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.
Today a very special fun blogpost.
Together with Expo imaging we are doing a small giveaway/competition.
If you have a Google+ account (it’s free) you can join to win one of the most amazing accessories for small flash I can imagine, the Rogue Flashbender.
Now we won’t give it away just for a nice image…… that would be too easy 🙂
We want to see an image of someone, something or whatever that inspires you.
So it can be a person, a device, a whatever as long as you can tell why it inspires you.
You can upload the results to the special thread I will be creating at google+ via https://frankdoorhof.com/+
Good Luck…
I’ve really been in doubt about what to write for todays blog post.
I’m normally not the person to post something that is not a bit photography related but I decided that in fact this was photo related and not in a small sense so I thought why not.
This has been a shitty week for us.
First we found small lumps in the neck of our cat Joey, a few months ago he was given up and had maybe 2-3 weeks to live, however we found a doctor that was willing to do a very risky operation and much to our surprise Joey recovered and it looked like the cancer was gone. Up until a few days ago when we felt small lumps again and we just felt it was wrong…. we went to the same doctor and got the horrible news that it was spread out and this time there really was nothing more he could do. We will give Joey a really nice few last days or hopefully weeks. For some people it’s just a pet, but for people like us he is part of our family and has been for about 14 years so he will be greatly missed when the time is there.
Yesterday morning I woke up with the sad news that Steve Jobs of Apple died, and although we all knew he was very ill this still was a shock. For me it’s a bit of a addition to the shitty feeling I already had making my week even worse. Now one could say that Jobs was just someone you don’t know but although for us the passing of Jobs is not something that we will experience as the loss of a family member or even friend it’s still something that made me stop and also gave me a very sad feeling, in this blog post I want to pay my respects to someone that I think changed the world, well at least also mine.
Ok I have been writing several times about the new instructional DVD we have been working on the last few weeks, and I can now say that we are very close to the “preview” part of the DVD, meaning all the scenes are done in rough edits and will be checked for errors, weird lip-sync problems etc. This will take at least 1-2 weeks more but we hope to be able to send the DVD to the printing/pressing station after that.
In total the DVD will run well over 2 hours and is filled with lots of tips on the use of light meters, posing models, working in outside and inside locations, working with small flash, working with the flash benders from rogue, tether tools, tips about shooting into the sun, using lens flares, using locations to match the models and so much more.
Some of you asked if I had something online from the older DVDs and to be honest somehow we never did, with the new DVD we did go another direction, the previous DVDs were all done with voice overs and although that works great we did get some questions about adding more “live sound” so with this new DVD we did just that. The whole DVD was filmed during the workshop I did in Boston this September so you will see the workshop take place and hear the most important bits as it happened. However we also had two scenes left that were filmed slightly different and we decided to not let them go to waste but add them to the DVD as extra bonus tracks…. these videos are shot without live sound and I added a voice over on top of the video to explain more in depth whats going on in the video and share some tips and tricks. To give people a good idea about the way the previous DVDs look and to give a little bit of a teaser for the new one we will now share one of these bonus videoclips.
PLEASE remember that this is different from the DVD material which was shot live as just explained, it’s just the one of the bonus videos.
One of the questions that get asked a lot is about posing models, this seems to be the most difficult part in a photoshoot. And I know it can be very difficult especially when you are starting out with photography. It’s not everyday you get a beautiful model in front of your camera and you have to think about your camera, light, posing and of course how the image will look in the end… and that’s the first thing you have to realize…..
The less you have to think about other things than working with your model, the easier it will be to get good poses from your model.
So first make sure you know how you are gonna set your lights, know which theme you want to work on with your model, in fact this can all be done before the shoot, but most of all make sure that you know your gear, nothing is more “mood killing” for a shoot than a photographer that doesn’t know what he/she is doing, who is struggling to get the light the way he/she wants it, who doesn’t know how to set the camera etc. etc. these are real mood killers…. so let’s say we mastered all this will it than happen automatically…. well yes and no. Here are some pointers and a step by step plan to get “better” results in your photoshoots.
Now we won’t give it away just for a nice image…… that would be too easy 🙂
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