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photo: Michael Sutton
In this latest TCF video, we pull images submitted by listeners to podcast to discuss the concept of “seeing different”, making different choices to improve the impact of a photograph.
Submit your own images to the TCF Flickr pool and join the growing community of photographers. If you like what you see, please subscribe to The Candid Frame YouTube Channel.
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photo: Michael Grecco
Michael Grecco is an award-winning and internationally renowned photographer of celebrity portraits, advertising and editorial commissions, private collections and fine art.
One of the most sought-out visual storytellers in the world, his artistic conceptual vision and signature dramatic lighting create incomparable distinctive images that are famously dramatic, evocative, sophisticated, ironic and comedic.
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photo: Wyatt Neumann
When photographer Wyatt Neumann was 8-years-old his mother gave him Kodachrome 110 camera and told him he could shoot as much as he wanted as long he paid for film and developing. He cut a lot of lawns and delivered a lot papers, eventually turning his new toy into a profession. Wyatt now shoots on a variety of formats ranging from his 120 Mamiya to his iPhone, and his work has been recognized and awarded internationally.
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photo: Fabien Lasserre
Ibarionex critiques images that capture the oft-photographed moment of people walking down the street and what it takes to make an exceptional image of this oft-photographed moment.
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photo: Bill Pierce
Bill Pierce's photojournalistic work has been published in Time, Life, Stern, Newsweek, U.S. News, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, New York Magazine, L'Express, Paris Match, and many other news publications. Assignments in the United States, Canada, England, Wales, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Norway, Poland, Czechoslovkia, Australia, the Soviet Union, China, Japan, Lebanon, Egypt, Mozambique.
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photo: Kim Allen
In this video, we talk about how a kiss of light can transform and ordinary scene and subject into something extraordinary. We do this with the help of listeners who regularly submit images to The Candid Frame Flickr group.
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photo: Ibarionex
For the final in our series on black and white conversions, we share a demonstration of Alien Skin Exposure 6. Starting in Adobe Lightroom, we walk you through the process of taking a flat color file and converting it into a high contrast black and white photograph.
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photo: Andi Schreiber
Andi Schreiber is a fine art and documentary photographer. A lifelong New Yorker, Andi was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island and currently lives in suburban Westchester County with her husband and sons.
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photo: Ibarionex
Below is a video that was recently done on my cousin, artist Jon One. Last year, I was pleased to interview him for Episode #201 of The Candid Frame. If you have not heard the interview, I heartily recommend you check it out as it tell a wonderful story of one person's journey to lead a creative life.
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photo: Nasir Hamid
In this video, we talk about what makes a portrait special. We look at the moment of engagement between the photographer and their subject and how that can make all the difference in a successful portrait.
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For this continuing series on black and white conversions, we share a demonstration of Macphun Tonality Pro. Starting in Adobe Lightroom, we walk you through the process of taking a flat color file and converting it into a high contrast black and white photograph.
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photo: Patrick Joust
Patrick Joust lives in Baltimore with his wife Amy and his son Llewelyn. Born in Oroville, California, Patrick has gone back and forth between both coasts of the United States, before settling permanently in Baltimore in 2006 where he works as a reference librarian. He takes pictures whenever he can.
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photo: Matt Nelson
In this video, we discuss the importance of being aware of everything that is included in the frame. Using images submitted by TCF Listeners, we explore how secondary elements in the foreground and background can strengthen or diminish the success of a photograph.
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I love the 35mm focal length. While, I enjoy a fast 50mm and have an affection for a sharp 85mm, the 35mm holds a special place in my photographic heart.
It’s likely due to the fact that I cut my teeth as a photographer on a fixed focal length 35mm lens. It was the lens through which I learned to see when I started using my first DSLR.
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photo: Ibarionex
In the second in a series of videos, Ibarionex walks you through a black and white conversion using Adobe Lightroom and Silver Efex Pro II. In this video, he demonstrates how he processes a color image in Lightroom in preparation for editing the image in the b&w plug-in.
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photo: Jo Farrell
Jo Farrell is an award-winning black and white documentary photographer and culture anthropologist, born in London, England. Her work has been published in numerous places including: the BBC news website, SilkRoad (Cathay Pacific), Huffington Post, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Time Out HK, Creative Quarterly, and 50 other publications that can be viewed on her website.
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