13Apr/120
Video resume – showing your work in a different style
Video resumés, ways to show your work and skills is a new path that more and more creative people travel.
How do you present yourself as a photographer? Or designer - or accountant? Now that Video dslr is a reality, showing yourself through video has become something that most of us can do - here's an example I made.
Before doing the video, I researched, and stumbled upon a few creative videos - there were not many, but those I found had something:
12Apr/120
Free workshop at PMC 2012
Michael Bang afholder for 3. år i træk Copenhagen Photomeetup, og jeg har endnu engang fået fornøjelsen af at lave en workshop for de deltagere, der måtte finde det interessant.
Læs meget mere om hvad der kommer til at foregå på photomeetups blog.
3Apr/120
Protected: Alter-Ego
7Mar/122
Photoshopkurser i Kbh
I samarbejde med Frank Visler, er det lykkedes at skaffe nogle fede lokaler til undervisning i Photoshop. Vi starter ud med begyndere den første mandag i April.
Første mandag i hver måned vil byde på Photoshop-undervisning for begyndere. Kurset vil køre fra 17.30 til 21.00 .
Anden mandag i hver måned vil byde på Photoshop-undervisning for øvede. Kurset vil køre fra 17.30 til 21.00.
Tredje mandag i hver måned vil byde på Photoshop-undervisning for eksperter. Kurset vil køre fra 17.30 til 21.00.
Fjerde mandag i hver måned vil være åben for specialkurser med gæstelærere, lysworkshops eller kursisternes ønsker og behov.
d. 23 April vil Thomas Løvring stå for undervisning: (Min 10 deltagere - max 20) - 500 DKK
Indtrodution til beauty/portræt fotografering. Forskellen på en octabank, softboks, paraply, striplight og beauty dish - Hvad grid gør og hvordan man kan feather lyset.
Hvordan man kan forme lys og hvor blødt/hårdt man vil have det.
En gennemgang af de forskellige ting man kan ændre (lukkertid, blænde, lys, afstand) alt efter hvad man vil frem til og hvilket udtryk man vil have.
Vi vil afprøve det hele på en model og vi finder frem til et godt billede som skal bruges til næste tema aften, hvor det bliver retoucheret.
Tilmeldning på temaapril@digitalworkshop.dk
Der vil til kurserne være en sandwich, the og kaffe samt mulighed for at købe sodavand, hvis man ikke selv medbringer. Alle kursister vil derudover få et dokument med en række huskeværdige genveje samt tricks til Photoshop, der er blevet gennemgået den pågældende aften.
På hvert kursus vil der være én ”studenter”plads, som får kurset til halv pris – til gengæld skal denne person sørge for at der er the og kaffe til deltagerne i løbet af aftenen.
Det hele foregår i dejligt rummelige kursuslokaler på amager, 800m fra Amagerbro station og Lergravsparken.
Begynder (Min. 7 deltagere – max 15) - 450 DKK
Kurset er for de helt nye, der gerne vil lære hvad photoshop egentlig kan. Der vil være en introduktion til programmets funktioner, værktøjer og mest grundlæggende features. Nøgleord er: Lag (layers) lagmasker (layer masks) clone, crop, healing brush, contrast, sort/hvid konvertering og farvekorrektion. Derudover vil vi se nærmere på Raw og Jpeg. Samt rawkonvertering af billedfiler. Der vil blive gennemgået keyboardgenveje og hjælp til opsætning af dette samt Photoshop.
Kurset forudsætter en bærbar pc eller mac med Photoshop cs installeret (der undervises i cs5). Har du ikke Photoshop CS kan en gratis 30-dages version downloades her.
Øvet (Min. 7 deltagere – max 20) - 500 DKK
Kurset for dem der allerede har et kendskab til programmet og en håndfuld af dets features, men ikke helt kan huske hvad der der layer masks egentlig er. I forlængelse af begynderkurset vil der også her blive set nærmere på rawkonvertering – vi stifter bekendtskab med farverum og hvad det kan betyde for din redigering. Blending modes vil blive præsenteret, og filtre som sharpen, bliver set efter i kanterne. Vi vil se nærmere på hud, crossprocessing, og 3 sikre måder at redigere dine billeder på, når ideerne er væk.
Kurset forudsætter en bærbar pc eller mac med Photoshop cs installeret (der undervises i cs5).
Ekspert (Min. 7 deltagere – max 20) - 600 DKK
Ekspertkurset er for dem, der kender sit Photoshop, og er tryg ved det, men måske sidder fast i de samme faste rutiner, og trænger til at blive rystet lidt rundt. Der vil blive kigget nærmere på at sætte billeder sammen, den kreative proces bag netop det, fonte og layout (blending options), fritlægning, vejen til de perfekte hudtoner, kontrolleret brug af clone, og værktøjet content-aware scale, som folk måske har hørt om, men aldrig rigtig brugt.
Kurset forudsætter en bærbar pc eller mac med Photoshop cs installeret (der undervises i cs5).
Tilmelding foregår ved at sende mail til een af tre følgende emails alt afhængigt af hvilket kursus du vil tilmelde dig.
