The Scott Kelby Worldwide PhotoWalk 2024 on Urk

October 5, 2024/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

Scott Kelby’s Photowalk on Urk by Frank Doorhof 2024

It was great again

Once a year it’s time for the worldwide Photowalk, a great idea from Scott Kelby. Every first Saturday in October
When possible I’m also hosting a walk. And after Kampen, Urk, and several times Amsterdam it was time for Urk again.
The reason is simple. It’s a great place for photography with people who have loads of stories and are very friendly to visitors. Plus it’s close to our home. And they sell the best fish of course. See the results of the Scott Kelby’s Photowalk on Urk by Frank Doorhof 2024.

We had a great group for the 2-hour walk, and of course, when you visit Urk you have to finish with a visit to “Jongens van de Fant” for some great fish.

For my photos, I decided to limit myself to the Sigma 12-24 on the Sony A7RV.
I hope you enjoy the selection I made.

Our new intern made a BTS video, you can check it out here

Urk

Urk is a municipality and a town in the Flevoland province in the central Netherlands.

This town is first mentioned in historical records dating to the 10th century when it was still an island in the Almere, an inland sea that would become part of the Zuiderzee in the 13th century after a series of incursions by the North Sea. In 1939, a dike from the mainland to Urk ended the town’s island status, just as the Afsluitdijk project was changing the salt water Zuiderzee surrounding Urk to the less saline IJsselmeer. Later in the 20th century, seabed areas surrounding Urk were reclaimed from the sea to become the Noordoostpolder.

The mainstay of the town’s formal economy has always been fishing, and the products of the sea coming in through Urk harbor continue to be exported widely, although today Urk’s fishing boats must travel greater distances to gather them than was required in most historical periods. Religious life has traditionally been very important to Urk’s inhabitants, with active, conservative congregations of the Dutch Reformed denominations playing key roles in the life of the community.

Urk on Wikipedia

more about walking on Urk (DUTCH)

Outside fashion shot for sunglasses with extreme styling and flash Part V : let’s talk about something grungy

April 20, 2024/in blog, Visions and technique/by Frank Doorhof

The final setup

Today in the blog the final setup from the workshop “on location in Emmeloord”
In this workshop we use locations close to our studio, that at first sight might look uninteresting, but by using light/poses/angles and of course styling are still suitable to create awesome images.

If you didn’t already I highly recommend reading the previous blogposts.
Let’s talk about the flash
Let’s talk about gear
Let’s talk about storytelling
Let’s talk about backgrounds and angles

For the final setup we are still using the same lighting setup with the same Geekoto GT200 with a large reflector.
This is what we sometimes call our “outside studio” or in other words a part of our studio (away from the public eye) where we just leave everything (within reason), so it looks very “grungy”/”urbex” this part is based around an old trailer with some bushes and is great as a location, especially when shooting from a low angle the fence in the background and the angle it creates can be very nice.

In this setup I’m also using HSS for the last images.
During the workshop I did not use HSS because when working during a workshop it’s better to shoot with a so called “dumb” trigger, this means I can setup the strobe with my Geekoto Commander and just let the attendees shoot via their own trigger. HSS and ETTL only work correctly with a commander that fits your system. With Canon, Nikon and Sony we have special commanders, but this workshop we also shot with a Leica so the choice was made to let HSS rest till the end.

The main advantage of shooting HSS is that you can break the 1/125th second limitation of normal cameras/strobes.
By the way, Sony just released the first camera with a global shutter that will make it possible to shoot on much faster shutter speeds with strobes not using HSS. This is a HUGE deal for flash photography on location and will change the way you can work forever. I hope to be able to test one of them in the near future.

With HSS you can break this rule which means you can shoot day2night but still have a very shallow depth of field.
Now don’t just set your camera to 1/8000 and F16 ISO100 because you will be disappointed.
HSS is awesome but it takes a HUGE hit on your output. Where with a large reflector shooting F22 on ISO50 is no problem at all with HSS you will end up with a pitch black image not even seeing the strobe.

HSS Technique

Also with HSS I’m using the same technique.
I set the camera to manual and use the EVF (or lightmeter) to determine the look I like. But I do take into account that I leave the aperture below F4 and I try to keep the shutterspeed sensible, and only at the speed I need. When you are used to setting up for HSS you will find that it really adds a lot more different looks to your arsenal, and… that’s always a good thing 🙂

So let’s take a look at the final results… can you spot the images I was shooting with HSS?

Model/Styling : Nadine
Sunglasses : Sparks

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360 tulips

May 5, 2021/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

Could not resist to also take some 360 images with the Insta360 from the tulips
Hope you guys like it 🙂
Click on one of the images for the full gallery view.

Tulips close to home

May 3, 2021/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

Every year our are is full of colors from tulips, and of course we did a quick drive by to take some photos 🙂
Didn’t take any drone shots because a lot of the tulips were already being harvested.

Click on one of the images for the gallery view.

Hope you guys enjoyed this little look into our area.