The “BEFORE” Shots: Eerie Rescue Photos 100 Years After The Titanic Went Down
While we USA folks were struggling to get our taxes handled a couple days ago on April 15th, we shouldn’t have been fussing or celebrating, we should have been thinking of the lives lost aboard the RMS Titanic–which sunk 100 years ago on that day. Since this week marks that horrific — albeit fascinating —...
Emerging Talent: IGNACIO TORRES + His “Stellar” Project
Young NYC based photographer Ignacio Torres gave me cause for pause with his fascinating photographs that look like they come straight from the mind of Carl Sagan (“we are all made of star stuff”). Torres used three dimensional gifs to make these photographs even more dynamic. Click through the gallery image tabs above for more...
Selective Focus Can Be Your Friend — Tilt Photography on the Cheap
Hey photo friends – Erik here. While I’m typically the video guy around these parts, I wanted to hop on the blog to quickly tell you about a piece of camera gear that I’ve been enjoying lately. I picked up a Tilt Transformer from Lensbaby about a month ago and it’s now a permanent piece...
Stunning Images from Tornado Alley [Consider Helping Out]
In the last few months, tornados have ripped through much of midwest. The wreckage is crazy, many people have lost everything–some even their lives–and aide workers are doing their best to piece it all back together. There a few photos of the storms themselves–which are huge and scary–but mostly, there are tons of photos of...
From Skulls to Spam Cans — These Cameras Are SuperCool & SuperWeird
My homies over at Flavorwire ran a really cool gallery of cameras made out of unusual stuff–like trees, shells, and–like you see in the photo above, a turtle shell (no turtles were harmed in the making…only natural causes of death…)… Which got me thinking: cameras have been along so long, people have had the chance...
Creatives: Are You Killing Yourself on Price?
Are the fees or prices you’re charging for your creative services too low? I bet they are. Try doubling the money. You have to deliver the goods, of course, but that’s true in any work. Chances are that the clients you ditched needed ditching, the clients you carry forward and the new clients you land...
EMERGING TALENT: Cole Rise + His Most-Ethereal Landscapes
There has always been something haunting to me about farmland in the off-seasons, when everything is yellow and wilted, or when snow sits quietly in the trenches that are usually full of blooming crops. Cows move minimally through faded landscapes, and the entire thing has an air of melancholy and stillness to it. Capturing this...
Emerging Talent: Interview with 17-Year-Old Alex Stoddard on his 365 Project
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, we’ve all heard of the 365 day projects – where a photographer takes a photo of something in their life every day for a year. (You might also have been living under a rock if you missed my new “Emerging Talent” series announcement…). With 365 projects – not...
New Twist To Iconic Photographs [Abe Lincoln + Others Via Fresh Photoshop Colorization]
Might have caught this earlier, but here’s a fascinating look at iconic portraits that were originally shot in black and white that have since been colorized in Photoshop. Normally, I don’t fall for this stuff, but this is incredibly elegant I’d say. Seeing Abraham Lincoln in color just seems to make him more a little...
Emerging Talent: Double Life + Self Portraits of Ophelia Olive [...or rather, Nekole Kemelle]
Welcome to a series of posts I’m calling Emerging Talent – where I’m spotlighting the work of photographers and filmmakers on the rise. Some are shooters that me and my spies will uncover from 500px or Flickr – others might already be shooting campaigns, but in both cases I don’t care about what the “industry”...
10 Essentials to Go the Extra Mile (for Your Clients + Crew)
Hello, readers! Megan here, Producer at Chase Jarvis Inc. We’ve just returned from an amazing 6-day shoot in Aspen, CO. You perhaps read about it here, here, or here. It got me thinking about client/crew relationships and customer service. One of the ways you can set yourself apart as a creative professional is to really...
