Product Commercial Photography. A real life comparison between two of the best Medium Format Systems

Disclaimer: This post is a comparison from the point of view of a commercial product and/or food photographer. It is meant to reflect the look-and-feel of using two of the medium format systems available on the market at the moment, while used workhorse in a commercial photography studio. It isn’t in any way a dedicated …

On-location Product Photography for Dupray

When on-location product photography happens in a multimillion dollar ski chalet gem Just 45 min. away from Montreal. A recent photoshoot with the creative team from Dupray Ind., near Montreal, underlines the superb capabilities of the new Fuji Medium Format cameras to resolve the color. With a great tradition in photography color rendition (who can …

Fuji GFX vs Phase One

An interesting decision that was taking lately by the Phase One Management was to abandon the camera systems for the middle range income photographers. They will keep producing only the high end segment thus continuing only the ridiculously expensive and hugely performant cameras. It seems that, for this parts of the market, some other companies …

February Stats…and comments :)

Seeing so many “Pro Photographers” popping overnight and disappearing until the dusk of next day, like some kind of bizarre and febrile ephemerides,  I am thinking my February stats could contribute to a better understanding a basic standard of being a busy (successful?) photographer: February: 15000 actuation. My Phase One DF Shutter gave up, again… …

The “awesome retouching” issue

A while ago, I noticed a post on Facebook, where a Montreal based photographer declared his unlimited love to the retouching procedures. For the rest of us humble photographers this tedious procedure is not called retouching but no less than “Photoshop Hell”. That being the situation, they are 1001 companied from the East Indies who …

Montreal Photographer Designer Product

Photographing designer light sources.

We had in our Montreal studio an interesting client. The produce very high-end designer light sources. Very cool stuff. Photographing light sources in use, however, presents itself with challenges. They had a very exact ideas about what they needed and they were very keen to see these ideas realized. In the past photographers fell through …