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Sweden Pt II : Abandoned Sweden

July 9, 2015/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

As photographers we often love abandoned places, it’s something about them that has an enormous interest factor for me personally, the structure, the stories behind them etc. So when we are traveling I’m always on the look out for these places. One of the ways to have a bigger chance of finding them is to drive “off road” and I don’t mean plow through the fields of course but drive the B-C roads, which sometimes can be a challenge for an RV but often it works out great.

We found this building in the middle of crossroads and of course I had to stop to take some pictures.

Now there are also other ways to find these places we found out…….
For our RV we use a special RV nav system from Garmin, and don’t get me wrong I love the system and the way the sat nav works but we found out (on several occasions) that the POI database is, let me put this VERY mildly, not really something you can “trust” and again I put this very mildly. For example when finding a campground we ended up in the middle of nowhere between cows with no way to turn the RV around, so that was a moment where I was incredibly glad we have a backup camera and Annewiek to assist me all the way back. And we found this very quite place when we typed in a good fish restaurant… well maybe one day it was there but now we just found this (which actually made the hunger go away for a minute).

Using sat nav is cool and we wouldn’t want to be without it, but the POI we now get from our iPhones who appear to be a lot more accurate (and yes we are running the latest update, actually it was released 2 days before we left)

If you are really into this kind of stuff make sure to plan your trip because I’m sure we will be receiving loads of emails from people that know much cooler places just a few km’s out of the way from where we travelled, so when we normally plan a trip ahead we will actually scout them before we leave and store them into the sat nav, this trip we didn’t do that and just let the day surprise us.

Sweden Pt I : Fjällbacka

July 8, 2015/in blog/by Frank Doorhof

A while ago we bought an RV (in Dutch Camper) for the location workshops for the simple reason I was growing tired of playing tetris with our baggage and gear every night or ending up on locations without facilities, so an RV seemed like the best solution, just drive to the location and you’re all set, and when you have to travel a lot Annewiek can drive and I can do some work. Another reason was that we actually never ever can book a holiday because in our line of business you never know when you have a week off (actually almost never) or if you have a week off something interesting can come up so you have to cancel one (and most of the times the holiday will loose), with an RV you just turn the key and drive away so everything can be last minute. This is also how our trip to Sweden went, nothing was planned we just left (with some help from a student of mine who is from that area for some cool spots of course).

In the coming blogposts I’ll share some of my (what I call) holiday snapshots and share some of the stories behind them, see it as a peek into our trip and of course I hope you enjoy them. One added note, during the trip we decided to film several tips on the road and on the locations we visited and Annewiek is (as we speak) editing this all together for my first ever instructional video on travel and street photography.

Fjällbacka
Stop number 1 was Fjällbacka.
I wanted to visit this place because according to wikipedia it was the home of Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg and many of her books take place in or around Fjällbacka. And it was the favorite place for Ingrid Bergman so it had to be something special. And it was.

Up the mountain
Now I love to hike and see things so when I saw an option to climb a mountain I thought “why not” and although it was hot it was very much worth the while, the views were absolutely stunning, however you had to off the path for the really nice views, but hey isn’t that always the case (just make sure to not fall down because there are NO barriers, which actually surprised me a bit).

Here are some images from the hike and the view.

But there was a lot more to see of course, so here are some images from the town itself, as you can see loads of water and boats, but also some interesting people 😀

Video review Sony 24-240 Lens and loads of travel and street photography tips

April 25, 2015/in blog, Reviews, Visions and technique, Webinars and instructional videos/by Frank Doorhof

Today the final part of my review of the Sony E-mount 24-240 lens.
During the review period Annewiek took some video of me shooting and sharing tips on Texel.
You can see some of the shots and the tips in this episode of Quite Frankly.
Feel free to share the video.

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Tip about shooting high-contrast on the street

September 15, 2014/in blog, Visions and technique/by Frank Doorhof

Tip:
Often photographers will try to find the light behind the photographer to get some light on the subjects. However one of the most interesting things that I love to do is finding that high contrast situation where you are actually shooting straight into the sun.

You can of course use objects to block the sun, or let it just “creep through”. So the next time you’re shooting on the street, don’t be afraid to shoot straight into the sun, or include it in the frame, I think you will be surprised 😀

I always love to include people to get some cool silhouette effects.

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