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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 any­thing.Does this mean you need to take a trip to the sea­side and pick up some clamshells? Not at all. It just means you should pow­er up your one speed­light, open up your sh ›
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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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Photography Ideas

Sweet Catalogue Photo Business

This is the last post of 2011. The next video for im­prov­ing your pho­to skills will be post­ed here on Thurs­day, Janu ›
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On Location Photography

Boudoir Photography Tips for Speedlights

Where ev­er you go, there’s al­ways a be­d­room some­where. It’s ready to act as your stu­dio for an awe­some bou­doir ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Heaven sent: Radio trigger for Canon Speedlites

If you are a Canon shoot­er, take a look at what for me is the “Gear of the Year”. If you are a N ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

Triangle: simple lighting technique, kickass punchy light

Here’s a pret­ty sim­plis­tic ap­proach for an in­ter­est­ing stu­dio light­ing. In a way it is my an­sw­er t ›
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Glamour Lighting Setups

Speedlights as backlight for “Star” photos

Please note: I am go­ing to take a cou­ple of weeks off from blog­ging for per­so­n­al rea­sons. I'll sen ›
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Photography Ideas

Show for new photo ideas - today's topic: Sexy Smell

Do you need new pho­to ideas? Here’s a new one of mine. And I am go­ing to ex­plain to you why ›
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On Location Photography

Fireplace images powered by grilled speedlight

A fire­place is a won­der­ful thing! Warm and cozy, smelling good, crack­ling nice­ly. But does it make ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Skin vs. latex, or the forgotten concept of 5 lighting zones

I feel like peo­ple who have a fetish should cele­brate that and en­joy it and yes, my heart is wide ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Shooting hair photos with Toni&Guy and cousin Saint Exupéry

Good news: we are nom­i­nat­ed for the awards - so wish us luck. Which award? Ex­act­ly! I tend to forg ›
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Photography Success

The climate change in the photography business landscape

Let’s say from to­day on you are go­ing to shoot ex­cel­lent im­ages - just like the grand mas­ter ›
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On Location Photography

Having a one-light-stand, in the hotel...

&hel­lip; on the floor. Now why do­ing it on the floor when ho­tels are usu­al­ly known for their com­fo ›
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Glamour Photography Tips

Why I never ever use a light meter in my photo shoots

Maybe you are one of the pho­to­g­ra­phers lov­ing to use a light me­ter when sett­ing up stu­dio light. T ›
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