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As you can see that, cloth clips use to ensure proper clothing line and tight fit the model.

more discuss here

Two useful articles I believe somehow a good read regardless on what kind of photography you used. One of them is from Magnum photos. (wiki: Magnum photos)

one of the advice given by Alec Soth,

What advice would you give young photographers?
Try everything. Photojournalism, fashion, portraiture, nudes, whatever. You won’t know what kind of photographer you are until you try it. During one summer vacation (in college) I worked for a born-again tabletop photographer. All day long we’d photograph socks and listen to Christian radio. That summer I learned I was neither a studio photographer nor a born-again Christian. Another year I worked for a small suburban newspaper chain and was surprised to learn that I enjoyed assignment photography. Fun is important. You should like the process and the subject. If you are bored or unhappy with your subject it will show up in the pictures. If in your heart of hearts you want to take pictures of kitties, take pictures of kitties.

as well as good sound advice from Carl De Keyzer

What advice would you give young photographers?
Give it all you got for at least 5 years and then decide if you got what it takes. Too many great talents give up at the very beginning; the great black hole looming after the comfortable academy or university years is the number one killer of future talent.

full article at: http://blog.magnumphotos.com/2008/11/wear_good_shoes_advice_to_young_photographers.html

Another good one is from Michael Kamber of the New York Times.

I cannot overstate the importance of long-term projects. Rather than run around taking hundreds of pictures of dozens of subjects, it is much better to spend a few weeks or a month with a family, or a group of people and get to know them. Your pictures will reveal your commitment as subjects become comfortable with you. Choose your projects carefully. There are hundreds of important projects out there waiting to be discovered and photographed. Photo editors know the commitment behind this kind of in-depth work, and they respect it. A good photo-essay on one project will be remembered and will help to get you assignments.

When discuss on the equipments, his replies

There is no magic camera that will make you take great pictures. Use what works for you. Develop a system that is reliable and that you are comfortable with. Never, under any circumstances, go on a major assignment with brand new equipment that you have not used. I don’t care if it is the latest and greatest. Often there will be glitches and growing pains, you don’t want these when you’re under the gun.

full article at: http://www.lightstalkers.org/posts/advice_for_young_photographers

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Drift from mustardcuffins on Vimeo.

I have come across Micheal Rissi through short research on time lapse.

There are some interesting Q&A on his video:

Q : So Michael, your HD time lapse photography is stunning. What cameras are you shooting with to bring this imagery to life?

MICHAEL: I have a Canon 400D (Digital Rebel XTi) and since 2009 also a Canon 50D. I was a little afraid that after around 200k shutters, the 400D’s shutter might fail at any unfavorable time… As lenses I have the wide angle Sigma 10-20 and the Sigma 17-70.

Q: What is your approach to framing and exposing your time lapse photos?

MICHEAL: I like wide angles a lot, as I shoot mostly landscapes. But as in landscape photography, finding the right subject is not trivial, people (me as well) tend to try to fit to much onto their images. Wide angles, however, allow in the post production smooth pans and zooms.

Q: What software applications are part of your toolkit to produce these HD time lapses?

MICHEAL: I always shoot in raw (or sraw), with the result that I filled a 1TB disk in about 3-4 months… Usually, I use Adobe’s Camera Raw for the raw images, or directly photomatix when I create an HDR time lapse and then tone mapping with Photomatix. After camera raw/photomatix I rerun the images through Photoshop to correct the colors, remove dust spots if necessary, apply a tone curve or in case of winter time lapses, I also “whiten” the snow slightly. Then I save all images as jpgs and import them into Adobe Premiere Elements (the poor man’s solution).

The most important filter is the deflicker plugin (gbdeflicker). Flickering is a big issue in digital time lapses, especially for HDR processing. I save the movie as quicktime with H.264 1920×1080p. Apple somehow has another definition for the gamma value, so I correct this with Quick Time Pro (explained here)

Q: How did you achieve such smooth zooms and pans? It looks like you do this in post from where I sit, am I correct?

MICHEAL: The zooms and pans are done in post with Premiere Elements. That’s why I usually shoot with the wide angle

His blog (http://magictimelapse.blogspot.com/) have a lot showcase of his latest video as well as a lot tutorials and tips on how to etc.

his creations:

Zurich:

Tilt shift? (from Erik West)

HDR

Winterreise (HDR time lapse): fog in winter from Michael Rissi on Vimeo.

Other collection of his series:

http://vimeo.com/michaelrissi/videos