Photoshoot and Beyond
Elinchrom has announced four new softboxes for its Litemotiv range. The new softboxes include: Indirect Litemotiv Octa 190cm / 75” Indirect Litemotiv Square 145cm x 145cm / 57” x 57” Indirect Litemotiv Recta 72cm x 175cm / 29” x 69” Indirect Litemotiv Strip 33cm x 175cm / 13” x 69” These Litemotiv softboxes are compatible […]
Check out this video from Karl Taylor as he walks through the setup of a stroboscopic sports shot using the Broncolor Scoro packs. Aside from the lighting setup and programming the intervals into the power packs, the notion of moving the camera during the exposure in order to separate the exposures from the strobes is a […]
Back in May I got collaboration offer, from a body painter, to make photo session with airbrushed models. This offer gave me the incentive, to finally try out blacklight photography, what I wanted to try out for years now. After searching through web, I found, that blacklight photography is technically rather complicated process. The main obstacle of […]
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Doesn’t always stay in Vegas. Especially the silliness.
PhotoShop World, that anchor event in the photo calendar, always has a theme, wrapped in a mini-movie of purposefully dubious production values. This year riffed on Wayne’s World, with the redoubtable …
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When I first started out with photography, natural light was my best friend. I didn’t have money for lights, so I learned to shoot using what was available to me. Shoot after shoot, I’d tuck a little money away into a gear fund to save up for lights. Natural light can get you pretty far, but […]
Almost all the photographers I know have at least one speedlight. They use for their cameras hotshoe, if for nothing else. But what if you want to dub in off camera flashing but don’t have any modifiers yet? In this article I will show you 7 different single flash techniques for portraits that you can apply right now – […]
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Let’s photograph a candle lit and not. It’s simple right? Well, maybe… The Setup When I start to photograph anything, I ask myself “What is it?” By that I mean describe its properties. Looking at the candle, I see it’s round. No. Make that cylindrical. It’s reflective. It has texture, well the wick has it […]
Swiss pro electronic flash manufacturer Elinchrom, Phottix whose control systems currently work with Canon, Nikon & Sony DSLR cameras TTL for flash and Sekonic, world class creators of hand held light meters have teamed toghether to focus these areas of expertise on light measurement and control. What does this mean for photographers? A big change […]
Editor’s Note: Please welcome new Photofocus contributor Erika Thornes. She is a San Diego based photographer who loves to make lasting memories for families. She is also a member of the PPA (Professional Photographers of America) and ASMP (American Society of Media Photographers). Please leave her comment below this article… we’re glad to have her on board. Underwater […]
One of the things I do outside of this site is serve as the visual director at my church, which affords me plenty opportunities to experiment with different aspects of video production. I recently made a change to our video set that we use for announcement videos and created a diagram to answer some questions I’ve […]