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Rembrandt lighting is one of the core lighting setups used by portrait photographers because its ability to produce softly lit facial features. The trademark brand of Rembrandt lighting is a triangular shaped spot of light that sits just beneath one eye and runs the length of the nose. It was giving its name because it is the same lighting style Rembrandt, the renowned painter, used in all his paintings. The lighting pattern is relatively simple to set up, see it here.
Kai is up to his antics again, this time pitting himself and a Porsche 964 Speedster against aerial photogrpahy master, Graham Uden and a helicopter. The challenge requires Uden to hunt down Kai from a helicopter and take 10 photographs of him speeding around the island. That might not sound too difficult, but as you’ll see in the video below, it turns into quite the wild goose chase. The two were pretty evenly paired, but ultimately, the time saving techniques decided the win.
Most people will have a point & shoot digital camera somewhere. They’re ideal for carrying around in your pocket or bag. Most will take relatively good pictures, in most situations. But what about when you want better pictures than your little point & shoot can manage? When you want clearer portraits, or close-ups of something […]
For those of you interested in macro or nature photography, it’s worth your time to check out the video below which chronicles the work of award wining photographer, Barbara Leven and her series of nature photographs, Enchanted Earth. The video, filmed at photography superstore, B&H, features Leven herself as she shares with viewers some of her best work and, as an added bonus, describes the process she took behind making the photographs. There’s certainly a lot to be learned from the seminar, so you may want to block out some time to watch it here.
Take a couple minutes to go on a behind the scenes tour of a photoshoot with automobile photographer, Daniel Linnet, as he takes some shots of the super sleek Porsche Carerra 911 S and BMW M-series for Top Gear Magazine. Thinking outside the box, Linnet decided to light the cars using lasers which were operated by a laser show artist. Linnet says working with the lasers created a challenge, but by the looks of the above image, it sure paid off.
We’re pretty big fans of Google+ over here at PictureCorrect–find us and follow us here–so, needless to say, we were pretty excited to see the social network put together a seminar with best selling photography author, Scott Kelby. The well-known author has made a name for himself by teaching photographers at all levels to break away from the typical “rules of thirds, leading lines, repeating pattern” approach. Kelby instead insists upon the importance of working a scene to get exactly what you want out of it.
Commercial photographer, Dean Bradshaw, recently photographed an assortment of athletes for the 2012 Startrac ad campaign. In a short film documenting the shoot, filmmaker, Charles Thi, captures some of the equipment Bradshaw uses along with a few of his shooting techniques. The video takes viewers on a behind the scenes tour of the various sets used throughout the shoot. For the photoshoot Bradshaw utilizes HDR processing techniques with excellent studio lighting.
Admittedly, it’s easy to sit back and take our digital cameras for granted. They are easy to use, fast, and convenient. Then you come across something that makes you remember just how easy it we have it sometimes. For example, Afghan street photographers–there are reportedly only two of them–go about taking photographers in a much different way. Using what they refer to as a kamra-e-faoree, which roughly translates to instant camera, the process of creating a photograph takes place entirely inside the large wooden box camera.
Inspired by taking a long exposure night sky shot at a star gazing party in 2009, photographer Alex Cherney set himself a project. To combine two of his photographic passions namely ocean and night sky into one stunning time lapse sequence. Alex is a hobbyist astronomer whose first foray into the heavens began in 2007. From there he bought ever-larger telescopes and joined a local astronomy club. It was here, at the 2009 star gazing party, that he borrowed a tripod and first pointed his DSLR towards the heavens realizing the full potential of digital photography in the field of astronomy.
If you’ve never heard of Atlanta based photographer, Alex Koloskov, you may want to do a quick Google search of him. In terms of thinking outside of the box, Koloskov basically epitomizes it. Watching him perform his art during a commercial photoshoot is pretty entertaining. He likes to makes messes. Big messes. And it usually involves throwing liquids–sometimes at people– to photograph it mid-air. By the way, speaking of Google and throwing messy liquids in front of cameras, it turns out Koloskov is the genius behind the popular Google Splash logo.
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