Bored in Photography Studio.

Let me tell you guys the story behind this photo. A photographer friend of mine booked a studio for her shoot but somehow the shoot got cancelled in last day. So she had the studio to her self for 6 hours. Because of the school rules she has to be there if she doesn't want to get fined. So she called Anup (my friend) and I to chill and do different light setups in studio and play around. 

The studio has 5 Strobes, and 2 redheads (redheads are 800w tungsten continues lights) 

I piked the redheads and positioned like in the way shown in my sketch below. (damn bad handwriting) 

Since they are fixed powered, 800W all the time I used the barn doors and distance to position them. 

Main light was away from the subject and had narrow barn doors, and I added another one almost from the same angle but closer to subject with the barn doors wide open to get highlights which will add more dimension to photograph. 

It took me less than 3 min to set up the lights and get this result :D 

Fashion Photography - AUTOMATIC - LookBook

Here is a sneak-peek of my shoot with Sarmite  Ostanevica.


Some of the Photographs will be shown in the exhibition.

Weather Sealed D700

As you might know yesterday 04.02.2012 Saturday was a snowy day in London, it was a big deal for many people since they haven't seen much snow in their life however, I found that was a great opportunity to test my D700 on weather conditions like that.
I used my D700 on a mountain which was very cold, in a really hot and humid Island at the Aegean Sea, under rain in London, but never at under the snow.
So I got the D700 and 50mm 1.4 G lens and head out side. The result is Camera is Put Together well, the camera nor the lens didn't have any problem at all, worked perfectly.

Here is a snap of how D700 looks like when I was back home.

Too bad all the snow on the Camera melt as I stepped in the house. 

After a Fashion Shoot

So 2 days a go, I shoot a look book for a designer friend of mine (Sarmite Ostanevica). And that shoot was a great opportunity for me to take my Mamiya to a teset and see what is my Baby can do. (I already know what it can do, I used it before but never used my own before) it feels great to use your own camera, way better than renting it.

In the shoot, I used D700, F100, and Mamiya RZ67. The reason I used all 3 cameras are simple. 

1. D700 to get instant results in Capture One in Imac and Digital files are fast, from camera to Photoshop 
2. F100 to use transparency film and get slides if necessarily. 
3. I just love the 6x7 images that comes from Mamiya.  

13 exposed rolls from Mamiya (130 photos)

4 exposed rolls of Slide film 

and 18 GB of Digital Data. 

Photoshop will take forever O_O 

New Toy Mamiya RZ 67 Pro II

Finally I found what I was looking for, my very own clean almost unused Mamiya RZ67 Pro II.

The reason why I wanted this camera and why buy it?

1. My current school has 3 Mamiya RZ67 Pro II and a digital back, but I cant always know if they are available & I will not be a student forever.
2. This camera can be  film, Polaroid, or digital. just change the backs.
3. I love the results from a 6x7 camera, specially the portraits.
4. Medium Format cameras are a lot better for fashion and beauty shoots.
5. These cameras doesn't get old that easy.
6. It has a leaf shutter with the RZ lenses which allows camera to have 1/400 sec sync speed.

Also I changed my favorite C-41 negative to Porta. Now on Fashion I will be shooting Kodak Portra 160 with my Mamiya, Juji Provia 100F with my F100.

The reason I don't use Ektar is the Hasselblad flextight scanner I use, has the color profiles and presets for all portra negatives but doesn't have anything for Ektar. Also I find Ektar to give too orange skin colours.

Sarah Moon is a master of photography

Just Listen . . .

Fashion Photography - Olympian Goddess

This is a Photo from Olympia project which was given to us by Perry Curties. 

Wendy kept the styling clean and simple, wich looks great with the theme. 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)

Stylist: Wendy Ford

Hair & Makeup: Laura Kate Rzeminiecka       

Model: Winter

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 70-200mm VR II

Light: 1 Large SoftBox 

Fencing with Cucumber - Urban Olympics

Something I played when I was a kid ... fencing with any long object in my hand. I bet any boy who watched or read about the 3 Musketeers done the same.


Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Stylist: Wendy Ford
Makeup artist: Sandy Monica
Model: Michael
Assistant: Anup Kumar Pandey

Press Pause Play

Recently I've written a essay about Fashion Journalism "In what ways internet changed fashion journalism" and some how in my research I come up to a documentary film that interested me a lot.

The Documentary Films title was Press Pause Play showing how the internet, technology changed the industry. 

I would recommend this film to any one who is interested in videography, photography, music, art, digital world, and media. 

By the way this film is literally every where on web, free download, watch at YouTube . . . etc 

Is this how THE SARTORIALIST works ?

I like Scott's style of photography, by saying that I mean I like the result of his photography. But I didn't know he was shooting like this. I always imagined he was shooting in more natural ways.

Update: 22nd April 2012

Interesting, looks like some one didn't like to share how Scott was actually working, or some one didn't want others to share. 

Shooting with Film

This photograph is taken by Kodak Ektar 100 ISO, Bit too orange on skin tones don't you think?  There is no editing, manipulating, retouching, only re-sized. straight from the scanner.

Photographer: Bugra ERGIL (Bruce)
Stylist: Wendy Ford
Hair & Makeup: Laura Kate Rzeminiecka
Model: Winter

Camera: Nikon F100

Lens: Nikkor  24-70mm 

Film: Kodak Ektar 100 ISO 

Film Scanned by: Flextight X1

Urban Olympics (student work - test shoot)

This is one photo from my Olympia project which was given to me and my classmates from Perry Curties the editor in chief of 125 magazine.   

