June 2011
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Colorful details how-to
I have used following setup for many photos of various object details already, so I guess it might be useful to share the “how to” here.
Although i’m using fancy macro flashes (Nikon SB-R200), it can be replicated with any small flash you have around, and all the rest is quite ingenious cheap stuff.
So here it is:
With most of my details shots, I want to have side-lights to...
February 2011
1 post
Meetup photos
Didn’t blog for a while, I know.
This is just a quick link sharing - we had a local photo meetup recently, and I decided to put together small microsite with deconstruction of some of the shots done there, as a resource for future reference, or for anyone interested in lighting.
Feel free to visit it here.
July 2009
1 post
Painting with strobe(s)
We recently did this shot with my friend (who did the running in this picture :) ), just for the fun of it - to try multiple flash exposures in a single photo (often called light painting). The most iconic photo of the shoot is this “stadium light” shot of the car, which is actually done with single bare speedlight flash (sb-600), hand held & hand fired.
So here’s how you...
April 2009
1 post
Photo shoot - Fake Spring Photo
(Sorry for the lack of updates lately, have been busy with various other projects, so the plan to do weekly update has quite failed. Let’s aim for monthly now :) )
Another quick shot I did at home as a lighting exercise. Yeah, it’s not shot outside in a sunny afternoon against a blue sky, but in a evening dark living room, with two strobes and few light modifiers applied....
March 2009
2 posts
Photoshoot - Tennis ball
Back to lighting again (the Aperture data management article is already in the works though) - this was a quickie I did during a lunch break a while ago.
My initial goal was to make something cool with the tennis racquet strings, showing the translucent nature, and maybe try to work with the texture of the ball. As I went through the shoot, I also decided to effect the colors in the picture to...
Howto - Image Adjustments in Aperture (& Viveza)
Not about lighting in this episode (I will write how this shot was done later, I promise).
As I spent whole evening in processing loads of photos yesterday, I thought it might be worth sharing my workflow (as it took some time to figure out, and I could use some quickstart guide back when I was starting). So here’s start of a (hopefuly) mini-series on Apple Aperture.
To start with something...
February 2009
4 posts
Photoshoot - 7miles boots
My friend David is local distributor of these amazing jumping boots (he’s also very skilled in using them), and asked me to shoot some promotional photos for them. We did majority of the shoot in the afternoon in available light, mostly to be able to do 8fps series.
But as it came to evening, and we had the shots we wanted, I suggested we do some flash lit “fancy” photos just for the fun of it....
Photoshoot - Chips on black (with reflection)
Not healthiest thing to eat, but in “pepper & spices” flavor these are quite hard to resist. One evening I was experimenting with shooting various objects on glass, so the snack I was having at hand came to be natural part of the experiment.
As with most home shoots, I used CLS (out of laziness). Pop-up flash on my D300 body was the commander, SB-600 and SB-900 were slaves....
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Photo shoot - Record Player
Call me crazy, we jumped on the old technology train (or maybe are we early adopters of “vinyl revival wave”?). Besides the (quite different) sound quality, playing LP records has its own special magic mood, so you can tell one of the first things besides the apparent (playing few records), I had to make photo of this new/old thing we’ve got into.
As I shot this at home, I...
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Photo shoot - Freeriders
Few weeks ago, I spent about two hours shooting these amazing guys. It was night skiing session in snowboard park in Rejdice, so it was all about flash photography. There was some ambient light around the jump from the big lights on the track, but it was really more of a “mood light” than anything else. Ambient light to be one less thing to care of then.
I had two Vivitar...