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.
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.
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:
8Jul/111
Test – Godox radio trigger for camera and flash
[EDIT - I've made a correction with the prize, which is 545 DKK instead of 500 DKK as I stated initially]
It's been a while since I've tested equiptment and photo related gadgets, so when this combined flash and camera radio trigger landed in my appartment, I thought to myself – let's get these reviews back.
The radio trigger from Godox (china) aqquired through flashogfotobutikken.dk for the cheap price of 545 DKK
If you visit the godox website, you can see a list of specifications – I'll do a fast copy paste here:
Transmit frequency: 433MHZ
Workable range: within 100m
Channels: 16
Battery for transmitter: 12V23A
Battery for receiver: 2XAAA
Sync speed: 1/250S
As many other of the cheaper triggers, sync speed stops at 1/250s, so nothing notable there.
There are 4 channel switches on top of both transmitter and receiver, and combining them will get you to the total number of 16 channels – for instance, switch on 1 and 4 at the samme time, and you have a brand new channel selected. I tested them, and they all seemed to work flawlessly.
When standing with a trigger in your hands, two of the most important things to me is workable range and consistency – will it fire every time and will it do it on a good distance?
I did the test of those two issues at the same time, since the consistency might change the further away I got.
At first I started up with a 3 meter measureing tape attached to the floor, and did 1 meters, 2 meters and 3 meters, where they alle fired every single time. Some triggers, have issues triggering when standing too close, but the Godox trigger seemed to handle that issue without any problems.
I then started placing the camera further away, and ended up testing with the trigger 25 meters away with numerous pavement walls in between – the trigger still fired without any missfires.
I haven't had the opportunity to test them outside and on distances exceeding the 30 meters, that they promise at the website, but I'll be sure to test that in a near future.
I did the same test with the trigger attached to the camera, and the the receiver attached to a flash, and the same flawless triggering continued. If I had to point anything out, It's a bit silly that you have to switch the trigger and reciever when using it to trigger Camera and flash - When triggering Camera, you use the remote control, and mount the receiver. When triggering flash, you mount the remote control on the camera, and attach the receiver on the flash. It's not a big deal, but it would have been cool, if you could have left the receiver on the camera and used the remote control as receiver on the flash.
[Edit - I have been told that it's the flash triggering part, that has a max range of 30 meters and that the remote camera triggering has a range of 100 meters - I haven't tested this yet though]
Conclusion:
As a remote camera trigger, this handy device from Godox works perfectly. The feel of the construction is a bit plastic like, but it works, so I'm not passing judgement on it's looks – my mom taught me that.
As a remote flash trigger, it's a good alternative to the equally prized triggers from other german or chinese producers such as walimex, interfit and boling. But this is NOT a Pocket wizard or Cactus trigger – the range is limited to 30 meters, and although you can combine trigger sets adding more receivers to trig several flashes (not tested, but doable in theory)
you are limited to low synch speeds, manual usage on the triggering and in general less features and programmable options, should one need that.
15May/110
Photomeetup Copenhagen 2011
Last year, Michael Bang managed go gather more than 250 photographers, models and makeup artists with his inspiring initiative, Photomeetup Copenhagen.
This year, more than 600 has pushed that little "attend" button, and although facebook events have a tendency to promise more than what is realistic concerning attendees, I have a strong feeling that we will have a load of photo enthusiasts on this years Meetup.
Michael Bang has sported a website for this years event, where more information can be seen.
I'll be there as well doing a small on-location workshop in my kind of photography (feel free to come and say Hi).
Let's see if We'll be able to something equally as freaky this year
28Apr/110
I’m still here – doing stuff
Alright, so I'll admit that I haven't been the most active blogger these last few months. But I promise You, that it's not becaue things are slowing down - actually it's quite the opposite.
Stuff around me has been speeding up - not only photography, but also my new accuantance - video photography.
It started in september last year. I decided that having a 5d mk2 with HD recording capabilities, I might as well give the video photography a chance. That lead to a status update on facebook where I said that I would work for free the next 12 months with video photography - where do I go? A couple of people were quick to point me some directions, one of them being to Copenhagen Records who had a new project brewing - a music web tv for their artists.
Jeppe Kolstrup, director, was (and still is) in charge of the group of volunteers who helped building up the project which has now made quite a handful of cool material.
Today, the videos can be found at CopenhagenBeta, where I've worked with Carpark North, Caroline Henderson, Burhan G, Joey Moe, Nik & Jay and a bunch of upcoming artists.
Below are two acoustic concerts with Burhan G and Carpark North.
This last video is my first video with me as Director of Photography (the guy who films get fancy titles as well, as you can see)
The cool thing is that it's with Nik and Jay.
22Mar/110
Michael Bang, Kira Eggers and I
A week ago or so, Michael Bang called me and gave me an offer I couldn't refuse.
The 14. of May, Mr. Bang will be doing one of his great and always sold out workshops where he discusses and shows lighting, business and work with live models.
To spice up things, he's invited the danish celebrity model Kira Eggers, who will be telling about modelling, the business, how good photographers work and so on.
I've been invited to do a walkthrough of my workflow in Photoshop to add the final flavour of what seems to be an awesome day.
http://michaelbang.com/blog/workshops/workshop-studio-photoshop
And oh yeah - you can actually win free access to the workshop right here:
http://michaelbang.com/blog/vind-en-dag-med-kira-eggers-og-adam-sund
9Feb/110
Featured in KLASSIK magazine
What seems ages ago, I was contacted by the editor of KLASSIK magazine - an internet magazine with readers from all over the world. Actually, calling them readers is a stretch. The magazine is all images and no text, so actually, referring to them as viewers would be more appropriate. Nevertheless, I got a 6 pages spread (page 60-66) which can be seen right here in Issue nr. 9
25Jan/110
A small update on everything
We've entered a new year, and such transitions usually spawn new ideas, new year resolutions and in general the beginning of new eras.
After having a rather dull December, this new year has started off with a bunch of regular jobs, along with a few of my own projects. When the editing from these shoots are done, I'll put them up on the blog.
As some of You might remember, I've started doing film- and video photography. Since I decided to explore this world from september last year, I've been involved in 2 short films, filmed concerts, done music interviews for my new "employer" Copenhagenbeta.dk, which is Copenhagen Records own web tv focusing on music journalism. Even though I haven't been doing this for a long time, it's still remarkable to see the difference in my work from the very early tries to now. Working with CopenhagenBeta has proven to be quite a gift, since I get to see how things are done, up close.
So what's next?
On film photography, I have 3 music videoes coming up and half a year spend with Nik&Jay. Will any of this affect my work with Photography? Probably. But hopefully in the direction of me making bigger setups so that I can let you guys in on the process.
Oh yeah, I met up with Michael Bang, who most of you probably know from his well established blog. He proved to be a pretty awesome dude, and hopefully, this new year will offer some kind of collaboration with him.
Until next time.
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