Squinching. To Squinch, or not to Squinch, is never the question. Not in photography anyway. Squinching is a technique long used by professional portrait photographers, professional models, actors, and most every vacuum cleaner salesman on the plane. But like one of those magician tricks, it...
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Far more than most still photographers realize, the quality of the audio track in moving pictures is one of the most important storytelling techniques. Second only to moving the camera itself, the soundtrack can add just the right elements of "sonic movement" in all the...
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Sometimes we like to create more muted colors and softer look in our images. Here is an example: We like the scene with some nice elements: Hay wheels Three trees Tractor with dust Forest as a backdrop We still like to improve the mood of that late summer day in Germany. Here we...
Sometimes we like to create mo...
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Presented in six short parts, each automatically starting after the last ends, I bring you the story of the early photographic process produced by the George Eastman House. The six processes covered are The Daguerreotype, The Collodion Process, The Albumen Print, The Woodburytype, The Platinum...
Presented in six short parts...
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Platinum Palladium Printing with Leica M Monochrom from Luís Oliveira Santos on Vimeo. Footage, edition and film direction by LUÍS OLIVEIRA SANTOS Manuel Gomes Teixeira, photographer and Platinum Palladium printer, usually uses traditional methods with photographic film in medium and large format cameras. Invited by the exclusive...
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What is neorealism? from kogonada on Vimeo. As a cinema experiment: would you get if you pitted the director of The Bicycle Thieves against the producer of Gone with the Wind, and turned them both loose on the SAME raw movie material? History does have a...
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Zack Arias, just another crazy old goat. Like myself folks, he feels that a rangefinder mirrorless experience is the best of photographic life. He's also either plagued by the voice of a departed Bresson spirit, or he could be onto something enlightened with his internal...
Zack Arias, just a...
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The Light Inside: Dance at Princeton from Jon Roemer on Vimeo. My good friend and kindred spirit Jon Roemer did a blog post this week that caught my attention, as I hope it will yours. I've followed this project from its initial shoot for the vertical print...
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These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, freelance director of films, boarder of story, sometimes public speaker, and a former Pixar Animation Story Artist. Emma has since moved on to directing her own projects and advising others how to make theirs. Reading her great blog at...
These rules were originally tw...
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Tim Tadder Water Wigs from Light Gangster on Vimeo. I've been to some interesting photo shoots in my day, but none as wild as this one. Stop motion flash photography has the power to freeze everything that moves by using extremely fast shutter speeds. For a...
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Cameras today are so smart, why should a photographer need to know how to use a camera in manual mode? Good question, and one with a several part answer. First, to use technology to its fullest you have to know what is going on behind the...
Cameras today are so smart, wh...
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Landscapes: Volume One from Dustin Farrell on Vimeo. There is something about seeing the world move in slices of time as opposed to viewing it as a continual flow. Time-lapse photography fascinates when it is particularly well done. It draws you in. It can create a...
Landscapes: Volume One fro...
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For years, I have heard warnings about the poor quality of photos taken by small point-and-shoot cameras that have digital zooms. Critics would say that they never use that feature because it would mean giving up the quality that only an optical lens could provide....
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Choros from Michael Langan on Vimeo. Watching this film the words mesmerizing, incredibly beautiful, and fluid spring immediately to my mind. This is one of those artistic creations that make me say to myself "Damn, another one I wish I had created!" The film, directed by Michael...
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Full Moon Silhouettes from Mark Gee on Vimeo. It must be either Full Moon Madness, creative vision gone wild, or possibly a bit of both. Whatever the actual case, this is one of the prettiest videos I've seen this year. Mark Gee is a freelance photographer &...
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By Jim Quinn Light modifiers are where you find them. Today I found one in my local Walgreens drug store. My wife, who loves the idea of packing away small umbrellas “just in case,” spotted a display of Totes Skinni Mini umbrellas in a variety of colors....
By Jim Quinn Light modifi...
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