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Found this great behind the scene video. This is what I call creative work! (For my American readers: there are some nudity in the clip, I warned you:-)) Photographer Alexander Morderer form Ukraine, same as me. His studio located in Kiev, not far from the house I use to live:-) Check out his portfolio such an Continue reading: Amazing behind the shoot video: Making of Luciano Carvari catalog 2011  Last week I have a chance to play with top of the Leaf’s line of digital backs, Leaf Aptus-II 12, 80-megapixel digital back mounted on Phase One 645DF camera. Many thanks to Steve Hendrix from Capture Integration for bringing all this beauty to the studio. I’ve got a video as well, it will be posted Continue reading: Leaf Aptus-II 12 80 megapixel digital back review: it is not only pixels that count.  Recently found an interesting behind the scene video of Manfrotto 2010 AD campaign shot by Roberto Bigano. I am a big fun of Manfrotto products and it was interesting to see how photographer was working on their AD campaign. He used continues lighting and only diffuser panels to make the whole series, and once again Continue reading: Roberto Bigano | Manfrotto 2010 Adv Campaign “The Making of”: interesting behind the scene video  I’ve decided to start posting my personal thoughts and opinions from time to time here. It does not mean that here will be less articles about photography: As usual, every our shot will end up being explained here. Continue reading: OT: 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Part of my life.  I’ve got this pretty cool shot using light painting technique, posted on Pixiq.com: Update: There is a video of the painting process now available on our retoucher’s blog: Light brush painting. Post-production. You’ll also find there an explanation of how we did a post-production of the shot. Continue reading: Light painting (lighting brush) technique in product photography.  Today is a big day for us, really. Last few weeks we were working on our web portfolio, as the current site was not touched for 5 years. Continue reading: Building professional flash portfolio for photographer: our experience.  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 Key West. Continue reading: Christmas time photography: four AA batteries against the Sun and more We have entered a holiday week here in US: Turkey day (4th Thursday in November, also known as Thanksgiving day) is approaching. Having the whole week in our kids Montessori school free from admission left us no choice but to run out from a city… We landed in the North Georgia mountains in a beautiful Continue reading: Thank you and Happy Holidays!  I am glad to announce that we are ready for our next LIVE masterclass. It was a while since out last (and first) masterclass, and eventually we found time to run this event. This time I’ll be shooting MEN’S BULOVA MARINE STAR, working through most of the steps to get the image below. Why not Continue reading: How to shoot watches like a pro: new AKELstudio LIVE Masterclass announced!  This week I’ve got 2 additions to my studio gear I was waiting for a long time: heavy, solid and huge Fatif studio stand and amazingly fast workstation laptop, Lenovo W700ds. Both of them are really monstrous creatures: Fatif studio stand: Old, by still strong as my red pepper Ukrainian vodka I brought 8 years Continue reading: My new monster toys: AKELstudio equipment upgrade.  Recently I have a very interesting experience working for Janis Wilson Hughes, shooting her sculptures for an exhibition. It was interesting because I did not shoot art pieces before, most of my photography was commercial products. There is the same requirements in both art and product photography : to show the best of the subject, Continue reading: Art Reproduction Photography: lighting the masterpiece  Our 3 photos are nominees in Food Nominee Professional Category again. We were in nominee and honorable mentions for a 3 years in a row, I Hope next year we will have Photographer of the Year award! The Photography Master Cup is a global online awards show recognizing excellence in color photography. This celebrated event shines Continue reading: International Color Awards. We become a nominee again. Damn!  I was doing a blu-ray backup for our HDD arrays and found several interesting photos, dated between 6 and 9 years ago. I would like to share few of them here. Quite often I read comments like “what camera should I have to get photos like this, what lighting, etc”. My answer is always the same: Continue reading: Digging through photography archives: where I was 8 years ago.  When I need to fill my photographer’s brain with new ideas, inspire myself for something innovative and edgy, I usually ask my wife for a few links: She always has amazing list of portfolios around the world to look at. When I look at amazing, unusual and beautiful work, ideas start popping up like a Continue reading: Our motivation and inspiration blog now online!  Our first workshop just happened last Sunday! Hurray! Many thanks to all participants, I am sure it was very enjoyable and interesting for all of us:-) Continue reading: Our first photography workshop: Studio lighting for fashion photography |  I share everything I know here. Lighting setups, gear reviews, tutorials, tips and behind the scenes videos from our photo sessions. Make sure to subscribe for weekly updates below so you don't miss anything.    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. Read More->>  (C)Philip (www.80eight.co.uk)Get inspired, post your results here! 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!  Loading ... | ||
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