Unfortunately not so many people participate in the contest but we have a winner for the Digital Wake Up Call Tour of David Ziser that we announced
The Winner is Mellie Smith a.k.a. Cinsy with Planet Nerph
Mellie wants to attend on November 3, 2009 Seminar in Charlotte, NC
Congratulations!
If you miss this and still want to go to the DWC tour of David you’ll still have the $20 off with the code ZAWDWC09
See the entire photo shoot here
Kilauea Lighthouse is located at the northernmost point of the main Hawaiian Islands.
This is dried lava or basalt. Taken on The Big Island, January 2009
If you’re interesting in learning more and more about lighting photography you have to keep reading.
David Ziser is going to be in town and you can’t miss this! He’s going to be around the country, covering 58 locations! (check the dates).
For those that you don’t know who David is, he is an extraordinary wedding photographer and a great day by day blogger who runs DigitalProTalk; you can find a lot information there about photography in general.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been at the B&H event space often and I had the honor to meet David this past Sunday (Feb 22). I got a sneak peek (5 hours!) of David Ziser’s Digital Wake Up Call tour and it looks very promising, full of good information about how to improve your lighting skills and your business. Oh wait.. you’re not a wedding photographer? Even so, all these lighting techniques and how to make a great business in photography apply in any situation.
As a reader of Nanynany.com you have an special offer, save $20 in your registration if you use the following code: ZAWDWC09. So you just have to pay $59!
That’s a very attractive offer if you just consider the great deal that you’ll take home materials worth $250 more than you paid to get in, including:
* Tour Handbook including: program notes, photography, marketing and more
* 2 Hour DVD with extended program content
* $100 Rebate from American Color Imaging
* 1 year membership to WPPI and Rangefinder magazine, a $99 value
* FREE 3 month membership to DigitalProTalkPlus.com, a $45 value
* FREE 3 month subscription to PPA Magazine, a $15 value
* FREE PPA Indemnification (no-fault) insurance for all new PPA members, a $50 value
* Over $2,500 in door prizes awarded each evening
* And a chance to win 1 of 4 Grand Prizes worth over $5,000
OK OK… This is not enough.. because you want it “For FREE”
Well, just join “Lighting Exiting”, Nanynany’s contest in Flickr!
The winner will get a free ticket to the seminar choosing the location that you want!
How to participate?.. Easy, just follow these simple steps:
1. You’ll need a Flickr account. It’s easy and free to join.
2. Join the Nanynany.com Flickr group.
3. Upload your best photos using off-camera lighting to your Flickr account.
4. Tag the photo(s) with “nanydwc09″. (how to tag here)
5. Add your photo(s) to the Nanynany.com Flickr group (help?).
6. Please limit to 3 entries per person – if you tag more than 3 images with “nanydwc09” I will simply consider the first three tagged to be the entries!
7. Promise to tell all your friends about it!.
The contest will run until noon (EST) on Wednesday, March 25th 2009.
Make sure that your image is illuminated with an external flash creating an “Exciting light”
The winner will notified by flickr mail on Thursday, March 26th 2009, so make sure that you check your flickr mail that day!.. Also I’ll post the winner in Nanynany’s forum at Flickr.
The winner will have their winning entry featured on Nanynany.com, in addition to receiving the free pass to the Digital WakeUp Call tour 2009! to any of the location across the country.
Cost to enter into the contest?… Nothing!, it’s FREE!.. so you don’t have anything to lose!.
Start now and submit your pictures.
I have new projects and I want to continue blogging specially about photography and all the cool stuff that I’ve been learning during all this time.
I’m into fashion and planing to do wedding photography too, so stay close and see what’s going to happen here.
I’ve been learning a lot at the event space in B&H , I really recommend it if you are close to the NY area, they always have amazing photographers in different areas and I find very helpful all their advice, tricks, tips for photography, lighting and also how to make profit out of it; they also have talks about video and other topics, but most are photography related.
If you can’t attend the events, just go to the B&H event space web site and check out the videos of some of the talks.
Anyway, I went to B&H and Joey Quintero was talking about “Low Key Lighting” and all the cool stuff that we can do with this nice technique, that was very cool and I’m planing to practice this technique soon and of course sharing with all of you.
At the event, one of the guys was telling me that his studio is more for “high key lighting” and to make a long story short, he invited me to do a test shoot there. At that time the only thing that I knew about high key was the name and the few points that Joey said when he compared it to the low key, but I accepted and arranged a shoot with Sherelle and Angel to go to his studio and test it.
Basically High Key Lighting is a bright and even picture. The main color is usually white but it’s not necessary, these days the picture doesn’t have to be white but it has to be very bright, should have a minimum of contrast and very few shadows. One important thing is, more than just lighting your subject, you should be careful to contour your subject. We should use a very low contrast ratio such as 2:1, which means that the background is twice as light as the subject.
Here are some examples:
Here are more images of the session where I tried some of the high key Lighting techniques. (Hopefully I’ll go to Joey Quintero’s next workshop where he’s going to talk about high key.)
Hey, I’m learning.. this was a test and I think it that came out very nice. Feel free to leave your comments and if you know how to make a nice high key.. just let me know!.
Arianys Wilson Photography.
