Thursday, March 27, 2008

A night with Henk van Kooten

What an Awesome class! On March 25th, Pictureline sponsored this class and our hosts were Kenneth and Marylyn Linge. I love you guys :)
The emphasis on the class was "how to create your own creativity." Henk has not been big on organizing or structuring his photography. He has always concentrated on the art of photography. But about a year ago he decided to get structured and begin to tell his story. Henk has put together a DVD and book titled "One day with Henk van Kooten."
The DVD & book talk about the "10 point system." Check it out. Henk is a great artist and his work is very unique and different. Something he does with each person he shoots is, facial analysis. Henk can look at a person and tell where they belong in the picture and allot about their personality just by their facial language. He broke down several of his images and described why each person was in their specific location and why he placed them there. It was amazing. I think we subconsciously do that but I'm going to consciously implement that in my shoots. Drake Busath talked a little bit about this last year at a class he was teaching. Henks work speaks for itself, go check out his site.

Henk van Kooten
Christina, Henk's beautiful wife. She's the business and salesperson behind their studio


Marylyn and Kenneth Linge
























2 comments:

Anonymous said...

YOU ROCK Michael :-)
It was sure fun having you there.
Thanks for always being so kind and happy, you make people around you feel better.
Please tell your beautiful wife hello from us.

Kenneth (The Crazy Viking)

Anonymous said...

Hallo Michael!
Thanks for your compliments.We enjoyed it too....and hope that we inspired all photographers to be honest to their own work and be creative.........

enjoy life,time flies....

warm regards
christina and henk