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The "Creatographer"
The “Creatographer.” A mix of the words creative and photographer, Tyree was looking for an adjective to describe him as he saw himself, something beyond a photographer. He was a creator. This self taught photographer, videographer, director, and content creator is taking the internet by storm one idea at a time. He provides his services to clients looking to create memories and capture moments for a lifetime. Surprisingly, his journey started nearly eight years ago when he was given a camera as a gift. After six years of collecting dust, he finally started using it.
By Nicole Franklin5 years ago in Photography
Visual Artist RaMell Ross Is Redefining How We View The Black Experience
On his website, RaMell Ross describes himself as a “visual artist, filmmaker, writer and liberated documentarian.” Ross is as articulate and poetic in his words as he is in his imagery. He studied Sociology and English at Georgetown University on a basketball scholarship, but serious injuries early on in his athletic career realigned his interests and decided to pursue photography. In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, he attributes his experience as a point guard to how he ‘look[s] at things in terms of movement and their relationship to what came before and after.’ So, the evolution from his photography to his first and only documentary, Hale County This Morning, This Evening - award winning experimental documentary that covers the everyday lives of the black folk living in rural Alabama - is only natural. Although, in a virtual interview with filmmaker Garret Bradley (via Film At Lincoln Center), he claims that film and photography operate differently:
By Adrian Castillo5 years ago in Photography
How to Have Peace of Mind as a Travel Photographer
Focus on getting the shot, see what I did there? But seriously, travel photography isn’t the endless vacation that non-photographers think it is. You’re up and gone long before sunrise and you probably miss the evening meals more often than not. You will spend a lot of time waiting. Waiting for people to move out of the shot, waiting for the light to get just right, or waiting for the composition to be perfect.
By Darryl Brooks5 years ago in Photography
Photo Editing: Gone Too Far?
We have all heard a lot of horror stories about editing photos of yourself for the purpose of uploading them to social media for everyone to see how great you look. We have heard about what happens when these go wrong and what has happened in terms of trends: the 'snatched waist' culture, the curves being edited into an hourglass, men editing six packs on to themselves and even people making themselves look smoothed out like a wax model online. The one thing I really want to ask though is that though we know that these are particularly harmful to the younger generation in terms of what they see of others online, we do not actually know how far it really goes.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Photography
Photo Talks: Gracieux Baraka. Top Story - March 2021.
I got into portrait photography as a way to challenge myself and meet new people. Early on, I stumbled upon Baraka's portraits on Instagram. Little did I know that his friendship and artwork would change the way I look at art and the world.
By Oliver Dahl5 years ago in Photography
Finding the real magic
Photography was very possibly the first great love of my life. From the first moment I held an SLR camera in my hands I was completely enamoured, every high school art assignment was manipulated to include photography, friends became subjects, and nothing brought me more joy than the sound of the shutter snapping my carefully considered composition.
By Rebecca Speirs5 years ago in Photography
The Importance of Photo Editing Services in Various Sectors
No matter which industry you are in, at one point or the other, you must come across the need for photo editing services. Be it for social media, sharing it with your clients, product catalog, or even your own website, you can’t pull off any of these without good quality, professional-looking images.
By PixelPhant5 years ago in Photography
What are the Reasons To Choose Drone Photography In Real Estate?
Real estate is one of the biggest industries and taking advantage of drone photography and videography was helping this industry to great extent. Drones were once used only for showcasing properties listed for sale but their uses expanded into other areas of real estate also.
By John Kayes5 years ago in Photography
The Creation The World Makes
Step 1. The deeper look that I would like to take into the pictures in this article will show a few different ways to create several pictures. The first picture that I would like to bring up is the spot in the picture within a picture. Another part of this picture within a picture is to spot the picture that your mind sees. The way to do this is by having an extraordinary imagination or being able to see past what other people see.
By Shelly Bartley5 years ago in Photography
How to Not Take the Perfect Photograph
Photography is oversaturated with perfection. How much money is spent chasing pixels, poured endlessly into new and better lenses? How many hours are spent chasing that single shot, those laborious hours poured into the night, all those lights and diffusions set up for the dream of a perfect picture? The industry is bombarded with the unattainable, self-destructive ideal of perfection—cast your sight across the ceaseless hordes of online photoshop tutorials and you will find nothing but technical instruction, soulless in nature and robotic in their repetition. Where is that final layer? How long must you edit, before the ideal image emerges from the chaff, sloughing off the imperfect versions of its former selves? You could chase that fantasy into the edges of twilight and never find more than a single whisper of it.
By Oliver Sun5 years ago in Photography
