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Steven Van Veen shows us how to make interesting portrait pictures with a ringlight.

A ringlight is a round neonlight and has a special light characteristic: It doesn't emit much light, so you can make open aperture shots.

With little changes in the position of the model and the ringlight you can change the results:

- change the size of the ring reflex on the eye by moving the model towards or away from the light.

- change the shadow sutrrounding the model by moving the model and the light away from the background.

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Do you sometimes wish you had your flash equipment with you to create more dramatic lighting? Or that the sun could shed a beam of light on your main subject?

Well, let Photoshop do it for you, Karsten Frankes show you how in this quick tutorial!

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Mike Larson is a well-known American wedding photographer from sunny California. He strives to be different from the typical wedding photographer and elevates this art form.

One of the big differences is that Larson takes the time to become acquainted with the couple in the weeks before the wedding for a pre-wedding shoots, thus developing a friendly relationship with them. This enables the personality of each couple to show through in their photos. In addition, Mike Larson establishes his own style by using different points of view and locations uncommon in wedding photography.

We had the opportunity to interview Mike Larson during his European tour when he stopped in Dusseldorf/Germany. Enjoy!

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After studying art, Douglas Busch worked as an assistant to Morley Baer and worked with Al Webber and Ansel Adams. Early on, Busch interrupted his photographic career to join the family business and become a jeweler. But some years later his addiction resurfaced and he founded the de Golden Busch Inc., where he started to build the largest portable camera in the world.

His works ranges from early "Street Photography", to large format black and white photographs with extraordinary landscapes and cityscapes to bizarre portraits. His latest work is a highly abstract series called "Waves."
Douglas Busch's photographs can be seen at the Museum of Modern Art, NY (MoMA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and the Getty Museum.

In this interview, Douglas Busch gives an overview of his artistic works.

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Richard Kalvar is an American Photographer and Magnum member since 1975. He has served as vice-president and president of this legendary photo agency.

"Kalvar's photographs are marked by a strong homogeneity of aesthetic and theme. His images frequently play on a discrepancy between the banality of a real situation and a feeling of strangeness that emerges from a particular choice of timing and framing. The result is a state of tension between two levels of interpretation, attenuated by a touch of humor." (Magnum homepage).

During the show presenting his current publication “Earthlings” in Paris, we had the chance to film this interview with him.

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How much you can sell an item online for depends on how the image presented. If you want to take good photos for online shops or auctions you don't need to spend thousands of dollars on equipment.

Stephen Fuller shows you a setup that will work in your living room! All you need is a light from a hardware store,
a backdrop and a camera.

Check it out!

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In this video contribution, Karsten Franke shows you how to replace the sky of your photo.

He works with masks, so the original version of the picture remains unaffected. Its advantage compared to other methods is the additional convertibility of the settings.

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A useful special effect is the partial desaturation of unimportant parts of a picture. Karsten Franke shows you how to select these parts using color range selection. He then explains how to use the fill mode 'color' to create a black and white conversion taking into account how our eyes perceive color.

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Using some of the pictures from his book, "Take Your Photography to the Next Level," George Barr discusses composition. Through a compositional analysis of those images, he shows us how photographs are conceived and why they affect the viewer in the way they do.

Watch this to learn how symmetry and arrangement can influence a picture, and why sometimes less color is better.

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Building your home studio with flood lights from the local hardware store is a cheap way to get started in studio lighting.

In the first film of his series, Lars Ihring, photographer and lighting expert since his university days, shows us what you need to use flood lights and to build diffusers for them in order to soften the light they give off. In keeping with the desire to minimize upfront costs, Lars Ihring shows you how to use inexpensive pieces of wood, brackets and a sheet baking paper to build your own diffusers.

A complete list of supplies accompanies the film. This will allow you to begin working in your home studio with a minimal investment of under $150.