Shoot my self like "terry"

I realized that it was time for a new self-portrait. So i decided to shoot a photo of my self (not through a mirror). 
Next to me Linhof 5x4. Great pice of camera. 

Shot by Nikon D800 + Nikkor 24-70mm 

Young and Vibrant (Behind the Camera)

Lately I realised that I havent post any behind the camera material in the blog.

Its time to fix that. 

As I mentioned the shoot went well. It was good timed and well planned shoot, no stress at all. 

Hollie fine-tuning the makeup. I don't know why she isn't using the gigantic makeup table in the Studyo, my best guess is, perhaps it is because it is a little tuning of the makeup. Tereza is all patient, if I was a model I'd be laughing during the makeup time also I wonder if those brushes will tickle me. 

Anna-Karin is all happy eye closed and soooo photogenic watching the shoot. 

Shoot me like "Terry" - 7.1

Terry 2.0

Little Change is coming to Terry section of the blog. 

Recently, I was given a nice new tool to help me edit the photographs and manipulate the colours easier than the tools I used in photoshop. So I will experiment with the old terry photos and see how I can change the photographs. 

I liked this new little program and no I'll not share it much, so my secrets will remen my secret.

Camera: Nikon D800 + Nikkor 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) me
Stylist: Anna-Karin Wikstrand
Hair & Makeup: Hollie Lewis
Nail Technician: Mercedes Mires
Model: Tereza S. @Milk Management

Fashion Photography - Young & Vibrant

Here is one of the Photograph I liked from the young and vibrant shoot.

I think We did this well.
The entire team and I are impressed with the models performance, and everyone was happy with the outcome.
Especially I am very happy with this photo because I like the navy blue. "There's only one secret item that can uplift man's charisma and dominate the whole outfit : it's defiantly a navy shirt. [...] Navy shirts according to me, should be matched with white or bright colour items so that you can carry off the flash impact" (Yasin S. T.) However in this case and in this photo shoot a women is wearing it, the impact is quite similar, not fully similar but again quite similar.

Camera: Nikon D800 + Nikkor 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) me
Stylist: Anna-Karin Wikstrand
Hair & Makeup: Hollie Lewis
Nail Technician: Mercedes Mires
Model: Tereza S. @Milk Management

Stay tuned for behind the camera and my next shoot post will be soon.
I'll be working with a surprise stylist. ;)

Bibliography

Yasin S. T

navy shirt : always right

S. T., Yasin. (2013) navy shirt : always right. OttomanDandy, [blog] 3 march 2013, Available at: http://ottomandandy.com/2013/03/03/navy-shirt-always-right/ [Accessed: 14th april 2013].

Fashion Blogging . . . Escapism, Peacocking

When we set out to make this short, our intention simply was to observe the phenomenon of fashion bloggers and street style stars. As we started to review the footage, two salient trends became apparent: fashion editors frustrated by the ensuing commotion outside of shows, and the rise of "peacocking" street style stars as a result of the proliferation of blogs. This film examines these themes from both perspectives.

MōVI BTS

Mind blowing. 
After I've watched this I was amazed.

Also if you watch carefully you can spot a GoPro camera mounted on top of the Camera/Transformer looking machine in the video. I guess there is a little GoPro in every production.

Hasselbald H5D

Even though I'd choose PhaseOne over Hasse they made a tasty looking camera.
More about the Campaign video, this is a awesome way of demonstrating the the camera. Usually they make the camera and shoot a Campaign video where they show retouched images on screen or in the video but in here they are demonstrating minimal amount of postproduction.

So if you have a Hasse, you  can shoot a landscape or interior and have a huge print of it, then use the print as a backdrop in another photo. :) Clever . . .

Shoot me like "Terry" - 7

Young & Vibrant 

Here is lovely Tereza right after we finished the Young and Vibrant shoot, it was fun and relaxed shoot we even finished 30min before scheduled time. 

As usual, right after the shoot I put my "Terry Flash" and asked her to pose for me in a way she feels like. No art-direction is required when you ask energetic person like her to be herself infront of the camera.

Stay tuned I'll post some of the photos from the shoot soon. 

