The Best Tips & Tools for Freelance Photographers | Photojojo
The Best Tips & Tools for Freelance Photographers | Photojojo:Being a photographer is regarded as one of the coolest jobs on the planet.
That said, there's a lot that goes into running a successful photography biz. Making good photos is just the beginning.
bobbycaputo: Conquering the Matterhorn, One Frame at a...
Conquering the Matterhorn, One Frame at a Time
Nenad Saljic is a patient man. Photographing nature, mainly mountains and caves, and then waiting for light and environment to alter the perceptions of those subjects is clearly not for the high-strung.
"For the Matterhorn project the main factor is anticipation, long hours of waiting for magic to happen," Saljic wrote about his approach to shooting the last Alpine peak to be conquered. He added he has to be "ready at any time, (lots of) trial and error, experimenting with different exposures to capture the movement of the clouds and stars and of course good luck."
Born and raised in Croatia, Saljic was introduced to photography by a math teacher in primary school who also taught him to appreciate the mountains.
"I spent almost every weekend taking photographs during hiking or caving trips from the age of 12 until my late 20s," Saljic wrote. He eventually became a caving instructor and member of the Croatian Mountain Rescue Services.
bobbycaputo: Type-o-paths Scour NYC for Urban Signage...
Type-o-paths Scour NYC for Urban Signage Project
New York City is such a sensory overload, it's easy to miss the details — like the graphical symphony of typeography that's playing under your visual field.
Nyctype.com aims to bring that symphony to the surface by capturing all the different typefaces that plaster the walls of New York City in an Instagram hashtag. From signs to posters to handbills, the site, which launched this week, hopes to highlight the ways in which letters and words help give New York a particular aesthetic and character.
"I feel like cataloging [the typography] is a celebration of the craft of design and of the city," saysMatthew Anderson, the site's editor.
bobbycaputo: Here is a stunning selection of some beautiful...
bobbycaputo: Hawaii Volcanoes Time-Lapse: An Awe-Inspiring 'Sea...
Hawaii Volcanoes Time-Lapse: An Awe-Inspiring 'Sea to Summit' Journey
bobbycaputo: Middle Class Today, most Copenhageners belong to...
Middle Class
Today, most Copenhageners belong to the middle class. Statistics show that the middle social stratum of society is growing and the barriers to other classes are blurred. "Middle Class" is an up-to-the-minute photo exhibition on the middle class of Copenhagen. The photographers, who normally make up the photo agency SUMO, have collaborated with Københavns Museum, and include Joachim Ladefoged, Nicky Bonne, Niclas Jessen, Mikkel Bache, Søren Rønholt and Rasmus Weng Karlsen. "Middle Class" opens today, Friday, June 7 and runs through August 31 at the Københavns Museum in Copenhagen, Denmark as part of the Copenhagen Photo Festival 2013. – Courtesy of the Copenhagen Photo Festival.
bobbycaputo: Photographer Joe McNally Shoots From the Tallest...
Photographer Joe McNally Shoots From the Tallest Building in the World
Remember that crazy rooftopping photograph captured by photographer Joe McNally from the top of the tallest building in the world? The video above is an interesting 4.5-minute-long behind-the-scenes look at how McNally ascended the tower and held a photo shoot at the very top.
From the video above, we see that McNally was wearing a helmet cam to record the adventure from a first-person point of view, and that he had two workers assisting him with the shoo
bobbycaputo: Fired Chicago Sun-Times Photographers Picket...
bobbycaputo: Compare vintage NYC street scenes with their...
Compare vintage NYC street scenes with their modern counterparts
How much has New York City changed in the last century? Find out by checking out these before-and-after photos.
If there's one constant about living in New York City, it's that things change all the time. The pizza place that you got dollar slices from when you first moved to the city might now be a fast-food chain; the dive bar where you fell off a barstool after too many $2 beers could be torn down to make way for a condo—and so on and so forth, probably until the end of time. We hate to see our beloved haunts get replaced by something that's less interesting—or, even worse, to see places of historical importance abandoned or deomolished—but there's no denying that the changes are fascinating to witness.
A Mind-Bending Look at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo of the...
A Mind-Bending Look at the Hubble Ultra Deep Field Photo of the Universe
Check out this mind-bending video that talks about the "Hubble Ultra Deep Field" image captured by NASA astronomers nearly a decade ago — a photograph that some call "the most important image ever taken."
It all started back in 1996 when a group of astronomers pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at an empty patch in the sky close to the Big Dipper in hopes of seeing something, anything. At the time, it was considered to be a risky move, given that demand for use of the telescope was so high. What if the experiment yielded no results? What if nothing but an empty image was the final result?After ten full days of exposing the telescope's CCD camera sensor to this seemingly vacuous patch of sky, a breathtaking image was produced. Over three thousand galaxies appeared in one image — some as dots, others as spirals. It was a visual reminder of just how big our universe really is. The photo is called the "Hubble Deep Field":
Top: Composite Aerial Photo of San Francisco is Like a 1938...
