First of all we wish you all a very nice Christmas for the coming days, and would like to leave you with a post with some images I shot during last weeks workshop with Marie. Most were shot with the new Schneider T&S lens for the Phase/Mamiya system.

 

For the outside shots I used the following gear :
Elinchrom Ranger RX 1100 Watt/Second Kit with “A” Head
Elinchrom Skyport SPEED Transmitter (to control the output of the ranger)
Elinchrom Maxilite Reflector -16″, I highly recommend the maxi light for the simple reason it’s without a doubt one of the best modifiers for using outside, the light quality is very nice and crispy, but most of all it will give you app. 2 stops more output so your batteries run longer and recycling is much faster. If you’re shooting outside a lot this is a must buy.

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A while ago I got some questions about compositing.
At first I thought that this would not be something for me to teach, you know my motto “why fake it when you can create it”, however soon I realized that in some instances compositing would be the only option, and the more I experimented with it the more I fell in love with it, I do have to add that I did not do a lot of compositing yet for commercial work and things I post online but the options seem to be limitless and I’ve already got some nice ideas.

During Photoshop World I made sure to watch Joel Grimes doing his compositing work and of course chatted a lot with Matt Kloskowski during his visit to Professional Imaging last year (his books rocks by the way on the subject and I highly recommend you to buy that one). So the idea grew in my head to do something with this during a workshop, and a few weeks ago due to a weird combination of circumstances I got my change, original planned as a workshop Advanced II that workshop grew out to a compositing workshop and the students loved it. So we changed the title of workshop advanced II to Advanced II compositing and the theme for that workshop is now working with compositing.

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