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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:  camera buying guide: what good to know I was asked many times what camera and/or lens I would recommend to buy in given price range, so I’ve decided to answer this question on my blog, next time I can direct people to this article. For today this is a longest epic in my life I wrote in English and I really hope you’ll understand what i was trying to tell you:-) My photography style is clear, crisp, precise and vivid; being a product photographer I can’t (nor I like) produce blurry, out of focus and noisy images and call them “my unique vision”. I do not understand black and white modern photography, see it more like “sorry, can’t get it done with color” thing.  Pentax 645D 40MP DSLR camera front Pentax? I almost forgot that they are exists, was never looking at their 35mm DSLR cameras, knowing that there was nothing for me as a professional shooter. On other hand, my older friends in photography were talking about medium format film Pentax cameras with every respect possible. 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. 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: 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 sources: one for a model and the second one is for reflection and the rest of the room. With only one flash attached, even if used with light diffuser, you can’t have good light spread. The best you will get in a relatively large room is a flat looking model and some shadow behind.  dual dedicated flash setup for canon Much better results will be by using 2 light sources: Last weekend I’ve got a new toy, a replacement for my old Blackberry Strom: Droid from Motorola, Verizon call it iPhone killer. Well, I did not have iPhone, so can’t tell if it is really a killer, but so far I like it! Much more freedom in applications and customizing compare to BB Storm. When i power it up, it looked with the red eye and said: “Drrrooidd” to me. Like my old cat use to do:-) Here it is, with shell case from Motorola. There are so many photos of it naked, and I like it more this way  Motorola Droid from verizon phone keyboard open Several people have asked me how I protect my important files, so I decided to share my answers in this article, summarizing everything on one place. In my opinion, storing your files in a back-up is a must not only for a professional photographer, but for a serious amateur. Who wants to lose photos or videos of children, parents and grandparents, or friends? Each passing year these images and videos become more and more valuable, and storing them securely is important. Most PC (or even Mac users, I guess  Ricoh GXR camera Eventually Ricoh has unveiled its first digital system camera: GRX. This is a quite unusual camera, without shutter and sensor in a camera body . You ask me how? 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, no photoshop post production to alter focusing were made.
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August 17th, 2010 | 
I’ve paid $29 for the case, but later found it on Amazon for $15: 
