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PHOTONEXT 2016 イルコ セミナー動画

PHOTONEXT 2016 セミナー / フォトネクスト2016年 この記事に私がカメラの大きなイベント、 PHOTONEXT 2016 に出てる動画をアップします!2日間のイベントです!長いので、是非お時間があるときに見ていただければうれしいです!2016年は私が3回目…

Photoshoot in Bulgaria, Plovdiv Old Town / ブルガリアの街並みでポートレート撮影

Finally after long time this winter I managed to go back to my home country Bulgaria and do some photoshoots there too! So here is the a BTS article of one of them, well probably one of my first shoots! I'm having info of the gear I have been using and some of the final shots in the end of the article! Also I am having a making video for the photoshoot, make sure you check it out and also subscribe to my YouTube channel!
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Shooting it: Red leaves portrait shoot with Helios 40-2 (strobist video)

Japanese red leaves season is in it's most beautiful stage now, so here is another article with some photos taken in that beautiful time of the year! I'm having also some behind the stage video from that photoshoot! I'm also using some really interesting lens, the manual focus Helios 40-2, which is making some impressive bokeh! Model for this photoshoot is Yuzuki Aizawa, I am shooting only
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Natural Light Portraits at Night / 夜景 自然光 ポートレート

Photographing people at night can be technically one of the most difficult time to do portraits, since using some lighting might be really essential and it is not as easy to go without using flash for example! But even at night if you look around there might be some items on the street that can be used to lit your subject! One of the most common light sources I would use for night portraits are
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Shooting it: Self-Portrait with creative Body Painting / セルフ ポートレート

Here is a self portrait photoshoot, something I really have fun doing! We photographers very underestimate one very important thing when we want to shoot and don't have a model, it is that we could always shoot ourselves! For this shoot I'm also having a behind the scenes video, feel free to check it and also don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel, where I'm uploading

Shooting it: Portraits in Cherry Blossoms / 桜でポートレート

A portrait photoshoot in the Japanese Cherry Blossoms, one of my favorite times in the year in Japan! Here it's all with one light, check out the lighting setups below! Next month in Tokyo I will be doing some really big seminars for compact strobes, if anyone is around there feel free to join to the PHOTONEXT event! 今年の桜もあっという間に終わりました!桜の時期で撮ったポートレート写真

Shooting it: Rocky Beach Long exposure strobist portrait

Here are some shots from the type of locations that really make me very excited! For this article I will be doing some long exposure strobist lighting, in order to get some more dramatic look! The model is on a rock and not really able to move too much! Also I am having a making video for the photoshoot, make sure you check it out and also subscribe to my YouTube channel!

Shooting it: Photoshoot with opera singer Ayako Tanaka using Profoto B1

Here is another photoshoot with the young Japanese opera singer Ayako Tanaka! This time it's taken in some forest around Kobe! She was a great model, and we did a few photoshoots and for mose of them I was using some big softboxes with Profoto lights to shape the light on the model! I've always wanted to shoot with some Octabox but for some reason never really decided to

Shooting it: Portrait in the Stars of opera singer Ayako Tanaka using Profoto B1

Here is a photoshoot with the young Japanese opera singer Ayako Tanaka! We are doing some stars portraits here! She was a great model, and we did a few photoshoots! In this photoshoot I will be using some big softboxes with Profoto lights to shape the light on the model! I've always wanted to shoot with some Octabox but for some reason never really decided to get one and do

Shooting it: Hairmake & Body Art Photoshoot

Intro This is a project of my hairmake friends we did together some time ago, I have another article from the same project, too I bet you've seen it, but here is the article for it too: click! It's been a really hard work putting the blue stamps…
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Shooting it: Autumn shoot in Japanese red leaves (strobist video)

Intro Japanese red leaves season is in it's most beautiful stage now, so I can't hold myself uploading an article with some photos taken in that beautiful time of the year! I'm having also the lighting setups below as well as couple of strobist videos…

Shooting it: Takedao Fashion Photoshoot

The Fashion Photoshoot Intro This time I'm uploading a few shots from a recent fashion photoshoot, well, the location is well known from my photographs I guess! I'm using very simple lighting again, this time it's a DIY Beauty Dish created…
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Shooting it: Extremely cool and high location photoshoot

Intro This time I'm uploading another few shots, with a dramatic making video like last time I did! It was a really windy day, and and if you are afraid if high places don't watch the behind the scenes video! I'm using only one light for the…
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Shooting it: Windy bridge fashion photoshoot (Making video)

Intro This time I'm uploading a few shots, with a dramatic making video for the fashion photoshoot! It was a really windy day, and walking on that bridge was kind of a challenge! I'm using only one light for the whole shoot! Check out the making…

Shooting it: Mixing color filters at night

Intro For this strobist article I will be showing how to get some colorful stuff with a really dark and far background that at first glance doesn't look to be easily modified by strobes! But it is interesting to see that in some cases if you…

Shooting it: Hairmake shoot at Mayakan

Intro Another strobist shot from the cool abandoned hotel located in Kobe, called Mayakan! It's one of the locations I've been no idea how many times, and I still enjoy going for a photoshoot! For this shot I'm there with my friends hair-makeup…
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BTS Video – Flower & Body Art Shoot

Intro Here is a long version of a making video for some of the articles I have uploaded recently! You can check them in the thumbs below the video! この前あげた三つの記事の長いバージョンのメイキングビデオです!ビデオのしたにスタッフ紹介とそれぞれの記事へのリンクあるので、ぜひ見てくださいね! BTS…

Shooting it: Using Light Blaster for Flower & Body Art Shoot

Intro This time I will be uploading a series of 3 different articles, well actually all of them were taken at the same day, using the Nissin Japan company studio, and they were kind enough to even video tape the whole shoot, so I will be embedding…

Shooting it: Color Shift in WB (Body & Flower Art)

Intro So here I wanted to really mess up the colors, and I've been thinking about that concept for long time! What would happen if you lit something with for example RED LIGHT, but try to tell your camera that this is actually white, by fixing…
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Shooting it: Body Paint & Flower Art shoot

Intro This time I will be uploading a series of 3 different articles, well actually all of them were taken at the same day, using the Nissin Japan company studio, and they were kind enough to even video tape the whole shoot, so I will be embedding…