Photography

Exploration of various photography and photographers

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Thanksgiving Square is located in the heart of Dallas, Texas. It is a museum, chapel and park. Follow the link the visit their website, Thanksgiving Square

Thanksgiving Square Dallas, Texas Thanksgiving Square is located in the heart of Dallas, Texas. It is a museum, chapel and park. Follow the link the visit their website, Thanksgiving Square

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Photo-challenge fiveXfive or eightXeight.

This challenge can be done either by walking or driving. Set your alarm and when the alarm goes off stop walking or driving and take photographs. If you choose to walk, walk for 5 minutes and take photographs for 5 minutes. If you drive, drive for 8 minutes park get out of your vehicle and take photographs for 8 minutes. Repeat this process for as long you can.

Windows-FWTX

Windows-FWTX

Windows-FWTX

These are my images from my photo-challenge walk in the cultural district in FWTX, Windows.

Photo-Challenge

You can challenge yourself by only using one lens.

Another challenge, find a theme and stick to it.

Be sure to travel in a new or different direction.

The goal of this photo-challenge is to think quickly, adhere to the timer, find a common theme within each stop and be creative. Does the theme or connection have a common relationship such as color, texture, leading lines, up, down, blur or whatever.

Post 1 or 2 images from your walk and give a brief description. Post within 7 days.

Good luck and have fun!

PhotoChallenge Photo-challenge fiveXfive or eightXeight. This challenge can be done either by walking or driving. Set your alarm and when the alarm goes off stop walking or driving and take photographs.

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Clownville by Eolo Perfido

Coulrophobia an irrational fear of clowns! Clownville-is a twisted, terrifying and nightmarish look at clowns by Eolo Perfido,  a French-born portrait and advertising photographer. Clowns are often associated with the circus, rodeo’s and comedy. Perfido has taken a delightful and good time character and transformed it into risque and bawdy. He traveled around Europe to gather these images of retired clowns for his series, Clownville.

Eolo Perfido’s Portfolio

His work consists of portraits, advertising, editorial and street photography. His Creative series is compelling and controversial. Follow this link to view the series, Creative

His work has been in the NY Times, Communications Arts, Panorama First, Vision, to name a few. He clients are Pepsi Cola, Samsung, Kraft, Gatorade plus many more.

Follow this link to view the entire series Clownville, Eolo Perfido-Clownville

His artist voyage has lead to many private gallery showings. He has won many photography awards. He was a first prize winner of the National Association of Italian Professioal Photographers. Eolo is also known for his street photography in Italy. In the last 10 years he has developed a succession of photography workshops.

What type of reaction do you get from Clownville?

Clownville Clownville by Eolo Perfido Coulrophobia an irrational fear of clowns! Clownville-is a twisted, terrifying and nightmarish look at clowns by Eolo Perfido,  a French-born portrait and advertising photographer. 

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Fort Griffin

Fort Griffen, Texas Fort Griffen, Texas was located on a level bottomland often refered to the Bottom or the Flat. The town began in the late 1860’s and gained notoriety as a lawless outpost. By 1874 the lawlessness was out of control and was placed under martial law by the commander of the fort. Before the community was placed under government control it had attracted Lottie Deno, Mollie McCabe,…

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  Architectural abstracts

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Abandoned Gas Station

Three images of an abandoned gas station.

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Photography humor

Here is some photography humor that is funny and true! Follow this link to petapixel If you are a photographer you will get it! Even if you aren’t one its a good understanding of how different photographers approach photography. Enjoy! Grab your camera and have fun shooting!

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Digital Infrared Photography

Image by Spencer Martinez Digital infrared photography can produce some fun and exciting images that can take an ordinary scene and turn it into something interesting and spectacular. Digital infrared photography has many different uses like in the medical field, the military, astronomy, forensics, law enforcement and art, just to name a few. The images in this post were taken with a dedicated…

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Musicians portraits are fun. However, be aware they might  have limited money to spend on professional images. But don’t worry this is a perfect opportunity to be creative, get some portfolio images and get some group shots. Plus they are easy to deal with. Typically, they will do just about anything for a group shot. All but one of these musician portraits were taken on location. I like location photoshoots because environment plays a big part with the overall composition.

Musician Portraits

The Crimson Veil was photographed before one of their shows in Deep Ellum. We were able to get individual portraits in the venue. Then we moved outside on the street for some group shots. The groups shots were very cool.

