Valour Magazine 1st Edition.

Regards from the studio, this time its to bring you some mockups for Valour Magazine's first edition. 

I hope to bring you some more of this shoot and upcoming shoots as we plan and prepare for each. 

This photo shoot was put together by our team stylist Such.A.Betty, the theme of the shoot was "nude coloured" and you can see from the images we used contract with the color to form a story line along with the theme color. 

I put together a mockup for them to see an idea of how you can use the images, I kinda like it this way even if it may show more of the "contrast" of the images, as opposed to the "color" aspect. 

Photography is all light and shade, isnt it? 

See below for some behind the scenes of the photo shoot. 

Cheers, Levi [LT]
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Megan's Modeling Headshot

Headshots.

What's the thought process?

Before every photo shoot I always ask "What are the pictures to be used for?" - or along the idea of "What do you want the viewer to see"

Megan wanted a "models headshot" for her portfolio - a nice, clean, easy photo.

So these photos have no special makeup - no hair styling, it was as she is on a normal day as raw as possible to show anyone looking at it would see who she is without any work done to her face.

Like with anyone, it took a few minutes to get into it, and after switching around the lighting a few times, here are the few final images.

I also decided to add a print because I thought it came out really nice.

You may also recognize her from a previous shoot we did for Boutique Wolffe.

What else do you want to see?

More explanations?


Photo techy talk:
 Canon 5D Markiii -100mm f/2.8 86" PLM on a AB800 to the camera right, and a reflector for fill on the cameras right, white background photoshopped to pure white.

ISO - 100
1/160
f/7.1

Where Tefillin are made

How are Teffilin made? 

After finishing a fun shoot with a few cousins of mine at the park, I stopped by my uncles Yossi's house.

My uncle Yossi is a Scribe, in his basement he has a whole bunch of interesting tools and equipment for making Tefillin or writing a Sefer Torah. 

Its an interesting procedure from when the skin comes off the cow and is brought in, to when it leaves as a "Ready to wear" pair of Tefillin for a new Bar Mitzva boy or its a fully written Sefer Tora. 

In the photos below you can see my cousin Mendel in its first steps of preperation as he stretchs out the skins to dry and scraping off any shmutz thats on it.

Maybe one day I should make a full video of the entire process which is quiet an interesting one.

Behind the scenes - Ariella in NYC

Here is a short film I put together while photographing Ariella.

Feel free to like it and share it, this way I know you guys enjoy it and I will put more effort to making more and better video captures to show you.

Its a stunning day out today, go out and enjoy!