The best trigger is the one you have with you (2)

augustus 14, 2011

Ilona, one of the students of the Swedish workshop goes into ‘grand écart’ mode. Not your typical ballerina shoes, but then again, Sweden’s highest mountain isn’t your typical ballet environment. Using a small aperture (high f-number) turned the sun into this starburst. One of the other students acted as a Voice Activated Lightstand, holding a [...]

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Nieuw: 2-daagse Lightroom cursus in Leuven

augustus 12, 2011

I.s.m. de Leuvense Fotoclub Gamma organiseer ik een intensieve 2-daagse Lightroom cursus op zaterdagen 8 en 22 oktober. 5 van de 10 plaatsen zijn toegankelijk voor niet-leden van de club. Deelnameprijs is 249 € incl. BTW voor de 2 dagen. In deze flyer lees je er meer over en vind je ook een link naar [...]

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The best trigger is the one you have with you

augustus 11, 2011

Had a great time teaching at a one-week photograpy workshop in Scandinavia (Swedish Lapland, to be more precise). It was a fun mix of landscape photography, environmental portraiture and teaching postprocessing techniques. Our guide navigates us and the adopted 10 week old Lisa through the waters near Överkalix. Water, forests, a reindeer and a guy [...]

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Nieuwe workshop ‘From Megapixel to Mono Print’ – een Masterclass in digitale zwartwit-conversie i.s.m. Hahnemuehle FineArt

augustus 9, 2011

English readers: this blogpost announces my Dutch workshop on Digital Black & White conversion, ‘From Megapixel to Mono Print’. Op maandag 3 oktober van 9u30 tot 17u30 organiseer ik voor de zevende keer de Masterclass rond digitale zwartwit-conversie ‘From Megapixel to Mono Print’. De workshop werd nog een pak praktischer gemaakt en bevat nu twee [...]

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Your Creative Mix

juli 22, 2011

The guys over at Craft & Vision keep releasing titles at a rate that’s faster than I can read them, let alone review them. Still, I was pleased to see another C&V eBook by Corwin Hiebert, the manager of David Duchemin, Mr. Craft & Vision himself. It’s called ‘Your Creative Mix’. The ebook is about [...]

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A Deeper Frame

juni 29, 2011

To me, there are three fundamental things that help you make better pictures. The first is knowing and understanding light. The second is trying to convey a sense of time and motion into this fraction of reality a photograph is. And the third is getting more depth in your pictures. And that last point is [...]

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2 nieuwe workshops ‘Flitsfotografie op locatie’

juni 15, 2011

English readers: this announces two new workshops on off camera flash Samen met Jürgen Doom organiseer ik twee nieuwe workshops rond flitsfotografie op locatie: werken met reportageflitsers los van de camera. De eerste workshop is gericht op beginners en gaat door op zaterdag 6 augustus. We leren je stap voor stap de voordelen van off-camera [...]

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Join me Saturday for a RetouchPro webinar ‘Dramatic Black & White’

juni 9, 2011

I’m very happy to be the next presenter on RetouchPro’s next webinar: Dramatic Black & White. RetouchPro webinars are two hours, live webinars that are hosted by Doug Nelson. You have the ability to ask questions throughout the show as well as afterwards. My webinar will be on the techniques I use to create dramatic [...]

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A new C&V release: (micro)Stock: everything you always wanted to know about stock photography but were afraid to ask

juni 7, 2011

One of the things I like most about Craft & Vision, the publishers of my ebook on Digital Black & White, is the sheer diversity of the books they offer. For those of you who are new to C&V: C&V is the brainchild of Canadian photographer and author David duChemin. After having written his print [...]

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Nieuwe workshop: hands-on eigen foto’s bewerken met Lightroom

mei 21, 2011

English readers: this blogpost announces a new Dutch workshop on hands-on image-editing in Lightroom. All my Dutch workshops can be held in English, upon request. Graag stel ik jullie een nieuwe halfdaagse workshop voor: ‘Hands-on eigen foto’s bewerken met Lightroom, Photoshop & Plugins’: zaterdag 18 juni van 14 tot 18 u in Gent Uniek aan deze [...]

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