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My favorites Photographers blogs

Olivier M. — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:36:48 +0000

Lately, some of my friends asked me what are the best photographers blogs on internet.
I answered swiftly: “It depends of your own artistic view, after all, the best blog for a fashion photographer is different than the one for a wedding photographer”.
But I still promised that I’ll do a post with my own favorites! And I think in a future post I’ll write about my favorites websites too.
So here we go:

Blogs I check almost everyday:
- Strobist The best place to learn some new tricks for your lighting equipment!
- Chase Jarvis This guy is… Wait for it… Awesome! Really, he is a good photographer and never hesitates to share his thoughts with the community!
- Scott Kelby’s Photoshop Insider Lot’s of infos on photoshop and lightroom, great guests posts etc… A must!

Blogs I check once a week:

- Joe McNally’s Damn I dig this guy, he’s Funny and incredibly talented : Give him a speedlight and he’ll do a good shoot anywhere! (Even at the top of the empire state building)
- Zack Arias His Onelight Dvd is a must have for a beginner photographer and the blog is full of good tips!
- Vincent Laforet I think he is more a filmmaker than a photographer nowadays but, hell, he is good! (Remember the first canon 5DmkII video ‘Reverie’ shoot in 2days? It’s him!)
- Lighting-Essentials Don GIannatti aka Wizwow is a strong opinionated guy and I like that! Well his blog is also full of tips to learn how to light!
- Canon Rumors Well I’m a Canon Shooter and a Geek! (Worry not my Nikon lovers: Nikon Rumors is the place for you!)

Blogs I check sometimes:
- Joey L The young prodigy!
- Melissa Rodwell Nice Advices on the Fashion world!
- Lightroom Killer Tips By Matt Kloskowski hey I use lightroom for 80% of all my photos needs
- The F STOP mag Lot’s of pictures to activate your creativity
- Drew Gardner A talented Photographer who doesn’t blog enough! But when he does, it’s always interesting.

And that’s it! And you what are your favorites blogs, the ones you check everyday?

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Lila’s shooting

Olivier M. — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:51:27 +0000

This week I shot Lila N (http://www.lilanoufais.book.fr) a beautiful french model i’ve know for 7 years now. I was a little intimidated since I knew she shot with others goods photographers. I wanted this shot to be really great so I needed to find a make-up artist in 2 days and Fleur (http://www.fleur-xu.book.fr/) came to my rescue!

I tried my best to do an edito/fashion type of shoot and I used my Profoto beauty dish as main light, a canon 580EXII in a JS apollo softbox and another 580EXII with a grid.

I think it’s one of my best series so far but I know I can do and will do even better in the near future!

Here is the lighting diagram using the cool tool on this website: http://www.lightingdiagrams.com/Creator

lighting-diagram-lila-shoot

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Joane first shooting

Olivier M. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:57:08 +0000

Last week I’ve done my first test shooting with Joane a very beautiful new model, and i’ve been able to try for the first time my new profoto comptact R600 and beauty dish.
Well the beauty dish light rocks! (I tried the mola mantti beauty dish at the workshop ‘shooting and workflow‘ and it was also incredible, i’ll have to buy me one someday)
And I can’t wait to work again with Joane in a more creative shoot.

On a side note, I’ve finished reading ‘the moment it clicks’ from Joe McNally, and it was definitely good, i’ve ordered ‘The hot shoe diaries’ now.

Camille first Shooting

Olivier M. — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 18:21:32 +0000

Last week I was finally able to try my new camera in a real shooting with Camille. It was her first time in a studio shoot. She Had to warm up for a little time but after she was doing pretty good, a natural cute girl.
I have to say the 5D MKII is quite incredible, so much better than the first one or the 40D.

I had a small problem though, I shoot tethered to my macbook and lightroom 2 and sometimes when I took a lot of frames very fast, they wouldn’t be downloaded on the computer and I had to disconnect the camera (happily the photos were still saved on the memory card) don’t know if it’s because of the large raw files but i’ll have to test this again.

The shoot was done the strobist way, with 3 canon 580 EXII, pocket wizard, one softbox Wescott JS Appolo 70×70cm and one shoot through white umbrella.

Portfolio section & Amelie

Olivier M. — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:31:48 +0000

I’ve finished my portfolio section using SlideShowPro (http://slideshowpro.net), I just have to add more and more photos inside… It’s a really cool php script and flash slideshow because it’s fully compatible with lightroom 2 and I can export everything to my website with 2 clicks in lightroom.
So I added some photos from a shoot with Amélie (DJ Alex Ortega’s Girlfriend). I’ve done this shooting in november 2008 with my canon 40D, can’t wait to try my Canon 5D MKII on a real shoot. If you want to see the full set go to my portfolio section. I still need to add the pictures of Alex Ortega

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