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Great product photography set by-Stefan Tell

Hey you all!

As most of my work is with small flashes I must bring you to this very talented Swedish photographer (Stockholm, Sweden) who is also a graphic designer.You can get to his site at this address .As I use small flashes in the tutorials you see in that site, Stefan is using “big” lights Profoto units if I read it right.The “big” lights can get you better results in many of the cases than the small lights,as the ad-ons you can work with the big light are much versatile than the one that you can get or DIY for the small light (not mentioning power and the light shape).

In Stefans blog and site you could get many tutorials , mainly about portrait photography,in those tutorials you’ll see detailed examples and diagrams for the shootouts he did.I really liked the product shootout that you can see in that link Lighting setup for Amigurumi product photography using only two lights!

I have to say that this tutorial really got me thinking on trying to get this nice result with the small flashes that I use for my product photography tutorials…So the first two things that I did after I read that tutorial by stefan is to DIY two honeycoms for my flashes, one circular shaped and on rectangle shape.

Stefan Tell

Enjoy the site by Stefan and see you soon with my next tutorial!

A great “strobist” blog

Hey.

many times I see on the net good flash photography sites,but not great sites.This one is one of the best that I visited the last month and I do recommend you guys to check it up once in a while or register to its mailing list.

This is a site by David Tejada (if I got it right),and its moto is

“Small StrobesBig Results”

Well he do delivers.

So go and visit it ,I’m sure you’ll like some of the stuff he is talking about.

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DIY flash gel filter holder-Quick and easy

You probably heard about the free gel filters packages that sometimes in the past where send to everyone that requested them.Well I believe that the filter manufacture companies went bankrupt as the word spread around the photography community.Now there are some sets that are sold on eBay Adorama ans such for about 10$.If you got your hands on a dealer around you that still ships those filter set for free,you should contact him and ask for one!

The filter set that I got has maybe  100 of colored filter gels suited exactly to my Canon 5xx series.All I had to do was to build a gel filter holder.There are many DIY projects like that on the net and I actually started that with a piece of plastic that broke and then said hey why wouldn’t I try to make it of a transparency slide?!

Its easy and your 5 years child can do it for you too!

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Cookie Photography-the cookie shootout

The cookie post started when I had a newly wed couple that came to my office to get their wedding album.I had to bring some goods in to serve the guys,so I went don’t to the local super market,having only a couple of minutes to choose the best sweet for my visitors,I decided to go with the chocolate chips cookies that I all ways love!

When I took the box from the self I said to myself ,”hey that’s a great photo on the box I want to do that too!”

Here  is one of the first  pics that I took:

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Ebay White Balance lens cap,is that good?

Well,as you may all know,the issue of getting the right color temperature,also known as White Balance is one of the biggest influence prospect in the final picture quality  you can get out of your camera.

When you get into some mixed light scene your camera auto WB (White Balance)  metering system might loose its north.Therefor when I shoot wedding or commercial events I’m looking for some more accurate WB measuring system.

Two of the most popular tools are the Gray card and the Lens cap.

The gray card is a simple gray card that as you take a picture of it in the scene you are shooting will help the camera manually set the WB.The lens cap is a cap that you put on your lens and and it suppose to white blank the camera.After you take a picture with the lens cap on you can set the manual WB.

There are some white balance lens cap that sell on ebay for about 5$.I wanted to test that with the more old fashion gray card.So lets see what wee got here:

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So what is my conclusion?

  • The Lens cap gave me to cold WB.
  • The camera auto WB was to warm.
  • The Grey card WB was more natural colored .

The winner:Gray card!!!

Great Lightroom free presets site

Hey

As I do some wedding in Israel,some of my after the wedding digital photography job is done with the Lightroom 2.2.

This program as you my know is very fast and versatile.It allows to add presets to your presets window .Those presets will give your photos some creativity boost.I bumped in that site a couple of days ago and found some great FREE presets to play with.I recommend you should give it a look,you won’t regret it!

http://www.presetsheaven.com

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Two lights dramatic portrait

Hey,Nice to see you guy reading me again,if this is your first time here ,you could register to my free Email RSS feed so you wouldn’t miss the next tutorial.I saw this kind of picture in a post written by a great studio photography named Robert Seale.In his article he wrote about how he photographed Lance Armstrong in his studio.As I don’t like Lans to much (I ride the bike,but don’t like the drugs thing in his sport),but I got the sympathy for his work in the research about cancer.Back to our tutorial,Robert used some big lights in his Lans shootout,180cm softboxes that I don’t thing the most of you guys keep at home to get really amazing shot.I asked my self how can I do it in the budget way that I like so much?So instead of the 180cm octagon softbox I’ll try to use the 30cm DIY shoebox softbox that I made a couple of weeks ago to get “similar” results.

P.S – If you get Lans to your studio I recommend to hide the shoebox softboxes and try something else…

Lets see what we got and how I made the shots.

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What I used for the shots:

  • Two DIY small softboxes made from shoebox.
  • Two tripods (left- studio tripod and right- camera tripod) .
  • Flashes triggered by : left flash-cable and right flash-radio trigger (didn’t had the batteries to operate the left side receiver,so used a cable).
  • Two Canon speedlites : left-Canon 580EXII and right-Canon 550EX (you can use any flash with manual power settings).

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How to shoot flowers?

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It is not an easy job to photograph a flower.You could use the photosfor many purposes.In case you have an online flowers shop I don’t have to explain the advantages of a good flower photograph.You could use a flower photograph for your greeting cards, I really don’t like the greeting cards that I get when you see the photo being “photoshoped” as hell until you don’t believe that the picture is real or not…So get in and find out how I took this picture ,hint-its easy and I used only one light…

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Pop Photo article – how to shot your rock band

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Well you all know that I really like the Popular Photography magazine,I actually believe that this magazine is the thing that got me shooting and directed me for photography (My father has a subscription for the last 20 yeas or so)…

In the last edition there was an article that explains the basic (but not only the basic) steps for shooting your rock band.This articles actually tells the story of each editorial shootout weather its a fashion shoot of band portrait.

So you should go on and read it, get the magazine or check out Pop’s web site for the full article summery.

The article is well written by Adam Elmakias and you could get it here.

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Amazing product photography 1$ technique!-Part II

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Great product photographs in no time and priceless look,this is what you are going to learn in this tutorial!

If you are not familiar with part I of this tutorial take a look in this link amazing product photography where you’ll get an idea about how I did  that setup and the basic two light posing atrategies I talked about .

In part II of amazing product photography using  the DIY small softbox (based on a  shoe box)  will cover another two light setups for some differnt effect,so lets see what its all about.

This is one of the shots you’ll  get in this tutorial,so get in read and DIY!

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