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Peter Belanger: Complicated Shoots for Hi-Tech Products

M. Gertz — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:08:57 +0000

It’s no secret that product photography is a highly specialized field that requires a lot of technical knowledge, both for the shoot itself and for the post production. Hi-tech products, with their highly reflective surfaces and subtle textures, provide additional challenges. Watch, in the timelapse video above, as Peter Belanger tackles a shoot for the [...]

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From Bland to BAM Using a Single Light Source

M. Gertz — Thu, 16 May 2013 07:00:18 +0000

Think you can’t take great portraits with just a single, unmodified light source? Think again! Mark Wallace, for AdoramaTV, uses a Profoto D1 500 and some tricks involving a mirror to transform a bland, unflattering portrait into one with depth and pizazz. Unlike a magician, though, Mark’s happy to reveal his secrets. Watch the video [...]

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The Pro-B4 Wins the TIPA Award!

Fredrik Franzén — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) is an international, non-profit association supporting the interests of the photography and imaging magazine publishing industry. The association represents 29 independent photographic magazines. Each year the editors of the member magazines vote for the best products introduced to the market during the previous 12 months, taking into account innovation, [...]

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Behind the Scenes at Profoto: Tommy Sundström

Fredrik Franzén — Tue, 14 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

©Andrea Belluso Profoto is more than a brand and a line of products. It is also the place where some us work and spend our weekdays. Have you ever wondered who we are or what the thinking was behind the design of this or that piece of equipment? Then join us behind the scenes at [...]

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Fstoppers Pushing the Pro-B4

Ron Egatz — Mon, 13 May 2013 07:22:34 +0000

©Nick Fancher Here’s something we don’t see very often. When was the last time you saw two different types of water frozen in a photograph? Not frozen because of temperature, but frozen by incredibly fast flash duration? Our friends at Fstoppers are at it again. They’ve published a post by Nick Fancher detailing his test drive [...]

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Carol Weinberg on Halo Lighting

Ron Egatz — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:44:55 +0000

©Carol Weinberg Peter Kolonia has just published an impressive how-to piece on PopPhoto.com featuring the photography of portrait shooter Carol Weinberg. Wanting to shoot something special for her new site, Weinberg wound up with a dramatic portrait featuring halo lighting. A Profoto Pro Head was utilized from behind to create the halo effect. The main light [...]

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Corey Melton Photograph’s Jim Gaffigan’s Growing Family

Fredrik Franzén — Wed, 08 May 2013 06:58:00 +0000

If you think it is difficult to make one kid sit still long enough to get some decent shots, try photographing five. Fstoppers staff writer Corey Melton experienced this first hand when he was asked to shoot comedian Jim Gaffigan and his growing family for Jim’s new book Dad Is Fat. “I figured that this shoot [...]

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Part Breaking Bad, Part Ansel Adams, All James Weber

M. Gertz — Tue, 07 May 2013 07:25:10 +0000

© James Weber If you’ve been keeping up with Ian Ruhter’s Silver & Light series, you’ll definitely want to check out James Weber. Like Ian, James is using Profoto’s powerful strobes as a way to rejuvenate the wet plate collodion process. “Wet plate collodion is a chemical process as much as it is a photographic [...]

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Light Shaping Tool of the Month: Hardbox

Fredrik Franzén — Mon, 06 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

©Jean Gonzales Each month we highlight a certain item in Profoto’s rich assortment of Light Shaping Tools. (Previous articles can be found here.) This month we talk to Belgian photographer Jean Gonzales about an often-overlooked tool: the Hardbox. As the name suggests, the Hardbox is the opposite of a softbox. In other words, the Hardbox [...]

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Erik Isakson Mixes Sports, Water, and Flash

M. Gertz — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:13:46 +0000

Erik Isakson is a sports lifestyle photographer working out of southern California. Along with filmmaker Jason Maughan, he recently produced this behind-the-scenes video of a shoot he did with athletes and dramatic splashes of water. For the shoot, he used his PocketWizard FlexTT5 to trigger a couple of Profoto 8a strobes, which were placed behind [...]

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