Ask Miwaza?! Episode 17

Friday, May 18th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

“Wanna Know How to Use Your Diffuser?”

* I have no idea why I said “Episode 15″ ;P

 

Diffusers on Amazon.com

- $64.95 Fotodiox 40×60″ 5-in-1 Collapsible Reflector Disc Pro Kit with Stand, Soft Silver/Gold/Black/White/Diffuser

- Search results on Amazon.com for “diffuser photo” here.

 

Samples

Shot these two photos at the exact same place, exact same camera settings but just with and without the diffuser.

Without Diffuser With Diffuser

 

This is how and where we did it.

 

More Samples

Without Diffuser With Diffuser

 

* I’m not saying that shooting without diffusing the light is bad. But I just wanted to show you guys how to get soft lighting in the direct sunlight. Because you can’t always plan your photo shoot with your clients at the perfect time with the perfect sunlight ;)

Ask Miwaza?! Episode 17 – Samples

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

Hi friends! Here are some photos I shot few days ago using my big defuser. I think if you’re familiar with my photography lighting style, you can tell that the lighting in this one’s little different from the other ones right?

Tomorrow, I will post “Ask Miwaza!? Episode 17 – Wanna Know How to Use Your Defuser?” ;)

Stay Ganzo!

 

Fun little behind-the-scenes ninja shot :)

Ask Miwaza!? 14

Friday, April 20th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

“Wanna Know How to Fold Your Defuser?”

Ask Miwaza!? 13

Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography | Comments

“RAW or JPEG?” – Rescue your photos!!

When you are just taking pictures for fun, I guess you usually have time to check your pictures right after you shoot them, but that’s not always the case when you’re shooting photos for work. You usually have to go from place to place, indoor to outdoor, darker room to brighter room and so forth. And for each locations and settings, you will need to adjust your camera settings… But sometimes, you are just too busy capturing photos and forget to fix the settings… So here is what happened last week.

Even if you are a professional photographer, it doesn’t mean that you will never going to mess up the photo shoot. Sometimes, things like this will happen. But professional photographers are those who know how to fix them. Who knows how to handle the “mess” calmly.

BAD EXAMPLES

I shot these for work last week. But my camera setting was wrong and these were what I got! But thankfully I shot them in RAW so I was able to rescue them :)

 

RESCUED PHOTOS!

Ask Miwaza!? 12

Thursday, April 5th, 2012 | Ask Miwaza, photography, Uncategorized | Comments

“Bad Face Day?” (How to “smoothen” skin in Photoshop Elements)

Originally, I was planning to use a picture of someone else, but than I realized that it will be like I’m saying “Oh, you had a very rough skin that day! So I had to fix it!”. I hope you don’t mind seeing my face 5 times in a row :P

 

Before After

 

Duplicate the “original” photo.

 

Apply “Gaussian blur” to one of the photos (3.0pixels).

 

Place “Gaussian blurred” photo heath the “original” photo layer.

 

Use an “Eraser” tool (blurred edge + opacity 80%) and erase the “original” photo to bring out part of the “blurred” skin.

 

GREEN GERMS ALERT! Not. I added a solid color background under the “original” photo layer. So that you could see where I “smoothened” my skin.

 

More Samples (I know you’re tired of my face. Me too.)

Before After

 

Before After

 

Before After