Questions and Answers for Pro Corner 5-17-2013

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Recorded video from our Private Q&A session for Pro Corner photographers

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Working on Food Photography Tutorial: Sneak Peak from the Studio

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What is gong on in our studio: news and announcements.

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Alex Koloskov’s best liquid photography of 2011

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This is a compilation from our best liquid photography from 2011

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Behind The Scenes: The Windex Shot

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This is much more detailed explanation and walkthrough of the last weekly assignment shot. Nothing special or extra complicated here, but I am sure Windex AD department would love to have shot like this :-)

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Liquid Photography Masterclass introductory video

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I was planning to do it long time ago, and last night got time to create the video. This is a short introductory to our “Mastering Splash” masterclass. I hope it will give better idea what the class is about for those who interested. Learn more about class: Mastering Splash Masterclass

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Dior Creme Shot: In-Development Preview

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We are working on the creative shot of Dior creme, and in this video I show and explain the “splash” part of the shot. I also talk about a complete concept for the shot, so you’ll understand why we need these kind of splashes.

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Liquid photography masterclass: water, apple and flash duration test

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Again water and apples.. (got a nice collection of them for stock:-)
But this time, thanks to some good questions from participants, we got some interesting results, comparing canon speedlights lights and Paul C Buff lights. I’ll get back on this later.

I was using three Canon speedlights, set to be slaves on manual mode, ST-E2 Speedlite Transmitter mounted on a camera to trigger strobes. Why speedlights, not Alienbees or White-lighting monolights? This was one of the questions I’ve got from the class attendants.

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Leaf Aptus II 12 digital back: a video from the test shot.

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Got a video from the Leaf Aptus II 12 test shot:

Full article:

Leaf Aptus-II 12 80 megapixel digital back review: it is not only pixels that count.

Enjoy:-)

P.S My best-I-ever-had camera, canon 1Ds mark III is on sale now. Price is $4000 so far… It might be a good

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Exploring tilt and swing of a view camera with 35mm DSLR

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Recently I’ve re-tuned and upgraded bellows on my Cambo view camera to DSLR adapter and got this cool video of how tilt and swing movements work in real time. I’ve used Canon 5D MKII to get this video. You’ll see how perceptive and focus plane gets changed. also, in right top corner is a second

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Product Photography Behind the Scenes Video: Post Production

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The recorded LIVE broadcast from the product photography masterclass you can find on Alex’s blog. Here is the post production part with some explanations of what I did. Hope you will find it interesting:-)

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