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As promised, I prepared lighting setup and a video from our last workshop (more about this here). I am not going to post simple setup we started from, it should be self explainable, if you look at the photo. Below is what we have done by the end of workshop, after playing with ratios and different light modifiers. Setup like you see below can be considered “basic” for a standard fashion-like style portraits.
 Atlanta photographer workshop: ligting setup Continue reading Atlanta photography workshop update: Lighting setup
 
Our first workshop just happened last Sunday! Hurray!
 Atlanta photographer workshop class Many thanks to all participants, I am sure it was very enjoyable and interesting for all of us:-)
Workshop lasted for 4 hours, during this time we have covered a basic’s of studio gear,shooting techniques, had a master class and an actual photoshoot session for each participant.
At the end we had nice party time:-)
Continue reading Our first photography workshop: Studio lighting for fashion photography
 Atlanta product photography About 30% of studio work I do is for packaging, and I would like to share what I have learned.
Simple tips and rules on how to make product look best on a package. Shooting product for a package sometimes is very similar to a catalog photography, or for a web (except resolution). However, there are few aspects which photographer need to keep in mind during a shoot:
Continue reading Photography for packaging: simple steps on how to have it done right
We always had a kitchen in the studio, but was never actually shooting in it. It was mainly used for food preparation and styling, occasional party cooking, etc. When I worked with Shirley Corriher, for a first time (see the result) , we used a kitchen a lot, most of the cakes, biscuits and other sweeties which I do not know how to call, was made in our kitchen.
 One of meals prepared in the kitchen for Bakewise book Continue reading Kitchen for food photographer: small, but shiny and new!
I had an opportunity ( many thanks to John Williams from Hotwire Digital) to play with this beast, Hasselblad H3D -31 few month ago, eventually got time to write this short review.
The intention was to compare Hasselblad with tilt shift adapter with my Tilt-shift adapter system for Canon EOS I am currently using.
 In studio test Hasseblad H3D-31 V.S
 Tilt/Shift camera system for 35mm DSLR Continue reading In studio test: Hasselblad H3D-31 v.s Canon 1Ds Mark III mounted on large format camera
I continue to use my tilt-shift adapter for DSLR, and now I explore the limits of the system. Below is the watch, at a very narrow angle, shoot by using Rodenstock Rodagon APO 80mm F4 lens at aperture set to F16.
 Watch photography using tilt-shift DSLR
The lighting schema is simple: two narrow soft boxes on top, each highlighted top and the bottom part of the watch. There should not be direct reflection form a watch’s glass, as it immediately become dull and low contrast. Continue reading Watch photo shoot: advantages of using tilt-shift camera adapter
Found an amazing:
Quote: “The picture was made with the Canon 5D mark II and a 400mm-lens. It consists of 1.665 full format pictures with 21.4 megapixel, which was recorded by a photo-robot in 172 minutes. The converting of 102 GB raw data by a computer with a main memory cache of 48 GB and 16 processors took 94 hours. With a resolution of 297.500 x 87.500 pixel (26 gigapixel) the picture is the largest in the world.”
Enjoy: 26 Gigapixels image (http://www.dresden-26-gigapixels.com/dresden26GP)
That day was one of unusual for Atlanta windy, cold and low humidity days, when we gathered with our friends from PhotoSniffers.com to shoot a spectacular Atlanta Downtown sunset. We found a few places for the shoot, got a permission to shoot form one of it (one month of waiting).
Below are several images from these photo-sessions, more you can buy at our stock collection: AKELphoto.com
 Sunset in Atlanta, GA Continue reading Stock photo-session in downtown Atlanta: cold, but clear:-)
There are 3 types of photographers by my own classification:
1. Great businessmen who are very successful on selling their work, but I do not understand nor like photography they do. Another words, they know how to sell, but I see nothing which can inspire me.
2. Unknown photographers, they have amazing portfolios, but they are known by very limited numbers of people, so there is not much chances I can find them online. (Know one? Let us know!)
3. Successful photographers who had achieved amazing results in photography and also highly successful on promoting and selling their work. This is who inspires me a lot, I like the clean and crisp style and technically challenged work they do.
Most of them extensively use photo editors to enhance and finish the images, all of them commercial photographers , mostly food , advertisement and fashion. All of them has very bright and professional looking web portfolio.
As I’ve mentioned before, I only selected photographers who work in the same area as myself, there are more great artists around us, but I was learning from these:
Continue reading Photographers who inspired me
Well, I did not have flash meter back 10 years ago, while was shooting on film. But I was not a professional photographer that time, and camera exposure meter plus my prediction along with experience was working well for me.
When I start asking money for my photography, I start feeling that I really need to have a flash meter! Every pro has it, so how could I be a pro without it?
Continue reading Why I do not use flash meter.. Do you?
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