Camera: Nikon D800 + Nikkor 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) me
Stylist: Anna-Karin Wikstrand
Hair & Makeup: Hollie Lewis
Nail Technician: Mercedes Mires
Model: Tereza S. @Milk Management

The reason Why I don't use & Recommend Flickr.

This Video shows, a photographer finding her work copied from internet and as a print in T-shirt. However this is just one photographer finding out that her work is used commercially without her permission. The number of photos copied of the internet without the photographers permission is remarkably high but the number of photographers finding their work being copied and ised without their permissions is incredibly low. 

Of course the Flickr didn't have anything to do with this photograph being used without the permission of the photographer, however it acts as a vast cyber space where browsing and downloading high resolution photographs are made easy. 

Mamiya Vs Nikon

Mamiya RZ67 ProII vs Nikon D3X 

Almost a month ago I  did a shoot with Laura Kate Rzemieniecka where I could take enough time to use two different formats of camera and media. 

If you ask me, I like negative film and I love shooting with my Mamiya. 

However the digital era we are living in now requires fast workflow not to mention some clients would like to see 20 options of each outfit or look to choose from, so digital photography is somehow inevitable, but that doesn't mean the film is dead. 

Call me old fashioned but if someone was covering all my expenses and the clients had the patience to wait for processing and scanning I'd use film for everything except the LookBooks. 

Camera: Mamiya RZ67 ProII 

Lens: Mamiya Sekor - Z 127mm 1:3.8

Film: New Kodak Portra 160 of course

Hand Processed in dip and dunk tanks by Me

Scanned in Hasselblad Flexthight X1

Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/16 ISO 160

Camera: Nikon D3X

Lens: Nikkor 24-70mm f/2.8

Tethered to PhaseOne CaptureOne 7

Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/16, ISO 160

Credits

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) . . . ME 

Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemieniecka

Model: Eren Gencler

Stay tuned on my next shoot I will use 5x4 large format, Mamiya RZ67 and Nikon D3X or Nikon D800

Shoot me like "Terry" - 6.1

This photo wasn't in the category of Shoot me like "terry" however, as I started snapping the photos I noticed that Eren (the model) was getting bit too confortable infront of the camera, so I didn't say anything until snapped a photo which I found interesting, then I got back to art-directing again.

Here is the result, which reminds me of i-D

Camera: Nikon D3X + Nikkor 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) . . . ME 

Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemieniecka

Model: Eren Gencler

Beauty Shoot

This time we did it and we did it good. 

Here is a sneak-peek of the photoshoot I did with my reliable makeup artist friend Laura Kate Rzemieniecka. This was a portfolio shoot and we all enjoyed the shoot, thanks to Laura and two bottels of vine she brought with her. Eren and Laura did a great job here and I think this trio will do more shoots together in future. 

Also this was one of the first shoot I did in my studio. 

Exposure: 1/125 sec at f/16 ISO 160

Camera: Nikon D3X with Nikkor 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) ME
Makeup: Laura Kate Rzemieniecka
Model: Eren Gencler

Why did I keep the ISO 160 but not 100 ? Simple I was also shooting with the Beast Mamiya RZ67 ProII and I had Kodak Portra 160ASA loaded in it so 1st I wanted to compare Mamiya to Nikon 2nd I was lazy to recalculate exposure 2 times every photograph or every change.

So my Mamiya RZ67 proII VS Nikon D3X photos will be coming very soon, stay tuned! 

Hilarious Sigma Lens review.

When I saw this hilarious sigma lens review I could not stop laughing and I wanted to share with any one who comes to this blog.

Shoot me like "Terry" - 6

Aaww yea long time I haven't uploaded one of these. 

After a nice successful beauty shoot with Laura Kate Rzemieniecka which had some interesting snack and 2 bottles of vine, I followed the tradition of documenting the day with a snap of the lovely model Eren. So I popped my "TerryFlash" on and start snapping.

As usual I told her to be her self and also said show your self as you want to show yourself in front of the camera. 

 Camera: Nikon D3X + Nikkor 24-70mm 

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce) . . . ME 

Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemieniecka

Model: Eren Gencler

Also I forgot to mention, on this shoot I used D3X and Mamiya RZ67 ProII loaded with kodak portra ISO160.
So in due time I will post comparison images of D3X to Mamiya RZ67 ProII, which will be like a Film Vs Digital. 

