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How to Take A Photo of A Pellet Colliding with A Water Droplet

Oct 7, 2014 by Udi Tirosh 2 Comments

If you thought shooting beautiful water droplets is hard, how about shooting a water droplet colliding with a pellet?

Does not sound too trivial, right? At the end it has to do a lot with timing. In addition to you need to time the strobe and droplet, now you also need to time the pellet.

Maurice Ribble of CameraAxe did an entire walkthrough on how to make such magic happen in the video below. It is not a fast pace polish video, but rather a very meticulous detailed explanation and fine details on how the entire contraption works and how to make one yourself.

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The Pinhole F Is A Pinhole Camera Based On The Legendary Diana F

Sep 9, 2014 by Udi Tirosh Leave a Comment

After building a beautiful Holga styled pinolga, Ray Panduro set out to recreate other iconic cameras as pinhole cameras. His next inline was the Pinhole-F a recreation of the famous medium format Diana F.

Made entirely out of cardboard, glue and some black paint, the camera features a 40mm focal length and a f-stop of about f/150 which means it needs a tripod for almost every shot, as well as plenty of light.

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Create High Speed Photography Multiple Exposure Photos With Miminal Gear

Aug 25, 2014 by Laya Gerlock 2 Comments

You know those ads that have a bottle of soda and an edited splash on the sides, seems like they are the standard for light drinks now. Seeing one of those inspired me to do try and recreate such a shot, and of course share it with you.

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How To Precisely Replicate The Light From A Scene With A Christmas Ball

Jul 2, 2014 by Udi Tirosh 3 Comments

http://youtu.be/EAQjeVQnsUs

One of the things that we constantly obsess about is lighting. How was this lit; what were the lighting ratios; was the light soft or hard; If you know all the answers to these kinds of questions you can recreate the lighting of a scene.

Of course you could sketch a quick diagram, but the good folks at CreativeLive (Felix Kunze & Sue Bryce) share a clever tip on using a Christmas ball to take a “snapshot” of the lighting on a scene.

Once your lists are set up, put the ball where the model is and take a snap. Since the ball reflects all 360 degrees of a scene it capture any light sources around it. Combined with the fact that it is black it makes it easy to spot any reflections.

Now, you do have to understand light to actually be able to reverse engineer the ball reflections (I strongly advice both strobist 101 and the Light Science & Magic Book for that), but if you can do the reverse engineering , this is away easier that figuring out the shadows.

[Super Geeky (and Effective) Trick to Replicating a Photo’s Light | CreativeLive via ISO 1200]

P.S. into shiny little objects? check our tip about marbles and catch lights.

Johannes Vermeer – A Photographer from 350 years ago

Jun 11, 2014 by Maaz Khan 3 Comments

350 years ago, Johannes Vermeer once painted a piece (pictured above) called The Music Lesson. What you’re looking at is something many people have considered impossible up to today; the light that shines through the windows in the painting is painted with exactly the same color that it has in real life when viewed through a projected image. It wasn’t being painted using a normal vision – it was being painted like it was a hand-made photograph. While many artists were indeed famous for implementing realism into their work even centuries ago, a painting this photorealistic has been though impossible to achieve up to even today. But for some reason, a painting like that exists, and Tim Jenison is a man who had a drive to find out how that was possible.

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DIYP Interviews The Amazing John Flury

May 31, 2014 by Stefan Kohler 1 Comment

The Retouching Academy just released Part 2 of their series “Storytelling in Concept Photography” with John Flury. I had the chance to ask him some questions about his amazing work and the ideas behind it.

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DIYP Reviews The Lomokino Analog Movie Maker

Apr 22, 2014 by Guest Author 5 Comments

What da!?

Here is the short answer (AKA straight to the point)

The LomoKino is a 35mm truly analogue movie camera. Using a normal 35mm roll of film (36 exp.), the LomoKino can shoot around 144 frames or 25 sec. of beautifully analogue cinematic masterpieces (well, the masterpiece part is kinda up to you and your creativity).[Read More…]

Creating A Blurred Soft Look With A Smartphone For 0.1 Cent

Apr 3, 2014 by Udi Tirosh 12 Comments

With the web sizzling over a new soft focus lens coming soon to a Smartphone near you, out pal Maciej Pietuszynski thought of trying to recreate a similar analog, soft, blurry effect on a budget.

His solution take about 5 seconds of work and about 0.1 cent of materials – it is a two step process:[Read More…]

How To Take Magical Family Candids

Mar 12, 2014 by Stefan Kohler 39 Comments

Some time ago the wonderful images of Elena Shumilova went viral. Suddenly there were dogs, rabbits and cute children everywhere. And I have to say – these images are extraordinary – we instantly begin to dream and to fell fuzzy. Something is going on with us while looking at these images. In some way, her work is magical.

After a while threads started popping up in forums, asking about the secrets and post production in Elena’s work.

The stuff I usually do is definitely different from soft warm portraiture, also I am not the photographer on the team – my job in the process has to do more with the technical planning of shots, lighting and retouching.

As a father of a two-year-old girl, owner of a DSLR and with a girlfriend who’s blogging, I had to expand my principles. So I started analyzing Elenas images and wrote some key elements in her images down. I did not want to copy her compositions, or wanted to recreate her image ideas – which is technically not possible, because I don’t have a big dog, or rabbit around.

The idea was “applying some of her key elements on a normal family trip”.

Last weekend the family went out, the light was quite pleasing, I had my D800 and a 85mm f1.8 lens with me and so I was following my own “ basic shumilova-rules”:[Read More…]

Kodak & Instagram: A Tale of Dollars & Sense

Oct 18, 2013 by Jeff Guyer 1 Comment

Instagram, the supposed “new face” of photography, celebrated its 3rd birthday earlier this month. What’s that? You weren’t invited to the party? Well, considering the usual fanfare and not-so-subtle ways in which the billion-dollar photo-sharing app usually marks its milestones, I’m actually kind of surprised that Instagram’s official entry into toddlerhood (or teens in internet years) came and went without even so much as a blip on our collective radar..

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