Let the word spread around. The Nikon D90 has just been announced and even Chase Jarvis has his words about it. See the video below, the DPreview here and some sample videos made with this camera here.

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During a smaller family gathering I set up my gray fun-to-fold background and one studio strobe with the 1mx1m softbox on it and persuaded my family members to suffer a bit in front of my camera.
The light source was just a few feet from the models’ faces slightly pointing down on them. I really like the effect of this lighting. It is subtle enough - due to the proximity of the relatively big light source - not to grab the viewer’s attention and also natural looking because there is only one light.

There are a few big guys who use extremely simple lighting set-ups and yet make amazing portraits, like Timothy Greenfield-Sanders or Platon just to name two of them. Visit their sites to get some inspiration.

Being tied to one location, to my house for the known reason I started to see things slightly differently and started to feel the urge to make pictures of those things.

Last Sunday my third son, Milan David has been born. He and his mom are doing well.

For the heartless techno-geeks amongst you there was an SB-800 in his bed at his feet pointed to the white ceiling, set to TTL +0.7, with the diffuser dome on it and remotely triggered by the camera. The 70-200 glass was focusing on his nose.

This post is not about photography at all. It is about a heart warming global endavour soliciting bloggers to write about something else than most of us normally do.

About poverty.

You might have a political, design, photo or even a celebrity or sports blog, there are lots of topics in your area that are related to the global issue of poverty, the assumed causes and potential solutions.

See this promotional video below and join the Blog Action Day to do something really good with your blog on October 15, 2008:

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I’ve had a portrait session, this time with a friend and ex-colleague of mine. A self assignment again.

This was the first time I went to a location fully packed with my studio strobe set. I packed everything into my car with the quote in my mind from Joe McNally’s book: “Bring the stuff with you, it doesn’t do you any good back at the studio.” It took half an hour to collect and pack everything. Something to practice.
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