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7 Mistakes To Avoid as a Photographer
Posted on: 1 June 2010
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From the Chicago Tribune, photojournalist Alex Garcia offers these tips for any photographer to be ware of:
- Not asking for a picture, for more access, for more shooting time.
- As a photographer, let me humbly suggest it’s far better to give your full allegiance to your vision; not your gear.
- …contests, even though arbitrary and unfair, still remain as one of the few ways by which someone is able to independently attest to the quality of their work.
- …remember to incorporate and innovate, not imitate.
- …it is always good to come back to see what other photographers are saying with their pictures.
- When I chimp (review the digital files on the camera display), I take my eyes off a situation and temporarily unplug myself from the flow of a portrait or news action.
- If you are hoping to do any work in newspapers, forget about using Photoshop for anything else than for basic toning, etc.
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Via pdn:
GigaPan announced today that photographer Gerald Donovan has created what it says is “the world’s largest photo.” The image, a 45-gigapixel photo of Dubai, was created with the help of Gigapan’s EPIC Pro robotic camera mount.
The photo is comprised of 4,250 pictures that took Donovan 3.5 hours to capture. He used a Canon EOS 7D and 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L zoom lens on the EPIC Pro mount.
If printed, the image would be the size of nearly 1,200 billboards, according to GigaPan.
To see Donovan’s full image of Dubai, click here.
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I just caught an interesting piece over on Photo Editor. It’s about a photographer who has encountered some legal difficulties while photographing graffiti. I found it interesting because a few years back I had played with the idea of photographing graffiti. The main difference is I was planning on photographing just the “art” and not the “artist.”
On February 4th 2010, photographer Jonas Lara an Art Center Graduate and former United States Marine, was photographing 2 graffiti artists painting a mural in Los Angeles. An LAPD helicopter spotted the group, then a patrol car came in and arrested Jonas and the Graffiti Artists (or vandals depending on how you feel about graffiti). He was initially charged with Felony Vandalism which was later lowered to a misdemeanor and then changed to Aiding and Abetting which carries a 1 year sentence. His jury trial is set for May 12th (Tuesday).
This story has been bouncing around the internet for a little while now and I’ve wanted to write about it, but not without talking to a lawyer first. PDN has a story (here) that does little more than gloss over Jonas’s side of the case. I wanted to understand what rights journalists have in these types of situations so I asked the Photo Attorney, Carolyn E. Wright a couple question.
Read the rest of the article here.
With all the recent hubbub about Photoshopped celebrities in magazines (which is frankly just a fact of life these days), French ELLE decided to feature three women with no makeup or Photoshopping for the April issue (the photos were shot by Peter Lindbergh). This is perhaps more shocking than any leaked photo of an un-retouched Kim Kardashian. It’s not lost on us that they chose three of the most beautiful women in the worl… [via American Photo]
Read the rest of the story and see a couple photos here.
Gay Weddings: Growing Opportunity?
Posted on: 24 April 2009
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For wedding photographers, same-sex marriage shows signs of being good for business. Several states now allow gay marriages or civil unions. More states are likely to follow suit sooner or later, giving gay and lesbian couples across the country an impetus to throw weddings large and small.
Of course, they need photographers and other wedding vendors. But given the controversy around same-sex marriage, the gay and lesbian wedding business is somewhat fraught. Couples worry about which vendors are gay friendly. And photographers are apt to wonder whether they might alienate straight clients by shooting gay weddings.
Now a growing cadre of photographers, frequently driven by a strong sense of social justice, is actively marketing to gay clients. The photographers are counting on a growing acceptance of same-sex marriage around the country to help drive demand in the gay wedding industry.
Among them is photographer Charlotte Geary of Manitou Springs, Colorado, who shot her first same-sex wedding for a lesbian couple in 2006. [via PDN]
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