Some shots from today’s Amgen Tour of California stage from San Jose to Santa Cruz.
No comment needed I hope!
Some brooding images of Dave, an HP employee.
We’re teaching a class on HDR photography on January 30th and will post our slide deck shortly after if you’re interested.
I always find something relevant to my career on the Creative Collision blog. This one in particular is about staying current as an artist. Great stuff!
I freaking LOVE the work of Chris Buck! Check out this video from one of his series called “isn’t”. Notice anything strange??
The most amazing camera ever built is still the human eye!
Come on guys! - Even Steven Colbert realizes how absurd it is to be asked to work for free!
Our New Years Resolutions…
Ok the haze of the holidays has finally started to wear off and it’s a little bit easier to focus on what I want to achieve this year with my photography. Here they are in no particular order:
• Shoot more personal work!
• Stretch my creative eye (aka stop relying on Instagram filters). It’s easy to get lazy when you can just slap a creative filter on an average image and call it a day. I’m gonna try to get more creative with concepts and content and less on post-production.
• Focus less on business and more on photography. I really got caught up in the business of photography last year with marketing campaigns, list building, social networking and a website redesign. While those things are hugely important when building a photography business, I can’t wait to get back into the practice and language of art and photography again.
• Refine my creative style even more by breaking the rules. I fell in love with lens flare effects this year. In fact I love anything that floats in the air, looks out of focus or generally creates something unique in a photo that was previously considered bad photography. I’d like to explore those effects even more this year.
• Learn more about art. While I went to school for studio photography, my training dealt mostly in the technical aspects and history of photography. I’d like to learn more about traditional art so that I can expand my creative vocabulary.
Quick Tip: When you need to shoot a shallow depth-of-field in bright daylight, neutral density filters will allow you to open your aperture. Buy a few so you can stack them if needed.
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