[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Most of my equipment I buy on B&H Photo Video.com and Paul C. Buff web-stores. On B&H I have these wish lists, where I keep everything I was buying or going to buy. I am a long-term customer of B&H, and I think they have one of the best customer...
In this lesson, you will see another DIY solution for a shooting cone. On one of the forums, a fellow photographer suggested that they have used a white trash can as a substitute for the cone... I got a smile at first when I read the comment, but then I...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In this tutorial I will show you how to use a shooting cone in jewelry photography. In general, the idea of this light modifier is very similar to a shooting box (lighting tent) but have few very major advantages, especially if used to shoot jewelry. I personally do not like...
There are many tutorials how to sharp images for web, and I tested majority of them. Finally I found the one which works best for me. I did not invent the algorithm, big thanks to smart Russian guy, photographer Pavel Kosenko for his research, summarizing the knowledge and finally action...
While working on a product photography field quite often we shoot a plain and not fancy products, and in many cases this is not an advertisement or magazine cover shots. Subject on a white (plain:-) background, this is what most clients want. Which is fine, this is a part of...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This time it was a shoot for the front page of the new aDesign website, and we had new, "creative" requirements from the client. Meaning we were free to select how many products to shoot and how to position them. The most cool thing that we were required was to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This is was one of our first online masterclasses, where I was shooting ON AIR in the studio. Here is the post production part with some explanations of what I did. [photigy_video video_url="https://vimeo.com/18498280" group_id="2" type="proclub" title="Please Login to Pro Club Account" subtitle="To watch this video, please login to...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This is probably the most expected video (by my readers and by me): a recorded LIVE broadcast from the product photography masterclass we hosted over two months ago. That time we shot the Marine Star Bulova Men's watch, and below is the result: We had the same watch photographed...
This year we spent Christmas week in Key West: rented a house and had warm and little salted (beer was in help:) time with our friends. Key West has not much to offer for a former Black Sea explorer, but being there is really relaxing, as life is slow in...
Questions and Answers. Quite often I receive interesting questions about the particular lighting setup or issue with the particular shot that other photographers are dealing with and such questions is not directly related to any post I have here in the blog. So, instead of sending me an email, please...
Please look at the portrait below: do you really think it was shot in front of that lake and mountains, or it was a studio shot and digitally applied background? When I saw this image first time, background looked completely unnatural, like it digitally...
I was waiting for this monolight for a long time, and eventually got it few days ago. Talking about latest Paul C. Buff invention (intervention to hi-speed strobes market? :-), all digital Einstein 640 monolight. I've ordered few of these units back in spring 2010 "to try", ordered separately (meaning...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Just how important are the camera and lens for a photographer? This is our bread and butter. All our work depends on it. A good camera and a high quality lens can do wonders in the right hands. However, in this post I would like to talk about cameras for...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It was a long time since I've decided to write this article, and eventually I've got enough time to finish big piece of it and publish. This suppose to be the complete list of gear we use for our photography business: cameras,...
Eventually we got all the images sorted out and finals selected. I am talking about our second part of our fashion shoot for kids we had a week ago. (First part is here) This time we got both our daughter working for us: vanilla ice cream was waiting for them...
Last week we did our second photo-shot for All Koval, talented children fashion designer we have such nice collaboration with. This time we shot Hand knit baby coat, a beautiful white coat with a cute bear face on a shoulder. Our...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I had a great opportunity to test-drive a new Hasselbald H4d camera with its huge 50 Megapixel digital back, thank to John Williams from Hotwire-digital.com. Knowing specification of the Hasselblad, I did not want to simply compare those 2 cameras: they are very different animals, with different purpose... besides the...
I would like to share today various ways we promote and grow our photography business. This may not be a real guide but I'll be honest with you and will tell you how we became who we are now, what is working for us and what is not... First, I...
This post inspired by the readers who used materials published on this blog to do their own shots. Similar technique, different results. Thank you, guys! Update: This thread is closed, please use a forum to post your achievements: Photigy Forum Here we are: (more…)
What is the best and fastest way to learn photography (and not only photography)? The first way is to watch how the task gets done by a pro and then to try to reproduce something similar yourself. The second (by efficiency and speed) way is to invent your own way...