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Full Moon Portrait with Off-Camera Flash – How We Shot It
A few weekends ago, I had the good pleasure of photographing a wedding at the Four Seasons Hotel In Westlake Village, here in Southern California. As it is a trademark of my own style and part of the standards at my studio, (Lin & Jirsa) …I of course took a few minutes to go out side with the bride and groom later in the evening to shoot some portraits under the full moon.
Cinematic Light – A Three Light Setup | Tuesdays With Lauri
In this weeks instalment of Tuesdays With Lauri, we will be taking a sneak peak at one of the chapters in my new WW2 inspired conceptual photography tutorial on DVD. In this chapter, I go in-depth and breakdown the first three-light cinematic lighting setup that I used in my photograph, “The Wounded Soldier”.
Romoli Francesco’s Imaginary Towns | Using Cardboard, Creativity and Photography
The following is a guest post by Italian artist, Romoli Francesco. With a degree in computer science and mathematics at the University of Pisa, he recently studied photography at the center of contemporary photography Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence.
How We Shot It – Creating Creative Employee Portraits to Market Your Studio
In my never ending quest to market, find “my” clients and get my images in front of people I came up with this idea to try to kill three birds with one stone. One of my good friends was the manager of our local Gold’s Gym so I approached her with the idea of my employee of the month program. There is not an employer on planet earth who’s employees would not love a nice perk that showed what they do, day in and day out, is appreciated by the company.
Sticky Buns for Days – A Simple Natural Light Food Shoot | How We Shot It
Yesterday I posted about some great food photography tips and I wanted to try some of them out. So I grabbed my equipment and setup in my dining room. I wanted to get a shot of something that was delicious, something that could inspire my wife to cook me more goodies. So I chose to shoot one of my wife’s homemade sticky buns.
How We Shot It – Finding Treasures at Your Local Fabric Store
In this article, Craig Lamere shows you how to create a great and unique portrait using a few dollars worth of fabric from a local fabric store, and of course a good dose of creativity.
Beverly Hills Montage Wedding Portrait – How We Shot It
In today’s episode of How We Shot it we are going to talk about wedding portraits in night-time scenarios, in a dramatic outdoor hotel courtyard setting.
Tips for creating Vertical Panoramas – How We Shot It
Achieving an image such as this may be relatively easy these days, with incredibly sharp ultra-wide lenses and extremely high-resolution DSLRs at our disposal.
Using ND Filters to create Motion Blur in Bright Sun – How We Shot It
In this video, Matthew Saville describes the various methods and options available for creating a slow motion blur during bright sunny conditions. For anyone who knows the “Sunny Sixteen” rule, if your aperture is at f/16 then a perfect exposure at ISO 100 would be 1/100 sec, and a perfect exposure at ISO 400 would be 1/400 sec, and so on. However this image was created at f/13, ISO 100, and 2.0 seconds.
How I Shot It – “A Deep Gaze” by Lauri Laukkanen
Let’s start out by talking a little bit about this photograph. This photo is a very important to me, for many reasons:
How I Shot It – “Anger” | Tuesdays With Lauri
For this week’s “Tuesdays With Lauri”-article I decided to go way back into my archives and pulled out this image called “Anger”. Today we will take a quick look at the story behind the photograph, and then after that I’ll provide you with a step-by-step breakdown of the editing process.
How We Shot It: Tide Pool Vertical Panorama
In this episode of “How We Shot It”, we’re going to talk about how to pre-visualize, set up, and capture the original frames that would go into a final image such as this vertical panorama of a tidepool at sunset.
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