CreativeLive.com RULEZ.

Ive watched 3 online programs now with them and they have all been very different, of incredible value and soooo worth the time difference to get up early (or watch on re-runs). Topics covered have been on creative posing witht the enigmatic Bambie Cantrell, Building Wedding Business with Jasmine Star (not particularly interested in weddings but there were some GREAT selling YOURSELF points in there) and Introduction to Final Cut with Ric Kasnoff the self professed Adobe genius.
Next up on my calendar are FOundations of a working Photographer with Zach Arias,  Food Photography with Penny De Los Santos, and Lighten Up and SHoot Street Photography with Mike and Andy (and thier website with oodles of tipsnthings to check out.
Join the site. Rewatch the next day. Support CreativeLive as they are doing a incredible job amd buy the workshops at the early bird prices and have them forever!
 

Inspirational Images - Psc Visual Diary - Assorted Images

Elinor Carucci

Loretta Lux

FC Fundlach

Eggleston

Tom Chambers

Helmut Newton

Lori Nix

Janieta Eyre

In-camera tilting

Use of creative tilting. When TO and when NOT. 
Horizontal lines dont always create movement. They can create chaos and disorientation. Leans a little to left around wedding photography and portraiture but transferable at any rate. Good read.

BEN TROVATO FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY BLOG

Ben Travato Fashion Blog
"Ben Trovato first saw the light of day in July 2009. Through passion and dedication, creator Marius Troy has created a platform where his vision to help aspiring fashion photographers become discovered, as well as generating inspiration to all interested in the art form, can be accomplished.
Since its creation, Ben Trovato has had almost 100 million hits, and millions of visits. It has been featured in fashion magazines all over the world, and has quickly grown to be the place the business turns to for inspiration and new, raw talent.
BT has opened doors for hundreds of photographers, made careers, and been a portal where not only the successful photographers had their work featured, but a place where the up and coming talents are selected to showcase their work.
The site has grown not only in status and popularity, but in size as well. Fall 2010, Founder and Editor in Chief Marius Troy invited Belgian art and fashion enthusiast Bjørn Van Poucke as part of the team, responsible as Assistant Editor and Marketing Manager. The most recent addition as Communications Manager, Michelle Lanning, finalizes the Holy Trinity Ben Trovato stands for."

Interestings docos

Some fabulous documentaries unearthed this week. Julius Shulman, frank
Lloyd wright, black white and grey, Joe Satori, exit through the gift shop, vogue September issue, and a few other interelated docs. Netflix is awesome for Nat Geo!


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Julius Shulman doco on Netflix...

If you have Netflix and you love modernism - go check it out.  Its an amazing retrospective on his work as well as a biography just before he passed in 2009...

Creativelive.com

Rewatched jasmine star this weekend. Building wedding business. Even though I'm not contemplating this line of business i think she has a great way of communicating and passed along some great universal ideas of building your business by starting with yourself. You sell you. Best your own best product!!


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Inspirational Images - PSC Visual Diary - Assorted Images

Tom Chambers Photo Montages

David Perez -I love the shadows, the angles, diagonals and instablility, as well as the dark monotonal values.

Richard Eggleston- the mundane is bizarre. open crop format, interesting narrative, flat muted color scheme.

Elton John - unknown

Richard Avendon does Audrey. Love the line, repetition, abstraction and tones.

Jill Greenberg - Ring light, amazing emotion, separation from background, vibrant skin quality.

Ezra Stoller- lighting qualities, geometric shaping. perspective means

Richard Avedon, does lightness, geometry, movement and sexy fashion!

Jeremy Cowart - LA portrait photographer

Ezra Stoller - Angle, tones, quality of light and details make for an impressive building facade.

Ezra Stoller - shapes and images that circumnavigate and always lead you back into the image. Beautiful lighting, shapes and concentric circles.

Hasselblad Dreams

This is the time of year that all my friends start gearing up for Burning Man, Theme camps, art projects, travel, art projects and all those costumes to put together...hurry hurry hurry!
Well... This year i think there will be none for me.
Last night I had my first photography dream.
I was somewhere and was handed a big old brown leather camera bag that was my fathers. I looked inside and to my surprise was a vintage 35mm Hasselblad with lenses, film and some other doodads that I must have made up (but I knew were very important and valuable).
My dad gave me an old AE-1 that I lost at BM years ago and maybe this is some kind reminder. He has YEARS Of travelling slides that he took and hasnt archived.
Might make an interesting project down the line.
Like father like daughter.

Off to take some pics and pick up a new printer (inserts smile)...for that visual diary.

2 New Toys to play with!

Super stoked to go and play with a couple of new toys...In a few weeks both of these bad obys will be in my hang...Mmmmm. Take THAT crappy kit lenses.

Nikon Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AIS Wide Angle lens 35/F1.4

Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC HSM Lens

 

Whats in your wallet?

Favorite iPhone apps. Are they new gen cheats or new gen arts?

I love my iPhone apps. Lipids them. It makes carting a heavy awkward camera around a no brained now. The iPhone 4 is stellar quality. I can upload in an instant! I can edit on the go! I can geotag and socially network.
I sometimes think they are a cheat with auto everything but I still have to have the ability to frame, compose and edit right?
Technology is great. Even in
Mega doses like I'm experiencing right now. Love my hipstamatic, tilt shift,instagram,idroste and on.
Discuss?

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