Amazing behind the shoot video: Making of Luciano Carvari catalog 2011

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

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

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

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Roberto Bigano | Manfrotto 2010 Adv Campaign

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

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OT: 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Part of my life.

chernobyl nuclear plant 1986

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.
Every “personal” post will start from OffTopic, so it will be easy for you to skip them, if

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Light painting (lighting brush) technique in product photography.

light painting technique in advertisement photography

I’ve got this pretty cool shot using light painting technique, posted on Pixiq.com:
Using light painting (lighting brush) technique in product photography.

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.  

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Building professional flash portfolio for photographer: our experience.

New flash portfolio website for Atlanta photographer Alex Koloskov

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.
I was looking to get a new, large and vivid flash portfolio: with fullscreen functionality, some (but not much) animation and huge images which can be viewed without

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Christmas time photography: four AA batteries against the Sun and more

canon flash against keywest direct sun on the beach

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.
I was always

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Thank you and Happy Holidays!

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

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How to shoot watches like a pro: new AKELstudio LIVE Masterclass announced!

Akelstudio product photography watch lesson masterclass

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

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My new monster toys: AKELstudio equipment upgrade.

fatif studio camera stand  lenovo aptop atlanta photographer professional gear

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

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Art Reproduction Photography: lighting a masterpiece

Art reproduction photography: Janise Hughes masterpiece shoot

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,

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International Color Awards. We become a nominee again. Damn!

International color awards. Apple.

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

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Digging through photography archives: where I was 8 years ago.

light brush technique photography

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:

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Our motivation and inspiration blog now online!

inspiration, motivation and education blog for designers

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

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Our first photography workshop: Studio lighting for fashion photography

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:-)
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

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