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 Grid with Frank Doorhof

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As you might know, I’m in Tampa USA at the moment with my friends at Kelbytraining to film some new instructional videos, and of course I always wanted to be part of “The Grid” (one of my favorite shows at Kelbytv). So I was excited to be part of “The Grid” last Wednesday, and they got a topic that I loved called “bad advise”.

 

For the people that missed the show live…. no problem you can now watch it online at : http://kelbytv.com/thegrid/2012/04/27/the-grid-episode-51-guest-frank-doorhof/

Enjoy.

Google+ convention

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Now this is something that got me REALLY excited and in case you did not hear about it, I thought let’s give some attention to it on my blog.

Since Google+ has been released I’ve been over the moon with the opportunities it gives photographers, and to be honest I think it’s a much better place for the more creative people that for example Facebook, everything seems to be aimed at “putting it all together” and this awesome project is one of the first in its kind. It’s a shame I’m not able to be a part of it but man I would really advise you guys to check this out and if possible visit it.

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Easter fire

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It took some time due to other interesting blog posts, but I still wanted to share these images.
At Easter weekend (April 8th to be exact) we visited one of the largest Easter fires in our region, of course you don’t expect a lot but to be honest I would not want to have missed it, it was also the first time I was able to test the new 5DMKIII and see how it performed in the dark and the high contrasts, (and it did great) and let’s be honest we all love a big fire 🙂

During these kind of events I will never just shoot the fire itself only, but I also love to focus on the people and the other things that happen during the event, in this blog post just some images I took, it’s not to teach, or to share my work, it’s just a fun blog post today.

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Fuji X pro 1 preview

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Sometimes things happen that you least expect, this is such a story.
During the Photowalk in Kampen in 2011 I borrowed a Fujifilm FinePix X100 Digital Camera from one of the walkers (no pun intended to the walking dead series), after many many reports about bad focus on everything with hair but also the remarks about the awesome image quality I have to say I was very curious to see for myself how bad it was. Well to be honest it was ok, it was a camera you had to fight a little bit to get a good shot, but when you got the “idea” the images were indeed awesome. To be totally honest for a few weeks I played with the idea to get one myself but the price and the fact that there was just one prime lens stopped me from buying one. However the vintage look kept me convinced that this was a great camera for some “not drawing attention to yourself and being kicked out” kind of photography.

 

When visiting B&H last month I bought myself a Fujifilm X10 Digital Camera (Black), for me the perfect replacement of my old G9 which I hardly used, except in those situations that I needed it and than it delivered, but let’s be frank it was getting a bit old (and my display was damaged during a flight (NOT FIGHT)). With the X100 in the back of my mind the X10 delivered everything I needed/wanted (because let’s be honest this kind of cameras are also part want and not only need, it are the so called fun cameras also), nice vintage look, good high ISO performance, quick and good handling. What I did not expect was how much I started to like the camera, I posted some images online and some more and some more and before I knew it I was shooting with the X10 during workshops to show that the camera really did not matter as long as it delivered a good quality.

 

Some of these images also reached Fuji in the Netherlands and I was delighted that they wanted to have a talk, in the near future I will talk a bit more about this but for now let’s say I borrowed an Fujifilm X-Pro 1 Digital Camera (Body Only) from them to take with to the states (were we are now as we speak). Today a small quick overview of my first thoughts after just 2 days of use (remember this blog post was written a few days back).

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