Overview of 2011
At the end of the year it’s always nice (and sometimes not) to look back at the year and what happened.
So because today is the last day of the year I will also try to look back at 2011 and what moved me in highs and lows.
News about StudioFD, Frank Doorhof, and more.
Release party new DVD
Making an instructional DVD is always a long process, first we have to think about the material, than the way to present, some things that need to be on it, somethings that can be on it and so forth. In this case this process was a bit easier.
I’ve already released 8 instructional DVDs and for the 9th I wanted something completely different, so when the workshops in Boston were booked we decided it would be great to film these live while I was working with the group, including the Q&A we always do before the workshops abroad. The locations were superb and the group was also great so this was a great opportunity. And indeed everything worked out as planned. However because I’m not a slow talker and a lot of my students are of course from the Netherlands we decided it was necessary to add Dutch subtitles, well this was a LOT more work than we anticipated, so although we planned for a release 5 weeks after we returned from Boston it now ended up being a just before christmas release, but we managed it 🙂
Help Portrait Emmeloord PartII
Yesterday you were able to see the video from our Help portrait day in Emmeloord. And as promised today you can see some backstage images and my opinion about my first nationwide Help portrait organization.
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Help Portrait Emmeloord
During the Photoshop world dates I met Jeremey Cowart and we started talking about photography etc. but also about his project Help Portrait. I did hear about this before of course but did not participate actively myself, but for 2011 I wanted to be part of this incredible movement and decided to try to organize Help portrait for the whole of Netherlands.
We started out with a website http://www.help-portret.nl and a forum where photographers could add themselves to help out, and to be honest I was deeply moved by all the responses we got the first few weeks, we even got the original .nl website from the original owners who had done Help portrait on a smaller scale the year before. From that point on it grew and grew and I’m so proud of all the people who made Help portrait so big this year in the Netherlands, we have achieved a lot of local publicity but even been on national TV, we got our own theme song from Dutch singer Sarina Kay.
Of course I also did organize a Help portrait location in my home town Emmeloord. Here you can see a video from our day. But make sure to read tomorrows blog with loads of images and more stories…..
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