Using a green screen might be very useful and fun. Dave cross here put up a nice 8 minutes video on how to use a green screen for kids portrait photography and adding some effects using PhotoKey 5.

Dave uses here some Wescott green screen kits, that comes with the screen and the software, who I must say I didn’t heard about, but seem to do a very fast and good work when it comes to green screen effects.

Here is the video, I think you might like it!

Here is one of Michael’s latest videos, it deals with his method on how or where to position your light while taking portraits.

Michael is a sot of a guru when it comes to strobist boudoir photography and he has a nice eBook and an Apple pretty nice magazine published every 3 months, full with tips and ideas.

This time he talks a bit about how he decides on how to position the one light in his home studio setup – he uses a big white umbrella and two Phottix Mitros (yes the new flashs…), the background is a black backdrop and he shoots in a relatively long but narrow room, nothing special, and any one can do than. You can take a look at his video below and pay a visit to his eBook if you want to get some  boudoir photography tips.

Its another video I wanted to share with you. This video by Chase Travis talks about many aspects of professional photography and also describes some behind the scenes of a golf shootout.

Hi Guys,

I’ve recently found about a french wedding photographer (Sebastian Laban) and was pretty impressed by the video on his home page, he gave “life” to his great wedding images (I wanted to do so too) here is the YouTube movie on his site:

I guess you’d like it a lot too… Sebastian uses PS and AE (After Effect) to generate those great images.

How he does it?

In general he separates image’s main objects into separates layers and animates them in After Effects. I guess separating the images into layers is a task most of you can do, but the After Effect phase might be tricky. Luckily Sebastian did a 12min video to show you the process, here it is:

If you liked it, PLEASE share this post and pay a visit to Sebastian’s site and YouTube channel.

TNX!

This is a great video about high speed photography. The video covers some techniques and tips from Chase Jarvis Tech Studio.

How they did it?

1. first took photo of a water balloon cut with a knife.
2. They removed all the unnecessary background and setup marks with PS resulting in a clean water explosion image.
3. The water was combined to a Karate fighter kicking .

Chase’s tips for high speed photography:

1. Lower the ambient light – this will get you a clearer water explosion effect.
2. The flash stops the action – the action will be freeze by the flash, not by the shutter speed.
3. Use trigger to pop the flash – Chase used here a long exposure while he triggered the flash manually (trigger in his hand).
4. Try to use flashes with short flash duration – and advantage studio lights has on small flashes.

ENJOY!!!

Hi,

I have to say that laytly a badly want a good small camera that don’t looks like a phone cam above 800ISO, so I look to those Mirrorless cameras and Im’m preatty sure, the minute my wife looks away I’ll buy one `-(.

As a Canon photographer for he last 100000 years, I can’t believe that I’ll have to buy other company’s camera or the Canon 1GX…

Till then enjoy the movie…

Well ,he did some bad things to the Canon &d, but will it survive this?

I actually like his nonsense, that’s what happens when you can market a photography store as you wish…