Author Archives: Reinier

Many of today’s portrait photography books and many of the websites on the same subject discuss the various forms of lighting we can use. One particular form is always described in more detail: Rembrandt lighting. Although enough on this can … Continue reading →

Last Saturday I visited the Portrait Factory of Van Mierevelt exhibition at the Prinsenhof museum in the city of Delft. Although Van Mierevelt (1566-1641) was probably one of the most successful painters of his age, he is relatively unknown today. … Continue reading →

This week I started to attend a new course: how to criticize photographs. It’s a 4 month class with just 1 lesson a month, but with a lot of practice (i.e. homework). The theory is based on Terry Barrett’s book … Continue reading →

One of the things I like being part of a local camera club is that you are more or less forced to think about certain subjects you normally would have ignored or haven’t thought of at all. Our club organises … Continue reading →

Finally an entry on photography again. The last few weeks, the Dutch national media was all about headscarves. The reason for this hype was the visit of Dutch Queen Beatrix to Oman and the United Arab Emirates. During her visits … Continue reading →

Only recently announced by Nik Software and as of yesterday the latest version of Color Efex Pro 3 – 3.004 – is already available for download. This version supports Capture NX2 2.3 in 64-bit mode. Compliments go to Nik Software … Continue reading →

Yes, I know. In the previous entry I promised to spend more entries on photography instead of technology, but I simply have to tell you this. On Facebook today Nik Software published the following statement: This is simply nothing less … Continue reading →

It is one year now that this site has been up and running. The number of visits has been growing steadily month over month and, therefore, this anniversary calls for a small celebration. Each month I have been publishing entries … Continue reading →

For those of you who know me better, understand the above title is intended with tongue in cheek. But I was so seriously fed up with the lack of integration between my two favourite editing tools, Capture NX2 (CNX2) and … Continue reading →

This is the response from Nik Software to the question that I asked them on the lack of Capture NX2 2.3 64-bit support by Color Efex Pro 3.0: “…At the moment, the development team at Nik Software examines the requirements … Continue reading →