Tilmelder du dig alle tre (i løbet af et år) får du sidste kursus til halv pris.
begynderapril@digitalworkshop.dk
0vetapril@digitalworkshop.dk (læg mærke til at det er ovet og ikke øvet i mailadressen)
ekspertapril@digitalworkshop.dk
Tilmeldingen er først endelig når betaling registreres på den konto, der sendes i svarmail.
2Jan/124
Video strobe review: Dison and Oubau – Danish
Jeg har arbejdet med flashlamperne Dison og Oubau, begge 600W, og tænkte at det med noget erfaring i baggagen var på sin plads at lave en forhåbentlig brugbar anmeldelse, hvis du går og overvejer køb af flashudstyr.
Det er ikke smukt, og lyden er kun lige på den gode side af forfærdelig, men indhold burde der være noget af.
Anmeldelsen tager sit udgangspunkt i de billige lamper, og jeg kan kun tale ud fra hvad jeg selv har erfaringer med, der bla. tæller Interfit, Boling, Triopo, Walimex, Profoto, Oubau og Dison.
27Dec/112
Get featured – show your work to the world
Every once in a while, online magazines contact me in order for them to feature some of my photos. This is a product of having your work available around different websites - some have seen my work at deviantart.com, others on modelmayhem and such. I have learned that you can never have your images too many places - all it takes is a little bit of work, but brewing a full pot of coffee and spending a late evening working on it, should do the trick.
This time, Uptempo magazine were the ones to feature 4 of my icy photos, which can be seen here on page 42-44 if I'm not mistaken: uptempomagazine.com
Last time was in Klassik magazine issue nr 9 and 2 other magazines have my images featured soon.
I've decided to add a list of places you can have your images showcased other than your private gallery on facebook. Not all of them are equally as good, but they all serve the purpose somehow - I'll leave you to decide which ones to visit.
Deviantart.com - the biggest art site world wide to my knowledge and therefore easiest to drown in.
modelmayhem.com - huge site with models, photoshop wizards, makeup-artists, stylists and photographs sharing and caring.
model.se - mostly used by danish models, photographers and stylists - somewhat less professional than the other sites.
findfotografen.dk - a list of photographers in Denmark. No reason not to be in here.
fotostart.dk - once the biggest forum for photography in Denmark - it still has a puls I think.
1x.com - Submit your images and let the other photographers decide if you're hot enough for their exclusive club.
flickr.com - create your own webgalleries with good old flickr.
500px.com - Thank you Frank
Now get to it!
7Dec/110
Draw your world
My good friend and artist Kasper Købke, who you might know from this post, has started a non-profit organisation with danish cinematographer Kenneth Andreasen of staalfilm.dk, and dutch photographer Gaby Thijsse.
Their vision is to engage children all over the world in creativity - allowing them to be children and creative without concerns of what might else fill the daily life. This project is to be a much needed space to allow children to be children.
And where do I fit in?
I've worked with them from the start as a film photographer, and made this pilot video
The next step is South Africa:
In collaboration with the Dutch Tjommie Foundation (www.tjommie.nl) DYW will in late January 2012 together with an international team of creative people travel to the village Elandsdoorn in South Africa for about 8 days.
The village is a unique project for HIV/AIDS-affected families, where they have the opportunity to live together, and also have free access to schooling, shopping, sports and leisure activities, and most importantly medical care.
As all non-profit organisations, they rely on donations, so if you're interested in either the concept or even making a donation, swing by their website at:
15Nov/110
Putting new equipment to the test
I've recently purchased a bunch of new equipment from from flashogfotobutikken.dk. I've added some gadgets to my video setup, but we will go through that later.
But this time I bought two new oubau 300w flash heads after being quite satisfied with the bigger 600w version. But in this post I'll focus on something else - my new bag for lighting equipment. The brand is the Chinese boling, which is why it costs 995 DKK instead of 4000 DKK which is price of a similar Bowens or Tenba version. I purchased it knowing I had a job across sea where I had to fly back and forth. I've tried this once before with a bag from interfit that failed miserably. Now was the time to see if my new carrier would stand the test.
Attitude Hair booked me for a job in Aalborg this week, where I had to fly to their headquarters (and back again, so I could make it to the movies in the evening), so this was an opportun moment to put new bag to the test.
Here's a photo of the bag after the first part of the trip - proudly holding my 3 Oubau flash heads along with 3 light stands, a reflection umbrella and 3 keylight modifiers. The bag did what it was supposed to do - carry my equipment, and carry it well. I saw the flight crew toss around with the bag before takeoff, but everything still works.
I will of course show the finished photos from that job soon enough - Until then, here's me having fun the prints of some of my photos at their offices.
9Nov/110
Retouch Copenhagen – learn about photoshop
During the first 11 hours, 14 of the 30 seats at this years Retouch Copenhagen has been taken. If You want to be a part of this great initiative hurry up and visit the website of the man behind it all - Michael Bang.
He will be teaching about his approach to photoshop, where I will be doing the same.
When? Saturday 10. december from 10-17
Where? Go sign up and find out.
Peace out!
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