Thu, 2010-07-29 19:10 | 
Are you shooting photos with your digital camera tethered to your laptop? Then it’s time well spent to quickly assemble your DIY laptop holder in 3 minutes or less. Trust me, it’s literally on a shoestring budget. With your laptop hanging nice and close on your tripod you avoid accidents like people stumbling over the USB cable. And it’s handy to have your screen really close to your camera.
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Want to see as much detail as possible on your computer screen when doing photo retouching? Use this little diagram to add a YinYang-like balance to your screen settings. The goal is that you can differentiate between subtle nuances of black and white – just like the Pro’s can do.
Once you take your speedlights out for a walk and shoot photos outside, even if you don’t go further than your own garden, then you will feel the need for wireless flash triggers such as radio remotes. Yes, they open up a whole new world of lighting. But these hot babies also might burn a hole into your wallet. Before you reach really deeeeeeep into your “Pocket“ and invest in “Wizards” of the well known brands you should have a look at the alternatives. You really should.
It’s Thursday again so I’d like to share with you a little treasure that I discovered this week. If you are using Speedlights then you wil want to know how to use them 100% reliable. And I found a little eBook that masterfully answeres exactly that need. As good as this is for you, for me that’s a tradgedy,
I know, I know, I’m lazy. So far I did post just once per month over here. Lame! Yesterday a reader told me that he is loving my videos but he never knows when to come back to the blog in order to see the next one.
That struck me. I suddenly felt like I’m doing half assed blogging over here. I don’t want anybody to check out the blog just in order to be disappointed because there is nothing new. I would like you to know exactly when you can expect some cool new stuff on this website so that it pays of for you to visit the site.
If I got the chance to shoot some awesome bodyscapes but I don’t have a striplight with me – should I let this chance just pass? Dude, no way!
When I was young, I’ve seen MacGyver on TV. Give that dude a ballpoint pen and a chewing gum and he will manufactor the wildest things out of it. A bomb, a laser or whatever he needs on his quest. So in situtation where I need a striplight but I just don’t have one I will ask myself: What would MacGyver do?
One of the rather dramatic beauty lighting setups is the one where light comes soft but directed right from above the model. That’s the light which makes a colorful punk hairdo really glowing. However, in the video below I use it for a slightly different purpose: It throws dramatic light onto my model and at the same time it lets the rest of the dizzy hotelroom that we are shooting in sink into dark black shade. Ain’t that handy?
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Nerdy computer scientists say, that nothing exists digitally unless it is stored in two physically separate locations. Imagine the precious photographs that you’ve just shoot, a whole days effort, a lot of unique pictures that would be impossible to reshoot and all of a sudden – they don’t exist anymore.
Would you like to give your bodyscapes the edge? With some deliniation light? This video is a little add-on to my previous video regarding how to use a showercurtain as a softbox for photoshoots.
One of the things that makes this weekend real fun for me is the 2nd Beta release of Photoshop Lightroom 3. It contains a ton of impressive improvements.