Joe McNally Photography- The Language Of Light DVD

About time He made a DVD about lighting, cant wait to watch it.

Behind the camera - Leather

How messy can chancing place get?

Hair&makeup artists working on model. We used tungsten lights (red heads) to have good light for hair and makeup and also to heat up the place. 

Photographers fun with umbrella & a model. 

London - Big Ben

One day I had hard time falling asleep then out of boredom I came near Big Ben and took this photo ate cheeseburger and head back home.

Big Ben at 12:25 am. 

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 70-200mm VRI 

The Hot Shoe Diaries

 

A book which explains you how to get great photographs by using small flashes such as Nikon SB800, SB900.

Now this is what I do on my location works if I dont have assistant. 

Not a Celebrity

Model: Liza Veroni

Behind the camera of "Not a Celebrity" shoot. 

This is what I call a home studio, when I turn my living room in to a medium format studio. (fun thing to do but not fun when you have to clean it up after)

Equipment I use in home studio: Kenro portable backdrop support, 800W Red Head Kit x2, 3x6 M black sheet as backdrop and also Multiblitz location flash kit which I didn't use in the photo above. 

Style hunting - Designer Behind the Camera

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 24-70mm 

My designer friend Chun Ming Chu, who is also colorful and stylish. 

Fashion Photography - Leather (student work - test shoot)

TEAM


Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
2nd photographer: Erhan Ozturk
Designer: Chun Ming Chu
Hair&Makeup artist: Hanson Chen
Hair&Makeup artist: Merubeth Hasfurther
Stylist and Art Director: Shin Ru Lu

Style hunting - Writer on the steps of Victoria & Albert - London

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens:Nikkor 24-70mm

The Drama Queen.

Photographer: Bugra Ergil(Bruce) 

Model: Lets call her DramaQueen  :) 

Camera: Nikon D2X

Lens:Nikkor 17-55mm 

ISO:200

Exposure: 1/100 sec at f/3.5

Lighting: 2 Red Head (continues light 800W) from 0° and 180°

Self portrait

I think this is the coolest self portrait of mine.

X-RAY photography.

 

This is a X-Ray of me was taken in 12.16.2004 Geneva-Switzerland. 

How to do:

1. Get in the Hockey team of the school.

2. Become a front player. 

3. Get hit on the face with a hockey stick

4. Go to the hospital and get a x-ray done to see if anything is broken.

50 Fashion Designers you should know.

This is a good source for stylists, but it is not a perfect book for referencing because there is only one page of written information per designer which is not enough in my opinion.

Photographing People

This amazing book about photography. In my opinion every photography student should have a copy of this book. A good source for technical lighting, however it is no substitute to testing and trying thing by yourself. 

 

DSLR Shutter Count

This is a question in every photographers mind when they are buying a 2nd hand Camera, How many photos are taken with this camera?

Well there are programs to do that for you. Some of these programs comes free and others comes with price. In both ways you have to have the program in your PC or Mac and not many people can bring their computers in to the place where they buy the 2nd hand camera.


On my "little" research I found a website that will do the same job online.


With this website you can take a test shot and upload the photograph on web to check, while you are still in the store.


Note: Make sure that you upload non-compressed RAW file or TIFF. (RAW is recommended)




Link: http://regex.info/exif.cgi/  (click here)

Da Grip ! - By:Joe McNally

Focusing left eyed brings your motor driven camera closer to your left shoulder. (Really Joe, no shit?!) That’s a good deal. If you swing your body around into something resembling a boxing stance, your left shoulder becomes a base, or a platform for the camera body. It also brings your center of gravity back under the camera. Also a good move.


(grip-left eye)

How to do.

Put the left mitt under the lens, or, if truly skinny on shutter speed whilst using a short lens, clap that puppy over your right hand gripping the camera. (Clap that puppy hahaha) Basically place the camera on your left shoulder. Tip: Not on the bone) 

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On the third photo he is not holding the lens, why? 
Some of the lenses such as 17-55mm (link) or 14-24mm (link), the photographer doesn't need to hold the lens all the time since there is not much the zoom and there is no aperture ring on the lens anymore. 






(Warning, warning! This camera grip is much more convenient and doable if you are left eyed and use a motor driven camera, which is obviously deeper, say, than a D70. So we’re talking a D300 with a grip, or a D3, that type of body. Also, the left eye thing. I just have always used my left eye. Dunno why.)(JOE) 






Da Grip by one of my favourite photographer Joe McNally. 

Fashion Photography - Location Trafalgar Square

Team: Erhan Ozturk(Photographer), Bugra Ergil [Bruce,(Lighting).], Aigul Sembayeva(Stylist), Pace Chin(Hair&makeup), Jay Cullen(Model).

Camera: Canon 5D MarkII

Lens:Canon 70-200mm IS-2 

Special thanks to Caffe Nero staff in Trafalgar Square - London, for helping us.

Mission LCF - behind the camera

We are not permitted to use tripod for flash in the corridor because of safety reasons. So we ended up using our friend Varun. 

My colleague Erhan is setting the flash power. Looks like he will give a kiss to flash.

Oxford(model) is trying to warmup.

Fashion Photography - Location Library (test shoot)

Team:

Photographers: Erhan OZTURK, Bugra ERGIL Bruce,

Stylist: Aigul SEMBAYEVA

Hair & Makeup artist: Pace CHIN

Models: Laura, Sofie

Host: Bugra ERGIL-aka Bruce

Location: 20 John Prince's street.

