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.

Happy new year

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Today, not a real blog post, just a short message from me to you guys/girls who have been reading my blog over the past years.

 

Over the last year the blog has grown very much and at the moment I try to update the blog every day with new images, some technique articles, new videos or just other stuff :-), except on Sunday when I take a day off. The nice thing over the last year is the many replies I’ve gotten in the mail and via the blog itself, this really motivates me to continue with the blog. I open the blog with the text that I’m not a blogger but somehow over the last year I think I’ve become a bit of a blogger, and I have to say it does take away a lot of time from the normal working day because I don’t want to repeat stuff or post one line with an image, everyday I set the level to reach something that is interesting to read or to share, and I think it does work most of the times. The amount of visitors is growing and that’s why I do it everyday of course.

 

For 2012 I have some new ideas and hope they will also be welcomed with the same enthusiastic responses I get now from the blog, but I think that will be ok.

For today no images, no technique, no……
Just that the family Doorhof we would like to wish you all a happy new year and all the best for 2012.
Let’s make it a slamming good year. 

Overview of 2011

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At the end of the year it’s always nice (and sometimes not) to look back at the year and what happened.
So because today is the last day of the year I will also try to look back at 2011 and what moved me in highs and lows.

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Products of 2011

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I already gave you my products I love for the holidays but today some of the products that I found this year and fell in love with, the list is not that long but I think you will find some products that you will also love and can’t live without….

ExpoImaging Rogue Diffusion Panel (Large)

Not really a surprise when you read this blog regularly. We found the Expoimaging products by accident when a local dealer send me a test package, and to be honest when I tested them the only thing that hit me was…. “wow, if you would describe the perfect product, this would be it” At the moment we have several flash benders in different sizes and I love them all, the bigger ones are great for portrait work or lighting a small group, the smaller ones are wonderful when you need a big of diffusion but still want some edge to the light.

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Anja glamour

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Glamour workshops are always special.
It’s one of the advanced workshops I teach, so there is a lot of room to play around with lights, poses, expressions etc. in other words the workshop has a very wide array of possibilities to play around. And when Anja is the model there is always a lot of fun which enhances the images of course.

But the most I just love to play with light.
Here I used the Elinchrom 9.5″ Wide Angle Reflector for Elinchrom, this is really a reflector everyone should own, it’s very cheap and it’s the best reflector to light a white background, but also rocks to create effects like this with lens flares. On the subject of using lens flares, I’m a big advocate to not create them in Photoshop but really try to shoot them “live”, this image is shot that way and for me the effect is much more convincing than when you just add a lens flare in Photoshop.

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