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.

Downloadable instructional DVDs

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It has been asked many times, but to be honest I was not yet ready for it.
However since the release of “Live in Boston” things have changed, we never sold so many DVDs in the first week of the release, but we also got a lot of questions about the shipping costs abroad, the main problem is that we really can’t help the shipping costs abroad….We also got some complaints about certain countries that would not deliver the DVDs because there were girls on the cover (all covered by the way), we solved this in most cases by sending the DVDs without covers but let’s be honest it’s a lot of work. Because at the moment there are 7 English instructional DVDs and the demand is getting higher, I thought it was a good point in time to make them available for download now.


The downloads are high quality captures of the original DVDs.
Meaning all the chapters are in the downloads, including the intros, extras, slideshows etc. You won’t miss a thing. Because we don’t need to send the physical media we could cut the costs down and there are of course no shipping costs making it possible for everyone worldwide to get the instructional DVDs. The downloads clock in at around 1-1.5GB per download so make sure you have a good internet connection.

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Compositing with Nadine

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Last Saturday it was time again for the new Advanced II workshop.
This workshop has recently been changed to a workshop with compositing as theme. During the workshop the students first get a 2 hour theory part about inspiration and getting shot, during this part the model gets ready for the first set. During the workshop there are app. 3 sets. After each set the model changes and in that time I show the group how to make the final images you see in this post. I do put myself up to a limit of 20 minutes per shot, so some images can look a bit rushed in some areas, but do remember they where shot during a workshop.


In this blog post some small information about how to make a quick composite.

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Some more classical Marie

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Today the final selection of images we shot last week during several days with Marie and some classical dresses.

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Eat Cake

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During the first DSLR video workshop held on Saturday Marie was out model. She was doing three workshops in a row and you have already seen some of the beautiful dresses she was using in the images shot during the first workshop (and more tomorrow), but today I want to show you one scene we shot during the DSLR video for beginners workshop.

 

During this new workshop (this was the first time for me) we do several video shoots in the morning. In this case an outside shoot, interview style, blue screen and we decided to do one fun idea Marie had during lunch. All videos are actually not meant for production but are just used to show the different techniques and give me material to demonstrate Adobe Premiere editing after lunch. It’s a jam-packed workshop by the way, maybe one of the most intense I teach but I loved it.

 

During the workshop I give tips about :
Using gear like Edelkrone shoulder rigs, Small HD monitors, Glidecam use
But also software tricks to combine multicam recordings with Plural eyes and Premiere, do chroma key within Premiere, use Red Giant looks for unique looks to the material, adding music with Sonic fire and much much more…. including of course how to light, film etc. Although it’s a beginners course there still is a lot of information in it that can also help for small productions like videoclips, interview clips etc.

 
Marie brought some cake and because she was also wearing some Marie Antoinette like dresses she thought it would be fun to give her twist on the famous expression “let them eat cake”…. well here it is. Do remember this is just shot in between the workshop and edited during the workshop.