4.28.2014

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPOSITION




Framing and Composition from Videopia on Vimeo.

  10 Rules of Photo Composition (via Digital Camera World): LINK
  • Tip 1 Simplify the scene
  • Tip 2 Fill the Frame
  • Tip 3 Aspect Ratio
  • Tip 4 Avoid the Middle
  • Tip 5 Leading Lines
  • Tip 6 Use Diagonals
  • Tip 7 Space to Move
  • Tip 8 Backgrounds
  • Tip 9 Creative with Colors
  • Tip 10 Breaking the Rules
25 Photo Composition Tips (via photofocus.com): LINK


4.24.2014

Puliter Prize-Winner Tyler Hicks on Nairobi














New York Times Photographer Tyler Hicks Tells The Story Behind His Pulitzer-Winning Nairobi Mall Photos (via NPR):  LISTEN

4.23.2014

Story Behind Chris Hondros's Iraq Image



"In the video above, Getty’s Director of Photography for News, Pancho Bernasconi, talks to TIME about what is arguably the most power photograph Hondros ever took: a photo of a young girl who had just witnessed the death of her parents in a shooting in the city of Tal Afar, Iraq..." READ MORE

Koko the Gorilla and Nonja the Orangutan



Read about Koko the Gorilla's photo: LINK



Read about Nonja the photographer Orangutan: LINK
See Nonja's facebook page: LINK

4.21.2014

Danny Lyon Interview (The Guardian)
















Danny Lyon's inside shots

From activists and Outlaw bikers to prisoners in a Texas jail, Danny Lyon tells radical stories by embroiling himself in the lives of his subjects – a stance that has redefined photojournalism. Sean O'Hagan talks to the veteran photographer..." READ MORE

Dark Skin Racial Bias in Photography

















LIGHT AND DARK:  The Racial Biases That Remain in Photography (via National Public Radio): AUDIO LINK

4.20.2014

History of Photography


Class 002 history of photography [final] from Amity University


History of Photography Timeline (via photo.net): LINK




The Wonderful World of Early Photography (via neatorama.com): LINK

4.16.2014

World Press Photo 2014

















World Press Photo Contest 2014 Winners See Photos

How to Edit and Critique Your Photos















HOW TO EDIT YOUR OWN PHOTOGRAPHY
“If only editing photography was as simple as separating wheat and chaff. Josh Lustig is outgoing Assignments Editor at Panos Pictures and photographer and publisher at Tartaruga. He asks Panos photographers for their tips on telling a story – and keeping it short and sweet…” Read More














5 WAYS TO CRITIQUE YOUR OWN PHOTOS
“Often our photography has a lot going for it.  Sometimes it lacks a clear identity. Before we display our images, we get it critiqued. The first person who critiques your work should be you. As photographers we spend a lot of time and money wondering if our images are good. We spend time creating and editing the images. We spend money, making sure we store the images correctly. We are all susceptible to flattery and we accept when people tell us our images are nice. With our own image though, we must be brutal and unforgiving…” Read More

Micro Photography by Vyacheslav Mishchenko



















"Ukrainian nature photographer Vyacheslav Mishchenko specializes in macro photography, and his favorite things to capture on camera are snails. 

He shoots them up-close in their natural habitat—on leaves, branches, and flowers. Most of his images show the snails curiously exploring the world around them, while others are slightly more romantic..." See More

The Story of The Migrant Mother

























"As the United States sank into the Great Depression, a photographer named Dorothea Lange turned her attention away from studio and portrait work toward the suffering she was seeing around her. After taking a job as a photographer for the Resettlement Administration, a New Deal agency tasked with helping poor families relocate, Lange one day found herself in Nipomo, California, at a campsite full of out-of-work pea pickers. The crop had been destroyed by freezing rain; there was nothing to pick. Lange approached one of the idle pickers, a woman sitting in a tent, surrounded by her seven children, and asked if she could photograph them..." Read More

4.15.2014

Stefan Ruiz: Cholombiano Project


Mexican-American photographer Stefan Ruiz discusses his photo career and his "Cholombiano" project.

Chris Anderson on Photography


Magnum Photographer Christopher Anderson discusses his photographic journey.

