Photo: Adam Garelick
In our latest YouTube video, we talk about photographer characters. Whether they are people we know or strangers we encounter in public, these characters provide us as photographers great opportunities to make unique and beautiful portraits. Even without the benefit of lighting, expensive equipment or even control over the environment, we still have many choices we can make to make a wonderful image.
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Dawn Bowery is a British photographer residing in Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles. She has always had a passion for photography, preferring to document life visually rather than through the written word. Through her travels she developed a love for street photography in far away places like China, Cuba and Morocco where she took an intensive photography course with Creative Escapes. This allowed her the opportunity to develop her skills and gave her the confidence to take her photography to the next level. She was rewarded by having one of her fine art prints from Morocco exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in their Summer Exhibition 2009 and went on to have several exhibitions in London selling fine art prints to collectors around the world.
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Photo: Michael Meinhardt
In this video, we talk about street photography or my specifically non-cliche street photography. Great street photography is more than snaps of people walking down the street. It's also about color, shape, gesture, human interaction and more. We focus on some of great images that fall into the category of street photography and discuss how the public world we all inhabit can provide inspiration for really great photographs.
Culled from images submitted by listeners to The Candid Frame, we briefly share how you might use shadow in your images to create images with greater impact.
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I was recently invited by Australian photographer, Andrew Hellmich to be appear as a guest on his podcast, PhotobizXposed. It's a great podcast which focuses on making a living from your photography. He has had some great guests and I'm honored and pleased to be counted among them.
In the episode, I share some of my story and how I have created a unique niche for myself as a writer, photographer and producer.
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George Lange’s work as a photographer is known all over the world. He grew up in Pittsburgh and now lives in Boulder, Colorado, though his career has taken him just about everywhere. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, he worked for the legendary photographers Duane Michals and Annie Leibovitz before going out on his own. Since then, his work has appeared on movie posters; billboards; in numerous platforms for many major corporations; newspapers, including The New York Times,The Chicago Tribune and USA Weekend; and in almost every major magazine, ranging from O: The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, People, ADWEEK, Esquire, Glamour, Parade, and GQ to Self and Sports Illustrated.
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Photo: Nasir Hamid
Finding the extraordinary in the ordinary is one of the mantras I like to pursue in my photography. It is particularly important when I'm challenged in finding time to go out and make new photographs. Though, I would love to be regularly traveling to exotic locations and meeting fascinating and photogenic people, it's not always possible. But just because that is the case, it doesn't mean that there is a shortage of opportunities to make good photographs.
In this latest video, we share how our everyday mundane and ordinary world can be the inspiration for great and exceptional photographs. Pulled from the Candid Frame Flickr Group, these photographs contributed by listeners of the podcast will hopefully inspire you to pull out your camera and to create something wonderful from your normal and everyday world.
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Name: Bob Fischer
City, Country: Oakland, CA
Website or Portfolio Site: www.robertfischerphoto.com
Preferred Social Network Account: www.facebook.com/bobfischer
What is your name?
Bob Fischer
When did you begin listening to The Candid Frame?
I started listening to the Candid Frame I think 5 years ago. I found the interviews to be the most interesting podcast I was subscribing to. There were a few I listened to regularly like Martin Bailey and the two fellows from Sydney but the CF was the most interesting because I could relate to it directly. I would listen to the questions of the interview and simultaneously listen to the answers and answer the questions myself obviously regarding my own photography.
How long have you been shooting and what inspired your interest in photography?
I started shooting in 1997. I began as a painter and always wanted to be a photo realist painter like chuck close or Richard Estes but I didn’t have the skill. I would do a lot of commission portrait work and I would go into the closets of my clients and dress them up and create scenarios, narratives that would fit them or fit whatever idea I had of them in my head.
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New York artist Xiomáro (SEE-oh-MAH-ro) breathes life into iconic American figures and historical events to make them relevant in the 21st century. After recovering from cancer, he transitioned from a varied career as a musician, entertainment industry attorney and artist manager into the field of art photography. Inspired by the example of photographers like Eadweard Muybridge, Carleton Watkins and Ansel Adams, he seeks to create artistic images that also promote the appreciation, conservation and visitation of America’s parks and historical sites.
