Information about business transfer and new portfolio links
May 19th, 2009 by MjP
MJP-Photographs business is transferred to Studio Foxy Oy at spring 2009.
Please take a look of our new company web-site at Studio Foxy Oy.
I have also updated portfolio page to links Studio Foxy Oy’s portfolio pages.
Post tagged with:portfolio studio foxy
Posted in Company, Photography | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!Photo backup integrity
April 26th, 2008 by MjP
In certains situations your photo backup storage might get corrupted (e.g. DVDR disks will not last forever) so you need a tool to detect possible errors on your photo backups. I use small free program called FileCheckMD5 ( http://www.brandonstaggs.com/filecheckmd5/ ) to determine offline backup integrity. After the files are backed up I will run the program to generate md5 hashes from each file. After a period of time I can recheck if the files are corrupted on the backup disk by running the program again. This way I can determine possible errors on disks and correct the situation if needed.
For actual backup process I will use 2BirghtSpark SyncBackSE (http://www.2brightsparks.com/downloads.html) backup program in the future (I have 30days trial version on the testing). The software is similar to Nero BackItUp but have much more options and works better than old version of BackItUp program which I have been using. The backed up files goes to external hard disk and the copy of that hard disk is located on off site location.
Post tagged with:backup check hash integrity md5 photo software
Posted in Photography | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!Portfolio updated
March 18th, 2008 by MjP
Portfolio pages are updated with new images and whole new gallery called landscapes and nature is added. Please take a look and leave comments about images. The portfolio pages can be found from here: (MJP-Photographs photography portfolio). Each of these royalty-free images can be licenced from agencies listed in left column of this page. New images will be added to these portfolios in near future.
Thanks for looking!
Post tagged with:Photography portfolio update
Posted in Photography, Site related | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!Whiskey in the jar part II
March 16th, 2008 by MjP
After unsuccessful attempt to photograph ice on the whiskey glass I decided to try it again. This time main idea was to use artificial “ice cubes”, non drinkable liquid and quality crystal glass.
Friend of mine told me about article in foodesigns.com e-magazine where ice cubes where made from transparent candle gel. So I went to local craft shop and bought small pot of candle gel (cost was something like 9 euros). Here is what I did to get these artificial ice cubes shown on photos in this post.
- I poured melted gel to rectangular shaped vase about 1 inch thick
- Waited until the gel was firm again. Then I did take the gel “block” out from the vase and cut it nice cubes
- After that the fun part begin (and most dangerous one). I removed little bit gel from edges of the cubes (make more realistic looking cubes). Then I took candle to melt the edges carefully (remember that gel is used for candles so it will burn quite easily. So be extra careful on this part if you try to do fake ice cubes). You can easily mold cubes any shape you like with heat source.
- Result was realistic looking fake ice-cubes which does not melt in room temperature
.
Just cubes in the glass:
And the whisky (coke with water) on the rocks:
I think the result is quite nice and these cubes were great to work with. Next time I had to try it with soda and other liquids. The lightning setup was similar to first attempt to photograph ice and whiskey.
Post tagged with:artifical fake ice cube Photography whisky
Posted in Food, Photography | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!a New Logo
March 15th, 2008 by MjP
I have been quite busy on shooting new images (my goal is to double amount of images I have in microstock agencies by end of this year). I will update galleries very soon to include latest food images I have made. New posts are also on the way like : shooting whiskey with ice -second take, how to make cheap high quality diffuser panels. I also ordered Canon 90mm TS-E tilt and shift lens so will write something about it when it arrives.
I have also joined new microstock agencies (microstock agency link list in the left is updated) and local camera club called Siilinjärven Kamerat Ry (Siika). Link to club’s blog and member galleries can be found from blogroll.
Friend of mine made this new logo for MJP-Photographs. I like it very much and I will update my site and images to include this logo soon.
Post tagged with:camera club logo microstock
Posted in Company, Site related | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!Whiskey in the jar
November 13th, 2007 by MjP
Ingredients:
- Single malt whiskey
- Heavy duty glass (bought cheap one)
- Clear ice cubes
- Camera and lightning props
Expected results:
A drunken photographer? Maybe, lets see what happens…
Setup:
Making the clear ice cube: If you want clear ice-cubes you need use distilled water and boil it twice (boil the water, let it calm down and boil again) and freeze them slowly. I did not have the distilled water so I tried do with tap water.
You can also use use artificial ice-cubes manufactured by Trengove Studios or similar cubes from other companies like Condor Foto (ice melts really fast, it is easier to work with artificial ice).
The key light (60cm soft box) was located behind black paper (gobo) which had 25×15cm hole in it. The glass is put on the small black tube to make isolation on photoshop easier. The amount of the black on the edge of glass can be controlled by moving glass forward to key light direction.
The fill light was located right side of the camera (angle of 45 degrees) to get nice reflection to left side of glass and correct color to whiskey. To get correct color I used yellow filter about 20×30cm with 50x 50 cm “frost paper”.
Here is my lightning setup diagrams:
Top view:
Front view (camera side):
Results:
Results were not good as I wanted them to be. I made few mistakes during the shoot and preparation. The tap water I used for ice cubes did not make them clear enough even with boiling the water twice. The ice was clearer than usually, but not clear enough to get really nice looking ice. I will use artificial ice next time to get more professional looking image. Other problem was the frost occurred on the glass which did not look nice (it would look nice on the beer bottle but not in the whiskey glass). Other mistake was to use cheap whiskey glass. The low-quality glass have tiny scratches and defects all over so this means lot of photoshop work afterwards.
First image without ice cubes:
and the second one with the cubes:
Conclusions:
- Home made ice cubes are not clear enough if made from tap water (not sure if clear enough even made from distilled water).
- Use only high quality (crystal) glass to avoid excessive use Photoshop. Cheap glass has many defects and tiny scratches all over it. High quality crystal glass does not seem to have these problems.
- Lightning filter (gel) needs to be used to get correct color on the whiskey.
- Artificial ice cubes will be used next time (real ice melts too fast and changes liquid outlook and it makes unwanted frost on the glass)
- Whiskey tasted good
Post tagged with:drink setup studio ligtning whisky
Posted in Food, Photography | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!Finally online
November 5th, 2007 by MjP
I just finished fixing the problems in database. Database problems were caused because I moved the system from development directory to domains root directory. Few url’s went wrong during the move and some plugins needed re-installation order to work. Now everything should be all right and the site is open. If you notice any other abnormalities please contact me.
update: IE 7 does not work correctly.. have to fix css…
Post tagged with:database problem technology web-site
Posted in Site related | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!First blog post!
October 23rd, 2007 by MjP
Welcome to www.mjp-photographs.fi blog. This site is under construction and things are about to change on daily basis as the site grows. I try to post what is happening here much as possible.
Here are some preliminary plans what kind of content I’m going to include here:
- Studio lightning setups and diagrams of my future still-life and food photography work
- Updated portfolios and galleries
- Links of portfolios to license my royalty free images
- My food photography, people photography and still-life photography portfolios
- Food and dining related posts (recipes, photos, etc)
- MJP-Photographs related postings
Please hang around and leave comment what you think and take a look the about page for more information regarding MJP-Photographs and services I offer.
Post tagged with:future plans site welcome
Posted in Site related | | 0 Comments
del.icio.us Digg Google StumbleUpon Technorati Yahoo!-
Last post
-
Categories
- Company (2)
- Food (2)
- Photography (5)
- Site related (4)
-
Archives
Pages
-
Links / Blogroll
RSS feed