Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
How to Take The Perfect Selfie
Selfies allow you to take control of your look look unlike those unflattering driver’s license photos. Put your best shot forward on your online profiles just as actors and models present themselves in head shots.
In this video, Michele Phan demonstrates the techniques for capturing the perfect selfie.
In this video, Michele Phan demonstrates the techniques for capturing the perfect selfie.
PBS Off/Book | The Art of Portrait Photography
Humans have been creating likenesses of each other for thousands of years, but with the introduction of photography, a new language developed for capturing the human image.
David Bradford | Cabbie Photographer
newyork.com
Not long after becoming a cabbie, David Bradford began taking photographs from his cab to use as reference points for his illustrations. By 1993 he was snapping pictures for the sake of the photos themselves, creating a personal portrait of New York City from a unique vantage point: the front seat of a yellow cab.
In 2000, Bradford published Drive-By Shootings, which sold out its first printing of 50,000 copies within three months. A second volume of photos, The New York Taxi Back Seat Book, followed in 2006, offering a more intimate view of the people who pass through the back seat of a taxicab in New York City.
Bradford continues to capture images of the city, most recently in the form of 15-second movies he shoots from the front seat of his cab with his cell phone’s video camera. The films are accompanied by a “soundtrack” (whatever music happens to be on the cab’s radio at the time) and published on his website as-is, with no post-production editing. Be on the lookout for Bradford; you never know when you might find yourself in his taxi, watching art made on the fly.
Not long after becoming a cabbie, David Bradford began taking photographs from his cab to use as reference points for his illustrations. By 1993 he was snapping pictures for the sake of the photos themselves, creating a personal portrait of New York City from a unique vantage point: the front seat of a yellow cab.
In 2000, Bradford published Drive-By Shootings, which sold out its first printing of 50,000 copies within three months. A second volume of photos, The New York Taxi Back Seat Book, followed in 2006, offering a more intimate view of the people who pass through the back seat of a taxicab in New York City.
Bradford continues to capture images of the city, most recently in the form of 15-second movies he shoots from the front seat of his cab with his cell phone’s video camera. The films are accompanied by a “soundtrack” (whatever music happens to be on the cab’s radio at the time) and published on his website as-is, with no post-production editing. Be on the lookout for Bradford; you never know when you might find yourself in his taxi, watching art made on the fly.
Squito | Throwable Panoramic Camera
Serveball
The Squito™ Throwable Panoramic Camera, currently in development in Boston, MA USA, allows its user to capture stabilized, full 360° spherical panoramic video and high-resolution images over the course of its airborne trajectory.
The Squito™ Throwable Panoramic Camera, currently in development in Boston, MA USA, allows its user to capture stabilized, full 360° spherical panoramic video and high-resolution images over the course of its airborne trajectory.
Johnny Tergo | Drive-By Photographer
Wired
Jakob Schiller
Okay, if you spend 2.5 hours in traffic every day, how do you make it work for you?
Los Angeles freelance photographer Johnny Tergo outfitted his Chevy Silverado with studio lights and photographs interesting people while driving past them in his mobile photography studio.
(All photos Johnny Tergo. Lot’s more at his website.)
Jakob Schiller
Okay, if you spend 2.5 hours in traffic every day, how do you make it work for you?
Los Angeles freelance photographer Johnny Tergo outfitted his Chevy Silverado with studio lights and photographs interesting people while driving past them in his mobile photography studio.
(All photos Johnny Tergo. Lot’s more at his website.)
Inside the truck on the passenger side, a platform holds a Canon 1D Mark IV, a computer, an iPad mini and a studio light.
Outside near the tailgate he’s attached a second studio light and reflector to a boom that extends 10 feet above the ground. Two gas generators in the bed of the truck pump out 4,000 watts for the lights, including a third that’s rigged under the bumper.
As Tergo drives in neighborhoods with high foot traffic, he sets his exposure using an app called Capture Pilot on the iPad mini. He also adjusts the strobes for the ambient light using the strobe controls positioned in the cab. When he spots a subject, he drives around the block while he frames up the shot.
The whole apparatus is triggered with a PocketWizard. Images are sent to Tergo’s dash-mounted iPhone via on-board wifi so he can review them. If he likes the photo he moves on. If not he tries to get another frame off before the subject figures out what’s going on.
As Tergo drives in neighborhoods with high foot traffic, he sets his exposure using an app called Capture Pilot on the iPad mini. He also adjusts the strobes for the ambient light using the strobe controls positioned in the cab. When he spots a subject, he drives around the block while he frames up the shot.
The whole apparatus is triggered with a PocketWizard. Images are sent to Tergo’s dash-mounted iPhone via on-board wifi so he can review them. If he likes the photo he moves on. If not he tries to get another frame off before the subject figures out what’s going on.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
