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.

White silhouette dance

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Last Thursday I did a session with Susanne, the theme for that day was set to “new” sounds simple but in fact I think it’s very important to sometimes just do things differently. We are all busy and it’s easy to be caught up in a routine and before you know it you are repeating the same thing over and over again without any improvements or “freshness” especially in photography it’s (I think) very important to keep changing and evolving. So in this session I decided to do some “looks” I’ve been playing with in my head for some time but never really brought out to the studio. And as you all know I love motion so it’s no surprise that I involved some motion in the first setup I’m gonna show you guys today (it will be a two part series).

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Professional Imaging day 1

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Yesterday it was the first day of the Professional Imaging.
Great show day and loads of people visiting the workshops, it was a blast.

Hanging with Dave Black and Drew Gardner is always fun but seeing them on stage is more than impressive, what a work do they show, wow. You really don’t want to miss this (still two days left :-))

During the day we filmed some backstage material with my iPhone 4S and I edited on the hotel room on the iPad with the new iMovie.
So don’t expect too much, it’s just a fun video.

 

Funky in Red

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Today a single shot called funky in Red.
As you know I’m a strong advocate for making shots look “different”, finding your own “voice” in photography is maybe the most important tip I can give you. And this does not always mean just adding a “magic” Photoshop created look (although that helps according to most :-)), but it’s also a way of looking at scenes.

 

 

For me personally I love it when a shot is a bit off beat, meaning you look at it and go “hummm I wonder if that is supposed to be worn together, but I like it”. For me finding those “weird” combination is part of the fun and it triggers me to go even a step further the next time. Sometimes it will take some time to convince your model however. Like for instance in this shot the model brought a wonderful and nice gala dress, however when I saw the sneakers and the headphones I wanted to put them together in the shot…. “no it will never look right”, “trust me it will” well that conversation took some time and finally she did it, for me personally I love this shot a lot more than just a standard “gala like” shot with just the dress.

Professional Imaging 2012

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Oh wow, today it’s finally there… the weekend of the Professional imaging 2012.
Without a doubt one of the exhibitions I always look forward to with a warm heart, this is the exhibition where in fact I taught my first workshops years ago on the booth for fotoflits (the Elinchrom agent in the Netherlands). It’s also the exhibition where I met up with Scott Kelby for the first time so one could say that this is the one were it all started.

For many years I’ve been teaching seminars and workshops on the Elinchrom booth and this year will be the first year I’m on the main stage (some might wonder why it took so long, so do I actually :-)) but I will also be teaching a brand new Masterclass (I finished writing it this week) the limit was set on 40 people but it sold out so quick we moved to another location and now we are probably around 70 attendees, really looking forward to that one on Monday.

But most of all Professional imaging is a moment to meet up with friends and colleagues, meet people from all over the country (well ok for you Americans it’s like all over the city), hanging out with the guys from Canon (trying to squeeze a 5DMKIII out of their hands to test-drive), and we’re expecting some new stuff very soon from some of my sponsors 🙂 so it will be a fun weekend.

Also joining me on stage will be my buddy from the states Dave Black, anyone who knows Dave’s work knows he is one of the best sports photographers out there but he also does an AMAZING JAWDROPPING light painting technique, and he will be teaching that all on the PI. And also Drew Gardner will be on stage, this English Elinchrom shooter I’ve known for some years and I absolutely LOVE his work, when you see him shoot and work you can’t feel not inspired, so make sure you catch Drew and Dave (and me of course).

But there is so much more, how about the introduction of Lightroom 4 ?
Demos at all the booths, the 5DMKIII, new Nikon gear, Leaf and Phase one are always there etc. etc. and above all…. it’s all free !!! (except the Masterclass).
So surf to http://www.professionalimaging.nl and make sure you are there.