Concept Everywhere!

Concept... You hear this word in every photography genre. In any photography style you can made a concept photograph. But sometimes we don't see that concepts is everywhere around us. And the main thing is that you can made concepts yourself.

What is a concept photo? I think that concept is your personal idea which you are including in your art. What are you thinking about now? What problems you think you can include in a photo? These questions is the main in making such type of pictures.

So, just make your ideas live!

One Flash - Many Ways To Photographing

If you have only one flash or you can't use more flashes there is several means to use it and make pictures with good lighting.

The most simple is to raise up your strobe (it only works, if you're shooting in the room or hall with white ceiling). You'll see how soft the light is. But the disadvantage of this method is that you can't use it in big halls or outdoors.

The second way is to use that small equipment. Bouncer card helps you to make a fill light if you're taking photographs outdoor. Just place the speedlight in front of the model and direct it upward on 45 degrees to horizon. 

If you want to use only one flash and use some lighting schemes you can use the this small diffuser or big diffuser like this. Also you need a silver or white reflector (to hold it you must use a tripod or you call an assistant to the shooting time). The reflector is using to make shadows more softer.

Simple Photography Equipment

You know that all professional photographers have some simple gadgets whish helps them. Many of these little things you can make yourself.

One of them is bouncer card, which you can use on your speedlight. It is simply made of cardboard, white paper, glue and elastic. To make it, you must glue paper and cardboard together and put it on your strobe and fast it with the elastic.

The second great thing is used to make the light from your strobe more ambient. It is small diffuser. The materials you need are translucent fabric, and sticky tape. Made a cubic shape using your fabric or other material, than strengthen it with the sticy tape.

These stuff you can do at home and this costs more cheaper than the analogues, which you can buy at the photography shop.

101 Photoshop Tips in 5 Minutes by Deke McClelland

Awesome clip! It's very funny and very useful.

Visit Deke's website at http://deke.com/

You can download this video here. (right-click and choose "Save")

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P.S. It were very long holidays. And now I'm back! :-) So, there will be more great stuff in 2009!