Jernero Cardenas

The Crimson Veil

Cami Maki

Justin

The Collective

The Collective were photographed at their studio. Their group shot was in an abandoned part of the facility. This band plays hard, loud and aggressive. However, they don’t take themselves to seriously. Cami Maki and Justin were more laid back with their photoshoots. Just like the others they were ready to try out different things. One technique that I like to do with musicians is to have them play something while I photograph them. It allows them the get comfortable in front of the camera plus emotion begins to show. That is fun for me and them!

The only studio session, from this group of musicians, was with Mr. Cardenas. He is a formally trained classical musician.

This is great way to build your portfolio of band portraits. Find some local talent and ask them if they want professional images. Then give them the images but be sure to get photo credit.

Find a musician/s photograph them and have a good time!

Check out the pages for the bands

The Crimson Veil

The Collective

Cami Maki

Musicians Musicians portraits are fun. However, be aware they might  have limited money to spend on professional images.

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Abstract Black and White images!

Here are a couple of new abstract black and white images.  One is an interior and the other is an exterior. Just a brief post to demonstrate not all post have to be lengthy or too involved. i will post short ones and longer ones.

Grab your camera and search for abstract objects. Have fun!

New Images in Black and White Abstract Black and White images! Here are a couple of new abstract black and white images.  One is an interior and the other is an exterior.

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42-Megapixel Camera

Sony’s new 42-megapixel full-frame sensor. Follow this link to read about the Sony A7R II and to learn more about this cool sensor.

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I had the opportunity to shoot this golf tournament at WaterChase GC. Not a bad gig to cover in that the people were great the sun was shining bright all day long. I perched myself at hole #12 par 3. My goal was to get team group shots, action shot and I made a time-lapse. To get the team shots I used a Nikkor 24-70mm and used to TTL for fill flash.  To get the action shots I used a Nikon D7100 with a Tameron 150-600mm and shot in continuous low mode. I was able to get far enough away from the players that I did not disturb them. Which worked out great because I could shoot from far behind, way off to the side or in front of them at a distance without distracting them.

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Another part of this assignment was to shoot a time-lapse. I set-up another camera, Nikon D3, off to the side and set the interval and number of frames. Interval was every 5 seconds and the total number of frames was set at 999. I imported the images into Lightroom and made small adjustments, such as cropping to 16:9 and exporting 24fps. By using these settings I will be able to make a 30-45 second time-lapse. Then I will edit in Final Cut Pro X to add some embellishments like music and text.

The golf tournament at WaterchaseGC was a great experience. I was able to shoot the event in the manner I wanted. That takes off lots of pressure.

Find an opportunity of cover an event like a golf tournament, or skeet shoot, to practice. If you are starting out cover the event and give the organization the images at not cost. Just make sure you get photo credit. This will help you to network, post images on your website and get the experience.

Get out there shoot an event and have fun!

Golf Tournament at WaterChaseGC I had the opportunity to shoot this golf tournament at WaterChase GC. Not a bad gig to cover in that the people were great the sun was shining bright all day long.

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The Psychology Behind Color

So….you are thinking why should I care about the psychology behind color. There is a lot to how we perceive color. Check out this article by following this link The Psychology Behind Color Yes, I will have to admit it is an article filled with lots of theory. Which also means it is dry material. But you get to learn about Primary Colors, Secondary Colors and Tertiary Colors isn’t that a bit more…

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HDR & Panorama Abandoned Law Library

This image is a combination of HDR(High Dynamic Range) and a Panorama taken in an abandoned law library in a Texas town. This panorama was taken in three separate parts a left side, middle and right side. Each part has five different exposures to create the HDR. Then I processed them and stitched them together to create the panorama.

A master of this technique is Trey Ratliff. You can see some…

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Issuu-Fotoblur

I want to provide this audience with inspiration in interesting places. Issue is an online magazine that offers various and different types of publications. This publication is a digital magazine you can find in Issuu. This one is called Fotoblur. Follow this link http://issuu.com/fotoblur/docs/fb12_preview/1

I will be posting links to issues I find. These issues will be a focus mainly with…

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#PHOTOGRAPHY - Issue 3 #PHOTOGRAPHY is an online magazine run by two photography students studying at Coventry University. We are dedicated to finding the best unknown talent. Fed up of generic photography magazines which churn out banal, indistinguishable photographers, #PhHOTOGRAPHY focuses on more talent and less cliché. You can aply to be in the nest issue of #PHOTOGRAPHY at www.hashtagphotographymagazine.com