How to use professional lights in dental digital photography? Take a look at our ready-to-use sets! Each lesson will show you various light set-ups that should be used in various needs. We’re not showing you the photo studio arrangement – we’re taking a step forward to give you pro tips and professional advice from the top photographer.
Follow our steps and prepare yourself and your dental photography business for an upgrade! We recommend this online course to all medium and advanced dental photography users.
Professional Studio Photography in practice
But first, why? Why should you sacrifice your time and money for professional pictures? Here are some examples:
Use your dental intraoral photography skills to improve your company’s image
Be able to stand out in social media
You wouldn’t like to be left behind in the business, right?
Completing the story of a case is professional and helps with the best possible diagnosis
You can easily consult your work with other specialists or show it to the public!
We’re giving you 18 (!) episodes covering all the questions you may have about Professional Studio Photography.
Episode 1 – Introduction
Episode 2 – Backgrounds
Episode 3 – Collapsible Backgrounds
Episode 4 – Seamless Background Paper
Episode 5 – Type of light & Power of lighting
Episode 6 – Speedlight Flash System & Light Modifiers
Episode 7 – Monolights, Light Modifiers Part 1
Episode 8 – Monolights, Light Modifiers Part 2
Episode 9 – Parabolic Umbrella
Episode 10 – Softboxes
Episode 11 – Light Modifiers: Reflectors
Episode 12 – Compact Monolight Flashes
Episode 13 – Studio Light in Practice: Beauty Dish
Episode 14 – Studio Light in Practice: One Softbox
Episode 15 – Studio Light in Practice: Two Softboxes
Episode 16 – Studio Light in Practice: Octabox
Episode 17 – Studio Light in Practice: Octabox Part 2
Episode 18 – Studio Light in Practice: Parabolic Umbrella
Amazing studio, professional equipment and a pro – our new lessons are just perfect. Check out how to use modern equipment to get the most beautiful photographs! Take your time to learn and invest in your career.
With the new image.canon service, photographers can forward their work automatically from their camera to their computer, mobile device and supported services like Google Drive. The service is free to use and stores images on Canon’s own server.
Every Canon user can register a Canon ID and then use the service to wirelessly transfer images from their supported device to Canon’s cloud platform. From there, the images can then be forwarded to other services, a computer and mobile devices.
Image.canon stores the uploaded original images for 30 days, after which they will be deleted from the server. What is interesting, Canon doesn’t have any restrictions on image size or the number of images that can be transferred! The company says there may be instances where uploads are restricted for ‘operational reasons’, though.
Image.canon: a new platform to make your work easier
There is an exciting addition to the new cloud service – it enables the automatic background transfer of your images when the camera is connected to the internet. This means you can spend less time manually transferring your images and more time focusing on your shoots: this is our goal after all. However, according to Canon, only cameras released from 2020 will be capable of this.
Image.canon will also have dedicated PC software that will allow photographers to quickly download their shots from this hub. Canon users will also be able to sort images and share their photos directly to their social media channels or email contacts.
image.canon promises to be a handy replacement to the existing Canon Image Gateway and it will launch in April 2020.
The meeting you’ve been waiting for has finally come. Note June 2019 in your calendar, as Dental Photography Conference arrives!!!
Dental Photo Master has the honor to provide the media patronage of the meeting and we’re pleased to announce the key speakers.
You can learn from top experts who have a passion for teaching.
Panaghiotis Bazos will give a lecture about trends in dental photography. Dr. Bazos is the authority with many diplomas and degrees from all over the world’s best schools. Calling him a world-class professional in dental restorative techniques is not enough.
You’ll also have the chance to take part in workshops and lecture with Sascha Hein. He is one of the top dental technologists; he conducted independent research, which lead to the development of the visual_eyes liquid and the fluor_eyes flash system for fluorescent dental photography.
There’ll be more great names! You’ll also meet Alessandro Devigus from Switzerland, Carlos A. Ayala Paz from Peru, Javier Tapia Guadix from Spain and Louis Hardan from Lebanon.
Apart from the media patronage, Dental Photo Master will also have its speaker: Krzysztof Chmielewski, our Educational Director. He is the international speaker in the field of implantology and bone regeneration, esthetic treatment and dental photography.
But don’t worry – you won’t be lectured. The greatest thing is that all of our key guests will conduct workshops with participants! This is the best way to learn from your masters. To work with them – it’s an opportunity you can’t miss.
And if you’ll do your best… We’ll have a surprise! You may leave Seville not only with some great memories and lessons learned but also with a new NIKON Z6 or Z7 in your bag. Yes, one of the participants will win this fantastic new camera!
We’re looking forward to this event, really proud and sure this will be the key event in dental photography of 2019.
