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Happy Holidays 2016 from the dPS Team

28 Dec

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Merry Christmas from the team at dPS! It’s Christmas day already in Australia where most of the team is based, and we’d like to wish you the happiest of days from all of us here at dPS.

Thank you for being a regular reader and fan of dPS and for helping us to be able to continue to provide photography education for you and other photography enthusiasts. However you celebrate this holiday season, we hope you have a good one.

Cheers!

By Jake Vince

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Mood Boards: Communicate Your Ideas To Your Creative Team

23 Jul

This is the time to hear out others opinions (if you’re open to them, which →

Shooting With Your Creative Team & Post Production Once everyone on the creative team and everything for the shoot is confirmed, I’ll reach out to agencies and find a girl that suits the idea. This isn’t always the case. Oftentimes you’ll see a model and be inspired by their look.
Planning A Shoot With A Creative Team I’m going to walk you through some of the planning behind my editorial for Kenton Magazine, “Surrealia,” however, the same basic principles apply to planning a test.
Reaching Out To Modeling Agencies Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers! Here’s a crash course in testing with agency models. First, you have to have the type of images an agent would like to see. Agencies like to see clean photos:
Working With A Creative Team What exactly is a creative team? It’s a group of people there to aid in the production of a shoot. Everyone has their purpose and is there for the same reason – to create some beautiful imagery! The larger a production is, the more people are on the creative team.
Concept To Creation: Turn Inspiration Into Concept You have an idea, great. How do you turn that idea into a set of images? Can it be turned into a picture narrative/story? Now that you have your base idea, it’s time to do some research!
Concept To Creation: Finding Inspiration We’re going to look at something a bit more conceptual. I can give advice and guide you, but ultimately it’s your job to really dig in and put it all together.
The 1920s Shoot With Celeste Van Rooyen FashionPhotographyBlog.com caught up with Photo of the Week winner, Celeste van Rooyen. Celeste originates from Cape Town, South Africa but had lived in London for 3 years, then studied wine making in Stellenbosch, South Africa and worked in the wine industry before moving to Dubai where she is now based. Her work has also been printed in OK, Shape &…
The Workflow Process With Jonathan Skow Vinpix joins us again on FBlog. He took Jonathon Skow aside to find out how the photographer processes his workflow when shooting for the “Trina Turk” range.

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Planning A Shoot With A Creative Team

18 Jul

Plan a shoot!

Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers,

Last time we discussed what is a creative team and how to find one. Once you have assembled your creative team, it’s time to plan a shoot together. I’ll be using the experience from one of my previous shoots to talk about this process.

I’m going to walk you through some of the planning behind my editorial for Kenton Magazine, “Surrealia,” however, the same basic principles apply to planning a test.

Get Inspired!

Come up with a concept and do your research. The idea behind this shoot started when talking to an illustrator, and good friend, Matt Tedford. (Check out his work, he’s awesome!) We wanted to collaborate on an editorial so took some time to sit down and look at other editorials which incorporate illustration.

These were our two favorites:

– Defragmentation of Beauty by Marcin Tyszka for 25 Magazine

– Abbey Lee Kershaw by Greg Kadel for Numero

One thing we planned on doing was to use seamless and have a simple background. This way nothing detracts from the illustration. This idea of a non-distracting background was apparent in both the editorials we favored and reaffirmed our initial plan.

By dissecting what we saw in our two favorite stories, together we decided on a general direction for where the illustrations should go. From Greg Kadel’s images, we loved the use of bright pops of color and cutouts around the model. From Marcin Tyszka’s shoot, we loved the organic, free feeling the illustrations had and the use of line. I left a lot of the illustration to Matt, without too much guidance, because I trust his aesthetic. Good thing too, it turned out amazing!

marcin-tyszka-25-magazine Marcin Tyszka

abbey_lee_kershaw-numero-magazine-shot-by-greg-kadel Greg Kadel

Find your team

After deciding on what type of style we want for illustration, we decided to keep the clothing simple as to not distract or fight with the artwork to be added later. Being a bit inspired by Givenchy’s Spring 2012 collection and current trends, we decided on high contrast clothing and the use of the peplum. Simple, classic and chic. Hair was to be simple, down with beautiful curls and body. Makeup was decided to be pretty natural with a light smokey eye to define the face a bit, in order to compliment the hair and clothing.

