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 I’ve been asked so many times about what strobe, camera shutter speed, etc can be used to freeze a liquid splash action and I’ve decided to put this little post together for you guys. Complete gear list for action tabletop photography Continue reading: What equipment you need to start shooting liquid splash  Leica X1 vs Fuji X100: in studio test Continue reading: Leica X1 vs Fuji X100: the final round. In-studio performance Just want to make sure you do not miss my last post on Pixiq.com: P.S working on “The implementation” Continue reading: How to start your own product photography studio: a complete shopping list  Most of my equipment I buy on B&H Photo Video.com and Paul C. Buff web-stores. On B&H I have these wish lists, where I keep everything I was buying or going to buy. I am a long-term customer of B&H, and I think they have one of the best customer support + reasonable pricing. Also, Continue reading: Equipment for a studio product photographer: what do we use and what we are going to buy.  I was waiting for this monolight for a long time, and eventually got it few days ago. Talking about latest Paul C. Buff invention (intervention to hi-speed strobes market? :-), all digital Einstein 640 monolight. I’ve ordered few of these units back in spring 2010 “to try”, ordered separately (meaning soon I’ve receive another Continue reading: Einstein 640 V2 in-studio flash duration test: hi-speed strobe was never affordable like this.  How important the camera and lens for a photographer? This is our bread and butter, all our work depends from it. A good camera and high quality lens can do wonders in a good hands. Continue reading: Do you really need an expensive DSLR camera? Point-and-shoot vs professional DSLR  It was a long time since I’ve decided to write this article, and eventually I’ve got enough time to finish big piece of it and publish. This suppose to be the complete list of gear we use for our photography business: cameras, lighting, support, light modifiers, etc. This should be relatively interesting topic for those Continue reading: What equipment we use in our photography business: complete (to be:-) gear list.  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.  I rarely shoot on locations, always feel more comfortable working in the studio. In most cases there is a power outlets on location, I had only a few where it was too far from the lights (warehouse freezer, for example). With no external power I’ve used 4 Canon speedlites, but they too weak to be Continue reading: DIY portable power system for Paul C. Buff monolights: Vagabond III?  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. The lighting schema is simple: two narrow soft boxes on top, each highlighted top and Continue reading: Watch photo shoot: advantages of using tilt-shift camera adapter  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. Continue reading: Why I do not use flash meter.. Do you?  I am not an event photographer, but like any of you I enjoy shooting events I participate in. Let me show what I use to get studio-like lighting in any regular size room (for a bigger ceilings, 30 and more feet it won’t work that good). The main idea is to have more than one light Continue reading: Studio in your hands: portable lighting setup for event photography  This Sunday we were lucky with nice and warm weather, so I’ve took some photos outside a studio, picturing our twin toddlers playing on a backyard. I was playing with my newly built tilt-shift adapter for Canon EOS to tilt Rodenstock enlarging lens (80 f4). The photos were taken with wide open (f4) aperture, Continue reading: Tilt-Shift adapter for 35mm Digital cameras: on the field test  Few weeks ago I was working on a tilt-shift adapter for Canon EOS cameras, (see my previous post). Now I have first in studio test – review of this system. Lens: Rodenstock APO Rodagon N 80 F4. The main idea is to Continue reading: Tilt-Shift adapter in studio test review: EOS 1Ds mounted on a large format system camera  Inspired by a tilt-shift adapters like Cambo X2 -PRO and Cambo Ultima 35 Kit with desire to have ability to use virtually any medium/large format lens but not willing to spend almost $2000 for a ready to use system, I decided to build my own version of such device. At the Continue reading: How to: Developing a tilt/shift system for 35mm digital camera based on 4×5 view camera |  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. 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