Photokina: My Day 1 – a speech, Drew Gardner & Guido Karp
I’ve already given a very brief summary of my first 2 days of photokina, but this time I want to get a little bit more detailed. So let’s start with day 1 (Thursday, 23rd).
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Understanding light: Color
One (if not THE one) key components of photography is light. Understanding and using light is a big deal on the way from snapshooter to photographer. When it comes to knowing light you’ll have to learn that light has several characteristics influencing the way your pictures are seen and how they „feel“: intensitiy shape (hard …
Count down!
Especially in fashion and beauty photography it’s often about getting the absolutely perfect photograph. Of course this is not as easy done as said, for example because: the concept of the picture involves motion, hence a lot of attempts are needed till everything’s perfect or the model is (however the reason) kind of asleep at …
Checklist: The things a model should take care of and bring along
Modeling is a job to take seriously. Even if your just modeling „for hobby“ you should take it as serious as if it where your full-time job. Only if you take it as that and put all your energy into it every time, all participants can get best results. Part of this serious job is …
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The winner of the book-lottery
One or the other may remember my little lottery… where I raffled one of three books. Well, here’s the winner – a female one this time. You see her on the left (man, I’m really glad noone with a monster-ID won *g*). The winner is „Foto-Chaotin“ and she picked the book „Fashion-Fotografie“. It will be …
Win a book: pick 1 out of 3!
For the first time ever one can win something on this blog. As I know that a lot readers already got my book and some may favor other reading, I give you the choice: You can win ONE out of 3 books (Warning! All are in german language!):
50: Lightsetup – High Fashion
I originally intended to write an article about monitor calibration. However, as this is the (wow, already!) 50th post in this blog, I’m finding a flashsetup being more appropriate. After I went for a quite simple approach for the „Lifestyle“-theme outdoors last time, you get a little more complex setup for (high) fashion-photography at the …
Photoshop CS5 available in german
Adobes new products in version CS5 are officially available in german from today on. I already ordered my suite, but have to „wait for the delivery till the mid or end of may due to heavy demand“ (rough quote of the Adobe support). Well, I guess Adobe COULD have expected this… Nevertheless the hotline support …