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Very special workshop 2011

Manna

In the weekend of 20-23 May I will be teaching at a very special location.
Right in the middle of the Ijsselmeer.
The location for this special photography weekend will be the largest two mast klipper in the Netherlands called the “Manna”, it was build in 1897 and has been fully restored and sailing since 1992. This is a perfect and very beautiful location for a great weekend of photography.

Although we call it a photography weekend in essence it’s a sort of workshop, free time.
On board there will be enough gear to keep the people shooting all through the day.
We will have app 4 models and a MUA.
Food will be provided by us of course, but feel free to bring stuff for the BBQ which will be a vital part of the “free time” periods.

What to expect ?
We will be sailing most of the time, during the day there is time for shoots in several groups, I will be also shooting but also assisting in the different groups and of course teaching in small segments. During the evenings there is time for some relax time and talking about everything (also photography related), one of the evenings I will also do a portfolio review, so bring your portfolio.

There will also be some attention to retouching, so in this weekend I will try to go from planning to end result.
There is only room for 12 photographers so be sure to book your place as soon as possible.
The costs for the whole weekend will be 699.00 Euros (including food).

More info (in Dutch) on www.frankdoorhof.com/up/manna.pdf
The dates on the PDF are not correct !!! it has been shifted one week.

Maskerade 27-28 November 2010

Fluor paint

Every year there is the Maskerade, this is a big event for bodypainters where they compete in different areas of paint, the organizer is Bert Verstappen (and his family) and he does this with an enormous passion, that’s why I immediately say yes when he asked me if I wanted to judge the competition in 2007 which was the first time I was on the jury of the Maskerade. It was a great experience and we promised to do it again in the future. Due to my schedule however we missed the Maskerade a few times, when I met up with Bert at the Zoom Experience last year we decided to book the date for the Maskerade right away to make sure I could be there, and so it booked, and this weekend it was time for the Maskerade 2010.

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2 Sessions from this weekend

This was a busy week, just the way I love them.
But somehow also some things went wrong, imaging dragging out 2 rangers, a generator and smokemachine to the forest. A beautiful model and a stunning testshot, and then…… the smokemachine explodes… (well ok that sounded better, in reality it just stopped working). Man that’s frustrating but luckily we have photoshop so I managed to shoot a few extra images that I could combine with our testshoot and get something that was acceptable. (see the image later in this post).

I always tell people to test their gear before going to a location but that of course doesn’t work when something breaks down, however you feel rather stupid. The main thing is don’t panic, just say you didn’t like the smoke and continue :), well ok that sometimes works.

As a second part of the session we went inside and did some more standard photos for the models portfolio, I was more than pleased with Petra so I think we will see more of her in the near future.

The next day we had something different planned.
A while ago I got an email from Norina, a very nice looking darkskinned model.
I always tell models that if they want a session in our studio (or location) that they can always send me an email with a nice concept or exclusive clothing, locations etc. As a photographer you always have to keep working at your portfolio and doing that with only commercial jobs will simply not work in most cases. For me that means that app twice a month I will do a TFP session. TFP means Time For Print. With this kind of sessions all parties participate for free, this also means that I really want something that will add something to my portfolio.

Norina send me a moodboard with a very dark fashion atmosphere and to be honest I was hooked from image 1.
Moodboards are of course nice but the main thing for me is to not copy the images but try to give it my own style, luckily that was also the opinion of our MUA and model so we had a deal.

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Some from this weekend

This weekend I started the workshops again after a week of relax time.
We did three sessions on Friday and Saturday from which you can find the results and the videos in this blog post…..

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