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Doing a photoshoot underwater can present a whole new set of problems for photographers who do the majority of their work on dry land. They are often forced to get a little creative when it comes to keeping their gear safe from water damage and also making sure that it’s going to work properly once they are submerged. Such is the case when the video and photography department at the University of Georgia took on the task of an underwater photoshoot with one of the schools professors.
Professional Photographer Zack Arias completes the “Pro Photographer Cheap Camera Challenge” in the streets of a foreign country where he meets language barrier challenges and defeats them head on. This challenge has been issued to numerous pro photographers, each with a different basic camera. For Zack, he is given the challenge of being handed a single flash box and a cheap, minimal function Kodak camera.
There is a fine line between a subtly enhanced photograph and one that has been over “Photoshopped.” Fact of the matter is, we are always trying to find ways in which we can improve our photography and sometimes those ways might include retouching an image. This is especially true when it comes to beauty and fashion spreads. Professional photo retoucher, Pratik Naik is here to share some of his best tips on how to enhance your photographs, all the while maintaining the spirit of the original image.
When Serino Coyne contacted Monte Isom to do a photoshoot for the Disney musical, Newsies, Isom jumped at the opportunity to cover his first musical. To document his experience, Isom whipped up a behind the scenes look at the photoshoot which you can watch below. As you would expect from a Disney production, the art direction and choreography of the photoshoot are simply outstanding.
Whether you’re photographing a bottle of Windex or a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, commercial photography is all about selling a product. In order to do that, a commercial photographer must be able to photograph a product in its best light–no pun intended. That’s an art Alex Koloskov has mastered. In the following video tutorial, the master himself shows viewers just how he worked his magic during a shoot for a popular glass cleansing product.
The worth and intensity of your passion can be imagined from the amount of effort that you are willing to put in its realization. There are not many people who would give up the comforts of everyday life and virtually live on road in order to pursue their passion. John Jackson of NotStock Photography is one such person who has travelled some 170,000 miles during the last four years, following his love for hot rods, bikes and automotive photography.
Starting a successful business from the ground up can be challenging. However, with these tips you’ll be on your way to starting a successful portrait photography business! Get a Good Camera First things first. You’ll need a camera. I recommend starting out with a digital SLR (DSLR) camera. But there are so many DSLR’s on […]
Photoshop has been and is, the first choice editing program for most professional photographers. In this video by Tim Grey you can learn a number of techniques for cleaning and correcting images. A brief word of warning, the video is approximately two hours long. The tutorial covers a number of different areas on the subject including: strategies for cleaning images, using the spot healing brush, controlled cleaning with the healing brush, patching image areas, two stage image cleaning using the clone tool, correcting color contamination and casts, and reducing image noise.
Sports photography and advertising photography are arguable two of the most exciting areas of the business. Commercial photographer Monte Isom managed to combine both when he was commissioned to shoot ice hockey players, in action for an advertising campaign by Molson beer. The lighting set up, despite the complexity of the shoot was kept fairly simple and consisted of one beauty dish and two or three narrow beam reflectors, dialed down low to prevent the ice from blowing out.
When most people here the term “model” their mind instantly thinks of a sunbathed, slender bombshell, probably scantily clad in a bikini or a dress. Not Mark French, owner of the UGLY Modeling Agency. UGLY specializes in, you guessed it, ugly models. French describes his business as a character agency, explaining that there is a niche market for the less-than-beautiful. Watch the video within to see what a typical casting call is like.
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