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New Video online: Robert Lebeck 4
The Sixties
In this further installment on the great photojournalist Robert Lebeck, Lebeck will cover the 60's and his work during that period, which he photographed some of his greatest photo stories.
During this time he also had made a great experience working as an actor for a friend of his. The project was a TV mini-series based on the Writer jack London, in which Lebeck played the title character.
Lebeck further goes on to describe his switching from Kristall Magazine to Stern Magazine and working for the legendary Art Director of Stern, Wolf Gilhausen to whom everyone referred to as the "Eye". Lebeck tells of stories where the famous Art Director, sorts through photos and picking out the bad pictures that he referred to as pickles. One of the most famous photos Lebeck took was actually a collage of two photos. It was the legendary shot of Robert Kennedy’s funeral, in which one woman could be seen kissing the flag covered casket on one side of the photo and another woman on the direct opposite side of the photo can be seen laying a hand on the casket. Gilhausen was very amused and very proud of putting these two shots together. It would be a picture that was to be seen around the world.
New Video online: What's New in Lightroom 4 beta
Kate Breuer Sums Up the News in LR4beta
Everyone's talking about Lightroom 4 beta at the moment. But what is new in Lightroom 4 beta? Kate Breuer sums up the most important new features.
When you open LR4beta for the first time you will soon realize that there are new modules in the module bar. Kate Breuer explains the Map and the new Photobook modules and shows their possibilites.
In addition she explains the functionality of the new sliders in the Develop module. There are new ones and others have been replaced. This can be a bit confusing but you will like the new sliders soon.
New Video online: Pascal Baetens
The Healing Effect of Photography
In this FotoTV autobiography film, Belgian photographer Pascal Baetens gives viewers a special look at his work and heartfelt thoughts about his subjects and methods to his work.
Baetens loves being a photographer it was his dream and now is his passion. He has worn glasses since he was three years old so he always had a special thought and connection to vision and how it affected the way he sees things. Further learning in boarding school taught him to dream, something very useful as a photographer. After taking courses in University studies he set out to become a photographer. Not to makes lots of money but to share his ideas and perspectives with others. He put his heart into becoming a photographer along with a good portion of hard work.
Baetens tells compassionate stories and shares examples of his work where he chooses to photograph humble people instead of showing just a pretty body in his nude work. All his photography has a story to tell a background of deep reflection and real people who pose as his subjects. For example he tells of one of his subjects, Clair, whom he photographed only after visiting a psychiatrist because he didn't want to demoralize his subject. He consulted with the doctor to learn of the special needs and particulars pertaining to his model who had a wrenching story to tell of her tattoo that he photographed on her nude body.
He continually searches for meaning behind his work and what he shares with the world and he searches for riveting ways to communicate his photography as a healing effect and to tell stories of real people going through a difficult time or who have faced other hardships. Baetens further discusses his photography books as a means to express himself and to capture attention.
New Video online: Softlight with Shoe Mount Flash
Tutorial with Martin Krolop
In this workshop professional photographer Martin Krolop shows viewers how to get the best results using a window as starting point and a key light source, while using a shoe mount flash to illuminate his model to create a fantastic studio like atmosphere.
Using several photographic and style techniques Krolop explains easily, step-by-step how viewers can recreate this type of shooting using very few options such as a camera and white wall, along with a shoe mount flash. Krolop discusses the importance of keeping the light from directly falling onto his subject as well as listing all the types of situations that could ruin his portrait shooting. The key here, as we learn is that the flash should never fall directly onto the subject being photographed to yield good results and a neutral looking lighting scene. True indirect lighting can have some very interesting results that can change the whole feel of the shooting. When the model has a line of sight to the shoe mount flash, or when some of the light falls directly onto the subject the reflection or spark of light will change in the models eyes, either the light source, or light spark will be higher or lower in the eyes respectively.
Shooting in a room with just a window and white walls is easy to find and they are practically everywhere to be found, giving all photographers an equal starting point. Just add flash--as most photographers have a shoe mount flash to accompany their cameras. Bare rooms and white walls are everywhere, and are waiting for photographers to recreate a small portrait studio wherever they are.
