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.

Plastic bullet, cool “new” plugin

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I’ve already been a huge fan of “plastic bullet” for the iPhone (and now iPad).
I also asked many times “why not something like this via Photoshop, or via a stand alone program” and yes I know there is the great Alien Skin exposure 3 in which you can emulate all the film types you would ever wish for, and there is the great NIK and OnOne software, both with great options. But somehow the “clickyerdy click” method of plastic bullet is just great, just press and wait till it’s cool and every time the outcome is different, just like with a real toy camera.

Much to my delight plastic bullet is now available for the desktop under MacOsX. Today I showed it to some of my students and one even considered buying an Apple for this one alone (ok this was a bit over exaggerated, but let’s say he REALLY loved it).

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tomorrow it’s Photowalk day (and Sunday)

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Man I’m really looking forward to Saturday and Sunday.
This year the official “Scott Kelby” worldwide photo walk will take place on two days, and I will be hosting both days in Kampen. Some people might ask “Why Kampen?” well I think it’s the most interesting place close to my hometown of Emmeloord. And yes Emmeloord can be interesting too but I love Kampen with it’s medieval streets, great bridge, small train station and “harbor” also there are some great HDR options and a busy shopping street with loads of interesting people…. this is gonna be so much fun.

I will of course lead the walk together with Wendy Appelman and Evita (our intern) so you can expect some nice tips and tricks and much more… but most of all it will be a fun filled walk with great photo opportunities.

We still have some room on the Sunday so if you want to join us make sure to surf to http://www.worldwidephotowalk.com and register for the Sunday version, or just drop me a mail. Of course we will also run a competition for the “walkers” for which we opened a Flickr page.

Apple TV2 review

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Besides Photography I love “gadgets” however I’m a person that doesn’t want to own all gadgets that look cool, to be honest I’m also a bit “anti-gadget”, I know that most gadgets will end up collecting dust in some closet and will often be thrown out after not being used for many years when the space is needed. So my collection of gadgets is containing gadgets that I really use (well ok I also make mistakes :D)…..

 

A few months ago someone told me about the AppleTV and that this was perfect for my Home Theater setup, however because we already run a media server and a very good media player I never looked seriously into the AppleTV. When the Kelbytraining app was released some things changed for me. I love watching the guys on Kelbytraining and I love to do that on our projector (the image quality they use is awesome) so with my iPad2 I used the monitor connection set and ran a HDMI cable to our switch to use it on the projector. After each video I had to click on the iPad to activate the external monitor again but it worked flawless. However running the cable every time was my main objection, so I started looking into the AppleTV2 again. Because it’s not available in the Netherlands (yet) we decided to pick one up during our stay in the states for PhotoshopWorld. In this blog post my small review on the AppleTV2.

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My TwiT Photo interview

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Yesterday I was interviewed and we did a live photo shoot during the live broadcast for TwiT.tv Photo.
In this blogpost the video from that interview, hope you like it 😀
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