Today we arrived in Koln for the Photokina.

I will be at the Profot booth for the next three days doing some demos and mini workshops for Elinchrom and Leaf, so feel free to drop by and say hi. Being there the pre-opening day is always a weird experience, everything is still in the buildup stages and what looks so nice the following days is now just rubbish and piles of cardboard and paper etc. knowing that just in a few hours everything will be done and neat and nice is just almost like a miracle.

Leaf already had some great news, they are releasing the AptusII 12, a full frame 80MP digital back, yes you read that correctly full frame 80MP’s wow that’s a lot of detail, I think you can see the DNA of the model with a close up, would love to play around with that one 🙂

Here is some information on this great new digital back from Leaf…..http://www.leaf-photography.com/products_aptus212.asp

And some new lenses from Schneider http://www.captureintegration.com/2010/09/19/three-other-new-schneider-lenses/

But there will be much more of course, also from Elinchrom………… I think 😀
Looking forward to meeting up with Joe McNally and see his presentation, but there is so much more going on, I always say when vikings die they go to the walhalla, when photographers die they will probably go the Photokina…. but seeing the size of the photokina you could die if you have to see everything in one day, pffff it’s HUGE. glad we have some parking spaces next to our hall so we don’t have to rush in the morning.

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A while ago Johnny van Strijdonck approached me if I would be interested in teaching a two day workshop in Belgium. And because I love to do these location workshops I said yes of course, however (as always) I wanted a nice location, well Johnny delivered 😀
He arranged for the second day to be shot in “El Paso” a western town (street) close to the Dutch border in Belgium. Because I wanted to use the second day to the max I decided to spend the first day only on theory and showing some simple outside setups as discussed in the theory part, but because I choose Nadine as model I could have known that there would be no simple shots, as usual Nadine surprised us all with some amazing outfits and add her posing and expressions with it and you can magically transform even a simple setup into something stunning……

One tip for people planning to go somewhere with a lot of gear to teach….. Make sure you ask if the conference room is on ground level or reachable by elevator. As you might have guessed by now, this one was not and we had to carry a lot of gear two stories high pffffff.

The first day however we did need all the gear for the practice part and you don’t leave that kind of gear in the car overnight.
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