We had our idea, now we had to find our team. Be sure to look for creatives that will compliment your concept. If a hairstylist is fantastic at big, beautiful waves but doesn’t favor doing up-dos (which is what you’re planning on doing), perhaps keep them on hold until you have a shoot that requires that big, beautiful wavy hair that they excel at. If someone is enjoying what they’re doing, it will show.

Styling was easy. Jocelyne, a stylist and all around awesome person that I’ve worked with before was the obvious choice. Her style matched exactly what we were looking for. She is great at keeping it simple and classy without over styling with accessories or trying to do too much at once (which is quite common, especially among stylists just starting out.) Fashion doesn’t have to be about excess! Often, less is more.

For hair and makeup we got lucky and were able to find one artist that is excellent at both! I had seen Mayela’s work around and loved her portfolio. I contacted her with details about our shoot and next thing we knew, she said yes and it was time to shoot!

So now that you have planned your shoot, got inspired and found your team it’s time to get ready to shoot. However, with a team of people on board. How do you communicate your photographic vision effectively with your team. Stay tuned, because next time we will be discussing how to communicate your ideas clearly using mood boards.

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Feature image: Defragmentation of Beauty by Marcin Tyszka for 25 Magazine (left) & Abbey Lee Kershaw by Greg Kadel for Numero (right)

Image 1: Defragmentation of Beauty by Marcin Tyszka for 25 Magazine

Image 2: Abbey Lee Kershaw by Greg Kadel for Numero

Mood Boards: Communicate Your Ideas To Your Creative Team This is the time to hear out others opinions (if you’re open to them, which it’s always good to be) and really hammer down the details. When reaching out to your team, it’s standard protocol to provide them with a mood board.
Shooting With Your Creative Team & Post Production Once everyone on the creative team and everything for the shoot is confirmed, I’ll reach out to agencies and find a girl that suits the idea. This isn’t always the case. Oftentimes you’ll see a model and be inspired by their look.
Working With A Creative Team What exactly is a creative team? It’s a group of people there to aid in the production of a shoot. Everyone has their purpose and is there for the same reason – to create some beautiful imagery! The larger a production is, the more people are on the creative team.
Reaching Out To Modeling Agencies Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers! Here’s a crash course in testing with agency models. First, you have to have the type of images an agent would like to see. Agencies like to see clean photos:
Concept To Creation: Turn Inspiration Into Concept You have an idea, great. How do you turn that idea into a set of images? Can it be turned into a picture narrative/story? Now that you have your base idea, it’s time to do some research!
Concept To Creation: How Professional Photographers Do It Examples of Concept to Creation from Working Fashion Photographers
Vapour With Greg Cunningham Photo Of The Week rounds had never seen a week like this! I was able to get a chance to interview Greg Cunning on how he started as a photographer and what is the inspiration behind his hauntingly beautiful photo submission. When asked about his beginnings in fashion photography Greg explained that, “Fashion photography for me is a creative outlet.…
Concept To Creation: Finding Inspiration We’re going to look at something a bit more conceptual. I can give advice and guide you, but ultimately it’s your job to really dig in and put it all together.

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Mood Boards: Communicate Your Ideas To Your Creative Team

18 Jul

Communicate Your Ideas Clearly With Your Team Using Mood Boards

Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers,

Last time we discussed planning a shoot, getting inspired and finding your creative team. Today we’re going through how to effectively communicate your photography vision for the shoot with your team members and get the most out of them in terms of collaboration.

This is the time to hear out others opinions (if you’re open to them, which it’s always good to be) and really hammer down the details. When reaching out to your team, it’s standard protocol to provide them with a mood board.

What is a mood board? Essentially, it’s a collection of images to serve as inspiration and direction for how the shoot is to be pulled together. Typically, it’s a page (can be more) that compiles images and ideas which allows everyone to be on the same wavelength. Often it’s a good idea to include keywords and color references. If you’re not the kind to make a mood board, you can also compile images into a folder to send to your team but it’s the norm to compile it all on a single board.

