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photo: Andreas Neophytou
In this week's video, we talk about the importance of being open, of moving beyond our own visual routine and exploring all possibilities. Using 3 examples, we discuss how seeing a scene, a subject or a moment from a different perspectives can help to produce unique and exciting images.
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photo: Ibarionex
In this video, we take a slight departure from the regular content of the TCF videos. Here, I talk about the process in building up to a photograph I made in Los Angeles. I talk about being drawn to a particular element and how I went from there to attempt to make a more complex composition.
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photo: Sophia Nahli Allison
Sophia Nahli Allison is a visual journalist at the community level and a media arts educator. Born in 1987 + a native of South Central Los Angeles, she is passionate about stories that humanize the black and LGBT communities. She believes storytelling is a tool for social change.
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photo: Hope Is Project
Photographer Sarah Takako Skinner created the HOPE IS PROJECT as a way to understand the nature of Hope and inspire others to find it.
Takako has traveled the world, interviewing subjects and handing them a Holga camera and a roll of film, providing them with one simple instruction: photograph hope.
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photo: Wasim Mukllashy
Wasim Muklashy is a media professional involved in everything from print publications to video production. He began his career writing for various Primedia and Conde Nast publications before founding a national newsstand print publication featuring everyone from Hunter S Thompson’s renown artist Ralph Steadman to influential political and philanthropic personalities including Congressman Henry Waxman and The Sierra Club’s founder Carl Pope.
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photo: John Krill
In this video, we explore how to include people with hats as an important graphic element in a photograph. This is more than just photographing someone wearing a hat, but rather seeing as an important visual part of the picture that adds that all important flourish to the shot.
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Juan Jose Reyes is an avid street photographer who helped to found the Miami Street Photography Festival held every year in December.
The MSPF© is an international photography festival showcasing the best of contemporary Street Photography viewed through the eyes of emerging photographers in this genre. The goal of the Festival is to establish a global platform for learning through exhibitions, workshops, lectures and other events.
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photo: Gustavo Gomes
In this video, we explore the importance of body language for making an exceptional photograph on the street.
It’s far too easy to fall into the rut of just photographing people walking down the street. There’s nothing special there. But then there are other moments when people express themselves or evoke something in their body language that results in a wonderful photograph.
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photo: Lois Greenfield
In her exuberant and explosive pictures, Lois Greenfield captures not just the lithe and acrobatic forms of dancers performing their art, but the purity and exhilaration of movement itself. Without tricks or manipulation of any kind, she catches fleeting and impossible moments in a style that is both lyrical and graphic. Greenfield has been compared with Eadweard Muybridge for his exploration of human locomotion and with Henri Cartier-Bresson for capturing the decisive moment. Unlike her predecessors however, her images depict but don’t refer to the “real” world. They are documents of her imagination.
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photo: Brian Ach
Brian Ach is a New York-based photographer who blurs the lines between editorial and commercial photography by telling moving stories––with still pictures.
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photo: Andrew Gibbins
In this week's video, we talk about photographing in crowds. Whether it's a festival, fair or a public religious festival, such an event provides a wonderful opportunity to photograph strangers with little to no push back.
Using images submitted by listeners to the TCF Flickr pool, we discuss how camera position, lighting, camera to subject distance can impact a photograph where you are including a lot of people.
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photo: Matts
In this week's video, Ibarionex discussed the importance of paying attention to the small details, especially juxtapositions between the subject and the background. The process of slowing down when practicing photography provides an opportunity to observe the small details that often make or break a photograph. Using images submitted by TCF listeners to The Candid Frame Flickr pool, we get to explore the detail that can make all the difference.
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photo: Sandro
Sandro has been photographing people for over thirty years. He became interested in photography at the age of sixteen upon seeing the work of Irving Penn and has since devoted his life to creating expressive images.
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photo: Franco Milanese
In this week's video, Ibarionex continues on the theme from the last video. He chooses images from the Flickr pool that challenge the way he sees and shoots. He describes how each photographers makes a different choice in terms of how they use the camera, compose their shot and visualize the scene and subject matter. The result are images that are beautiful and distinctive.
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Jonathan Alcorn is a Los Angeles based photojournalist who has documented events and personalities both big and small for over two decades.
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photo: Kiliii Fish
Kiliii Fish is an indigenous photographer and adventurer who specializes in indigenous peoples and global wilderness conservation. He formerly guided survival expeditions and continues to teach the traditional skill of Native kayak-building. He works on documentary projects that tell the stories of people and wilderness alongside commercial imagery that makes adventure accessible.
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