Author: Udi Tirosh

Add Hand Painted Backgrounds To Your Photos In Seconds With This Digital Trick

Udi Tirosh

Some of the iconic portrait photographers, like Annie Leibovitz have a very common look for their studio portraits, they are shot against a hand painted textured backdrop. You know what I am talking about. Those gorgeous backdrops with random soft patters. Those backdrops are hand painted on canvas (just like works of art), and show great […]

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The 5 Minutes, 5 Dollars Monitor Hood

Udi Tirosh

When you edit, and especially when you colorize, you want to do it in a relatively dim environment. And if you cannot achieve that, you at least don’t want any direct light falling on your monitor. That can really screw up the color your eyes perceive.  If you are using a calibration tool like Datacolor’s Spyder (reviewed here) […]

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Understanding and Creating ‘Realistic’ Camera Shake In After Effects

Udi Tirosh

Some short require camera shake for authenticity, but are so much easier shooting on a tripod. Think about any effect where you need to cut between two shots, or wanting to shoot something quickly while still making it seems like it was shot hand held. This gets even harder if you want a significant shake. […]

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Artist Annoyed At Madonna Using His Work With No Credit Under ‘Fair Use’

Udi Tirosh

As artists, we find the ‘Fair Use’ doctrine to sometimes be beneficial, but sometimes to be extremely disturbing. I guess illustrator Danny Quirk subscribes to the latter according to a post he made concerning Madonna using his work on her shows under that doctrine. Danny has a series of illustrations called Dissections which shows medical sketches (the kind […]

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Quick And Dirty: How To Pre-Prepare Instagram Posts

Udi Tirosh

Creating posts for later posting in Instagram is a drag. Right now the options are pretty limited. You can use an app like Grum (which violates Instagram’s Terms Of Service, not a good idea). Or maybe, you can create yourself a reminder to post something and post it manually later. None of those options is very enticing. […]

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All The Clamps You Would Need And How To Use Them – A Primer

Udi Tirosh

Everybody probably knows the A-Clamp (A.K.A Pony Clamp), most know the Super Clamp, but how many of you know the Cardellini and the platypus clamps? (answer: anyone who is doing grip/gaffer work). There are a few more grips and JP Morgan of The Slanted Lens is giving a great primer on what each of the grips are, how they […]

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This Star-trails Light Painting was made by A Drone

Udi Tirosh

German drone makers, Ascending Technologies just redefined light painting. The company makes high end drones and drone software and to take their technology to the extremes, they made a series of Santa Light Painting which actually resulted in a short movie. The company used an LED mounted Falcon 8 – their own octa-copter. Way points were […]

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How To Photograph A Bokehlicious New Year’s Photo Using Black Paper And An Ironing Board

Udi Tirosh

Sometimes it does not take much to create a wonderful shot for new year, it only takes a punched black cardboard and two champagne glasses. Moldova based Photographer Alex Zatsepin provides a detailed explanation on how he took the photo above using a punched black cardboard, an Ironing board, 3 strobes, and a good understating of how light and lenses work. […]

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Here Is What A Sony A7S Looks Like After Dipping In Lava

Udi Tirosh

If you thought that the Sony A7S was weather proof think again. It obviously can’t cope even with the simplest of Lava streams. Photographer Amanda Stevens was demoing some products at Samy’s Camera in Pasadena CA. She spotted this bitten-to-death camera. [luckily, this is not her camera]. As part of the store’s effort to convince customers to purchase an […]

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