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photo: Ibarionex
Spurred by questions from viewers of the TCF YouTube Channel, we are introducing a series of videos that walk through the different ways that Ibarionex converts his color photographs into black and white photographs. This videos will discuss his approach begin with Adobe Lightroom and in subsequent videos will include the use of several third-party plug-ins.
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photo: Jay Bartlett
Jay Bartlett is a Los Angeles-based commercial photographer who has been shooting for over 10 years. A grass-roots photographer who in his early stages of his career pounded the pavement by cold calling and doing door to door advertising for new prospective clients.
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photo: Chris Leskovsek
In this video, Ibarionex discusses what he is looking for in images submitted to The Candid Frame Flickr pool He focuses on photographers who are seeing and composing their images a little bit differently.
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photo: Valerie Jardin
Ibarionex Perello and Valerie Jardin sit down to discuss their recent experience photographing in Paris using mirrorless cameras, which included the Fujifilm x100s and Samsung NX30. Using images produced from their respective trips, they talk about their respective approaches to street photography.
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photo: Damon Casarez
Damon Casarez is an emerging documentary and portrait photographer based in Los Angeles county. His recent project, "Boomerang Kids," that was pitched to the New York Times Magazine, has brought up a lot of conversation about the factors recent college graduates face as soon as they leave school.
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photo: Ibarionex
It’s inevitable. There will be those days that despite, my eagerness, excitement and abundance of high-tech gear that I will have a day of street photography where I come home with nothing. Nada. Zilch. Strike out.
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photo: Kevin Mullins
We speak with photographer, Kevin Mullins who used his storytelling skills as wedding photographer to photograph the birth of a client's daughter. Using his visual narrative skills, he chronicles the the time leading to the birth and the emotional moments afterwards.
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photo: Ola Billmont
Ola Billmont is a full-time entrepreneur but who has managed to create a strong body of work as a street photographer. He is a photographer who favors film and passes it through 35mm, medium format and large format cameras. His use of flash and close-working distance results in a distinctive look to his photographs of people and life on the streets. He considers himself an enthuastic amatuer, but his work demonstrates a professional work-ethic and commitment to his craft.
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photo: Robert Larson
In our latest TCF YouTube video, we talk about photographing hands to capture not only an action, but also to convey character, intimacy and emotions. Select image are pulled from the TCF Flickr pool where listener regular upload and share some of their favorite images. It's a great opportunity to discover new work and to dialog with the many people who make the podcast a regular part of their creative lives.
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photo: Ibarionex
One of the greatest traps that any creative person can fall into is comparing their progress against someone else’s apparent success. It’s a common human behavior, but in the the realm of the artist, it can be incredibly self-sabotaging, leading to procrastination, paralysis and a pernicious undervaluing of one’s work.
As Zack Arias says so eloquently in his video, Transform, every one’s photographs sucked when they first picked up a camera. Great photographers who have achieved a level of public name recognition in and out of the photographic world all began with little knowledge of the difference between an f-stop and a shutter speed.
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photo: Zune Lee
Zune Lee is a photographer whose personal project, Father Figure, explores a personal exploration of fatherhood, identify and family secrets. His surprise discovery that his biological father was black eventually led him to use the camera to explore issues of father-son relationships through the lives of African-American men and their sons.
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photo: Ibarionex
In this latest TCF video, Ibarionex talks about his use of the Fujifilm x100s during a recent trip to Europe. In it, he discusses his personal experience with the camera and how he used its features and limitations to create his photographs.
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photo: Arthur Grace
Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United Press International. During his award-winning career in photojournalism spanning three decades, he covered stories worldwide as a contract photographer for Time magazine and a staff photographer for Newsweek magazine. Through his affiliation with Sygma photo agency and now Zuma Press, his photographs have regularly appeared in leading publications worldwide, including on the covers of Life, Time, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Match and Stern.
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photo: Sara Jane Boyers
Sara Jane Boyers is a California fine art photographer who, after successful careers in both the music and publishing industries, has returned to a serious focus on her photography. In her work Boyers searches for that iconic element of ordinary experience that defines the whole, choosing to render it subtly and with a sense of beauty that is provocative and demanding.
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photo: Erik Stabile
In this weeks video, we discuss the elements of an effective environmental portrait in which the space that the person is occupying is as important as the subject itself. Pulling images from the The Candid Frame Flickr pool, we provide tips and insight into what it takes to make a good environmental portrait.
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Eric Tenin is a French photographer who created the influential, Paris Daily Photo. Created soon after receiving a camera as a gift, he went on to create the popular blog, which helped influence other photographers from all over the world to document their own cities and towns.
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