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Category Archives: Art
Robin Leduc – Laissez Moi Passer
This is a very visually stimulating music video from French musician Robin Leduc. The song isn’t the greatest, but the stop motion animation makes up for it. I would tell you more about its production but I can’t read French.
New York City Timelapses
This is an excellent video, especially since I just put up a tutorial on shooting timelapses.
Dark Side of the Lens
A short film by surf photographer Mickey Smith. I couldn’t really understand what he was saying, but the visuals are rather pleasing.
Painting with Light Tutorial
Ever wonder how to make something like this yourself?
I’d venture to say most anyone with a digital camera has messed around with longer exposures or night shots with trailing light. If you haven’t it can be pretty entertaining to see what shapes or lines light can produce, but I’d never gave it much more thought until I stumbled upon this article on the Canon Digital Learning Center. It gives a quick run through of some interesting things you can accomplish in dark situations with flashlights, lasers, candles, or other light producing elements.
13th Witness (Timothy McGurr) Interview
An interview by Jeff Staple (of Staple Design and Reed Space) talking about photography, John Mayer and the wonder of the internet. 13th Witness is who did the videos of Nigel cruising around NYC.
Canon Pixma: Bringing Colour to Life
For anyone who may not have seen this yet, it is incredible; give it a watch. This project is by Dentsu London, who is also responsible for the recent “Making Future Magic: iPad light painting” which was also a great watch. Linden Gledhill, the artist behind the idea, has a great Flickr page with some mind-blowing stills of the project as well. The first two videos are final products that helped promote the new Canon Pixma line of printers. The third is a look behind the scenes.
Personal projects and why they’re important.
The personal project. This can be anything, anything that you as a photographer or videographer can come up with.
I myself am a full time professional photographer. That means all of my income is based on my ability to sell myself and get my clients the images they are looking for. Whether it is a family looking for pictures for the holidays, or a bride looking to have me capture every single moment of her wedding day. I am always shooting not only for myself but for the client as well. But there are things like. Guidelines and deadlines. Once I am finished I move onto the next client or possibly work on 10 different projects at once.
I love what i do for a living and i am grateful that i get to work my but off to be able to do it. But every once in a while even the great photographers in the world get burnt out on churning out photos of kids and wedding dresses weekly. This is where the personal project comes in.
A personal project is a goal that you give yourself in your photographic ( or video ) endeavors. It can be a portrait series, a landscape series, photographs of shoes. It can be completely random. The entire concept is up to you. The personal project helps keep the mind fresh. It keeps you thinking about something new even if you have pigeon holed yourself into a market that has you shooting the same thing day in day out. It doesn’t matter what type of work you do, personal projects are important.
I know many photographers who have completed several projects over their lives and have no desire to show anybody but their closest friends and family. Theyre not in the project for the coverage it may bring them. They’re in it for the love of the photo.
There are also photographers who take on a personal project for the reason to show as many people as possible. Whoever will want to see the images can see them. It may be to raise awareness for a cause or to show a side of a world most people do not get to look into. They feel its their duty as a photographer to educate the world on whatever it is they have experienced.
Whatever the project may be. As a photographer, professional or amateur, you should always at least have something in the back of your mind that drives you. Something to break up the every day regimen.
If you could do a photo project on anything in the world. What would it be?
Got it? … Good. Now get started.
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