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On Squirrels, or: The Joy of the Unwilling Photo Subject. Top Story - April 2021.
There's a story behind my first squirrel picture. I was coming home from a different photo opportunity - a little concert in an indie music store, perfectly lit to the eye but it might has well have been half a mile below the surface to the camera. As I passed through a small park, I noticed a single squirrel skulking around in front of an adjacent business. Inspiration struck: As long as I'm carrying this gear bag, why not try to get a shot of the little furball?
By Andrew Johnston5 years ago in Photography
Imogen Cunningham, a photographic artist.
Imogen Cunningham, a photographic artist who rose to conspicuousness in the mid twentieth century, was confronted with the test of setting up herself in a generally male-ruled industry. "I used to say that Imogen's blood was three percent acidic corrosive. She appeared to have a corrosive response to so numerous things, and she could be unexpected," Ansel Adams once said about her.
By Jacob Walker5 years ago in Photography
4 Areas of Georgia You Absolutely Have to Photograph
As a photographer, you are always looking for that next great location. No matter where you live, there are beautiful, scenic spots you can reach in less than a day. Georgia has some of the most diverse geographies in the nation. From the mountains in the north to the beaches and swampland in the south, it is rich in scenery and photo opportunities.
By Darryl Brooks5 years ago in Photography
Perfect Cartoon Photo Gifts Ideas For Sisters And Brothers
Your sisters and brothers are an essential part of your life. So, you must make your siblings feel special and happy on their special day. You can give your sisters or brothers a cute gift that can touch their hearts on their birthday or other important events. Among the best personalized gift types, you can choose are cartoon photo gifts.
By Ryan Touch5 years ago in Photography
I AM
In 2019, I wrote, produced, co-directed, shot some pictures and displayed my first photo-art album at two art exhibitions; one that I organized and another that I got to be a part of with other black artists. The photo album entitled "I AM" explored mental health journey stories. The idea of this project was to create awareness on mental health and also to share my mental health journey through photography. I can not show the processes of some of the images without giving you a background information on the why of the project. One of the things that I was so sure of this project was that in every process whether it being writing this project, or directing or capturing or editing I wanted to include a piece of myself in it. I let myself just be whatever it needed to be to make this happen.
By naat5 years ago in Photography
Sadness through the pandemic
As an amateur photographer I’m still learning a lot about my Nikon camera, lighting, and editing. Quite frankly, I feel more comfortable capturing moments in my phone than in my professional camera. Originally, I was going to breakdown the process of a fashion photo I took of a good friend of mine. I used my Nikon D600, had a rustic background and quite frankly my friend looked like a Calvin Klein ad. However, as I was selecting the pictures, I scrolled to one I took a few weeks ago that really made an impact on me. Just like any artist, a photographer needs inspiration to capture moments in time and make them beautiful. Although I try to do this with my camera, sometimes my phone traps moments that are breathtaking.
By Mario Garnica jr5 years ago in Photography
Bringing Artistry to Photography
As a professional photographer of 35 years, I have spent plenty of time in a darkroom watching the magic of seeing an image come up as I would take a sheet of photo sensitive paper, expose it to light in an enlarger, then move that sheet through various chemical steps in the developing process. As always, things change. Mid-career, thousands of images later, the digital age leapt forward; so I packed up my darkroom equipment for storage. Instead of hours in the darkroom, I spent my time learning some of the premiere photo programs like Photoshop and Lightroom, which I now currently use to produce my final photos. The digital age was necessary for many reasons; including eliminating the toxicity of chemicals in photo processing, making way for faster work turn-around times, and simply giving more people access to learning photography.
By Kathleen Thompson5 years ago in Photography
How to Shoot Fashion Content for Instagram
Living in a city such as Manchester, I'm no stranger to shooting with fashion influencers. Shooting with fashion bloggers, influencers and content creators can be a great source of income as a photographer, and, generally speaking, it's a brilliant way of creating a regular and consistent source of income as a freelance photographer.
By Sophia Carey5 years ago in Photography
Lean Into It!
Digital entertainment has redefined the way we view the cycles of our favorite aesthetics and designs. As culture and entertainment accelerates, we’re left in a constant, frantic frenzy of style invention, aesthetic perversion, and entertainment subversion. This is why when I edit a photo, I edit for the surreal.
By K C Phillips5 years ago in Photography
Her Best Photo
This obsession had officially taken over. Her grace was gone, her confidence had withered and what was once a brilliantly white notebook was drenched into a hue of black. When Marlene Burkett first began this search, she never imagined that she would go this far or become this consumed within it. That night of her gallery opening became the most defining event in her 25 years of life. A life that was froth with perfection and beauty. A life that exuded the scent of privilege and utter acceptance in everything she did. Every photo she ever took, the classically beautiful and the unmistakably stunning, she couldn’t look at the same. The stylized descriptions she wrote in her notebook about these photos with her once exquisite penmanship now seemed vapid and unimportant. The descriptions, as Marlene took more risky and more vulnerable photos, were written with the hand of a lost, frustrated, and disillusioned person. It was a small and almost indistinguishable font with short blunt lines and mysterious black smudges all over the paper.
By Jasmine Bradley5 years ago in Photography
Capturing Beauty
My Highschool was lucky enough to have a series of photo tech class' that included access to a dark room. It was an elective that filled quick so I jumped at the opportunity to join as soon as I could. It was in that class that I learned what made an image appealing to the eye.
By Mollie Harrison5 years ago in Photography
