Today we had critique in my Portfolio class. Usually we set out our prints and Mrs. Harkins picks each one up and opens up a dialogue about each and whether its going in the printers portfolio. Well today she shook thinks up and left us amongst ourselves to decide which prints are portfolio ready. This was odd for me because I liked my print but thought it could be better( as the saying goes “no thinks there kid is ugly”). But my classmates liked it and through it in the pot. Then our instructors came in and talked about our selections. Mine almost made it but just needed a little more “drama”. I went back and worked the image up more and these were the results.( torn bewtween color & b+w but after seeing them on on velvet the color was much better). Which do you like better?
Found this video on Chase Jarvis’ Blog. He rented out a skatepark in seattle and sent out tweet via Twitter and the first 30 photographers to respond where invited out to shoot some skateboarding and use some equipment provided by him. SO DOPE! This has also given me to get off my but and do some shooting. more on that later. Check the video.
Canon and photographer Vincet Laforet are putting on a very unique and very cool video contest. The video is below. I urge any photogs who have video capable cameras to participate.
On Nikon’s website I came across some great lighting tutorials from a favorite photographer of mines Joe McNally. He showcases the nikon CLS speed light system in all its awesomeness. Of course its kinda hard to replicate one shoot where he uses 16 speed lights. The videos can be view here, here, and here.
Found this video on a blog I frequent . Its about group a of guys that just live and breath photography. The images they create are really raw street photos. They don’t get hung up on what equipment to bring. They just shoot with what they got. Makes me want to go out into the city and shoot(if i wasn’t so freaking cold).
Today was the first day back to school for this year. Today I attended my Portfolio Development class. This class gives me preparation to show my off my work to potential clients and also prepare my graduation portfolio. Some former graduates that included Darren Carroll, Rosira Palmer,Peggy Attaway, Sarah Paulsen, Heather Sweet, and Brian Hall came in and talked to us and showed us there portfolios. I gained a lot of incite and ideas from these people. Something that was touched on today was the idea of focusing on what type of of photography do you want to shoot. I personally would like to focus on what got me into photography and that is skateboarding/sports and portraiture. Last year I was shooting for a multimedia assignment and I shot the image below. When i saw this I knew i wanted to push myself in that direction.
My third option for my internship is Atlanta based photographer Derek Blanks. He is an A- list celebrity photography who has well know for his alter ego photoshoots such as the one below.