Lights: 2 SoftBox 61cm square(singel defuse) with SB900   at 1/2 power 

Camera : Nikon D700 with 24-70 lens.

Exposure: 1/100 sec at f11 - ISO 200

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) 

Stylist: Wendy Ford

Hair and Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemieniecka 

Model: Audrey 

Joe McNally "The magician of the light!"

Nikon CLS :: Joe McNally from Bertrand Haulotte on Vimeo.

Its amazing how he gets everything right in the camera, like the grey sky, put gels on the flashes and have your white balance set to  tungsten. 

Medium format night out

All right, so last year Erhan and I booked a Mamiya RZ67 PROII with 120 film back for a photoshoot. We got all the 120 color films but we ended up using the Leaf Aptus 65 digital back. After the shoot we had our usual snack go back home smoke sisha drink beer, finish the retouching. Then we realized that we didnt use any of the color film we bought for the shoot. So we decided to take the Mamiya out in London and somehow we ended up in embankment at 4 am.

Today 20.10.2011 I find these negatives while I was looking through my negatives box and decided to scan them.

Here are the results

Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

Looks interesting and fun. My sister would love this.

Also this can be useful to me for recording or documenting behind the camera at location shoots, or any photographer who wanna have an interesting view of concert, fashion show, behind the fashion show, or any crowded event. 

360 project - Krump & Ballet

KRUMP 360 (The 360 Project) from Zelig Sound: Composition & Sound on Vimeo.

BALLET 360 (The 360 Project) from Zelig Sound: Composition & Sound on Vimeo.

The 360 Project - Behind the Scenes from Zelig Sound: Composition & Sound on Vimeo.



Its amazing how they did it. Really inspiring project.
A similar method was used in "The Matrix" but it was in half circle instead of 360 degree. 

Heaven to Hell - David LaChapelle

Heaven to hell is one of the books that a fashion photographer should have in his / her library or bookcase. The book does not contain any technical aspects of fashion photography. Its a book to look at it and to be inspired.

UnderWater Photography - COLORS

As you may know during the summer I had LOTS of Free Time and put that free time in to good use and become a diver. It wasn't easy as easy as I imagined . . . Well theory and practice part was easy but my teachers were from military so they were strict & hard. When I took the under water photography course I learned that colors lose contrast or completely change or disappear under water.

The picture above shows in which depth colors change or disappear. (the writing is in Turkish but still you can understand)

Between 3 - 4.5  meters and below RED
In 9 meters and below ORANGE
In 18 meters and below YELLOW
Between 27 - 46 meters and below GREEN
In 46 meter BLUE
Under 46 meter DARK BLUE and PURPLE

The colors that are lost can be seen in light. So if the diver has under water light or under water flashgun for the camera then he can capture the true colors by lighting them.

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Another year

Holidays are over and now I'm back home in London.
I don't know if I should be happy or sad, because I was having fun time In Turkey Doing nothing and now I'm in London which means no more laziness.

I already started preparing for my course by cleaning my cameras, lenses, buying lots of 35mm film.

Why film?
Film photography was and is the original way of photography but that doesn't make digital photography fake, digital just made everything EASIER. How ever After I watched (Annie Leibovitz: Life through a lens) I saw that in her photoshoots she uses Digital and Film both in 35mm and medium format. That inspired me on doing the same, getting each outfit with digital and then film. This way I document my shoots in digital and solid way.

By the way that's how my fridge looks like today. I was thinking of buying a mini fridge just for the Films but I think there are better things that I spend my money on these days.

I will be using Kodak Ektar 100 ISO film in all my fashion shoots, and any other 35mm film for my personal use or test shoots.

Update ! ! !

Update: Lighting Setups from my sketchbook.

Click here.

2D Photography Rube Goldberg

In Holidays & Vogue Turkey

To my readers :)
I will be having my summer holidays and very soon be working with Vogue Turkey so I wont be able to post as much as I used to.

UPDATE: Done with VOGUE, on Holidays now. (Friday 15th July 2011)

But let me tell you I already missed London, the Darkroom, studios, all the creative people I work with, working till late with photographs.

One cool thing, Blogger is unbanned in Turkey, I just found out today.  ! ! !

Fashion Editorial - Dark Side of the Fairytale (University Project Shoot)

Why the Leica M is so unique

LCC Exhibition

I went to Round About Upside Down exhibition at LCC (London College of Communication) and I came across something interesting. Most of the photographers had their business cards near their photographs and on some of the cards they have a sample of their photographs.


Here how it looks, Click on the photos to enlarge.

Behind the Camera - Before the shoot happens, Dark side of the fairytale

All the team.
Makeup artist: Su
Hair stylist: Monica
Stylist: Bella
This is the small hair and makeup room near the studios.

 Monica working on Models hair.

Su doing the models makeup.

Nostalgie with Fashion Photography

Photos are taken with Minolta X700 and 75-200mm lens. 
Film Fuji Superia color 200 ISO.
Photos are developed and scanned by me and not edited.

Nikon D700 vs Nikon F5 analogue

Digital VS Film

I wanna point out 1 thing which wasn't a part of the video.
D700 is 12mp digital camera and look at the size of the print, this goes to people who thinks more megapixels means bigger prints.

Fashion Photography - Dark Beauty

Here is a sneak-peek of my current project called Dark side of the FAIRYTALE. I will write more on how we come up with the idea later.

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Assistant Photographer: Erhan Ozturk
Stylist: Isobella D.
Assistant Stylist: Flora M.
Makeup Artist: Su Yong Shim
Hair stylist: Sandy Monica
Model: Idina