Archive for the 'lighting' Category

After weeks of secret discussions and work I proudly announce now that Fenyertek.hu, our Hungarian photography tutorial portal has just started to operate.
We are aiming to fill in the itching lack of freely available photography related information in Hungarian. We are going to share videos, podcasts and written material about lighting in studio and on location, portrait, landscape and macro photography, retouching and whatever else comes up as a matter of interest from our readers.

If you speak Hungarian come and visit us. But even if you don’t, you might enjoy some of our videos.

If you know these two guys and haven’t seen it before watch the video below for a good laugh.

Found it on Joe McNally’s blog. Make your comments there.

Have you ever seen this online tool? It was new to me when I read about it in David Hobby’s tweets. It is what it looks like: an online Lighting Diagram Creator and it is free to use.

It is somewhat surprising for me to read a blog post from Chase Jarvis about lighting techniques. Not because he is not knowledgeable of the topic. He is definitely a master of his craft. However, over the time it became more of his blogging style to write about something more than just photography and its technical background.  For example, he recommended Paul Arden’s book which I purchased and inspired me a lot, and in an other post he encouraged us reading blogs rather about creativity, vision, mindset and approach.

What will poor McNally do if the young Jarvis takes everything over from him?

No, I still don’t have the book in my hands. The reason for that is that Hungary is a bit too far for Amazon. I’ve already ordered the book and hopefully will receive it in a matter of few weeks.
By that time I can read only David Hobby’s writeup on the book (he had the privilege to read it in PDF format) and the surprisingly lenghty excerpt here from Peachpit.

Are you planning to buy it?

Photographers often get inspirations from studying other artists’ works. My favorite media for that is still – even in the age of Internet – printed book. Nowadays I often have Ernst H. Gombrich’s The Story of Art, in my hands, which has seen several editions since the fifties, and is available mostly as used copies today.
No, in this book you cannot see magazin shots or commercial photographs from for example Annie Leibovitz, Joe McNally or Chase Jarvis. And yet, I find myself turning back to one or two great paintings of some painters. My current favorite is the Milkmaid from Jan (Johannes) Vermeer.
(I know that his most famous painting is the Girl with a Pearl Earring, but because very few would believe me that the original model of that picture was not Scarlett Johansson I write about some others. )

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