On a mood board I tend to include inspiration for hair, makeup and styling along with an idea of how I want the image to look in the end. Sometimes this last bit will be a drawing or an image that has the same type of color scheme I’ll end up applying. Anything it takes to get your idea across. Don’t overcomplicate it.

The mood board is then followed up with emails (meetings or phone calls) to clarify any questions, hear out any suggestions and really communicate the idea to be portrayed. Jocelyne and I spent the next week exchanging numerous emails, deciding exactly which clothing to use, which trends to reference, what type of accessories to incorporate, etc. She would show me clothing which I would sort through and show images to Matt. Together we all made decisions which clothing to work with and which to forget about. No stone was left unturned.

*** It’s important to be involved with choosing which clothing you’re going to shoot. Especially if you are working with a new stylist or one that is just starting out in the field. Often times people will listen to what you say but pull clothing that suits their vision, not yours. There have been several times that I’ve showed up to a shoot to find awful clothing that was not at all what was described in the mood board. Sometimes you just have to learn the hard way. Being hands on is the only way to guarantee results that perfectly match your vision.

On the day of the shoot, make sure when your team gets there they have a clear idea of what is to happen for the day. I always take ideas and advice from my creative team but ultimately it comes down to the final concept and what is going to work best. If someone is giving you trouble on set and trying to override your ideas, pull them aside and speak with them. Don’t make it an awkward thing. “I respect your ideas but I don’t necessarily see it working with the overall concept for this shoot,” is all it takes.

Pardon for the quickly thrown together mood board – I couldn’t find the original.

Mood board

So that’s how you can get the most out of your creative team using mood boards. I hope that helps. If you have any suggestions you would like to share on how you use mood boards, please feel free to leave it in the comment section below. We’d love to see it!

Now that everyone on your creative team is onboard with your photography vision it’s now time to shoot it & wrap it up in post production. Stay tuned, because next time I will be sharing with you my tips for making the time during the shoot and after the shoot in post production run smoothly.

Until then –

Alana

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Feature image & image 1: courtesy of Alana Tyler Slutsky

Shooting With Your Creative Team & Post Production Once everyone on the creative team and everything for the shoot is confirmed, I’ll reach out to agencies and find a girl that suits the idea. This isn’t always the case. Oftentimes you’ll see a model and be inspired by their look.
Planning A Shoot With A Creative Team I’m going to walk you through some of the planning behind my editorial for Kenton Magazine, “Surrealia,” however, the same basic principles apply to planning a test.
Reaching Out To Modeling Agencies Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers! Here’s a crash course in testing with agency models. First, you have to have the type of images an agent would like to see. Agencies like to see clean photos:
Working With A Creative Team What exactly is a creative team? It’s a group of people there to aid in the production of a shoot. Everyone has their purpose and is there for the same reason – to create some beautiful imagery! The larger a production is, the more people are on the creative team.
Concept To Creation: Turn Inspiration Into Concept You have an idea, great. How do you turn that idea into a set of images? Can it be turned into a picture narrative/story? Now that you have your base idea, it’s time to do some research!
Concept To Creation: Finding Inspiration We’re going to look at something a bit more conceptual. I can give advice and guide you, but ultimately it’s your job to really dig in and put it all together.
The 1920s Shoot With Celeste Van Rooyen FashionPhotographyBlog.com caught up with Photo of the Week winner, Celeste van Rooyen. Celeste originates from Cape Town, South Africa but had lived in London for 3 years, then studied wine making in Stellenbosch, South Africa and worked in the wine industry before moving to Dubai where she is now based. Her work has also been printed in OK, Shape &…
Tips For Working with Agency Models Alana Tyler Slutsky is back on Fashion Photography Blog, after sharing the steps to take when approaching a new modeling agency for the first time, to reveal some tips with our readers that are useful to remember when working with models from agencies in order to maintain a working relationship with both the models and the agencies they are from.…

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Shooting With Your Creative Team & Post Production

18 Jul

Make It happen & Post-Production

Hi FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers,

Last time we talked about how to communicate with your creative team clearly using mood boards, today we are talking about how to make the process of shooting with your team and taking the shots into post-production run smoothly. So here we go…

Once everyone on the creative team and everything for the shoot is confirmed, I’ll reach out to agencies and find a girl that suits the idea. This isn’t always the case. Oftentimes you’ll see a model and be inspired by their look.

