Practicing Photoshop #1

Photoshop is one of the most important program/tool in fashion photography.
Even that the model, clothes, location, light etc . . . is perfect we still do photoshop, and since I started to work with people who are looking for unnatural results (by un natural I mean, different colour than the actual image) I started experimenting in photoshop.

Here is one of the photographs I worked on, in photoshop. I made roughly 7 of them and only this didn't give me cancer while I was looking at it. As they say 7th is the charm ???

I know my colour manipulation skills are incredibly bad, but as my father once told me "practice makes perfect" and I hope to reach there soon. . .

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Stylist: Klementine King
Makeup and Hair: Alice Howlett
Model: Claudia D.

D800 vs 5D MkIII (Crisislab)

So I posted the first part of this review months ago.
Now that I've seen all 2 parts, I just wanted to make a full post.
This guy is hilarious and he is testing + comparing both the cameras in a way I like. In my opinion more people in youtube should test, review, or compare products like this.
Anyways comparing crisislab comparison videos to other youtubers who are doing similar suff, all I will say is Crisislab videos are better and they know what they are doing.

Check out the videos on their website, they are funny and informative.
Here is a link to their website.  http://www.crisislab.com/

Shoot me like "Terry" - 5

After I helped my friend and colleague Olgac with Lighting, I snapped a photo of the lovely Model Madalina.

Also I noticed that some people are telling my my current style is moving towards the i-d magazine.

Camera: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Stylist: Marina de Magalhaes
Makeup Artist: Violet Zeng
Model: Madalina @Premier

Sinar 4x5 LargeFormat

Ever thought there is more in to photography then 35mm . . . Nikon Canon Digital cameras & Mamiya Hasselbald Medium Format cameras? 

Well I had my first Large Format experience last year, that day I sad to my self "This is awesome" but since I was in tight schedule I could not shoot my projects on Large Format.

Last week in my University we had a Large format workshop, although the work shop was all about Large format and shooing film in colour and B&W, we didn't use any traditional film. Instead of the Film we loaded up the cameras with 5x4 photographic paper and expose our images to that.

Since we were only 3 students who actually attended the class out of 35 students( Which should have been divided to 3 groups) we had one whole day workshop (3 students and 5 Large format cameras) which was really fun.

I've shot on photographic paper in Large format, thus it was a interesting thing to test on for me.

I found out that, shooting directly to photographic paper was resulting in really Contrasty black and white photos where we lose a lot of detail from blacks and grey tones, so my Tutor suggested that I should test on pre-exposing the paper in darkroom by using a projector.

 Here are the results  . . .
Note: Since to ASA of the photographic paper is extremely low like ASA3 i had to expose both the photographs about 4 seconds.

(This one above is Photographic paper with out pre-exposing)

(This one above is pre-exposed photographic paper)