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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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In this workshop with Martin Krolop, Krolop will discuss and demonstrate how to make the best photos using a pop-up flash pre-installed on a camera.

The pop-up flash has the reputation of ruing photos because of the position in which one shoots with it. Mainly people are photographed vertically because they look better lengthwise and the face comes out better. But when shooting with a pop-up flash ugly asymmetrical shadows appear and it makes the photos look amateurish and unprofessional and as if the photo is lit from below.

Krolop show viewers several tips how to remedy the ugly side lighting that comes from using a pop-up flash. He simply shoots horizontally and crops off the image from both left and right sides. He also adds contrast by changing the settings on the camera to monochrome and adjusting the flash to overexpose the areas he would like to be burnt out. All this trickery makes a professional looking photo. Just by changing a few settings and shooting horizontally the photos come out looking like high-end photography.

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This is the third part of Kate Breuer's Dodge and Burn series. In this episode, she explaines, how to use dodging and burning to form body parts and the face.

Kate Breuer uses the technique to make the arm of a model lose weight and to add to the bust size of the female model.

In addition, she shows how dodging and burning can be applied to the face to make it look slimmer and more perfect.

The last parts will be about skin retouching. If you missed the first two parts, go back and learn the technique of dodging and burning and find out, how to use it to accentuate foldings and guide the vision of your viewers.

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Photographer Corwin von Kuhwede takes FotoTV viewers on an exciting erotic shooting with his model, Claudia at an abandoned industrial building in Leipzig, Germany.

Today von Kuhwede gives important insight how viewers can find their own interesting motifs in such locations where they initially might think not possible. Going though all disciplines, technical, creative as well as the aspects relating to working with nude models, von Kuhwede accomplishes three different set-ups during difficult weather conditions. The first location that he searches out is on the top floor with open windows letting in the natural light in abundance. He uses a broken window frame as a makeshift swing for model Claudia to swing back and forth on. Von Kuhwede works well with his models always paying attention to body posture and control thereof. It is important for the model to feel comfortable when shooting nude portraits and von Kuhwede does a great job at putting Claudia at ease and taking care of her comfortableness throughout the entire shoot.

Von Kuhwede is also very ingenious when it comes to props and juxtaposing his locations to bring out the best eye-catching contrast. Using ordinary white household curtains hanging down in the run-down industrial building is just one example how von Kuhwede’s mind is always at work creatively. Mixing the old with the new, the modern with the traditional, everything comes together in perfect unison making the sleek erotic photo shooting an instant success. Knowing light and how to modify it also works in von Kuhwede’s favor, whether he uses a reflector or not he is always paying attention to the light and at which angle it is falling onto the model, positioning her accordingly. Von Kuhwede gives an in-depth technical photographic analysis on his choice of camera settings, lenses and post-production photo editing to ensure that viewers can effectively and immediately start out on their own nude portraits. These attentive steps show in the end result, his photos are more than satisfying.