Inside Tour of Yuri Arcurs' Top Notch Photo Studio!

Amazing studio, but if it was up to me I would add some leg supports for flashes, why ? because its easier to have a flash behind the model with leg supports, makes it easier to hide the flash.
But AGAIN amazing studio, I want one.

Answer to all technical questions for Lenses and Sensors.

This website has everything, a curious photographer can spend days reading it.


There is a lens review with all the technical stuff included and also comparison of any 3 lenses that you can choose from most of the camera brands.


Just like the lens review, there is a part about camera sensors. Which I found amazing and really useful.

Here is the link.

http://www.dxomark.com

Terrible News for Turkish Bloggers.

Terrible News for Turkish Bloggers.

Blogspot or with the new name Blogger site is censored in Turkey. The reason of the censorship is because of Turkish bloggers using Blogs to broadcast football matches illegally. I don't know how much of this is true but, as a result of this, our so called law system in Turkey decided to take action or in other words banning the all Blogger website.

How this will effect me?
Not so much since I live in London, but this will effect me in summer since I like to spend my summers in Turkey.

Styling/Fashion Photography - All that Jazz (Student project - test shoot)

'Music sets up certain vibration which unquestionably result in physical reaction.' George Gershwin 

Even that I am a photographer, I was taught styling in London college of fashion.
With lots of help of my dear friend Ekaterina Nishanova, this was my first test/attempt of styling.

Inspiration - The Sartorialist

 

Source:  The Sartorialist

An amazing photo from London, and I love it. 

Photo taken by my favorite blogger Scott Schuman.

Bill Cunningham New York Trailer

Can't wait to watch this.

The Laugh

I was looking at the old photos that I have taken, and I found this one.

This pose wasn't planed on the shoot, while I was taking the photos, I said something to stylist and she started to laugh.

Drifter - Styling

Theme: Heritage
In this photo shoot the theme of Heritage was inspired by the traveling culture. The drifter collected a garment form each country she has visited.

Camera:Canon 5D 

Lens :28-70mm

Photographer: Rod Taite 

Hair & Makeup: Ruby Huang 

Stylists: Karen Savage, Bugra ERGIL (Bruce), Aashna Khurana, Ruby Huang, Penny Tu 

Model: Penny 

Nikon Girl music video

Room №12

Cameras used: Nikon D700, Canon 5D Mark II

Lenses: Nikkor 24-70mm, Canon 24-70mm 

Photographers: Bugra ERGIL (Bruce), Erhan OZTURK 

Stylist: Anastasia Taneeva

Model: Bodo

Hair & makeup: not recorded. 

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