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Basic Lighting for Portrait Photography 

Submitted by Michael on Fri, 2013-05-17 16:18

I love, love, love the attitude of Ed Verosky's new eBook "Basic Lighting for Portrait Photography". It starts with the sentence "No matter what your budget or how limited your work space or experience level, you should be able to use this book to create great portrait lighting immediately." Read more »

Good Light! Magazine Issue 04 packed with photography tips and tricks  

Submitted by Michael on Sat, 2013-04-13 23:46

I am very proud of our latest issue.

 

First things first. Add a quick comment underneath the latest Lighting Setup Tutorial before April 28th 2013, in order to secure your chance to win a brand new Phottix Mitros Speedlight in our speedlight giveaway!
 
Newby , beginner, amateur, pro – no matter where you are on your path within photography, issue 04 of Good Light! Magazine will certainly provide you with new tips, tricks and inspiration that you can leverage in your work.
 
From an Adobe Lightroom preset which simply turns your photos into Neo Noir style up to a case study of how a team of pro’s goes about producing a fashion piece - it’s all in there. Like to see some details? Then watch me browsing through the mag together with Cousin Sebi , our editor.
 

 

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Phottix Mitros TTL Speedlight Unboxing 

Submitted by Michael on Mon, 2013-03-18 22:17

 

The LCD of the Mitros displays a ton of very useful information.

Well, yes, it was me who said that I will never do something as stupid as an unboxing video. But when I got my hands on the new Phottix Mitros Speedlight, well, I just could not resist. I filmed the unboxing. However, I while unboxing I am talking about this new awesome flash and hopefully I can provide you with the one or the other useful tidbit of information. Read more »

Boudoir Photography on Kindle 

Submitted by Michael on Tue, 2012-10-30 23:03

For the Kindle fans amongst us photographers

My favorite way to read a book is nowaday the Amazon Kindle. I am sure that this year a whole lot of Kindle Fire HDs will find make new readers happy after Christmas. It’s important for me to offer them a way to download Read more »

Download your free movie poster template 

Submitted by Michael on Sat, 2012-09-01 23:22

Free Movieposter Template when signing up for our newsletterWould you like to make your boudoir models really proud? Drop your best photo of them into this slick movie poster template. Add their name, your name, your website address and credit other people who helped in your photo shoot. Then save it as a JPG and post it to their facebook page. Let their friends go wild about it and let your name and your website address go viral.

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I need the new Atlas II radio triggers 

Submitted by Michael on Sun, 2012-08-26 16:32

Phottix just released the 2nd generation of their awesome Atlas Radio Trigger. I really can’t wait to get my hands on them. Not only are they supposed to work rock solid at 1/250s sync speed within a range of 350 meters, which is an insane distance for a flash trigger, but they also come with one feature that I have been desperately waiting for: Read more »

His Paintings Beat My Photos 

Submitted by Michael on Fri, 2012-08-17 23:55
Painting

It's not just a saying, but I really believe that one of the reasons why I am a photographer is, that I am not good at drawing and painting. To be perfectly honest I totally suck at both. Not that I did never try and practice. We did all this stuff in art lessons at college.

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Is Lightroom Really Loosing Files? 

Submitted by Michael on Fri, 2012-08-10 13:47

Lightroom custom filter

I've been working with Lightroom since version 1 and to date it did not loose or screw up a single photo of mine. However, some times there are horror stories of users

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Creative Business Cards 

Submitted by Michael on Thu, 2012-08-09 22:46

This interesting little post of Michael the Maven got me thinking. Usually I am old school when it comes to business cards. I believe they have to look slick, clean and professional in order to do what I want them to do: lead a new prospect to contacting me in order to do business. But maybe I am just not creative enough and maybe Michael has the better approach:

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Should I go on and make a video... 

Submitted by Michael on Mon, 2012-06-11 00:50

 

Is it OK to show two models in a video, one of them female, the other one male (at least most probably)?

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