Het Perfecte Plaatje: the final and exhibition opening

Thursday 22 December 2022, 15:51 by Elja Trum | 5,481 views | 3 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

Last night was the final of Het Perfecte Plaatje. I didn't watch the episode at home on the sofa, but at Museum Hilversum, where the exhibition of Het Perfecte Plaatje also opened straight away.

The two finalists, Linda and Geraldine, had three assignments in the final: photographing an Icelandic powerhouse, a fashion shoot in the Icelandic countryside and creating a triptych about the power of nature in Iceland.

All three assignments were photographed by the Dutch celebrities with the Canon EOS R6. This all-rounder is naturally good at everything too, so I don't think there's much reason to use another camera.

Icelandic Powerhouses

Both photographed the portrait assignment with the Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 lens. This standard lens produces razor-sharp images and a lovely soft background. A great choice for portrait photography.

Winning photo by Linda Hakeboom
f/1.8, 1/400s, 100 ISO
Linda won the assignment with her portrait of the firefighter. Neither of them received particularly high marks for this assignment. Understandable, because they are really just very simple portraits. There's nothing much wrong with that, of course, but you can expect a little more in a final.

Iceland Fashion

For the fashion assignment, two models were brought in wearing beautiful dresses. Combined with the beautiful Icelandic landscape, you had to be able to take a top photo, and both finalists did just that.

Linda used the Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8L for her photo. A logical choice, because she had her model stand further away and composed the shot so that there was water in front of her model, which she had to shoot across.

Geraldine had gone into a cave for her photo and was much closer to her model. The choice of the versatile Canon RF 24-105mm f/4L was therefore no surprise either.

Winning photo by Linda
f/7.1, 1/100s, 250 ISO
Linda won with her photo and even received a score of 10 from the jury. It really is a beautiful photo, in my opinion.

She was a little lucky that the photo is sharp too. With a shutter speed of 1/100s combined with the telephoto zoom she used, there was a good chance of motion blur. For a bit of extra safety, she could have chosen f/4 or ISO 500, for example.

Linda told me that this was her favourite shoot of the season. The combination of the model, the beautiful dress and the great location made it so.

Iceland triptych

For the final assignment, Linda and Geraldine had to create a series of three photos with 'Force of Nature' as the theme. They were also allowed to use the photo of the Northern Lights that they had already taken in the previous episode of the programme.

The Canon RF 14-35mm f/4: was the favourite lens for this assignment. The only very successful waterfall photo that also featured Geraldine herself was taken with the RF 70-200mm f/2.8L. The 14-35mm was used for the rest.

Winning series by Linda
Linda won this assignment too, which also made her the winner of this season of Het Perfecte Plaatje.

» View all the finalists' photos

As I mentioned, I was invited to the opening of the Het Perfecte Plaatje exhibition. By coincidence, I was standing right next to Linda and Geraldine while watching the broadcast together.

It was fun to get some of their own reactions to the programme during the broadcast as well.

You often see the winner of Het Perfecte Plaatje continuing to do a lot with photography after taking part. Linda doesn't seem to be planning this, as you can also hear in the video at the top of this page.

Het Perfecte Plaatje exhibitionAt Museum Hilversum, you can see an exhibition of both seasons of Het Perfecte Plaatje from this year in the coming weeks. So both this season and Het Perfecte Plaatje in Argentina, from earlier this year.

You can visit the exhibition until 8 January 2023. The museum is also open on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. It is closed on New Year's Day.

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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.

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3 comments

RAWshooter wrote on Tuesday 27 December 2022 at 10:08 | reply
By far the worst season. Apparently there are no Dutch celebrities left in the can of button-pushers who pretend to act.
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Robert wrote on Tuesday 27 December 2022 at 12:44 | reply
The program is about photography....but that is it!
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Henk van Nieuwenhuizen wrote on Wednesday 28 December 2022 at 16:31 | reply
Hello Elja,
I would like to make a comment about the equipment made available by Kamera Express and sometimes the jury's requirements and comments. It has struck me for several seasons now that the best amateur equipment with matching lenses is always used, which the Dutch hobby photographer sometimes looks at drooling. After all, it concerns amateurs who receive a crash course in photography, something that someone else sometimes takes several years to master, and in many cases has to save up for financially to put together such a set.
In addition, when editing, they are also presented with the most expensive screens and software, which many an amateur dreams of. It could all be a bit less, then you would be closer to the real Dutch hobby/amateur photographer.
A famous photographer once said that it does not matter what kind of camera you use, but the person who operates it and how they look at the subject that ends up in the picture. And in line with that, the jury's comments are sometimes too demanding in relation to the people who then have to do it. If you want to experience photography broadly in the Netherlands, keep things realistic. Otherwise, make a perfect picture with professional photographers such as Nando and yourself or with Mr. Rutte and Ms. Bol. Then put equal people in a group right away and see what comes out of that.
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