News about StudioFD, Frank Doorhof, and more.

tomorrow it’s Photowalk day (and Sunday)

/in , /by

Man I’m really looking forward to Saturday and Sunday.
This year the official “Scott Kelby” worldwide photo walk will take place on two days, and I will be hosting both days in Kampen. Some people might ask “Why Kampen?” well I think it’s the most interesting place close to my hometown of Emmeloord. And yes Emmeloord can be interesting too but I love Kampen with it’s medieval streets, great bridge, small train station and “harbor” also there are some great HDR options and a busy shopping street with loads of interesting people…. this is gonna be so much fun.

I will of course lead the walk together with Wendy Appelman and Evita (our intern) so you can expect some nice tips and tricks and much more… but most of all it will be a fun filled walk with great photo opportunities.

We still have some room on the Sunday so if you want to join us make sure to surf to http://www.worldwidephotowalk.com and register for the Sunday version, or just drop me a mail. Of course we will also run a competition for the “walkers” for which we opened a Flickr page.

NIK 4.0 Color Efex

/4 Comments/in , /by

The last few weeks I’ve been under NDA so I couldn’t share any of my thoughts about the new Color Efex 4.0 from NIK, however yesterday they released the software so I wanted to give some attention to the release, and all I can say….

 

If you already know the version 3.0 without any doubt do the upgrade, you’re gonna love it.
If you don’t use Color Efex yet, please download their trial version, Color Efex is without a doubt one of my favorite plugin suites from NIK (and all plugins), it’s used in almost all my work just to give a slightly different tone or more “bite”.


The following new additions I really love :

 

Dark contrasts:
A great filter to give an image a great look, very moody and loads of detail.

 

Film looks:
Divided into several categories including vintage (my favorite)

 

Detail extractor:
Loved Tonal contrast but this is even better. Mimics a cross between HDR and Tonal Contrast. GOTTA love it.

 

And so much more….
Color Efex 4 has great filters and some things has changed, Tonal Contrast for example works differently and I like the new method better because it has less haloing and noise. But the best thing about Efex 4 must be the option to STACK filters and make recipes. Yes you read it correctly you can stack filters on top of each other and create an unique look and store this and share it online.

 

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
I know it’s not really a review but I think there are a lot of them out there, so I just wanted to give you the things that I really liked 😀

Frank on Twit.TV/Phot

/6 Comments/in , /by

Make sure to check http://twit.tv/photo tonight.
During the broadcast I will be online as a guest, I’ve already seen some of the questions and I think it will be an interesting hour (or so). We have something special planned for in the studio (I hope everything works out live, but we have high hopes).

If you want to ask questions check :
https://plus.google.com/u/0/117757565120070816446/posts/F17iJPCUSfH 
And they will ask the questions to me (don’t make it too hard :-))

See you tonight.
For the European viewers, it will be live from 22:30-23:30

 

Hotpoint

/1 Comment/in /by

This is a great opportunity to win a cool prize.
Who wouldn’t want to meet one of the words best photographers…. Steve McCurry

 

Now you can, visit http://family.hotpoint.eu/ for all the details, for the Netherlands I’m in the jury so you better send in the best family picture ever for the grand price 🙂 and who knows… maybe you fly to NY to meet Steve and be photographed by him. Make sure you send in your images before October 10th.

GOOD LUCK…..