Practicing Photoshop #3

Photoshop is one of the most important program/tool in fashion photography.
Even that the model, clothes, location, light etc . . . is perfect we still do photoshop, and since I started to work with people who are looking for unnatural results (by unnatural I mean, different colour than the actual image) I started experimenting in photoshop.

Here is one of the photographs I worked on, in photoshop. I hope its better than the last one . . . This has taken me two hours or so.

I know my colour manipulation skills are incredibly bad, but as my father once told me "practice makes perfect" and I hope to reach there soon. . .

Exposure: f5.6 at 1/25sec ISO 200

Team:
Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
2nd Photographer: Erhan Ozturk
Stylist: Anastasia Taneeva
Model: Bodo
Editing - Retouching: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)

Magnificent News . . .

If you are a usual (I doubt you are) reader of this blog, then you may have noticed that I haven't been writing here as often as I used to write. The reason for that was, my colleague and I were working on something which was very time consuming. However it is done we finally finished it.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that my Photography studio is completed, and it is awesome.

We decided to stick with the name "Studyo" which means studio in Turkish.

Address:
100 Clement's Road
Biscuit Factory K106
SE16 4DG

The website: http://studyo.co.uk/
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/studyo.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Studyocouk

Practicing Photoshop #2

Photoshop is one of the most important program/tool in fashion photography.
Even that the model, clothes, location, light etc . . . is perfect we still do photoshop, and since I started to work with people who are looking for unnatural results (by unnatural I mean, different colour than the actual image) I started experimenting in photoshop.

Here is one of the photographs I worked on, in photoshop. I hope its better than the last one . . . This has taken me two hours or so.

I know my colour manipulation skills are incredibly bad, but as my father once told me "practice makes perfect" and I hope to reach there soon. . .

Exposure: f5.6 at 1/25sec ISO 200

Team:
Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
2nd Photographer: Erhan Ozturk
Stylist: Anastasia Taneeva
Model: Bodo
Editing - Retouching: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)

Current Project

Sorry guys it has been some time that I haven't write anything. (as if anyone checks my blog weekly)

The reason for that was I am currently working on my dissertation and Final Major Project and on top of that I am soon opening my own Photography Studio in London, I'll give the studio details when it is open.

Lets get to my current project which is called Final Major Project, but I've renamed it to "The Other Self"
I'll be focusing on triptych photography in this project and aiming on demonstrating the multiple personality disorder and the metamorphosis of the individuals personality.
So far I've done some tests and I've written the methodology of the project and as soon as stylist and makeup artists present me their ideas I'll start the production of the project.

Here is a sneak-peak of what the Makeup artist Laura Kate Rzemieniecka has in mind for one of the character in the project.

Isn't that drawing amazing?

In a month I'll start shooting.

Update below.
Ps: I forgot to mention I'll be shooting this project with 4x5 Large Format and use Kodak Portra.

Practicing Photoshop #1

Photoshop is one of the most important program/tool in fashion photography.
Even that the model, clothes, location, light etc . . . is perfect we still do photoshop, and since I started to work with people who are looking for unnatural results (by un natural I mean, different colour than the actual image) I started experimenting in photoshop.

Here is one of the photographs I worked on, in photoshop. I made roughly 7 of them and only this didn't give me cancer while I was looking at it. As they say 7th is the charm ???

I know my colour manipulation skills are incredibly bad, but as my father once told me "practice makes perfect" and I hope to reach there soon. . .

Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Stylist: Klementine King
Makeup and Hair: Alice Howlett
Model: Claudia D.

D800 vs 5D MkIII (Crisislab)

So I posted the first part of this review months ago.
Now that I've seen all 2 parts, I just wanted to make a full post.
This guy is hilarious and he is testing + comparing both the cameras in a way I like. In my opinion more people in youtube should test, review, or compare products like this.
Anyways comparing crisislab comparison videos to other youtubers who are doing similar suff, all I will say is Crisislab videos are better and they know what they are doing.

Check out the videos on their website, they are funny and informative.
Here is a link to their website.  http://www.crisislab.com/