Michael E. Stern is a commercial photographer who specializes in time-lapse photography. He uses the technique to serve numerous commercial clients who are in need of both short-term and long-term projects. His career has also included work as a corporate portrait photographer.
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The Candid Frame #234 - Tony Sweet
After successful careers as a jazz musician/educator, and professional magician, Tony Sweet settled on photography as his chosen means for personal expression. Beginning as a film photographer, Tony has become facile in image editing software and plugins and is an in-demand speaker throughout the United States and Canada on creativity in the digital age.
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photo: James Maher
The Candid Frame #233 - James Maher
James Maher is a street, architecture, and portrait photographer and a lifelong New Yorker. The diverse people, cultures, stories, and history of the city inspire his work. James authored the e-books The Essentials of Street Photography and Street Photography Conversations and runs popular photography tours of New York.
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photo: David duChemin
The Candid Frame #232 - David duChemin
David duChemin is a world & humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, digital publisher, and international workshop leader whose nomadic and adventurous life fuels his fire to create and share. Based in Vancouver, Canada, when he’s home, David leads a nomadic life chasing compelling images on all 7 continents.
When on assignment David creates powerful images that convey the hope and dignity of children, the vulnerable and oppressed for the international NGO community. When creating the art he so passionately shares, David strives to capture the beauty of the natural world.
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The Candid Frame #231 - Craig Semetko
Craig Semetko is a Los Angeles based photographer known for the sense of humor running through his work. The foreword for his first book, UNPOSED, was written by Magnum Photos icon Elliott Erwitt, who wrote of Semetko “...he is the essential photographer. That is, the one who sees what others could not have seen.” Semetko was selected as one of 10 photographers worldwide to be a part of Leica Camera’s 10 x10 exhibition in honor of its 100 year anniversary and grand opening of its new manufacturing and cultural complex in May, 2014, in Wetzlar, Germany.
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photo: Julia Gunther
The Candid Frame #230 - Julia Gunther
Julia Gunther was born in Berlin, Germany, and studied Film & Video at the University of the Arts in London, UK. After 7 years of working on feature films, commercials and music videos in Berlin, London, Amsterdam and Cape Town, she decided to shift gears and concentrate solely on photography.
Her body of work includes Proud Women of Africa which is a collection of short visual stories that portrays the daily lives of remarkable women living or working in Africa. Remarkable because they fought, survived, overcame or simply ignored the obstacles that life has thrown at them.
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photo: Liso O
Photographing Strangers: Images from the Flickr Pool
This week we focus on photographing strangers. With images submitted from the TCF Flickr pool we discuss what makes some of these image successful as portrait and candids.
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How Procrastination Ruins Photography
Rather than lounging around on Sunday morning, I decided to get up extra early and go out and make some photographs. I wanted to catch the morning light and just enjoy walking around Pasadena and Altadena.
It was a morning rich with opportunities to see my community with new eyes. First off, it was early enough that there weren't many people out on the street. So, the usual fodder for my street photography was nowhere to be had. Secondly, it would allow me to see a very familiar environment under very different circumstances.
I felt like I had experienced a pretty successful morning when I was driving back home and spotted the light hitting the front of this church. I immediately knew it would make a good photograph, but I continued driving past it as I was eager to get back home.
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photo: John Keatley
The Candid Frame #229 - John Keatley
John Keatley has swapped photography stories with Annie Leibovitz, taken geography lessons from Sarah Palin, and learned to craft the perfect cocktail with the best bartender in the country. He’ll climb a tree, fight off a snow monster, or bury someone in kitty litter; all in the name of getting the perfect shot, and that’s just before breakfast. John is known for putting even the most camera-shy individual completely at ease in front of the lens. His quick sense of humor and down-to-earth outlook are what allow him to connect with his subjects and create dramatic images.
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photo: Ibarionex
How to Photograph Strangers: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, I discuss my personal approach for photographer strangers. Based on ideas and concepts which I include in my latest book Portraits of Strangers, I share how I convince people to be photographed by me.
In the short video, I also discuss what technical matters I consider including lighting, background and lens choice, as well as how to handle difficult situations such as photographing at a busy public event.
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My 3 Favorite Camera Straps
When I got started in photography, the last thing I ever thought I would have a serious discussion about would be camera straps. What was the point? You just used the one that came in the box or the one that you had from a previous camera and that was the end of the story.
Now, the simple camera strap has evolved, especially in the minds of some inventive engineers. It’s amusing sometimes to hear people be as opinionated about the strap as they are the make and model of camera. But hey, photographers are never at a shortage of things to debate about.
I’ve had a chance to use a variety of straps over the years and I face the same conundrum I contend with when it comes to a camera bag. I have yet to find the one strap to rule them all. However, I have found a few straps that I tend to favor for a variety of reasons and cameras.
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Revisiting Old Images - NYC 2009
I was asked to look into my archive for an image an article being written by a friend of mine. It resulted in me browing through a set of images that I took back in 2009, when I was teaching a photo workshop in New York.
Most of the images made that day were created more for scouting locations rather than walking away with some good imagery. So, I didn't give many of these photographs any considerations when I made them and after I returned home. I simply downloaded the images and moved on to the next project.
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photo: Marissa Roth
The Candid Frame #228 - Marissa Roth
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Marissa Roth is an internationally published freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has worked on assignment for various prestigious publications including The New York Times, and was part of The Los Angeles Times photography staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Spot News Coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
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The Candid Frame #227 - Karen Beard
Shestock’s founder, Karen Beard, is a professional photographer with close to 20 years experience executing commercial photo shoots and running related businesses. After a recent stint art directing shoots, Karen became determined to find a better way to serve the needs of all - photographers, art directors, marketers, clients and women alike – Karen created SheStock to deliver highly-curated, highly searchable stock and assignments with the artist’s vision as the essential starting point.
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photo: Reuel Santos
Looking for Gesture: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this latest The Candid Frame YouTube video, we discuss the importance of gestures. Inspired by the philosophy of master photographer, Jay Maisel, who describes his approach to photography as an exploration of light, color and gesture, we focus on the last idea.
It is one of the more elusive aspects of life to capture in a single photograph, but it can be the single most important element in an image. It can make the difference between a good shot to an exceptional shot.
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photo: Robert L. Cunningham
The Candid Frame #226 - Robert L. Cunningham
A professional photographer for more than a decade, Robert L. Cunningham has photographed 9 heads of state, 12 prime ministers, 3 governors, multiple astronauts, cosmonauts, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, renowned actors, musicians, and professional race car drivers, as well as service members from 15 different nations. His work has taken him aboard underway US Navy submarines, into zero-gravity in low earth orbit, and to more than 450 cities in 25 countries. The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum features a permanent display of his work. He has documented 132 missions as an embed photographer with the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. He currently resides in Phoenix, Arizona.
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