With the ease of assembling time lapse stop-motion videos on your computer from the bazillion still photos you can now effortlessly take, I predict we will all be sick of this by the end of the year. I’m still entertained:
Made by Tel Aviv photographer Eyal Landesman.
Found it on Bohemian and he’s got another cool video [...]
I was looking at a photographers pictures recently trying to figure out what kind of advice I should give and having a difficult time of it, because I felt like they had perfectly decent pictures and they were a perfectly decent photographer, but I felt nothing for the images.
I recently re-watched the Johnny Cash movie, [...]
Elisabeth Biondi, visuals editor of the New Yorker magazine on photographer Pieter Hugo’s “The Hyena Men of Nigeria:”
‘Some people have said to me that Pieter’s subject is so dramatic that it would be hard to take a bad picture,’ says Biondi, ‘but, you know, a photographer chooses his subjects, and that, too, is an important [...]
When I used to send Teru Kuwayama out on assignment I would marvel at the amazing images he would coerce out of a piece-of-shit Holga and how he was never afraid to rely on it for some of the most important shots in the story. And, I’ve always been a fan of imperfection in photography [...]
Portrait, Fashion, Fine Art, Photojournalist, Still Life, Lifestyle and Car Photographer. There’s more but this is just to illustrate something that happened recently. A photographer who’s top 3 for me in one of these categories tells me he also shoots in another category which I don’t have a problem with, I just don’t think he [...]
Unless you are a “named” photographer we use tags to describe how you shoot. Pick the tags below that best describe your photography to see how I refer to you.
color
black & white
film
digital
available light
lit
heavily lit
over lit
large format
medium format
35mm
holga/junk
shoots men
shoots women
shoots children
studio
location
portrait
photojournalist
fashion
beauty
still life
fine art
advertising
outdoor
automotive
food
interior
sports
conceptual
travel and leisure-e
urban
gritty
nike
high production value
low production value
slick
raw
grainy
saturated
captured moment
americana
weird
stark
quirky
props
lyrical
painterly
high contrast
naked
cool
off moment
awkward
muted color
crunchy (super sharp)
great casting
tight
landscape
action
sets
real [...]
I worked with an editor once who–fairly often when I brought him photos–would tell me the photos sucked. I would then try to tell him that no, you’re using the wrong words, you should be saying “I don’t like those photos” which is fine because you’re an editor and therefore you know nothing about photography. [...]
A Photo Editor (APE) is Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men's Journal and Outside Magazine. Read More (here).
