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.

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We live in a time where everything goes fast, faster and even faster.
Well they even now proved (although they think) that E-MC2 is not true and it’s possible to travel faster than the speed of light, making even time travel “maybe” possible. So what does this mean for us people… well for one we get a load of information on our plate. When I look at myself I feel this every day, and I think it’s positive. Before the iPhone for example I hardly ever read a newspaper, it simply took too much time, with the iPhone however when I wake up the first thing I do is run 3 news apps, one for tech, one for normal news and one for the more fun news. That’s the start of my morning. In between I check mails, G+ and Twitter to see if there is something that needs my attention. What a few years ago was my “resting” point in the morning (you know what I mean) has now been transformed to Doorhof central for the morning, or in other words my first working time of the day…..

But does this also means there will be problems, well actually yes and big ones.
In this section a few observations I’ve done during the last few years and some tips how you “might” solve some problems.

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Light it……

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During a 1:1 workshop it’s sometimes time to play, and this was such an occasion.
A while ago an amazing magazine was released on the iPad called “Light it!” and I’m one of the writers for the magazine (and please don’t start a “why isn’t it on the android” thread here :D). We got a nice Tshirt in the mail a few days ago and it was hanging in our studio when I suddenly thought about, why not add it to a photoshoot theme ?


What you see in this blogpost is the result from that idea, and a few tips that might be handy 😀

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The perfect camera bag…..

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We all look for them, and often we spend a great amount of money on bags that will end up not being perfect. Well let’s say photographers can be picky. And I’m without a doubt one of them. When we travel we bring a lot of gear, and I’ve tried the fair amount of camera bags. A few years ago I thought I found the perfect bag, of course it was a Lowepro and I loved it, however a while ago I got the new version from “de greef and partners/Lowepro” and to be honest I thought there would be nothing more fitting my needs than the Lowepro Vertex 300. A great bag pack for all my gear…. well I already said “I thought”


While teaching at Photoshop World I saw the X200 bag that David Ziser was using and he loved it, so I mailed them to send me one to try. Today it arrived and I must say I’ve never ever been so enthusiastic about a camera bag, this thing rocks. So today a small review on the “for me” perfect camera bag. The Lowepro X200 roller

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News update

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Today a small news update, but some important ones I think 🙂

 

1. A new DVD
During the workshops in Boston we filmed the sessions including the Q&A (first time ever we filmed that), I’m now working on editing the files for a release on a new DVD. We’ve already got a nice selection of DVDs on the market and of course the instructional videos/DVDs with http://www.kelbytraining.com (make sure to check out the online videos there). And because I hate to do the same thing, we decided to take a different approach this time. The whole workshop was filmed with 2 cameras and we used a voice recorder to record my voice. This means that I will be using the live material and not be doing a voice over like with our previous DVDs, on the Kelby videos we also did a live voice by the way and that worked really well so I decided to adopt this for the new DVD.
For the Dutch people this will mean that the DVD will be released in English. We are looking into options for subtitles but I’m not sure if we will follow through with that. Of course you all want to know stuff about release dates, runtimes etc. and I honestly cannot say yet. At the moment I’m done editing the Q&A and the first small flash part and we’re already well over 60 minutes, so it will probably be a long DVD in runtime. Release dates are always tricky with our schedule, but I would not be surprised if it was on the market around christmas.

 

2. A new book
A long time ago I wrote a book (that started it all) called “Guide to model photography”, although I’ve taken this of the market a few years ago and always have been wanting to revamp that one it never happened, we started the DVD series instead. However the last few months more and more people have been asking me to do something with a book and after a long consideration I’ve decided to do it. The book will contain a lot of the most popular blogposts about technique, light meter use, posing, tips etc. and will not stop at just model photography… I will also include a chapter on things not model related as you can also sometimes read on my blog.

 

Also here you are of course curious about a release date… well I will take my time.
We are now collecting data from the blog, I will rewrite a lot of that and make sure it all flows nicely and I want to add a lot of new material of course. A release date is therefor not yet known, but don’t expect it to be before the summer of 2012.

 

3. TwitPhoto TV
Make sure to watch TwitPhoto TV on September 27th because I will be doing an interview with them that day.
You can ask questions etc. so make sure to tune in.