I've been sitting in front of the computer for ten minutes now and I just don't know what to write about so I'll just put a picture I recently took for your viewing pleasure. Yup that's my New Year resolution, get out of the studio more often!
Beside that I've been watching the Nikon School's Guide to Creative Lighting DVD by Bob Krist and Joe McNally, two of my favorite photographers. I love Bob Krist's monthly articles in Outdoor Photographer magazine and Joe McNally is a master of lighting on location. The DVD is quite good at showcasing the ability of the NIKON CLS system and as a Canon shooter (mainly) I am a little bit jealous. But regardless of what brand of camera you are using, there are still a lot of knowledge on how to light on location in those videos.
I've also been catching up on David Hobby's Strobist DVD set of instructional videos on how to use off-camera flashes. Getting through the first or second disc was a pain as I already knew most of that stuff. I was really tempted to discard the rest of the set but I'm glad I didn't. I thought I knew a lot already but David Hobby taught me more. Good stuff.
Finally, I've been studying Chris Orwig's videos on Photoshop Retouching Techniques at Lynda.com. Chris is an excellent teacher (hailing from the Brooks' Institute of Photography) and if you want to learn more about retouching in Photoshop, he's the man.
That's it, learn on!
-TN
Those videos are great. I've watched them both several times. The Strobist ones are long, but the on-location stuff on the last 3 discs are good.
ReplyDeleteThat Nikon CLS is pretty sweet, one of the reasons I wanted to switch to Nikon. If you haven't check out their first CLS DVD called The Speed of Light. You can watch it for free on google video.
Yeah agree with Matthew last 3 strobists dvd aren't as dry as the rest. If you haven't watched them already, the One Light dvd's by Zack Arias are pretty good too. Just got bit by this strobist bug.
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