New Video online: Renaissance Look
Learn How to Add an Antique Painting Look
Rüdiger Schestag created a German series of videos explaining how to create an antique painted look from your photos. Kate Breuer recorded the Photoshop part in English.
In this tutorial she uses the photograph Rüdiger Schestag used in the German version and follows his steps, explaining which steps are necessary to make your photos look like they were on old canvas. She explains how to get rid of flying hair and skin flaws and how to optimize the mood of the photograph. In addition, she explains how to add lights, shadows and structure. At the end of those steps the result is a wonderful Renaissance Portrait.
New Video online: Compositions Using the Golden Mean
Harmonic Pictures with Eberhard Schuy
Master still-life photographer Eberhard Schuy is here with a new series addressing photographic elements. Elements of form, lines of composition, bright and dark, sharp and un-sharp. Here, the first in the series is a look at the Golden Mean. We get to examine the historic significance as the earliest mathematicians addressed this aesthetic principle as a geometric proof.
Eberhard Schuy then encourages us to trust our innate sense of composition. This "good feeling" will almost always result in the practical application of this compositional guideline used in both art as well as architecture. Not to be satisfied with one demonstration, Mr Schuy takes it one step further and also explains how the Golden Mean is the basis for another compositional guideline: the Golden Triangle.
Finally, a hands-on tip for Lightroom users. The user is directed to an on-board function that lets you overlay
adjustable masks that apply both, the Golden Mean and the Golden Triangle to your photos for evaluation purposes. Be sure to see the other related films in this series. You'll certainly learn a lot.
New Video online: Robert Lebeck 3
The Theft of the Sword
Welcome back to our miniseries on Robert Lebeck. In this third installment we will learn about his most favorite photo and how he came about shooting it as well learn the obstacles he faced to get “The Shot”, something no other photographer present could do.
The most incredible thing about the photo is that it is a symbol of strength and the end of colonial rule. A regular African guy jumps up and steals away the sword of the Belgian king.
In other such conflicts the scenes were never photographed this way. This is an event would have landed in the columns of newspaper, had not the photos been created.
Robert Lebeck was at the right place at the right time and as he clicked away with his Leica he was already creating the shots that would become immortalized.
New Video online: Fog Creation
Kate Breuer Creates Fog in a Landscape
Fog can make every place more mystical. Learn how to create fog using simple photoshop techniques from photographer Kate Breuer.
Kate Breuer first adds some loose fog with a pencil. Afterwards she adds some denser fog using one of the render filters from Photoshop.
By combining this techniques she creates realistic fog that adds to the atmosphere of the image.
New Video online: Preston vs. Brown I
A Brief History of Photoshop
Russell Brown has been an Adobe employee for 25 years and exchanges his Photoshop expertise with photographer Robin Preston.
Both of them experienced the development of digital image retouching with Photoshop from the outset. Having started with rub down typesets, the leap to printing texts and working with costly hard- and software to implement CGI was a milestone at that time.
Despite all progress, they adhered to one principle: think analogue, work digitally.
New Video online: Indirect Lighting
How to Avoid Mistakes
In this FotoTV workshop, photographer Martin Krolop explains to viewers how to get the best results when using a shoe mount flash as an indirect lighting source.
Krolop shows viewers how to avoid the most common mistake a photographer can make when using an indirect lighting source by bouncing the light source off the ceiling. First Krolop sets the camera setting so that the only light source to reach his model is the light from the shoe mount flash unit. He starts off by directing his flash to illuminate his subject full frontal, and then he shoots another example with indirect bounce light from the ceiling. Most photographers do not realize they are still shooting with direct flash to subject light. If the model still has a line of sight to the flash, then it is not indirect lighting. This will result in off cast shadows and unpleasing tones when shooting portraits.
Since the flash is near to the camera’s axis when shooting the flash directly, the shadows fall toward the rear of the subject. When changing that to whereas the flash is first bounced off of a surface, the subject is illuminated predominately from above, which is distinguished by the top half of the photo being brighter as the bottom half.
Krolop further goes through several calculation scenarios to help photographers more easily understand the distance light travels from the bounce surface to the subject, changing the lighting distribution but not lighting characteristic.
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