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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: 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. When I’ve received and opened the boxes with the art, I’ve already knew how I was going to shoot them: soft light (stripe boxes) from left, right and top with a nice gray gradient (spot from a 30° honeycomb grid to a charcoal gray paper). Below the outcome, enjoy:  Art reproduction photography: Janise Hughes masterpiece Having 3 lights hitting the subject with the sharp angle gives me flexibility to choose from more textured or more brighter and shadowless look. 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 a spotlight on the finest professional and non-professional photographers and is presented by International Color Awards.  International color awards. an apple. 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: stop thinking what you do not have, just get camera and start shooting. Look what can be done with almost no lighting ($30 strobe is what you call lighting?), the cameras was far from modern DSLR too. I’ll be going from the oldest ones, trying to recall how I did each of them… 2002, film & light brush:  light brush technique photography This is a composite shoot, captured on a film (Fuji Velvia?) with Canon Elan 7E camera: 2 exposures combined, two different colors on LED flashlight were used to highlight each object. 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 popcorn:-) Now she decided to form all such bookmarks into a blog, so you, my friend, can enjoy the same feeling.
 inspiration, motivation and education blog for designers Enjoy! 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:-) 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.
 Atlanta photographer:One of meals prepared in the kitchen for Bakewise book 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: This is a video for my recent post, where I shot a glass of beer: Enjoy! Would like to announce that we start to release free to download images at our Stock images website. Now, most of the new images will be free for download. Also, we decided to release a full resolution photo in our free collection, in opposite to a limited version (1920×1200 pixles) we use to have there, all images has uncompressed (100% quality) JPEG format, 300 dpi.  Free stock images to download Any time you see Hope our collection of free sock images will be useful for a designers, advertising professionals, bloggers (most looking for images to illustrate posts), or just for anyone who may need high-quality images. The photos we provide usually our in-studio still life learning shoots, landscapes or life-style images. We have thousands of the photos waiting to be released, but the biggest issue is a lack of time to prepare and upload them. But we’ll keep it up:-) |
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