Be sure to send out a call sheet the day before your shoot. This serves as a reminder for everyone as to the time and location of the shoot as well as provides everyone with the contact information for all involved. This is a standard protocol on any professional shoot.

fashion-photoshoot-run-sheet-example

Then… Shoot! If you keep everything organized and set yourself a bit of a time table to stick to, you’ll be on track for a successful shoot. For “Surrealia,” we managed to shoot two models with several looks in just a few hours.

Remember, make it fun! If everyone is enjoying what they’re doing, it will show. Put on some music – ask the model what their favorite band is or put on something that sets the mood to help convey the feeling in the images.

Post-Production

I know, this is the least fun part of any shoot. The edit. Jocelyne and I decided to pick our final images together and made sure our selects portrayed the model and clothing nicely.

As with any good retouch.. It took forever. Well worth it though! After retouching the images and converting to black and white, it was time to send them off to Matt for illustration.

The process I went through with Matt is basically the same as the process you go through when sending images off to a retoucher:

1) Send over the images and let them do their thing (of course, with a general sense of guidance from you.)

2) You’ll receive a “first round” which you can mark up anything you dislike or don’t see fit and send it back for revisions.

3) Repeat the process of markups and revisions until the image is complete. Don’t forget to be conscious of budget when working with a retoucher.

Working with Matt was fantastic. There was bright color, organic shape, line; all the elements we had like in the editorials we found when doing our research. Except they suited us! Matt did an excellent job of taking those elements we liked and translating them to suit his vision and compliment my photographs.

The result? A batch of images I’m proud to have my name on and remain some of my favorites to this day.

The best thing you can do when planning a shoot is be meticulous. Leave no leaf unturned. Be sure to think of every detail and put your stamp on it. The same type of work goes into planning a test, however you don’t need as extensive a concept. It can be as simple as just shooting a portrait.

Hope you liked my posts about finding, planning and working with a creative team. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below or shoot me an email.

Until next time.. See ya!

– Alana

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Feature image: Ophelia by Gregory Crewdson

Image 1: courtesy of Alana Tyler Slutsky

Mood Boards: Communicate Your Ideas To Your Creative Team This is the time to hear out others opinions (if you’re open to them, which it’s always good to be) and really hammer down the details. When reaching out to your team, it’s standard protocol to provide them with a mood board.
Planning A Shoot With A Creative Team I’m going to walk you through some of the planning behind my editorial for Kenton Magazine, “Surrealia,” however, the same basic principles apply to planning a test.
Reaching Out To Modeling Agencies Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers! Here’s a crash course in testing with agency models. First, you have to have the type of images an agent would like to see. Agencies like to see clean photos:
Tips For Working with Agency Models Alana Tyler Slutsky is back on Fashion Photography Blog, after sharing the steps to take when approaching a new modeling agency for the first time, to reveal some tips with our readers that are useful to remember when working with models from agencies in order to maintain a working relationship with both the models and the agencies they are from.…
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Q&A With Team Priime: Fave Styles, Cameras, And More!

24 Sep

A little while back, we asked some of our favorite IGers to tell us about their go-to photo editing apps. One that got a lot of love was Priime!

The Priime team is based right by our HQ in San Francisco, so we decided to pop by their office for a visit.

Take a look as we go behind the scenes and chat with them about how they’re taking photo styles to the next level.

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Google and MIT team up on clever method to remove reflections and obstructions from photos

06 Aug

Researchers at MIT and Google have developed a technique for removing unwanted reflections and obstructions from photos. Taking advantage of the parallax effect, this method could prove quite useful in locations where shooting behind glass or a fence is the only option. Read more

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13, July 2014 – LuLa Team Is On The Move

13 Jul

The LuLa team is on the move. As you read this Kevin Raber is already in Svalbard, Norway to lead two back to back photography workshops on the M/S Malmo. Svalbard is just about as far north as any land mass can be. From there the group will explore the area and head into the ice pack looking for Polar Bear, Reindeer, and Walrus. In addition they will visit some beautiful landscapes and giant glaciers. A full report will follow after the trips. Don’t forget you can be part of adverntures like this. Join us in 2015 for our Fly Over The Drake – Antarctica Workshops (spaces available on both trips)

Kevin will be testing a NEW 150-600 Tamron zoom lens and the Sigma dp2 Quattro. The Quattro is a most unusual camera and we will have a full report in August on this camera by Kevin and Michael.

