Author: Udi Tirosh

Signs Of Light shows the awesome photos you can create with just a light and a tube

Udi Tirosh

If you thought that you need big guns and a huge budget to create inspiring art, think again. Photographer and dancer duo Kim Henry & Eric Paré (previously), show that you can create absolutely stunning art using cheap equipment and a lot of dedication. We shared Eric’s tube guard light painting technique before, but we had […]

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How different flashlights impact on tube’s light Painting

Udi Tirosh

A while back we shared Eric Pare’s method of creating perfect lighting painting circles with $3.5 tube guards. Basically it involves sticking a flashlight at the end of a tube and using it as an enormous light wand. (see the full post here). If you were wondering if different flashlights yield different results, the answer […]

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We are giving away a complete on-location lighting kit

Udi Tirosh

Great news for any Strobists and practical lighting photographers in the crowd. We have teamed up with Midwest Photo Exchange to do a lighting kit giveaway (strobe, trigger and modifier) which will give you a great heads up if you are starting out, or be a great addition to your kit if you are already practicing […]

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Create an entire new keyboard of shortcodes with this hack

Udi Tirosh

If you are editing a lot of videos, you know that shortcodes and hot-keys are essential for fast editing. We actually shared a tip on using gaming keyboards for editing becasue they have more keys that you can assign macros to. But LinusTechTips just upped the game of adding shortcodes by creating a whole 87-shorcut keyboard […]

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We sat down with 4 top creatives to talk about success, failure, fears and joy, Here is what they had to say

Udi Tirosh

Last month we met with four of today’s top creatives for a pleasant chat. We asked them about their successes, failures, fears and joys. We met Pratik Naik, Bella Kotak, Roderique Arisiaman and Richard Terborg and asked each four questions: What is your biggest career accomplishment What was your biggest professional failure What is your biggest fear What key advice would you […]

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Using two planes as light stands to shoot a third plane with a Nikon D5

Udi Tirosh

I know that many are using VALs (Voice Activated Light stands) for moving strobes around, but this is the first time I am seeing a Plane Carried Light stand. Prague-based photographer Dan Vojtech (previously) did just that. Dan collaborated with the Flying Bulls aerobatic group. But he did better than going on a plane along side the pilot and shoot, he also […]

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IP ratings and what they mean to your gear. Camera makers, please be clear!

Udi Tirosh

We’ve seen how being weather sealed or weather resistant becomes a factor in modern days sales. This, of course, goes for actions cameras like the GoPro, but this also go for DSLRs and lighting equipment. The rugged Pentax k5  for example which was ruggedly abused tested is rated at IPX2. What does it mean, though X2? […]

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We are giving away our best package yet – Free Auxiliary Layers – today only!

Udi Tirosh

It’s been a while since we opened the Image Manipulation Store and we are quite happy with how it works and the community forming around it. This is why we approached our German partners and asked them to create the most awesome package they can. They said yes! thus creating the Auxiliary Layers package. The Auxiliary […]

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