We have been busy behind the screens with the Dutch version of Help – Portrait.
You can find more information on http://www.help-portret.nl 
If you are based in the Netherlands or can help us with more media attention to make this a huge success please let me know and I will guide you to the right region or for national media I will make sure the contacts will be used. Help Portrait in the Netherlands is already very well organized but we now need to get the public aware of the project. I took up the proud task to arrange everything for the Netherlands after some talks with the original initiator Jeremy Cowart in the US during my teaching at PSW. At the moment we have several regions up and running and my own region is also almost done. However now it’s important to reach the media and that’s difficult, especially the nation wide media, so if you can help out in ANY way, or

 

if you have connections please let me know and make Help Portret NL a huge success.
The video has been edited and translated to Dutch by my good friend Gert Kracht, MANY MANY thanks guy.
Please share this video with everyone you know, put it on your website, try to get it on TV, whatever small thing or big thing you can do.

I hate standing still, and I love teaching workshops, and as 1+1=2 this means that my workshops always change  😎

 

Over the last few months I have had a lot of questions from students about two topics :
1. Compositing
2. Filming with a DSLR

 

I do both on a regular basis but somehow I never post my compositing work, well with a motto that is “why fake it, when you can create it?” that’s obvious. However I also strongly believe that as a Photographer in many situations you better know how compositing works and much to my surprise a lot of Photographers don’t have a clue how to do it very quickly with the new tools in Photoshop, but most of all make it all “work”.

Advanced II workshop = Compositing and more
The theory part is still about making a normal image look better, or in other words how to transform a would be snap shot into something that can be considered a good photograph. In the theory part it starts out with street and sport photography but quickly builds to the parts you really need to make a model shoot rock, from lens choice, expression, adding elements, styling and understanding your light and gear.
After this the workshop changes to the practice part, and that has changed 100%, there is a MUA available and she is working on a theme with our model during the theory. When we’re done we will setup several compositing options and shoot the scene, but it doesn’t stop there… after this I will show a quick composite in Photoshop and also explain how to repeat this yourself.

 

Filming
There is also a new workshop which will start in 2012.
In this intense workshop (aimed at the starting filmer) we will shoot several setups with a model in motion, all students will film their material from different angles and options. There will be a lot of tips and tricks of course during the shoot about : angles, gear to help focus, flycam use etc. etc.

 

After the filming we will immediately start the editing process with Adobe Premiere.
In this part the following options will be explained:
Working with Chroma key, Multicam editing, Syncing audio with PluralEyes, using Red Giant looks to create an unique look and edit it and much much more.

 

I can’t wait to start the new workshop but we still need some preparation model wise, so I will not be doing it before January 2012. The new Advanced II workshop I tested this weekend and was a huge success, so that will be implemented immediately.

 

You can find all the information on : http://www.photography-workshops.eu