Photography Adventures : May 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010

My First time in StillLife studio.

I call this the fruit photo shoot.
The stylists idea was to combine the colors of the fruits and vegetables with garments or accessories. I helped her on setting the layout to get the best result on the photograph.

Camera I use

The quality of the image is depending on photographers skill with the camera ''Be in control of your camera''.These days the companies are producing lots of new thec camera that almost can do any thing. I'm a Nikon user and I'm using Nikon D2X (5yr old), I'm really happy with it. I think its just what I need, no more no less just D2X, since 80% of my work is in studio I don't need a camera that can do every thing for me. So far D2X gets the job done.

For those who will ask ''why don't you use film camera?'' cuz I cant just bother chancing films in the middle of photo shoot.

All Changed Look at the link here

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Adobe Photoshop CS5 - Revolution

about time.

Friday, May 21, 2010

magazine project The cover

made and edited by Nicola Sibley

Re-edited by Bugra Ergil (aka bruce, bubu)

cymk.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

B/W just for fun

Testing the flash on my Teddy Bear.

Liza in Holborn Tube station.

She is one of the person who writes for Fashion Business Terminal.

Liza in Istanbul.

photographer: Bugra Ergil (aka bruce, bubu)

Monday, May 17, 2010

Metamorphosis ISLAM

The caterpillar grows in to cocoon and than becomes a beautiful butterfly, this is called metamorphosis the cycle of change in physical form.

The story in here is opposite.

Photographer & Stylist: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Model: Jenny

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Portrait

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (aka:Bruce, bubu)

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Behind the camera

Me in action. Photo by: my friend Jenny.

The hands which comes from darkness to fix the models hair and accessories.

Styling teacher in action, she will kill me if she finds her pics are on web.

Before every shoot the model sits at the make-up room minimum of one hour.

The studio that I used every mondays for 8 months. The flash support looks wrong.

recycle dress for my friend Amy and her portfolio.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

q for Queen 2

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (aka:Bruce, bubu)

Q for queen 1

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (aka:Bruce, bubu)

Friday, May 7, 2010

babyDoll 2

BabyDoll 1

Another day in studio

Model: Su Karaman (she has nice hair)

As a student I like to learn through experimenting.

In my school the students are allowed to book studios for free and use some amazing equipment with out paying anything for example large format film cameras, almost all the Nikon and Canon D-SLR cameras, many different flashes and flash heads etc, etc.

This photo came from the day that I wanted to experiment on back drops and flashes. There was no topic, theme, stylist, hair & make-up artist, I just wanted to take photos and see how they come up.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

photographing people, Learning through trying

Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/29

ISO 100

Flash: 1 snoot flash

Backdrop: Black Cotton curtain folded in two layers

Exposure:1/60 sec at f/8

ISO200

Flash: 1 soft box

other:1 white reflector

Modelling is not as easy as it looks, the model has to know how to act or how to change his or her mood, some times the model has to stay in a uncomfortable position. For photographers models are just an object in-front of the camera, this doesn't change the fact that the model is still a human. So try to make them feel comfortable. How ? take little breaks on the photo shoot when model has to be in a complicated positions, or have a blanket or two if its a bikini shoot in studio, to keep model warm.

When you are choosing the model, you need to tell: what he/she will be wearing, where the shoot will be, what she will be doing. If he/she agree with the terms, confirm the time and date.