Link Tip's

Hey Guy's
Today I really took some time to show you some
some link tip's and Blogs that I follow now after
calvin, told me about them and this is what he
was saying about them....
Hope there is something for everyone
So, have fun with the post and don't forget to
leave some feedback

COMMUNITY

Retouchpro

This is one of the Best community for Post Production ( Photoshopping )
from which he Knows, he can really say how much he learned from this
Page and how much Contact's he created throw it.
They also host regular Webinar's for small prizes.
Calvin's words where what a great page.

DEVIANTART

Could be one of the biggest Art Community on the Planet.
you could find everything there, from brushes, textures,
Stockfotos for practise or just some inspiration throw
great Pictures. In the beginning you might have a problem
finding your way around but it's worth it, so calvin's word's

XING

When you guy's think about business Xing is the best place.
it is like facebook but just for business use only, just imagine you
get to meet someone and directly talk about business with him .
How about that ? You can also just have a small chat for the start
and later talk about business but this Platform is really just for
business use and to get in contact with other business People.
Calvin say's, it is a really great place to get to know other each other
and the best thing about it, is you can directly see who has new and
interesting Business contact's, and that is where your Network start's.

EDUCATION

KELBY TRAINING

You can't go wrong with him, you will have to pay 17 dollars per month
and you will find the best material of photography and photoshop. How it works ?
Login and register and find a big range of online training's which you can see
throw an online stream.

This is a Platform where I actually never miss a video, If you guy's signup
It might cost you something, but still everyone has to decide that for himself.
I personally Think that more Education is better than technique.

BLOGS

SCOTT KELBY

Calvin say's : There are so many Bogs into that I look
and this one is one of my favourite's
Blog's it is so open, neat good structured, always
filled with new Information and it is so
good written and entertaining plus the best thing about it is, it's
always active and you will always find a new great Post's

2PHOTO

Calvin is not totally sure if this Page should fit into
Portfolios or Blog's, But anyway
on this page you will find a lot of great Portfolios,
well actually more Pictures and
Photo's but it's a good Site.

PSDTUTS

Here you will find a lot of tutorials, and sometimes really
great one's and some small nice Interviews or features.
But I Think this is one of the most active
Blog in Photoshopping - Tutorials.

CHASE JARVIS

On this blog you will find some information that you
will not find so easy somewhere
else, You might even find a video or Interview which can
be up to 90min so have some time !
Chase is a brilliant Photographer how also host really good Trainings

PETAPIXEL

Calvin does not Follow this blog for a long time now, but that what he has see'n
was really good and great. Very good videos and Post's about Photography,
Post production and video editing.

KWERFELDEIN

Sometimes some German Post's but mostly english and very nicely written and
always active. See for your self .

WEISCHES LISCHT

This is a German Blog but it is Calvin's studio's Blog.
The studio is called Weisches Lischt which means Soft Light.
try it you might find one or two interesting video's here and some more
Information about calvin's Photography Life.

So Guy's I hope you can Find some interesting Links in today's Post.
On the Next Blog Post's I will post about some of the best
Post production Portfolio's
and some Favourites.

Thank's Guys
Cheers Manni

CJ - Taylor Shooting

Hey Guy's

Today
CJ - Taylor Shoot in
Calvin's Studio " WeischesLischt "
From the group Rapsoul, Now going solo CJ - Taylor had a Test
shoot with calvin and his Lightguide Matthias and last week.
They worked with Hensel Studio light equipment and I had to

Assist with some California Sunbounce Reflector.

So the First and most important Part on the day was to get to know each other
to have a chat about another Feature on a shoot. But still some good
Images where shoot and those where Directly Edited in the Studio more will follow
soon this week on The Blog.

Here a Making of image from the Shoot with an California Sunbounce Reflector.

We wish Cj good luck with his Solo Career and his New Album Which is
coming out in January 2011.

Thanks Guys
Cheers Manni

Marc Terenzi and Jason Mercurio

Hey Guys
Today I want to show u the First
Finished Images from the Marc Terenzi shoot
On-top of that some info about the Image
How Calvin and his Partner Matthias created them
and I had the honor to assisted them
Let me Know what you guys think about it
Have fun

So the shooting with Marc Terenzi is almost a week ago and

I have some first Finished Images, the shoot was in

the German Theme park "Europapark ".
Marc, his Friend Jason and around 12

Vampire Actors waited to get photographed.

For Location we had a big showroom with

3 ghost houses, cornfield and a scrapyard.

We had lot's of the studio equipment with us 3 studio Lights, 2 Portable Beauty
dishes and many Different Softboxes so actually nothing could go wrong.
After a small tour Through the locations we started Thinking
( wow, ok this will not be an easy shoot )
The light in the showroom was not really bright enough and not really muddy so
we had to shoot with some extra Speed flashes and had a shutter time of
1sec - to 1,5 sec.. then the Focus was another big problem it was
too dark for the focus so we had to lighten up the models with a torch..

The first Image that I want to show you Guys was shot with 2 speed flashes
and an iso of 1000 so we could get a bit of the ambient light.

For the second Image we had a small studio setup on location.
We first Photographed them on the Location and after that in our 3 - Light setup
for some extra's we used those to do some more Postproduction on them.

The last Image was in one of the ghost houses " on Location "
Here we also had to fight with the light situation so we used a Studio light
with a Beauty dish and 1 sec shutter speed.

So, after all the shoot was quite quick and enjoyable
but the worst part of the shoot was that the theme music was playing the whole
time so we really had the feeling of being in a horror Life for one day.
Hope you guys enjoy this one !

