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.

The new inside look magazine (for free)

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Within our studio there are several people active, but also always (well almost always) one intern.
This intern is always from some form of Photography school and will be working with our team for the period of at least 20-30 weeks. The interns have many assignments ranging from setting up the lights, taking care of our students, doing logistic work for our location workshops or shipping out DVDs, and much much more.

One of the most fun assignments is the making of a magazine.
In this assignment they can let loose all their creativity.
There are no rules.
Every magazine has to look a bit like the previous one, but if they want a totally different look that’s also ok as long as it looks great. Within the magazine there are some guidelines of course…. there have to be interviews with models, makeup artists, some of our sponsors and a selection of images and interesting blog articles. The interns will have the whole period to complete this magazine (and most will need this).

The last few months Dilani has been my intern and the release you can find in this blog post is her magazine.
Do remember that the magazines are essential just for fun, they are not meant to compete with something commercials, they are not meant as a “look what we can do” piece, but they are the “end” assignment for our interns. However we do think the magazines are fun to share with you guys, so please read it as that and enjoy it.

You can find the “Dilani” issue here :
Inside Look magazine

Discount code this week on our DVDs/Tethertools

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Don’t you own the instructional DVDs yet ?
Or do you want some of the incredibly cool Tethertools products ?
This is your chance….
Order today and add the discount code DOORHOF77 and you will get a 10% discount on our instructional DVDs and Tethertools products.

Order is valid till Friday this week.
Feel free to share the code with your friends 🙂

 

Working with one light source……and some Rogue magic.

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Friday it was time for the small flash workshop with Nadine as my model.

During the small flash workshop the main thing I teach the students is how to work with both E-TTL and full manual mode. The thing I focus up at the start of the workshop is that E-TTL can be easily “fooled” or in other words is not perfect. By explaining this and also explaining how to solve it (and throwing in manual mode with a light-meter) the students are beginning to recognize the problems in a scene and most importantly learn how to counteract the problems.

The fun thing is that you will see that after the first setup most students already pick this up with the next setup.
And to be honest it’s not difficult, but you have to see it to understand it 🙂

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Glasses ?

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Just a quick tip today.
When shooting glasses, one of the most asked questions is how to fight the reflections in the glasses.
Well let’s first make clear that reflections are not always a bad thing, but they can be very irritating indeed, the nice thing is that if you know how to eliminate them, you can always choose to leave them in and be creative with them.

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