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.

Answers X-rite webinar

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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.

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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.

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No blog today….

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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.
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X-rite webinar online

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Last week I taught a free webinar for our friends at X-rite.
Today you can find the link to the webinar here :

 

 

http://www.xritephoto.com/ph_learning.aspx?action=webinarsarchive&eventid=1501&eventdateid=5526Safari 2

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As you know I’m always carrying a camera, this way it’s always possible to take a picture.
The best way I heard this described was actually by Jay Maisel who said “If you don’t have your camera with you it becomes incredibly difficult to get the shot”. Most of the times you will see yourself shoot in situations that are not the run of the mill locations or situations and sometimes this gives you some amazing shots. I do have to be honest that the following shot I did not take myself, I was driving and asked Annewiek to take the shot the way I wanted it, a bit of the hood of the car and a slightly longer shutterspeed, this way we captured the speed effect I think pretty nicely.

 

Always remember that when you shoot something with motion in a forward moving vehicle that you will see a sort of “stretch” effect, this effect is something that I LOVE to use in tunnels etc. as you can see here.

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