Top: Composite Aerial Photo of San Francisco is Like a 1938 Google Earth
Bottom: What the same view looks like with Google's up-to-date satellite imagery
What you see above is an ultra-high resolution aerial photograph of San Francisco as it looked in 1938. The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection put the image together using 164 large format black-and-white photos of SF that were shot in 1938. When viewed through a zoomable image viewer, the composite photo is pretty much a 1938 version of Google Earth's satellite view.
The Best Tips & Tools for Freelance Photographers | Photojojo
The Best Tips & Tools for Freelance Photographers | Photojojo:Being a photographer is regarded as one of the coolest jobs on the planet.
That said, there's a lot that goes into running a successful photography biz. Making good photos is just the beginning.
The Colbert Report's Take on the Chicago Sun-Times'...
The Colbert Report's Take on the Chicago Sun-Times' Photojournalist Layoffs
These Vintage Vinyl Photos Make Your Brain the Turntable Like a...
These Vintage Vinyl Photos Make Your Brain the Turntable
Like a forgotten smell, some songs transport us to an earlier time in our lives. Maybe the summer after high school, maybe the dance floor at our wedding.
This kind of auditory recall is what German photographer Kai Schäfer is trying to tap into with his World Records project. But instead of using music, he's using pictures of music. He's photographed old records on old turntables and hopes the photos have the same power as the music they show to call up important memories.
"What I tried to do was create a time machine," he says.
The first album he photographed when he started the project five years ago was Led Zeppelin'sIV, which he says was his favorite album from when he was a teenager and just getting into music, and girls. Since then he's photographed over a hundred albums on 25 or so different turntables and is constantly expanding the project.
Small Town Hip Hop Photographer Jared Soares moved to Roanoke,...
Small Town Hip Hop
Photographer Jared Soares moved to Roanoke, Virginia in 2006 for a summer internship at the local newspaper. That turned into a full time gig that lasted a few years. During that time Soares got to know the community and surrounding areas very well. While working at the paper he wanted to work on a personal project about local hip hop artists. Even though Soares was a legit hip hop fan, it took a while for the local artists to open up to him. He took it slow, spending about four years on the project now called Small Town Hip Hop. "I think Small Town Hip Hop is at a good resting point," Soares says, "but I still keep in touch with a lot of the guys that I photographed." One of the main artists Soares worked with was Poe Mack. Check him out here.
Small Town Hip Hop will be exhibited as a part of "New Works #16: En Foco's Photography Fellowship Award." "New Works #16 also includes work by Mercedes Dorame, Yijun (Pixy) Liao, Daniel Ballesteros and Rodrigo Valenzuela. The exhibition opens this evening, June 6, at the opening reception from 5-9pm at Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos Community College in the Bronx. The exhibition runs through August 30.
A Patterned Remix of Fashion Photography by Alana Dee Haynes
A Patterned Remix of Fashion Photography by Alana Dee Haynes
HASSELBLAD LUNAR CAMERA The name Hasselblad has inspired lust...
The name Hasselblad has inspired lust among professional photographers for decades, and for good reason — it's synonymous with quality, from large-format cameras to studio DSLRs. The Hasselblad Lunar Camera ($7,000), pays tribute to the 500C of 1957, the first camera ever in space. The 24 megapixel CMOS sensor, lenses, and other innards are all Swedish, while the exterior sports an Italian design and luxury materials (mahogany, leather, even gold). Advanced image stabilization keeps your photos clear in situations that typically call for a tripod. It comes standard with an 18-55mm focal-range lens (short- and long-range lenses are also available).
"The Pantone Project" is a an ongoing series by American...
"The Pantone Project" is a an ongoing series by American photographer Paul Octavious on Instagram. He has been matching Pantone color swatches to real world objects.
Guns, Bling, Money: Portraits of Hip-Hop's Video Vixens In...
Guns, Bling, Money: Portraits of Hip-Hop's Video Vixens
In music videos, the artist is the star. But in hip-hop, there are other people vying for the spotlight—the beautiful women who populate the bars, clubs, and hotel rooms of hip-hop music videos.
In his series, "Hip-Hop Honeys," Brian Finke seeks to give them the attention they are due. How he goes about it, he said, is really quite simple.
"A lot of the stuff I do is very straightforward: Pick a subject matter and just obsess about it for a period of time, whether it's a week or a few years," Finke said.
Over the last 10 years, he's done that with bodybuilders, flight attendants, and cheerleaders, among a wide variety of unique and distinctly Americangroups.
"It will be interesting another 10 years from now to connect the dots to see the common threads," he said.
Portion Control: New Photos of Tiny People Living in a World of...
Portion Control: New Photos of Tiny People Living in a World of Food by Christopher Boffoli
Fine art photographer Christopher Boffoli (previously) just released a new body of work as a continuation of his Big Appetites series where he imagines tiny people living in a world of giant food. Boffoli opens a new exhibition tomorrow night calledPortion Control at Winston Wächter Fine Art in New York where he'll also have a few copies of his forthcoming book Big Appetites.
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