I had never been to WPPI, the Wedding and Portrait Photographers International show in Las Vegas, so when Paul Gero told me he was going I made an on the spot decision to join him. The Sunday afternoon drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas...
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AeroDrome from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. Some may think me a dinosaur when I express a preference for working with a manually focused lens. When I started in photography there weren't any autofocus cameras, so everybody either learned to use manual focus or learned to live with...
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Chuck A7R Report from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. The Sony A7R Day Three Report I am primarily a portrait, music, and event photographer. Since I have never considered myself much of a landscape photographer, I asked Pham Minh Son to join me in testing the A7R for a detailed...
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Dia de los Muertos from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. I've photographed Dia de los Muertos in Mexico for seven of the past eleven years. It is one of those long term photography projects that just snuck up on me. I didn't even realize it was a long...
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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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SassBirrElla from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. Not every client job goes according to plan. Take just this past week, for example. I had a shoot for "SassBirrElla" a new up and coming Los Angeles area swing band. We had planned to do a series of stills, and...
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Leica M Monochrome It's been a long time since I shot in Black and White. In my earlier years, I started with Pan-X, Plus-X, and Tri-X. Tri-X being the least expensive predominated my earliest work. I guess it was sometime in the mid to late 1980's...
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Bastille Day from TheCameraForum on Vimeo. A day with my Fuji X-E1. My lovely wife and life partner, Suzanne, and I were married on July 14th, Bastille Day. We didn't plan it this way, it was pure coincidence but a very pleasant one. Where ever we happen...
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[caption id="attachment_3847" align="aligncenter" width="680"] The First US Public Exhibition of Genesis on the walls at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA[/caption] Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has spent much of the past nine years trekking to the farthest reaches of the globe, to the last wild...
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[caption id="attachment_3780" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Leica PR Photo[/caption] Picking up cues from Apple Computer's retail theme, Leica brings it's Brand to retailing with this first grand experiment. From the outside, the new Leica Los Angeles store looks much like one of the many other upscale boutique stores that surround...
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Based in Los Angeles, Larry Jordan is an internationally renowned consultant with national broadcast experience as a television producer, director, and editor. He has published eight books on editing and is the winner of multiple awards for his broadcast work, as well as his online training. Learn...
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