DOORhof is always open”.

Whair Januari 20 2013 -128-Edit

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The new book (Dutch)

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Yesterday we got the first copies of my Dutch book : “De magie van de kleine flitser : van donker naar licht”
Or in English
“The magic of the small strobe : from dark to light”
You can order the book from every camera/book store in the Netherlands and from our own webstore www.frankdoorhof.com/shop2

 

It’s a book about working with small flash, accessories and much more like workflow, calibrations plus a whole chapter on what other people use like Joe McNally, Dave Black, Tom Bol and many more.

 

As you can imagine I’m very proud of the book and hope that in the future it will also be translated into English, BUT…. don’t worry if you don’t read Dutch… later this year another book will be released through KelbyMediaGroup and that will be in English, in that book I literally give a complete guide to modelphotography from A-Z from finding the model to the retouching and delivering to the clients.

 

Today our good friend and amazing photographer Pim van der Maden (also from Emmeloord) took the press image for the book, thanks Pim 🙂

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