Photo Plus Expo 2016 Reviewed!

These are my own personal thoughts of what I thought was interesting. I did not cover anything that was not interesting to my own interests or thought was revolutionary.

5:02 Media Booth Pro (Photo Booth)

6:05 Vuze (3D/VR Camera)

7:18 Sony A7RII

8:54 Sony A7SII

12:19 THETA 360 Camera

14:35 The Lens Flipper 

16:58 Some LED lighting gear I forgot to get the name of...sorry.

17:40 Wacom (Retouching tool)

19:28 Bowens (Strobe units, also talk about Flashpoint's XPLOR)

21:50 is Came-TV (Gimbals/Stabilizers)

23:08 Another one I forgot, could be the app or the thing moving the camera around, or both... sorry.

24:35 Typhoon4k (Drone)

25:46 More LED lighting equipment, Zylight

26:43 Education (Peter Hurley shown as reference)

28:17 Foto Master (Photo Booth)

30:17 Lastolite (Softboxes)

31:41 Sigma 85mm 1.4 ART Lens with sample images on the Canon 6D

34:28 Sony Booth

35:20 iKan Booth - Video Equipment

36:49 Networking and Shoots in NYC

Detailed First Impressions: Sigma 85mm 1.4 for Canon

Here's the video version, and the written version underneath it.

Some information may or may not pertain to you. I'll label as much as I can and you can skip to the parts you are interested in.

Reasons why I rented

I rented the Sigma 85mm 1.4 for general environmental portraiture with portrait and modeling type photography. Reasons I wanted to rent it is for

1. One being the obvious, exploring new focal length with the wide open aperture being available. I've shot with a similar focal and aperture, the Canon 50mm 1.4, but I felt it wasn't giving the very much more appealing look I liked in the 85mm focal lengths. 
2. This summer I was primarily focused on shooting and mastering the natural lighting for portrait and modeling photography in an environmental portraiture style.
3. Another reason was being inspired by portrait photographer Dani Diamond. Which he stated he uses an 85mm 1.4 lens on his nikon setup. Since I loved his work a lot why not try the similar style, and a bit more towards fashion with my own twist.
4. I was also advised by colleagues to try the current Sigma 85mm 1.4 lens over waiting for the ART version which everyone was crying over and over for, including myself. 

Photoshop Workflow: How to make a Modeling/Portrait Photo Truly High Key

Check out my speed up photoshop workflow on a photo I shot for PPW wrestlers a few months ago.

Note the video is not from start to finish as it was my first time in a very long time using the capture software so I forgot I was not recording (I know), so its in bites and pieces which ended being a 1 hour 44 minutes+ edit! And then compressed it into a 12+ minute video at the fastest speed I could make it. Plus my computer crashed right after saving the file, and starting up the video capture again as the video capture took way too much of my CPU

After watching that I basically did some masking and filled in the background with solid clean white as my seamless was a bit too small for tag team wrestlers (2 subjects), so I shot it anyways even though I generally don't and would always aim to get perfect shot in-camera, sadly it was not possible as it was on-location before an actual PPW show and bringing only a small seamless than the very large, which I cannot travel with as it is much bigger than my car! 

Other than the white-ing the background I did simple cleaning on the wardrobe and skin with the healing brush mostly. 

Lighting setup was 2 medium softboxes on left and right of subjects and 1 Lastolite Ez Box as the key light