In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of considering both gestures and setting when creating a strong photograph documenting action.
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Working Free as a Career Builder?
Is providing your photography for free a way to begin a career as a professional photographer?
That’s the question that arose while watching a recent conversation conducted by Zack Arias with Mikal Cho, the founder, and owner of Unsplash. Unsplash is a platform where photographers submit their images for use by anyone for free for any purpose, including commercial use without financial compensation or even attribution to the photographer.
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Photo: Ralph Velasco
The Candid Frame #406 - Ralph Velasco
Ralph Velasco is President, Founder and CEO (Chief Experience Officer) of PhotoEnrichment Programs, Inc. d.b.a. PhotoEnrichment Adventures, as well as a travel photography instructor and international guide who has photographed in over 60 countries on 6 continents.
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Photo: Dean Forbes
What Makes It Street Photography?: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses what makes a photograph “street photography”. Rather than debating what is and what isn’t street photography, he instead focuses on the sensibility of photographers who produce consistently good photographs in this genre.
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Photo: Magnum Photos
Do Great Photographers Make Bad Pictures?
The greatest source of education and inspiration for me has been looking at the work of great photographers. I have spent endless hours looking thru the monographs of Gordon Parks, Mary Ellen Mark, Roy DeCarava, Josef Koudelka, Tina Modotti, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Robert Frank, William Albert Allard and countless others. Those moments leave me marveling at the unique way a person can see the world and capture a moment with a camera.
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Photo: Chuck Anerino
The Candid Frame #405 - Chuck Anerino
Chuck Anerino is a photographer whose work revolves around his family. Practicing a style described as family documentary, Anerino uses the sensibility of a documentary photographer to capture lives of his family, particularly his young boys.
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Alien Skin Software
Alien Skin Exposure X3 Walkthrough
In this week's TCF YouTube video we do some a little different. Ibarionex sat down with the people of Alien Skin software to discuss their latest photo editing application Exposure X3. The powerful editing app can be used both as a stand-alone and a plug-in for Photoshop or Lightroom.
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Photo: Dominic Bugatto
Listener Profile: Dominic Bugatto
How long have you been shooting and what inspired your interest in photography? I studied photography in university and later incorporated it into my process as an Illustrator. Having children further has compelled me to document my life and the places I've lived to a greater degree. I was also motivated by the unreliable nature of memory.
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Keeping a Photo Journal
Keeping a photo journal has proved incredibly helpful for my photography. I do more than just keep notes about shutter speeds and apertures. Instead, it’s an opportunity for me to turn the lens on myself and evaluate my process for making images.
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Photo: Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
The Candid Frame #404 - Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin
Kwasi Boyd-Bouldin (b. 1977) is a Los Angeles based photographer whose work focuses on the urban environment and how a neighborhoods physical composition reflects the lives of it’s inhabitants. He is best known for The Los Angeles Recordings, an ongoing documentary project comprised of photo essays about L.A.’s rapidly changing urban landscape. He has also recently collaborated with KCET in the creation of In Plain Sight, a series photographing locations of police violence and was one of Time Magazine’s 12 African American Photographers to Follow in 2017.
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Photo: Chris Tuarissa
Setting as Subject: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses moments when the setting rather than the person is the subject of the photograph. He chooses three images to discuss when the location is more at the heart of the image, while the human figure becomes a secondary, but nevertheless important element in the composition.
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Camera Settings for Supercross
When I was the offered the opportunity to photograph a Supercross event in Anaheim, I welcomed the opportunity to photograph outside my wheelhouse. I had photographed some sports in the past but had often produced lackluster results. This was an opportunity for redemption.
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Photo: Lauren Welles
The Candid Frame #403 - Lauren Welles
Lauren Welles is a freelance photographer based in NYC. Prior to becoming a full- time photographer, she spent 16 years practicing law. The same skills that were invaluable to her as an attorney-- the ability to problem solve, and to see something from multiple perspectives—have been indispensable to her career as a photographer.
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ISO & Sharpness
This is why I set my camera’s key control to specific default settings. Even before I leave the house for a day of shooting and even before I have discovered a subject, I will check and adjust my ISO and exposure mode. By doing so, I approach my camera from a consistent starting point.
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Photo: MSPF
The Candid Frame #402 - MSPF: Street Photography - A Personal Passion
We end the 2017 season of The Candid Frame with a live panel on street photography that was recorded live at this year’s Miami Street Photography Festival. Led by TCF host, Ibarionex Perello, photographers Forrest Walker, Niki Gleoudi and Chris Suspect to discuss what drives each photographer to create the kinds of image that they do in the genre of street photography.
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Photo: Mike Alegado
Inspiring Photos: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses images that he liked but that didn’t find their way in a previous video. Instead, he shares what about these images inspires him as he looks forward to making new photographs in 2018.
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