Camera: Canon EOS 5D mark II

Lens: Canon 70-200mm IS2

List of Cameras I tried or worked with

          

• Nikon D80   (Link)
• Nikon D90   (Link)
• Nikon D200   (Link)
• Nikon D300s   (Link)
• Nikon D700  (Link)
• Nikon D2X   (Link)
• Nikon D3X  (Link)

• Canon 450D   (Link)
• Canon 500D   (Link)
• Canon 5D Mark II   (Link)
• Canon 1Ds Mark II   (Link)

• Mamiya RZ67 with Leaf Aptus 65 Digital Back (Link)

• Bronica ETRS 645   (Link)
• Minolta X700 (Link)
• Nikon FM2 (Link) 
• Nikon F100 (Link) 
• Pentax K1000 (Link)

I wish I could learn this way.

You will get it of you seen Matrix.

Fashion Photography - Mission LCF

TEAM:Erhan Ozturk(Photographer),Bugra Ergil-aka Bruce(Assistant Photographer),Varun Suresh(Assistant),Ekaterina Nishanova(Stylist),Natalia Oginskaya(Makeup and Hair),Samuel 'Oxford' Nielsen (Model)

Host: Bugra ERGIL (aka Bruce)

Location: 40 Lime Grove LCF

Camera used: Canon EOS 5D MarkII

Lens: Canon 70-200mm IS 2

Fun at the END of studio work.

After 6 hours in studio, I decided to take a photograph to keep the memory of that day.

Its fun to do these things at the end, after all  we are doing what we love to do. 

Camera used: Nikon D700

Lens:Nikkor 24-70mm 

Camera I will be getting soon . . .

Nikon D3  didn't happen :(

• Nikon's original FX-format CMOS image sensor with 36.0 (H) x 23.9 (V) mm image size; 12.1 effective megapixels

• Compatible with three image-sensor formats – FX format (36 x 24), 5:4 (30 x 24) and DX format (24 x 16)

• Sensitivity range ISO 200 to 6400 at normal setting for exceptionally high-quality images; can be set to ISO-equivalent 25,600

• Incorporates Nikon's original EXPEED digital image processing concept

• Nikon's original Scene Recognition system, utilizing the 1,005-pixel RGB sensor, greatly improves autofocus, auto exposure and auto white balance performance

• New 51-point autofocus system features 15 cross-type sensors that maximize the potential of lenses with apertures as small as f/5.6

• High-speed continuous shooting at approx. 9 frames per second [FX format (36 x 24)/5:4 (30 x 24)]/approx. 11 fps [DX format (24 x 16)] ^*1

• Newly employed Picture Control System enables creation of desired picture with preferred tones

• Accurate focal-plane contrast AF^*2 available with built-in Liveview mode

• Wireless Transmitter WT-4^*3 (optional) realizes wireless connection of cameras with a PC, enabling thumbnail display of images taken with up to five of them, and downloading of images selected

• CF card double slot accepts two CF cards

• Quick response with approx. 0.12 sec. startup time and 37 ms Shutter-release time lag

• Viewfinder with approx. 100% frame coverage and approx. 0.7x magnification in FX format

• High-definition (920,000 dots), 170˚ viewing angle, 3-inch VGA LCD monitor with tempered glass

• Active D-Lighting optimizes tone reproduction in both shadows and highlights
• *1
  With Continuous-servo AF, S or M exposure mode, shutter speed 1/250 sec. or faster; other settings are set at "Default".
• *2
  When Tripod mode is selected.
• *3
  Specifications differ depending on country or area.

Fashion photography - Tendresse

Theme: Tendresse  

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (aka Bruce)

2nd photographer: Erhan Ozturk

Stylist: Aigulya Sem

Model: Dairya Pitenko 

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 24-70

Lady in RED, behind the camera.

 

This was my friends photography assignment in London College of Communications(LCC).  We came up with this clothing and style after 6 hours of drinking TEA and brainstorming.

Camera used D2X

Lens: Nikkor 17-55mm 

Nikon 24-70 F2.8 N Light Leak Problem

Its a big shock, I tested it my self and it is true.
Its ok when its at 50mm but when its 55 or 54 maybe it has this light leak.
That makes me think, should I buy sigma or fix the nikon lens?





Nikon Help Hotline Says "ITS YOUR FAULT" Click and watch
In my point of view, nikon should have made it better!!! The lens costs around 1100 quid and it cant even endure hot and cold weather?


But again I don't point my lens under studio flash and set the camera into high ISO and shoot. I'm always at ISO 200(digital), 160(Kodak Porta), 100(Fuji Provia)

Fashion Photography - Geisha - 芸者

Team

Photographer: Bugra ERGIL (aka Bruce)

2nd Photographer: Erhan Ozturk

Stylist: Ekaterina Nishanova 

Hair & Makeup: Natalia Oginskaya

Model: Alexandra Zhargalova 

Camera: Nikon D700

Lens: Nikkor 24-70mm

Style Hunting - London - Brick Lane Market

I Love this place, cool, nice, good and stylish people every where. 

Camera: Nikon D2X

Lens:Nikkor 18-105mm 

Jan Svankmajer: Dimensions of Dialogue Part 2

Jan Svankmajer Dimensions of Dialogue Part 1

Dimension of dialogue part 1

Dir: Jan Svankmajer

Glossary of light terms.

Useful information.