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.  

Sasha and Linxi posing for bodyscapes, lightened with speedlights. We wrapped the Chinese models in christmassy, kitchy red giftwrap. That caters for a strong contrast in many respects and a sort of crossover between the eastern and the western culture.

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?

Linxi, Sasha and Ajiao posing under the speedlight in a simple hotel room

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.

Linxi posing between shower curtain and rimlighting speedlight

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.

Even for established professionals of beauty photography, let alone aspiring artists, it is sometimes hard to go through all the stages of photography production smoothly and with no hindering.

Ladies and Gentlemen of the class of 2010. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. Scientists say that the long term benefits are even bigger, if you stay clear of direct and hard sunlight. Those scientists would make awesome beauty photographers because their advice is SO TRUE – in our profession!

Sing!

How many large, body sized softboxes do you usually have with you, when you are on a trip in a foreign country? 5? Two? One? … None? Not a single softbox in your check in luggage? OK, no problem.
 

Setup Google Buzz and Google Profiles in a way, that helps you to get more eyeballs for your photographs. Since it is getting harder and harder to find an audience for a portfolio, it's important that you use social media to your advantage.