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The Nikon CLS System
Summary:
In this film Patrick Ludoloph, professional photographer and blogger, shows us how to implement the Nikon CLS or Creative Lighting System. Patrick explains to us the inverse square law and the importance of correct flash intenstity.
If you are working alone and need to move your flash around a lot, this is the film for you as Patrick shows us how to do exactly this without having to change the flash intensity with every repositioning of the flash.
This film explains all the camera settings you need for this system and how easily it can be implemented.
So have a look how Patrick explains all of this without too much technobabble and learn how to use this system with only your camera´s built in flash and one more flash that supports the CLS system!
Still Life in Action
Summary:
Stilllife in motion actually sounds like a contradiction in itself. Eberhard Schuy shows us in this film that it can make sense to bring some action into stilllife photography. The result is enthralling and definitely wakes the viewers interest.
In this case a slice of pepper will slide through a plate full of water and induce a nice spray. A few considerations are needed in forehand for the implementation of such a set. Important is the reproducibility of the shot. The pepper must always slide through the water in the same way to get the perfect picture.
So have a look with which means Eberhard Schuy manages to control the pepper slice. Lighting and camera settings will, of course, also be thoroughly explained.
Using the Ring Flash III
Summary:
In this FotoTV series photographer Ralph Man will discuss the Ring Flash for use in beauty and fashion applications. This third installment begins with an in-depth description of the Ring Flash and all that it can do while using it as a fill flash. While the two previous films concentrated on technical information pertaining to the usage of the Ring Flash as a main light source, this film focuses on using the Ring Flash as an accent light.
Ring Flash offers a stylistic approach to creating nearly shadow free images. Unlike other flash light sources the Ring Flash is attached onto the optical axis of the camera and lens offering shadow free image results.
Ralph Man does an excellent job explaining and demonstrating the specific techniques associated with the Ring Flash and his built up set. Photographers new to the Ring Flash will find this hands on tutorial very informative and photographers already using Ring Flash will find his excellent tips extremely useful.
The 4th FotoTV Christmas Carol
Summary:
Eberhard Schuy is back again with now his fourth annual Christmas card film. After a trip to the cellar to gather some decorations in preparation of the season, he serves us up with a collection of three red christmas tree balls, merrily hung in the studio.
He starts off with this simple set covering the basics of framing and lighting the scene. Then, bit by bit, he begins applying the principles of some of this past years contrasts themes. All the important lessons can be applied in one way or another. Moving the existing scene to the right and setting a decisive fourth ball in the upper left, gives us both the foreground and background, plus the leading lines.
There are substituting colors for color contrasts and sharp unsharp contrasts presented as well as a final twist with motion contrasts. And just to keep us all on the straight and narrow, there's the post processing overlays to adhere to the Golden Rule of thirds and the balancing of the composition with the golden triangle as well.
So jump in and make your own Christmas cheer.
Smoke on the Water
Available Light
Butterfly Lighting
Butterfly Lighting 2
Smoke Photography
Summary:
Again, Carsten Simon and the other guys from the german studioCOMMUNITY make huge efforts: They visualizes Deep Purple's famous song "Smoke On The Water".
The set is built in only one minute - just using a wooden strip and a plane they construct a mirroring water surface on which the model is seated.
The model is surrounded by white damp, produced by a fog machine. In order to send out the damp very flat, it's getting freezed.
A beautyidsh and some effect lights brighten the fog up und emphasizes the contours of the model's body.
Using the Ring Flash I
Summary:
In this FotoTV series photographer Ralph Man will discuss the Ring Flash for use in beauty and fashion applications. This first installment begins with an in-depth description of the Ring Flash and all that it can do.
Ring Flash offers a stylistic approach to creating nearly shadow free images. Unlike other flash light sources the Ring Flash is attached onto the optical axis of the camera and lens offering shadow free image results.
Ralph Man does an excellent job explaining and demonstrating the specific techniques associated with the Ring Flash. Photographers new to the Ring Flash will find this hands on tutorial very informative.
photokinaTV - Michael Grecco: Lighting
Summary:
Michael Grecco is a commercial- and celebrity photographer and he´s known for his very special way of lighting a picture.
He also published a book about setting dramatic light in photographs.
Among other things, he did photographs for magazines like Time and Newsweek.
He analyses the light settings of some of his pictures in this photokinaTV episode.
photokinaTV - Light into the Dark
Summary:
Steve Thornton is once again with us here in the FotoTV Studio at photokina 2012. This time it's all about the new offerings from California Sunbounce.
The Bounce Wall is a small reflector that connects to the bottom of the camera. Here with something the size of a mounted flash you can multiply the possibilities. So without adding any additional light sources, weak light situations can be easily overcome. The Reflector is very light and can be applied in many different ways, with the ease of a mounted flash. When you head out with the new products from Sunbounce, don't leave without this reflector.
Steve Thornton gives us the heads-up on this new multifacted reflector from Sunbounce
Nice Fresh Greens
Summary:
In this video Eberhard Schuy demonstrates a very special way of photographing greens. Very important: Background, Freshness and an artful shadow.
For the background Eberhard uses a white wooden plate worked on with autopolish on which the carrot green generates great reflections. He conveys the impression of freshness with small water droplets on the polished plate.
Particularly Eberhard attaches importance to the shadow. To give tthe right whistle to these he clamps two normal reflectors together.
Background Effects Using Flash
Complementary Color Contrast
Shutter Priority as a Composing Tool
Summary:
In this FotoTV film photographer Dirk Wächter of D-Forum community is here for a third installment to create another exciting special effects photography tutorial dealing with specifically backgrounds.
Today Wächter discusses how to set-up backgrounds using electronic flashlight. In two previous segments we learned how to create colorful background effectively and how to make backgrounds out of focus using movement. This time Wächter wants to top his previous installments by showing viewers how to make the backgrounds out of focus using a lot of light and how to prepare for such situations and how to make great business portraits.
This tutorial is good for photographers who have to travel to a client to make business portraits or for photographers are unsure of what awaits them at the location. Wächter methodically goes through all the tech specs he uses to show the users how to get a great useable shot in any kind of condition and any kind of background.