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50 reasons NOT to date a photographer
1.They rather hold their bulky camera, than hold hands with you.
2.On a romantic date, you’ll watch the sun go down and think “Wow this is gorgeous” and they’ll go “mirror lock, tripod, and stop down f/8 at 1/4 second.”
3.You’ll never be able to enjoy tv, movies, or magazines because they’ll point out all the visual flaws.
4.They like to sit in obscure coffee shop and voyeuristically watch people for great lengths of time.
5.If you’re taking a walk outside and you come across some “interesting light” they will make you sit/stand/pose in public so that they can take a photo.
6.You’ll never get to enjoy freshly cooked meals because they’ll spend 15 minutes taking 20 variations of the same dish with their iPhone.
7.They get angry when your friends go up to them and say “I am interested in photography, can you recommend a good camera for me? Nothing professional I just want to take pretty pictures.”
8.You’ll wait longer for them to finish analyzing art in a museum than you’ll wait at the dmv
9.Same goes with old used bookstores.
10.When you think they’re giving you their undivided attention, they’re really wondering how they could fix you with a little Clone Tool and Patch Tool.
11.Or they are actually using you to not look so creepy as they people watch everything going on around you.
12.They rather drop €1,000 on new glass than a purse for you.
13.You can’t take a photo with them without taking at least five more.
14.If you ask them if you look fat, they’ll say “don’t worry I can photoshop you later.”
15.They’ll never photoshop something simple for you if the content is not up to their “standards.”
16.That photo they randomly took of you yesterday? Good luck getting them to send it to you.
17.They spend all their time on the computer (and not for porn.)
18.They can’t have a normal conversation with throwing acronyms and random numbers.
19.They still use film cameras.
20.They spend a lot of time with people cooler than you i.e. models, actors, musicians, successful rich people.
21.They’ll be fussy over the position of a common household object, like a coffee cup.
22.They won’t return your calls or text messages, but you can bet they’re still posting pics on Instagram.
23.They like watching old films that you’ve never heard or will ever understand.
24.They like looking at weird things in general.
25.Instead of having penis-envy, they have camera-gear-envy.
26.If there’s a natural disaster in a far away land, they’re already on a plane going over there.
27.Everything is watermarked.
28.They think everyone else’s photos suck.
29.They want to color correct a lot of scenes from Twilight and Jersey Shore.
30.They hate rainbows, especially ones spinning in a circle.
31.Whenever you’re in a group talking and the conversation goes deep, they’re taking notes in some form of Moleskin.
32.They use over priced Moleskin notebooks.
33.They like trespassing into old abandoned buildings filled with health hazards.
34.They always want to show a new photo they took, but don’t really care if you like it or not.
35.They hate your n00bie friend’s new artsy profile picture.
36.Bright, sunny days make them sad, but cloudy, overcast days are apparently great!
37.They’ll take you into places that have “culture” as well a high chance of getting mugged.
38.Your birthday present will be a portrait that they’ve taken of you.
39.You can’t go anywhere new without them stopping to take a photo of everything and anything.
40.They will always bug you to be a test subject.
41.Nothing can ever be naturally pretty, everything must be fixed in Photoshop.
42.Bringing their camera means, bringing 20kg of equipment.
43.If you break any of their things on accident, you’ll owe them thousands of dollars.
44.You can’t get them a birthday/Christmas present without spending at least €500
45.They are natural hoarders, collecting and keeping piles of old newspapers, packaging, magazines, and other things that “inspire” them.
46.They are weird and geeky.
47.They have hard drives of photos, but probably have printed 10 images.
48.They are always secretly judging your creativity.
49.If you’re ever in auto mode, they laugh at you.
50.They orgasm every time they learn a new lighting technique.
Need An Affordable Studio Space?

The Inflatable Photo Studio ($495) is the invention of photographer Brian Hedenberg who, like other photogs, is always on the search of finding solutions to weather, lighting. and other exposure-killing factors. The IPS inflates in under 5 minutes to create a 6m x 3m x 13m (lwh) studio complete with re-inforced flooring. It weighs just 10kg and packs down to just 100cm x 140cm x 40cm. IPS will be happy to create you a custom version as well. No guarantees you won’t get some curious looks when you inflate it in the middle of the Meir.*Via Gear Patrol Blog
Now available Lightroom 4

The new features in Lightroom 4:
Softproofing so you can check what is the result with a certain colorspace or a certain paper
Mapmodule: you can tag you pics with gps coordinates
Making a photobook with Blurb template
Beter highlight and shadow recovery
and many more cost new ±130€ upgrade ±75€
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/features.html
http://www.onemorething.nl/2012/03/adobe-lightroom-4-nu-te-downloaden/
Larger than life! Pocket Wizard Plus lll Tranceiver
The new PW Plus lll Tranceiver has arrived!
The production is starting at the end of this month.There are several new features. It will automatically switch between transmit and receive when needed. It got a range of 500m and with a special knob it goes in Long Range Mode almost double. Channels 1-16 for normal use and channels 17-32 special zonechannel so you can put you flashes in 4 different zones.You can put several transceivers in a row so you can fire your camera and flashes by remote at any distance you want. http://plusiii.pocketwizard.com/#Features
Hopefully we can buy them in april, cost ± 125€ ex TVA @ Servix & Partners Aartselaar.
Workshop Portrait photography
Again my students learned a lot about lighting and working with a model. This is one of the examples we took during the workshop.

Attention for my Students! Richard Avedon notes for printing;

This is an example of a memo Richard Avedon gave to the person who made his prints. Remember you can dodge&burn in Lightroom and in Photoshop! So the quality will be beter.
Workshop product photography
This Weekend I learned the people of the workshop about lighting objects for still life. How to light glass, metal,jewelry and food.One of the students took this picture.

When the workshop was almost done, I put my SB800 in a softbox to show the students that this system of modifying the light is a simple but nice thing. I was forgotten that the modelling light was still on. This is the result, my SB800 was melted

ONE light Field Guide

It’s been a year already that Zach Arias has published his ONE Light Field Guide.It contains 50 pictures and light set ups with several tips&tricks to shoot models and people.It is available on the website of MagCloud and cost $28 + shipping.More info on http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/131277 and http://zackarias.com/blog/page/3/
The Laguage of Light

A new set of 2 DVD’s is on the market. Joe McNally explain in several shoots how to light you subject.On location, in the studio, setups and much more. Cost 118€ without transport.
http://www.joemcnally.com/blog/2011/01/30/introducing-the-language-of-light/
Light it,shoot it,retouch it !

A new book by Scott Kelby.In 12 chapters he explains the basicworkflow: the photoshoot, the lighting and the postproduction. Not only he uses studio flash but also speedlights to shoot the same scenes.Every thing is in plain simple English with a lot of lightdiagrams and pictures.I bought it in FNAC 36,44€




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