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On Location Photography

Outdoor Portraits with High Speed Sync

Let me tell you up­front: This video is not about us­ing your speed­light out­door as strong main light so that your pho­tos look like sur­re­al stuff from another plan­et, which is ob­vi­ous­ly lo­cat­ed in the a mul­ti-sun so­lar sys ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Michael's System for Good Light and a new Speedlight Giveaway

Thanks to my work for Good Light! Mag­azine I can give away one more pair of speed­lights. This time t ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Photography practise and Leica philosophy

Be­fore we start in­to the new year with new shiny light­ing set­up, please al­low me one post which is m ›
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Photography Ideas

Christmas Themed Photoshoot for GoodLight Mag

It's Thanks­giv­ing to­day! Hap­py Thanks­giv­ing! While ev­ery­body starts pre­par­ing for a de­li­cious and op ›
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Photography Ideas

Lingerie photos on stage - ideas for a tough setup

How to make some nice lin­gerie pho­tos of Emi­ly in un­der­wear, when there is al­ready a cou­ple of kilow ›

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Glamour Lighting Setups

One light low key body details

To­day we look at one more light­ing set­up which on­ly takes a cou­ple of se­conds to set­up yet it pro­duces posh and art ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Posing your pregnant model

Last time I showed you my ba­sic light­ing set­up for ma­ter­ni­ty pho­tog­ra­phy. To­day I am go­ing to add my best tips and ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

Lighting setup for the baby belly

My pho­tog­ra­phy cousins asked for much more in­for­ma­tion on shoot­ing baby­bel­lies, and I lis­ten. To­day I am go­ing to e ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Tips from a glamour photography veteran

Michael Char­les got de­cades of ex­pe­ri­ence, shoot­ing gla­m­our pho­tos for the gla­m­our in­dus­try. To­day he is go­ing with ›
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Photography Ideas

Beautiful baby bellies

One of the most re­ward­ing types or por­trait pho­tog­ra­phy you can do is preg­nan­cy por­traits. There is some­thing very ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Quick trick using Lightroom's graduated filter tool

Ap­p­ly­ing the 80/20 rule to pho­tog­ra­phy it might turn out that 80% of all im­prove­ments in post­prod­uct ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

Onelight clamshell lighting setup

One of the cur­rent trends in light­ing: The strong come­back of clamshell light­ing for fashion, beau­ty and just about ›
Glamour Photography Tips

Must Reads: Excellent Books and Videos for Glamour Photographers

There are quite a few publi­ca­tions which we can high­ly re­c­om­mend for any­one who likes to im­prove on gla­m­our pho­tog­ra­phy. Sure, they do cost a bit of mon­ey and you would prob­a­b­ly be able to find the in­for­ma­tion for free on­line some­where. But then again, it is so much more con­ve­nient to pick up a high qual­i­ty book or to watch a con­tent rich long for­mat video t ›
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Photography Ideas

A dozen light modifiers for free

To­day I am go­ing to show you how you can get your hands on a dozen of light mod­i­fiers with dif­fer­ent shapes and dif ›
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On Location Photography

Photo backdrop for (n)on-location shoots

Just imagine, two young, wild and ex­treme­ly cre­a­tive hair stylists styling a cou­ple of hair mod­els in your stu­dio. ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

No giant softboxes at hand? Use reflectors!

For­tu­nate­ly Or­twin Sch­nei­der was on holi­day. He is the own­er of the fan­cy Fo­to­mag­ic ren­tal stu­dio. T ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

Lighting setup for catalog photos

And here comes the light­ing set­up! A few week ago I was talk­ing to you about how pulling off a lit­tle fashion broch ›
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On Location Photography

Big concert photography in your small pub

Last video be­fore my Chi­nese New Year break! I hear some of you say: "Michael, why con­cert pho­to­grap ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Warm up your model with backlight photography

Be­fore Roger Fed­er­er is go­ing to play one of his glo­ri­ous ten­nis match­es he is... warm­ing up his bod ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

DIY high key lighting room

Say you want to shoot spec­tac­u­lar, charm­ing lin­gerie pho­tos with high key light­ing. You want a light­ing set­up which ›
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