In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of "the moment". It's that specific instant in which every element in the frame comes together to provide the potential for an exceptional photograph.
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photo: Michael Forster Rothbart
The Candid Frame #317 - Michael Forster Rothbart
Photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart’s work explores the human impact of environmental change. His projects have taken him to Bhopal, India, the Semey Polygon nuclear testing site in Kazakhstan, oilfields in Azerbajian, and the Canadian Arctic. A Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to spend two years in Chernobyl, photographing and interviewing those who remain a generation after the 1986 accident. He lived in Sukachi, Ukraine a small farming village just outside of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
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photo: Nicole Struppert
The Candid Frame #316 - Nicole Struppert
Nicole Struppert’s creative career began in marketing and advertising. She has always been a visual person with a passion for photography, art, design and architecture. After her studies at the University of the Arts in London, she turned her career into the role of a photographer and creative consultant.
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photo: Cristina Mittermeier
The Candid Frame #315 - Cristina Mittermeier
Cristina Mittermeier (born Cristina Sofía Goettsch Cabello: November 26, 1966 in Mexico City, Mexico) is a photographer. She has coauthored books for popular and scientific audiences, as well as scientific papers and magazine articles. She is founder, former President, and a Fellow of the International League of Conservation Photographers.
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photo: David Ingraham
The Candid Frame #314 - David Ingraham
David Ingraham is a Los Angeles based photographer and musician. His work has been presented in numerous publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Black & White Magazine, American Photo Mag.com, Time.com, as well as David Alan Harvey’s Burn Magazine. His work has been exhibited worldwide, from Paris and Istanbul, New York and Toronto, to Los Angeles. David has made the iPhone his camera of choice for the last five years.
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photo: Johnny [Shakedown]
Images from the Flickr Pool: Wide & Close
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses how using a wide-angle lens and getting in closer can increase the impact and feel of a street photograph.
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photo: Robert Fischer
The Candid Frame #313 - Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer is a photographer and artist who once thought his life path would be that of a psychologist. Instead, he chose to lead a creative life as a painter, sculptor and a photographer.
He appreciates that the camera provides him the opportunity to closely examine his skewed perspective of life, sexuality and personality. He sees himself really as a painter that takes pictures. He is often in pursuit of getting the image rather than the perfect photograph.
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Images from the Flickr Pool: The Portrait
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about the qualities of a good portrait. We explore the importance not only of the subject, but also the background, lighting, focal length and proximity. Whether photographing family, friends or complete strangers thinking about how to use everything in the frame can make all the difference.
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photo: Michelle Groskopf
The Candid Frame #312 - Michelle Groskopf
Michelle Groskopf is a street photographer based in Los Angeles. She's made a practice of shooting the world around her almost daily for the past 20 years. Her work has been featured in The British Journal Of Photography, American Photo Magazine,Capricious Magazine, FLAUNT Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Vice.com, Trip Magazine, Booooooom, The Heavy Collective, Fotografia Magazine, The Magenta Foundation, It's Nice That, The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveler
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Images from the Flickr Pool: Creative Shadows
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about the creative use of shadows in photo compositions. He explores the idea of not just using shadows as a counterpoint to the subject, but rather as the anchor in the photograph.
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photo: Dana Barsuhn
The Candid Frame #311 - Street Photography Presentations @ LACP
Recently, the Los Angeles Center of Photography dedicated a weekend to the genre of street photography. The weekend included an exhibition, a workshop and a symposium which featured seven street photographers.
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photo: Rex Mandel
Images from the Flickr Pool: Human Relationships
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about human relationships between people on the street. Using images submitted by TCF listeners, he talks about the challenge of making photographs that capture the relationship and interactions that people have with each other in a public space and how that can result in great images.
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photo: Thomas Heaton
The Candid Frame #310 - Thomas Heaton
Thomas Heaton is a UK based photographer who when he isn’t making a living as a commercial photographer in Whitley Bay, England is exploring the natural world with a camera. He creates beautiful landscape images not only in his homeland, but also during his many travels.
photo: Anna Mia Davidson
The Candid Frame #309 - Anna Mia Davidson
Anna Mia Davidson is a professional photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She believes strongly in the power of images to influence, inspire, and impact the way we see the world around us.
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photo: Tyler Simpson
Images from the Flickr Pool: Implied Relationships
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks implied relationships between disparate elements in the frame and how they can be linked by color, pattern, lines and juxtaposition. Using images submitted by TCF listeners, he explores how photographers can produce strong and effective compositions.
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photo: Mick Victor
The Candid Frame #308 - Mick Victor
Mick Victor is an accomplished photographer who makes the streets and not an office his studio. But his imagery in not typical street photography. Instead his images from his Art Unexpected Series are abstractions of marking and paintings that are an everyday part of our modern urban world.
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