Frank Croes’ light setup for food

March 18, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

I’ve been a photographer for many years, more than 30, and I still have an interest in new areas of photography. Therefore I took a workshop of 12 hours given by a food photographer Frank Croes Antwerp. The basic light setups for photographing food, I know the tricks, but the fine tuning I ‘ve learned in this workshop. We used an Octabox of 1,5m with a flash Hensel of 1000w/s at 1/4 power. On my Nikon I’ve placed a 85mm with extensiontube to get close. Camerasettings ISO 100 F/11 and shutterspeed 1/125. The Octabox was at 30cm behind the object, a very big lightsource so the shadows where lit and no reflectionscreen was used. The difficulty was placing the several objects in the spoon so that the light gives a shining surface and the shot becomes a commercial picture for placing in an advertising.

Now available Lightroom 4

March 8, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

The new features in Lightroom 4:

Softproofing so you can check what is the result with a certain colorspace or a certain paper

Mapmodule: you can tag you pics with gps coordinates

Making a photobook with Blurb template

Beter highlight and shadow recovery

and many more cost new ±130€ upgrade ±75€

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-lightroom/features.html

http://www.onemorething.nl/2012/03/adobe-lightroom-4-nu-te-downloaden/

 

 

Larger than life! Pocket Wizard Plus lll Tranceiver

March 7, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

Pocket Wizard Plus lll

The new PW Plus lll Tranceiver has arrived!

The production is starting at the end of this month.There are several new features. It will automatically switch between transmit and receive when needed. It got a range of 500m and with a special knob it goes in Long Range Mode almost double. Channels 1-16 for normal use and channels 17-32 special zonechannel so you can put you flashes in 4 different zones.You can put several transceivers in a row so you can fire your camera and flashes by remote at any distance you want. http://plusiii.pocketwizard.com/#Features

Hopefully we can buy them in april, cost  ± 125€ ex TVA @ Servix & Partners Aartselaar.

Annie’s shoot for Vuitton with Keith

March 2, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment
Annie Leibovitz toured with the Stones in their hotdays early the 70s.
She uses only one extra light and about 10 minutes shootingtime with Keith. It was simple and elegant, and she made that Keith looks very good, the right place for one light.

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark III with 24-70mm lens, handheld 1.5m back. Shot at 1/60, f5.6, ISO 200.

Lighting: The key light is an inexpensive Photek Softlighter at f5.6 handheld on a boom by an assistant. It’s 1.2m to camera left and 2.3m high. Though the lamps and light behind the door appear to be strobes, the light was amplified in post.

Comments:  To distract Keith he had a cup of tea (English Breakfast) and when you noticed carefully it is empty.

Phase ONE extreme scenarios 2,3 tons of steel

February 23, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

Phase ONE extreme scenarios minus 79°C

February 17, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

Student’s Lowkey setup

February 17, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

My students may only use one light when they start in the first year. One of the students of the group on Thursday evening have found a light setup on the Flickr community  using one light  to create a wrap aroud effect on the model. We’ve placed one strobe in the background pointed to a white board .The front side is black. Besides this board there where two white boards placed in an angle so the light from the strobe will bounce onto these boards to give the side effect.By using a white reflector ,with a hole in it, (for the camera) the front of the model will be lit. Measuring the light: aiming the meter to the white boards.Thanks to Raoul for the light setup, Bert as victim-model and Andy as photographer.

 

 

Phase ONE extreme scenarios with Drew Gardner

February 16, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

Katja Helsen’s Glass Soundtrigger

February 16, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

One of my students, Katja, have made a soundtrigger to catch these pictures when they are moving and hitting the wall.In her garage, she constructed a little studio. A flat surface, which is not  placed horizontally, serves as a glider for a skateboard on which five glasses are glued. The correct distance is calculated for the startingpoint of the skateboard.When the board hit the wall, the microphone picks up the sound and that triggers the camera. By  using backlighting, Katja creates a black border and the transparency of the glass. A nice touch, she uses food colouring chemicals for the effect in the glasses. Here you can find how you can make a soundtrigger. Have fun!

http://www.diyphotography.net/universal_sound_and_optical_slave_flash_trigger

New App for making lightdiagrams

February 12, 2012 by Herman | Leave a comment

 

Sylights for iPhone is the most advanced app to create, edit and share your lighting diagrams.

We have worked during months to bring you the best experience you deserve to get, but also the most needed features you want to find in a diagram editor. Sylights for iPhone will let you create, name, edit and share your diagrams,write a description about them, zoom in and out within the editor, resize and rotate objects, … and more.

But here is the best part: this app with all these features is available on the App Store… for free. Isn’t it great?

So don’t wait anymore and give it a try!

Get Sylights for iPhone now!