4.14.2014

60 Photos That Capture the Human Experience

"This incredible collection of moments represents the joy, innocence, despair, curiosity, and undying perseverance within all of us. No matter where we’re from, these are the emotions that unite us – it’s what makes us human. We set out to capture this spirit in 60 incredible photographs..." See Photos

Aerial Photographer Alex MacLean

See more photos from Alex MacLean: Link

New York TImes Wins Photo Pulitzers



"The New York Times has swept the 2014 Pulitzer Prizes for photography. The staff photographer Tyler Hicks won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for his coverage of a terrorist attack at an upscale mall in Nairobi, Kenya, that left more than 60 people dead. Josh Haner was awarded the Pulitzer in feature photography for his images of the slow and painful recovery process for a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing..." Read More

Nigel Baker's Tips for Photographers in 1 Minute

Nigel Barker's Tips For Photographers from KevinFrazierProductions on Vimeo.

4.11.2014

Spirit Photography (Pre-Photoshop Manipulation)






































View more spirit photos here: Link

Protecting Your Images: Sebastian Wahlhuetter

















"Hi everybody, this is Sebastian Wahlhuetter the photographer of the Himalayan dog image [if you are just interested in the ending of the story go down where it says: a journey's end...]

 Things have gone wild recently regarding this photo of the 'Himalayan dog' aka 'winter is coming'. And since thousands of people keep asking questions on what happened to this dog, I decided to set up this blog to answer them. This image has already a story by it's own. This picture somehow got famous overnight and it is important for me as an artist that you hear what happened. I can tell you right away that I'm torn between amazingness and frustration..." Read More

Annie Leibovitz: Game of Thrones Shoot


4.08.2014

Download Over 250 Free Arts Books From Getty


"Getty Publications just announced the launch of its Virtual Library, where readers can freely browse and download over 250 art books from the publisher’s backlist catalogue..." Read More

2014 Photo Grants, Funds, Fellowships

















2014 Photography Grants, Funds and Fellowships 

(via fotografia magazine): link




World's Most Photographed Places: Mapped















"New York topped the list with its Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Guggenheim Museum, trumping the city's Empire State Building and Statue of Liberty landmarks, followed by Rome with the Trinità dei Monti, the church at the top of the Spanish Steps..." read more

SebastIão Salgado via Demilked.com

"Marine iguana in Galápagos Islands, Ecuador (2005)"

Breathtaking photography by Sebastião Salgado.  
See photos: link

Santiago Arcos: La Cienega















"(Santiago Arcos) went on to college to study photography, then dropped out to actually do photography. He was working at El Telégrafo in Guayaquil, Ecuador, when he was discussing projects with his editor, who mentioned a town he had visited decades earlier..." read more

4.01.2014

How To Start A Sucessful Photography Business


THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO STARTING A SUCCESSFUL PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS


"I get a call almost every week from various photographers:  old photojournalism colleagues leaving their newspaper staff jobs (sometimes voluntarily, sometimes not…), college students nearing graduation, assistants who are ready to strike out on their own, and sometimes, advanced amateurs in other careers who I’ve met at a workshop.  All of them want the same thing….”we want to do what you’re doing….you know, work full time as a commercial photographer.”..." read more

Findin Vivian Maier




Article: The Myth of Vivian Maier (Aperture Magazine)
"The new documentary Finding Vivian Maier...is structured through interviews with families Maier worked for, testimonies from photographers Mary Ellen Mark and Joel Meyerowitz, and selections from Maier’s photographs and films.

...This visually conventional documentary unravels the life of a secret street photographer, a native New Yorker who grew up in France and died destitute in a Chicago hospital in 2009 after decades working as a nanny to families in that city’s suburbs..." read more

How To Fix Common Photography Mistakes

15 Things Every New Photographer Does Wrong
"There are lot of mistakes that we make as new photographers. Some are to be expected, but others are easily avoided. Here are a list of the most frequent mistakes made by every new photographer and hopefully it will inspire you to let some of these bad habits go and replace them with something better...read more

10 Landscape Photography Mistakes Every Photographer Does Wrong (and how to fix them)
"Landscape photography is one of the most popular photographic subjects and there are superb images everywhere to inspire us. But there are a few pitfalls that can trouble even experienced photographers.
Don’t despair, though; our head of testing, (Digital Camera World), has put together a list of the most common landscape photography mistakes every photographer is guilty of at one point or another, and has some great advice to help you avoid any landscape errors in the future..." read more