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photo credit: Ziemwit Maj
In this video, we explore the importance of the shadow. Shadow can not only tell us a lot about the quality of the light, but it can also provide a context for the brighter areas of the frame. Though it can obscure certain detailed with in the composition, it can actually help to reveal the most important element within the frame whether it's color, texture, shape, line or even a gesture.
Culled from images submitted by listeners to The Candid Frame, we briefly share how you might use shadow in your images to create images with greater impact.
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Mark Hemmings is a professional photographer and commercial filmmaker. He is Director of Photography at Hemmings House Pictures, an international media company that specializes in TV production, documentaries, commercial films, advertising/architectural photography and audio recording. Mark got his start in the photography and movie industry when he lived in Japan in 2000. He signed a contract with a photography agency in Tokyo which lead to a career traveling around the world capturing images for magazines, travel guidebooks, and commercial clients. These travels have given Mark a great love for street photography, and meeting new people from different cultures.
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Sam Abell has been a photographer for over 40 years and has been largely known for his work with National Geographic. His career has revolved largely through his many long-term projects for magazines and books. He is also an author, artist and teacher.
He has published several books including The Photographic Life, Seeing Gardens and The Life of a Photograph which provide wonderful collections of his body of work.
Sam's ability to compose layered compositions have helped him to create images that are considered some of the best photographs ever made.
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Name: Jay B. Wilson
City, Country: Cos Cob, CT, USA
Website or Portfolio Site: jaybwilsonphoto.com
Blog: jaybwilsonphoto.com/blog
Preferred Social Network Account: Twitter: @jbwphoto Instagram: @jaybwilsonphotonyc
What is your name? Jay B. Wilson
When did you begin listening to The Candid Frame? Only about three or four months ago. I had been following Ibarionex on Instagram, and another Instagrammer mentioned his podcast, so I had to start listening.
How long have you been shooting and what inspired your interest in photography? My first real memories of photography involve a Kodak Disc camera and a trip to New York City when I was about 8 years old. That trip taught me two things - I needed a better camera, and I despised New York. I upgraded the camera quickly - to a Quantaray SLR, but it took me at least another ten years to fall in love with the city I now call home. I
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Matthew Jordan Smith has worked with some of the top names in entertainment today including Haile Berry, Jennifer Connelly, Jamie Fox, Michael Jordan and Oprah Winfrey.
Matthew’s love of photography and people stretches far beyond his commissioned work and has given birth to several personal projects including two books. The first book entitled Lost and Found and sponsored by Microsoft focuses on missing and exploited children and is endorsed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. His other book includes Sepia Dreams which features portraits and interviews with accomplished African Americans.
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Ibarionex appeared as a guest on the Podcaster Roundtable show to talk about the "Gifts of Podcasting". It's not so much about photography, but rather about podcasting. It features several proponents of podcast, which provides some interesting insight into the behind the scenes of creating independently produced audio content.
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What is your name?
Erik Stabile
When did you begin listening to The Candid Frame?
I'm a new listener. I've been listening to the Candid Frame avidly for about five months now.
How long have you been shooting and what inspired your interest in photography?
I've been shooting seriously since 2005. I've always had an interest in photography, or at least the mechanics of it. When I was a child I remember sneaking into my father's camera bag. I would pull out the Minolta camera body, open the lenses and fire the flash. I was fascinated by it. I can remember the cold, heavy camera body and the smell of film. I love the tools of the trade. But throughout my adolescence I rarely picked up a camera. Then later in life I fell in love with writing, which led me to pursue a degree in journalism. It was there that I rediscovered my love for photography, specifically photojournalism and documentary photography. Now I can't imagine doing anything else.
Do you have a preferred genre or specialty of photography? Why?
Documentary and Landscape Photography. It is my intention to create bodies of work on the duality of nature as wilderness and resource, and to express the oxymoron that is "natural resource."
With Effortless Beauty, Julie DuBose brings a new perspective to photography. She talks in an intimate way not just about how we express our experience with our camera, but about a whole new and fresh way to experience our visual world altogether. She guides us through the process of seeing without our usual habitual ways of experiencing what we see, so that we can have vivid, mind-stopping visual perceptions, and express those perceptions exactly as we see them.
Julie DuBose has been a practitioner of Miksang Contemplative Photography since 1998. She studied with Michael Wood, the founder of the Miksang Training course of study and practice, and began teaching courses with him in 2005. Together they have developed the Miksang Training curriculum and have taught in North America and Europe.
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