Thank's Guys
Greets Manni

Interview with Natalia Taffarel

Hey Guys
So what's up today....
Some High End Retouching

I have a interesting video Interview for you featuring Natalia Taffarel.
She talks about her life her way and how she made her way up to the Top.

How to become a Professional High End Retoucher.

- Klick to see Video - On Calvin Hollywood's Podcast Page

more info about Natalia Taffarel
on her Website - Klick

or old Portfolio - Klick

and a small Video Tutorial
how to turn White skin
into Black skin.

Thanks Guy's

Greets Manni

Spending a day as a Personal Coacher

Hey Guys..

So what was happening yesterday Calvin

and I had to give a Personal Coaching.. With an extra

afternoon of just Post Production and Photoshop.

The hole day Included Planning, Location scouting, Light setup

and pure photoshopping.

So we Started around 11am at a german harbor in Mannheim

which was not far from studio so, first of we

did some more easy and emotional Images

with a big Softbox - The sky

After That we went over to a bit bigger and stronger Light

we used a portable Flash light with a battery Pack

and fixed a beauty dish to it.

After that we made a more Emotional grunge, contrast image

infront of a big old rusty garage door.

All of these Images are only Photoshop around 10-15min.

Now these images where all shot in the shade,

so we went over to a bit sunnier location to get some

really nice contrast and Backlighting

This image was also shoot with a Beauty dish here some

behind the scene pictures and I hope u liked the post,

Will definitely also host some Personal workshops in

South Africa and Namibia from 2011 on ..

Thanks Guys

Manni

Assisting Hollywood.....

Hey Guys ,

Like I sad From now on I will Blog at-least

2-3 time's in the week and keep you guys updated with latest news

and live Shoot's all around Manni-Photography's Life.

So what are the Latest News I am still in Germany - Schwetzingen

and work in the studio Weischeslischt and

assist the great Photographer Calvin Hollywood

I have the honor to Bring his English blog back to life

so if you Guys are interested in learning more about his

Techniques and style start following his and my Blog...

Link - calvinhollywood-blog

My First Blog Entry on the English Hollywood Blog was

today and hope you guys dig it !!

Klick..

What happened after Photokina

Day 1 - Studio introduction Oftersheim

Day 2 - Shoot with Marc Terenzi Horror Night in the

German Fun Park - Europa Park .... wow seriously guys

this is the best park ever and Really scary Horror Place !

Day 3 - More studio Work

Pics and more news will be posted soon !!

Stay Tuned

Manni

Latest News

Hey Guys,

Hope u guys are still keen to

keep on reading my blog... Sorry was a bit of no Info the last weeks.

But this will have a change From NOW on ...

So what are the Latest News

I Have been to the Worlds Biggest Photo Event

...PHOTOKINA IN COLOGNE...

I have never never seen so many Photographers,

Editors, and media people in one place.

It was a really good week and I had a lot of fun..

Got to meet a lot of new people working in the photography field

like Chase Jarvis , Joe McNally , Uli Staiger , Olaf Giermann ,

Ralf Mack , Calvin Hollywood

and many more.. I even had the privilege to

have a longer chat with Chase.. what a great person and

Yes I am a big fan of him.

Got to see the new Nikon D90 and D3000 Camera Release

and much more Stuff Well I will let the Pictures speak for them selves..

Chase Jarvis

Leica Gallery

Paul Ripke

Me and my colleagues

Thanks guys .. stay tuned Manni

Adventure Girl - Lost World

Hey Guys,

Hope you enjoy this one, I recently had a shot

with Philippa Muller with the Theme

LOST WORLD and Philippa as the

ADVENTURE GIRL

Out on her own to Save the world..

Was a Fun shoot with a lot of wind and Bright

sunlight so we ( My assistant "Dino Moulopolos" and I )

had to work our way around it, So Dino was Actually

hanging on the front-light keeping it down...

we used a Big 1,5 Octabox to get some Nice soft

front lighting and Some good detail on the model, used the sun

as a big back-lighting to push the model a bit away from Background.

So jA over all was a fun shoot and let Images Speak for them selves !!

Enjoy the Images.

And some Behind the scene Pix

small youtube video will be update soon !!

Enjoy

Namibia Open Forum

Hey Guys,

A New Forum has just opened in

Namibia so for all Namibian Photographers

feel free to Join and Upload your Images to this

Forum and talk about it with other.

so Join the

NEW NAMIBIA OPEN FORUM

and Become my friend .

Manni-Photography

Not so good in Photoshop ? Feel free to Join our

Photoshop Help Group.

One small seed Cover competition

One small seed Cover competition

Vote now !!!!

My Favorite ....

My vote goes for Cover 2 !!

good luck to all ....

KFC - Craving

Hy Guy's Today

I have something totally different...

No Photography Post at all just a KFC - Craving ...

Well OK I know it's a

chicken liken add but I do

have it two for KFC.... aaahhh the

monkey is back. Enjoy..

Hey Everyone ...

Just a small thank you to all of you

For the Support and Help...

Manni-Photography has his first

Image published in the South African

PIX - MAGAZINE.

It's just the beginning

and a small step further.

Thanks Guy's..

Camelthorn Beer 2

Hey Guys, Today

I have a new Camelthorn Image for you.

Some words about the light setup.

Two lights on this set. One to give a nice backlighting

and one front almost top lighting, some black

cardboard to give it a nice rim-lightand a

big glass at the bottom to get anice reflection.