IT MADE CLICK!

Michael Zelbel

A quick photo every day! With the IT MADE CLICK podcast I would like to motivate you to take your camera and make a quick photo. If you experiment with your camera just a few minutes every day, then soon you will absolutely master this awesome device. If you have any photography questions, I am happy to answer them here, too.

  • 9 minutes 56 seconds
    Episode 115: Anabolic Lighting for Fitness

    Juice up the body of your model with anabolic lighting! Sometimes you want to emphasize the muscles of a toned body. At other times you want to bring out the breasts a bit more. Fitness, bodybuilding, or just fuller curves, it's no problem with the right approach to lighting.

    8 October 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 2 minutes 2 seconds
    Episode 114: Use Her Elbows in Laying Boudoir Poses

    When shooting a boudoir portrait with your subject resting on her stomach, pose her so that she pushes up her upper body as tall as possible. It might not feel very comfortable for her. But it looks excellent on the photo.

    30 September 2019, 12:24 pm
  • 10 minutes 45 seconds
    Episode 112: Worry-Free Photo Workflow Folders

    FREE Download of the Photo Workflow Folder Structure here: https://michaelzelbel.com/workflowfolders Some photographers make a fulltime job out of shoveling around image files. Make better use of your time. Use ou GL-System for data handling and never again worry about where a particular image file might be.

    30 August 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 6 minutes 41 seconds
    Episode 111: Win-Win Strategies Get You the Talent For Your Photo Shoots

    FREE posing guide when you join our group "Tips for Photographers": https://glm.tips/group In this video, I share an example for a TfP arrangement that I made with a Chinese TV actress for a nude photo shoot. It's often difficult for photographers to get the right talent for their photo project. If you take a moment to listen to your potential models and to adapt your communication with the talent, so that points more into the direction that they perceive as a "win," then it has a significant impact on their enthusiasm for your project.

    29 August 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 7 minutes 5 seconds
    Episode 110: How to Create A Quick Milk Bath For Bathtub Nude Portraits

    Creating a milk bath for a photoshoot is very simple. We recommend you fill your bathtub half with hot water and add one to four liters of regular cow milk, depending on how foggy you like your milk bath should appear. See here:

    16 August 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 10 minutes 56 seconds
    Episode 109: How to Get Professional Models For Your TfP Shoots

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    Professional models don't have much time for TfP shootings. Some photographers think that they have to come up with something really big to convince these models to cooperate with them. Other photographers think that they just have to ask them for TfP work with kind of pitch at all. Neither works. What will get you these models is to create win-win situations that are relevant to them. And this does not have to be hard.

    8 May 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 2 minutes 35 seconds
    Episode 108: Avoid This Mistake When Using Color Gels

    Multiple light sources in multiple different colors can add an exciting element to your photos. But the important word here is "multiple". You need at least two lights with visibly different colors to create this effect.

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    19 April 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 4 minutes 56 seconds
    Episode 108: How To Leverage A Local Camera Club To The Max?

    Clubs are great places for making connections with people who will help you with your ambitions. With that mindset you are able to leverage even your local camera club to the max.

    19 April 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 7 minutes 23 seconds
    Episode 107: How To Address The Market For Artistic Nudes

    We see that many people spend money on artistic nude photos. Also, it's easy to reach these people via social on the Internet. That means that there is a fantastic market for photographers who are into this genre. But the transparency of the Internet also poses challenges for photographers. We became comparable.

    18 April 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 8 minutes 33 seconds
    Episode 106: Don't Edit JPGs Directly

    RAW Editors like Adobe Lightroom Classic go far beyond RAWs. They import and edit a myriad of image formats. The most popular among them is JPG. It's a perfect format for viewing photos but it does not lend itself to image editing. It might sound silly but it improves the quality of your edits tremendously if you convert you JPGs into 16-bit images before editing and reduce them again to 8-bit afterwards.

    17 April 2019, 6:00 pm
  • 5 minutes 33 seconds
    Episode 105: A Multi-Tasking Trap of Photography

    When shooting photos we photographers pay attention to an impressive number of technical variables. At the same time we communicate with our model in front of the lens. This is not ideal.

    16 April 2019, 6:00 pm
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