Back in May I had posted on this blog about a photoshooting I did for a new magazine in Berlin. Well they published my pictures in their first issue which came out mid-July. I hadn’t posted the pictures on this blog, so I am glad to show them to you here as they were published in Magazine F:

It is not always easy to find websites or blogs where you can read about the production of good photography. I was quite happy when I came across the following blog the other day and read how the photographer gave a detailed insight into the production of very nice images. Definitely worth taking a look!

http://www.studioxil.com/

And for those of you who like sharing, here is a blog where anybody can upload their light tests. You will be surprised by the high profile pictures there.  A good source for inspiration and for learning.

This post is a bit off topic, but hopefully interesting nonetheless. While I was in New York I brought my camera and spent one evening taking night pictures, generating some extra content for the stock agencies. Here is one pic I took of Brooklyn Bridge. It’s not difficult to take nice night pictures in New York. Just find a good spot, set your tripod and take a few shots until you find the right exposure.

I shot this one at F3,5 with 1,3 seconds exposure @ISO200. I tried different combinations but this one ended up pleasing me the most.

This is what the picture looked like before I post-processed it in Photoshop. You will notice straight away that I played around with colored filters to give it the blue look. It was fairly simple, and if you experiment with Color Balance, Selective Color and Curves you should achieve similar results

And for the really curious, here is me taking the picture

Things have been very calm on this blog the past weeks. The holiday season and traveling really relaxed me. But now I am back and things should shake up again. There are no shootings planned for the next weeks since I am working on post-processing and similar, so there will not be so many blog-posts.

The holidays gave me an opportunity to learn more about the video possibilities of my Canon 5D Mark II. There really is a lot of potential for creative work and it seems like there are going to be some big changes in the market in the years to come.

Check out this interview with Vincent Laforet where he states that video will become a very important part of a photographer’s work

And for those of you who speak German, here is an interview of stock photographer Jonathan Ross emphasizing that video footage will be the way the stock market will develop in the near future.

Are we seeing a repeat of the impact microstock photography had on the photography market? This time with video?

And here my very first video. We have to start learning somewhere