Michael is headed south to Mexico and will be publishing articles on a regular basis from there. He will also be finishing a big project he has been working on and you can expect to hear more in a few weeks on it. We have also been very busy working on a number of new video tutorials and we’ll have more news on those in August.

And, before much longer we’ll be off to Photokina and be reporting on the all the news directly from Germany.

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Ricoh and Google team up to get Theta spherical pictures on Google Maps

31 Jan

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Ricoh has updated the suite of apps provided with the Theta spherical image camera, to allow users to post images from the Theta to Google Maps and Google+. According to Ricoh, these new abilities are a result of collaboration with Google to make the Theta’s images compatible with Photo Sphere XMP, Google’s standard for panoramic images. Click through for more details.

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Team Notes From Our New Design

04 Oct

Quite a few months ago we started the process of redesigning Digital Photography School. For some time we’ve wanted to freshen up of the site as it’s been a couple of years since we last did (and the web has changed a lot since then!).

Our first port of call was to get your feedback on what you’d like to see – your feedback was great and we’ve put a lot of it into place (with more still to come).

If you’re reading this post and everything has gone to plan you’re hopefully seeing the the result!

We are still putting a few finishing touches on this design but while we do – we wanted to stop and share with you some of the important updates.

The big three …

Mobile Mobile Mobile!

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You’ll notice the new design is what’s called responsive. This means it reformats itself depending on they size of the screen viewing the page. The super wide screens we could optimise a little better for, but we’ll get to that.

Bigger text, better readability.

text

If you look through the articles on the site you’ll notice a significantly bigger font. Some have said perfect, others have said a little too big. We’d love to know your thoughts in comments below.

Improved commenting system.

comments

We’ve moved to Disqus for commenting allowing you to more easily upload your photo’s, keep track of your comments and create threads in all the articles. All your original comments have been kept the way they were so it’s the best of both worlds.

Some other things we’ve Done

Nicer Archive Pages.

Some new Color

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We’ve added a bit more color to the site. We hope you like it!

A flashy new Home for our eBooks.

Our new bookstore page is designed to help you find the right eBooks with much less fuss.

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Built for Speed

Millions of people visit dPS every month and whilst an never ending vigil you should find this new design a little more zippier than the last. Where possible we’ve kept everything as efficient as we can.

Different but similar.

We’ve tried not to change the menus of the site to much. There are still three main categories (tips, post and gear) and the submenus are the same.

A totally new front page.

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You’ll notice the front page is very different. We’ve tried to create the best window into the site as we can. This was perhaps the most controversial page so we’d love to know what you think.

New ways to share articles.

We’ve added a bunch of new ways to share articles with links at the top and the side. The next part is up to you!

The Forums are up Next

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The development team are hard are work getting the forum ready for an update as well. Just like the blog this will be mobile friendly, cleaner, easier to use and a lot more colourful!

… and a Little Glimpse into the Future

A few of you made the suggestion that you’d like to be able to bookmark some of the articles and really customise your dPS experience. Once this new design over we’re excited to start working on exactly that. I won’t give to much away but it’s something to be excited about!

How you can Help?

There’s over 4,000 articles on dPS and I’m sure we’ve missed something – in fact our team are currently working through the full site still making tweaks as we find them.

You can help with this – if you do spot a bug, or some formatting that just doesn’t look right please let us know via the form below and we’ll get them fixed ASAP.

We can’t wait to hear your thoughts and as always thanks for being part of the dPS community.

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The big three …

Mobile Mobile Mobile!

Bigger text, better readability.

Improved commenting system.

Some other things we’ve Done

Nicer Archive Pages.

Some new Color

A flashy new Home for our eBooks.

Built for Speed

Different but similar.

A totally new front page.

New ways to share articles.

The Forums are up Next

… and a Little Glimpse into the Future

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