Photoshoot and Beyond
To commemorate Back to the Future Day (21st October 2015), I decided to do a photoshoot of the Time Machine. (I just love movie themed shoots) This was shot on location on the top of a multi-storey car park in Woodlands, Singapore, with a 1/15th scale …
Dear friend, I wanted to write you this letter on photography and life. I just finished an epic week-long street photography workshop here in New Orleans, and it was an absolutely incredible experience. I had such a great time with the students, in terms of teaching, bringing people together, and sharing new experiences together. Small […]
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Social media platforms seem to change their image sizes pretty much every time you login. And every time that happens, photographers everywhere have to scour the internet searching for the new sizes. You just know that facebook is going to CRASH your photo if you don’t feed it the exact right size. Well, here’s some […]
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Losing her mother to ovarian cancer and being in high risk of getting breast cancer herself, Aniela McGuinness had an appointment to schedule a preventative double mastectomy. Just three days earlier, however, she was diagnosed with Stage 1 breast cancer. Rather than letting cancer get the best of her, Aniela fought back and used photography […]
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Be vewwwy, vewwy quiet… I’m hunting wabbits! Show of hands: who remembers this phrase? You will, if you spent your childhood (okay, and eventually bits of your not-so-childhood too…) watching Looney Tunes’ “Bugs Bunny“. But did you know Elmer Fudd – famously known for trying to shoot Bugs Bunny – was originally only trying to shoot […]
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A Norwegian couple visiting Thailand’s southern city of Krabi was out birdwatching and photographing when they got stuck in the mud. Luckily a local fisherman came to their rescue and helped them out, risking getting stuck himself, despite being able to easily make off with their expensive equipment. The fisherman asked for nothing in return, […]
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Examples of Concept to Creation from Working Fashion Photographers
Concept To Creation: Turn Inspiration Into Concept You have an idea, great. How do you turn that idea into a set of images? Can it be turned into a picture narrative/story? Now that you have your base idea, it’s time to do some research!
Concept To Creation: Editorial Versus Campaign Concept – crucial to binding your images together. You’ll find that any high end magazine only published editorials that has a concept holding the story together so today we are going discuss the difference between editorial and campaign images and how these can affect the concept for your shoots.
Concept To Creation: Finding Inspiration We’re going to look at something a bit more conceptual. I can give advice and guide you, but ultimately it’s your job to really dig in and put it all together.
Sarah DeAnna On Working With Photographers Sarah DeAnna, top fashion model, shares her experience working as a model for both male & female photographers, as well as offering tips for photographers who need guidance in how to direct models to get the most out of their subjects during a shoot. Let’s get the party started. Here is Sarah DeAnna with FPBlog…
Learnings Of A Model With Sarah DeAnna Sarah DeAnna join us on FPBlog. After sharing her discovery story, Sarah is back to share her experiences of learning the tricks of the trade as a model when she first started out. She offers her insights for photographers to get the most out the models they work with.
Second Skin With Alana Tyler Slutsky FashionPhotographyBlog.com caught up with Photo of the Week winner, Alana Tyler Slutsky to find out what has been happening since she shot her winning photo from her “Painted Ladies” series. Based in Brooklyn, New York, Alana Tyler Slutsky photographs fashion, beauty and portraits. From our previous interview with Alana, we discovered that she loves to play with color and light,…
Reaching Out To Modeling Agencies Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers! Here’s a crash course in testing with agency models. First, you have to have the type of images an agent would like to see. Agencies like to see clean photos:
Lighting Tutorial: The Science Behind Light Hey FashionPhotographyBlog.com readers! Today we are going to be talking about… Light. Learn to understand it, learn to see it and the better you’ll be able to manipulate it. After all, the whole science behind photography is based on the principles of light. Stick it out through these next three days and things will get a lot more interesting. Before…
Reddit user “ZoidbergRage” took a simple hotshoe mount adapter (like this one), mounted his GoPro to his DLSR and shot a college football game. In the Reddit thread dedicated to this video, he describes the lighting conditions as terrible: There were terrible lighting conditions so I shot in manual. It was dark clouds for 10 minutes then bright direct sunlight for […]
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Have you ever seen the Sahara desert from space? Chances are you already have, but never as spectacular as in the amazing images Astronaut Scott Kelly has been posting to his Instagram and Twitter feeds directly from the International Space Station. Last Friday, October 16, 2015, Kelly broke the record for the longest cumulative time for an American Astronaut living […]
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Beating 42,000 entries from 96 countries, amateur photographer Don Gutoski won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 grand prize, over $15,000 and crazy field cred for his image Tale of two foxes. Other winning photos include falcons, …