While taking photographs, many dental photographers focus only on capturing teeth correctly in terms of the technique.
If you want to create great portraits, you can’t forget about the eyes and what is reflected in them. Catchlights in the eyes usually look attractive and make your portraits true eye-catchers.
“The eyes are the mirror of the soul and reveal the truth about the human” – you have already read or heard something like that, haven’t you? Because it’s a rather risky statement on a blog for dentists, I’ll say that apart from a pretty smile it is the eyes that are most important in a portrait.
When taking portrait photographs of their patients, most doctors concentrate on the correct focus setting. Usually we focus on the eyes or the teeth and more and more cameras are equipped with the function of their automatic detection. But not only the focus is important – the light reflected in the eyes of the person matters too.
Leonardo da Vinci applied catchlights to make the people he painted look more vivid. The ability of setting up and selecting light appropriately, will give your portraits extraordinary character. The light will be reflected in the eyes differently depending on if it comes through the window, from the softbox, or from the ring lamp. Remember about this while taking photographs and take time to set up the light or the model right.
The simplest way to achieve a pretty catchlight is to use the reflector.
Below you can see a few shots from our session held while recording with Carlos Ayala. We photographed our model, Michelle, in such a manner that the reflector can be seen in her eyes.
In our daily routine, we don’t notice the light reflected in human eyes because this is something common. A person appearing in a photograph without catchlights might look unnatural. Catchlights can be additionally enhanced in post-production, which doesn’t require advanced skills. The video below presents photographs by famous photographers, thanks to which it’s clear how much difference is made by these small reflections (or their lack).
I hope that this article has encouraged you a bit to experiment with lighting.
If you want to learn more about portrait lighting, I recommend the following lessons:
The key features of Laowa 25 mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro include an advanced optical system, maximum magnification of 5:1, high resolution and excellent colouring of the photographs.
Impressive close-ups within reach
Photos: Alberto Ghizzi Panizza, Jie Ge, Gil Wizen
The optical system of Venus Optics Laowa 25 mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro ensures image magnification from 2.5 to 5x. It’s composed of 8 elements in 6 groups, and one of them is made of ultra low dispersion glass. The manufacturer emphasises that thanks to such a design we can enjoy an appropriate correction of chromatic aberration, as well as images characterised by high sharpness and high reproducibility of colours.
Apart from that, each element composing the system is covered with anti-reflection coatings, which should minimise light reflection and appearance of hot spots and flares within the frame. In addition, the overall contrast of photographs in challenging conditions will be improved. The depth of field is ensured by the 8-blade diaphragm with the range of f/2.8-f/16. The focal length of 25 mm, in turn, is responsible for the 10.3-degree angle of view.
Venus Optics Laowa 25mm f/2.8 2.5-5X Ultra Macro is sized 82 x 65 mm and weighs 400 g. Of course, it’s a fully manual macro glass, which offers an effective focusing capability ranging from 173 to 223.5 mm. The lens is already available for preorder with Nikon F, Canon EF, Sony FE and Pentax K mounts. It costs 399 dollars.
An interesting option is that you can buy an adapter for the Micro Four Thirds (M43) system, so also the users of small mirrorless cameras can tap the potential of this glass.
Key features:
Focal length: 25 mm
Open F value: F 2.8
Field of View: 10.3 degrees
Lens construction: 6 groups 8 pieces
Minimum aperture: F16
Maximum aperture: F 2.8
Minimum photographing distance: 173 mm to 223.5 mm
Working Distance: 40 mm – 45 mm
Shooting magnification: 2.5 times to 5 times
Number of diaphragm blades: 8
Weight: 400 g
Corresponding mount: Canon EF, Nikon F, Pentax K, Sony FE
Equipment for dental photography is not only the camera set. There are additional instruments like light modifiers, brackets, and others, which help in creating beautiful pictures and acquiring valuable information.
Understanding light behavior gives the firm basis also in dental photography. Our special “Giant” Dr. Panaghiotis Bazos is more than the skilled and talented dentist. He is also entrepreneur and developer. He is also one of the Founding Members of Bio-Emulation Group. Some people can analyze and synthesize scientific data to create new tools. Dr. Bazos is one of them.
For dental applications, he created two exciting products: polar_eye and fluor_eye.
We recorded for Dental Photo Master online platform new lessons with Dr. Bazos. And here is a surprise: you can watch them after FREE Registration.
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Thousands of Dentists and Dental Technicians benefited from knowledge Carlos is sharing about Dental Photography.
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Now, you’ll be able to learn from Carlos Ayala, watching him from your comfy sofa! See the equipment, setup, and settings you’ll need to get the shots.
Watch these videos to see what we have prepared for you:
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