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.

Images Chantal

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Last week we did a nice workshop for Fotoflits (the Dutch Elinchrom agent). I’ve known them for many years and their new shop is very nice to teach the workshops in, so once every while I will travel to them to teach a workshop. This time was special on two accounts. First it was the first workshop for Chantal (one of our new models) and it was the first time ever I was late for a workshop….. I always leave at least an hour early but the traffic was so bad that what we normally drive in 75 minutes now took us 150 minutes pffff it was terrible.

But I arrived and here are some of the images from that day that I like myself. On Monday you can also see a backstage video from that day.

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Snow in the Netherlands

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As some of you might know by now we are having snow over here (and very low temperatures).
Last weekend we went walking through the Kuinderbos, which is very close to our home and of course I could not resist to take some shots from the area, I’m not a landscape photographer but I love to shoot anything that’s interesting (as most photographers).

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DSLR video workshop

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More and more customers are asking for small video segments to go with the photography we do. But not only small video segments, last year I started doing videoclips and to be honest I love it. Before I started model photography I actually was very active with video (but only as a hobby) in that time I still needed to use tape and the incredibly (at that time) AVmaster cards from Fast… looking back it’s not something I want to go back to 🙂

 

Today it’s all very easy with programs like Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro X.
When Final Cut Pro X was released I was very impressed but also very disappointed that they left out Multicam, well I have some great news… since the last update (last week) Apple added Multicam and some AMAZING keying options. So for the moment I’m using Final Cut Pro X again as my main editing suite, but to be honest I still love to work in Adobe Premiere, so for the time being I will switch between the two and hope that when one of the suites proves to be the best I can switch without loosing too much time and experience.

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First Google+ critique

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In the past I’ve been doing Twitter critiques on certain days which was always fun and got a lot of responses, however being Twitter you’re limited to a small answer and typing….. so during a Google+ hangout the idea started to do a critique during a Google+ hangout and I loved the idea.
We are working with the guys from Google+ to make it possible to see the broadcast and I hope to have that working by that time (or the next time).

 

On Thursday February 9th (tomorrow) at 17:00 CET (Amsterdam time) I will host a 1 hour Google+ hangout where you can show your best shot and get some tips and critique. It’s  a first test to expect that some things will go wrong 🙂
See you online.

 

If you’re not already on Google+ make sure you make an account, it’s a very nice community with LOADS of photographers and great presentation options, and the hangouts are highly addictive 🙂 My Google+ account can be found on https://frankdoorhof.com/+