Hey, I remmeber a piece at McNielly about using an umbrella over your models head pointet from above just down on him.This makes a very dramatic look to the model (I didn’t found the image that I reffer to as it was on one of his DVDs – recommended) .
So why don’t make the same thing with your product phtographs?
I acctually made that setup in about 10 minuts, pretty fast. So what do do and how?
Part one – one light:
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I can’t tell or explain this for myself, so first of all I’ll want you to take a look at those first couple of images (right reserved to Jamie from this blog):
Hey, wondering the web I found this nice site (I don’t remember how I got there, probably from one of the forums). It has some great content and very nice video tutorials (although they start with some annoying commercials, but I guess we have to make your living somehow…). One of those great video tutorials is about a subject that we all like – portrait photography setups. In this one you will get 5 setups to learn from and you may see how the pros (video taken by Nick Carter- photographer and Kamara Innis – model ) are doing their work.
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Hey
Just wanted to share with you guys another Flickr gallery. This technique is generally based on really long exposure time (mainly using bulb mode for over 30secs exposure) and some colorful light objects like flash lights with color gels, small sparkerls or any other light source that you might thinnk of. mxing✪m’s flickr photostream includes some stunning images and two simple to understand vidoes on how to take those very special effects. So feel free to visit his gellery and thank him for his videos, cause this type of phootgraphy art is what keeps as motivated and with fresh ideas. Here are his two videos:
Hey, I’ve wondering on dpreview lighting forum (very recommended) and read one of those posts about pop flash diffusers. One of the things that I don’t like about Dslr cameras and digital cameras that use a built in flash is the look of a direct flash, so I always recommend to add some popup flash diffuers to your popup flash. Those are very handy and you can get on from amazon for about 6$-7$, thats nothing in compare to the price of your digital camera (You could see a the bottom of this review links to the popup flash diffuser that I use .
But why I writing that after I already had a post about popup flash diffusers? There was a guy on that thread that continued saying that those popup diffusers are crap and just don’t worth a cent…I personally love those guys that offer to through your pocket or simple digital camera and buy a more professional camera just cause its better in some conditions… Well I said, I have to see if the Puff does some difference. It is a one minute test so don’t judge the photos for their art quality, but only answer the question whether the 6$ gadget makes its job.Here are the pictures: Read the rest of this entry »
Hey, haven’t been writing for the last couple of weeks as we have a new baby girl in our family, thats Naama who keeps as busy !!!
For a while I want to build myself a portable multiple flash holder, it isn’t a very hard project to do, and after the videos you’ll below I must say that you’ll do one too…
Why you need to use more that one flash?
So why I’m writing about that? Well I know a website for a long time, thats Dave Black’s site, Dave is a very known sports photographer and he show on his site how to use speedlights for this kind of shooting. But while I was surfing on YouTube I found out about some videos he published. I must say I was very sceptical with the first video i saw, the surfers video, he uses a gigantic 8 speedlight holder(!!!) and photographs surfers as the flash combo is placed about 100 feet away from the surfers, I said to my self ”hey that’s never gonna work”… but he shows some results of his this shootout for cases where the flashes fired and when he didn’t use the flash, so I can’t argue with those ;-) …The results are nothing but amazing!!!
Then I continued watching his other films (the motorcycles).You must watch those videos!!!
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First of all I have some things to say:
The new book review section on this site includes only my opinion about book that I read.
I don’t have no personal relations with any of the book authors at all.
Some of the books I really like and find useful with have buy it links from Amazon.com, so that if you love it or might find it an interesting stuff you could easily find where to buy’em.
So lets begin with one of my best recommended book. If you know me you’ll know that I photograph weddings for my living. One of the books that I read about wedding photography and the on camera flash technique was Niel’s On-Camera Flash Techniques for Digital Wedding and Portrait Photography.
For starters you might know Niels very popular blog . This blog was one of my favorites for many years! It has a very good and informative articles section, so if you start to learn the photography basics, it will be a great place to start. When Neil’s book published I think I was one of the first ones to get it . Why like it? thats very simple:
so thats why I liked Neil’s book , I hope you will enjoy it too! You can get it hare:
As I wonder the web for inspiration , I looked for some diy ring flash on flickr.com examples, then I bomped into this guy Francesco Pappalardo who has a very active flickr gallery and I really liked one of those galleries about splash photography. The above image is just a print screen of his flickr gallery, you can browse to his gallery here : Francesco Pappalardo on flickr .
Francesco uses here a diy light box where he put the “splashy” objects in and photographs with a basic high speed flash technique : 1/250th sec f/7.1 iso 100 and of you go!
The best image of 14 images in this gallery is :
A bit under exposed, but this on has the most interesting setup.
Thats all, it looks very simple to implement.
Hey
In the previous post I wrote about a new IPhone app that I heard about, so after some searching I found out (I’m relatively new to the Apple stuff 
) that there was already an app the help draw some studio lighting diagrams. The app is based on a common studio diagram web application that the most of you photographers out there already know.
So those guys created a very good community site that lets photographers share their photography and lighting setups, you’ll find there anything from fashion photography, wedding photography to food and objects photography!!!
All you have to do is to browse through the photography style categories and choose what you are interested in, then choose the type of light modifiers you want and of you go!
Enjoy!
If you have an IPhone/IPod and interested in some studio photography and lighting, this application might be very useful.
As for the demostration of this little app, It looks very very impressive. For only 3.5& you can get a mobile studio light simulator, this is simply amazing.
So what it does?
The app allows for setups to be quickly laid out and added to the library.
A video of the app can be seen on the SLR homepage (just follow the support/homepage link).
Have fun and suggestions/ feature requests are most welcome 
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(From iTune store).
So you could check this one for your own.
Enjoy!
