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Ever wish that you can just take off and go on a round-the-world tour? That’s what Gary Arndt did in March 2007, and he’s been to 114 countries and territories, and still counting. The multi-award-winning blogger showcases his photography and journey on his travel blog, Everything Everywhere. Time magazine named his blog one of the top 25 blogs in the world. Taking a break from swimming with whale sharks in Australia and spelunking in Borneo, Gary joins us in the studio and shares stories about playing photojournalist in the midst of a political protest in Bangkok, how looking like a professional photographer can get you places, and tips on how to pursue your wanderlust and the most efficient ways to do travel photography.
Here are Gary’s top tips:
1. Know where you are. Light for the location.
2. Bigger memory is better than more in terms of storage.
3. Backup! Backup! Backup!
Find out more by watching the video here or on iTunes. Next week: Florida based editorial, commercial and sports photographer Bill Frakes. Have questions, suggestions or praises? Please email photo@twit.tv.
If you hang out with your subject long enough, eventually they forget about you and reveal their kinetic energy. My first set of shots is typically a wash – human subjects simply need more time to warm up to the camera. It’s all a part of the process. Incorporating a sense of movement in your imagery, as you see here with this portrait of a young Highlander in the Andean Mountain Range in the Sacred Valley area of Cuzco, Peru, lends your photographs a magnetic energy.
This sense of action and spontaneity locates a subject in time and space. Here, her hair is flying; she’s playfully tossing a small pillow toward the camera; and the low, directional light creates a sense that this dynamic image couldn’t have been captured at any other time or place.
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At the Wedding & Portrait Photography International (WPPI) conference 2012 in Las Vegas, Catherine is joined by 8 industry experts and insiders to convene on the controversial subject, Is Technology a Menace to Photography?
The luminary-studded panel featured renowned photographers such as Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Gibson, celebrity photographer and Help-Portrait creator Jeremy Cowart, reDefine host Tamara Lackey, Fast Track Photographer educator Dane Sanders, legendary wedding photographers Cliff Mautner and Jerry Ghionis, hot emerging fashion photographer Lindsay Adler, and glamour queen Sue Bryce. They engaged in a heated discussion about topics, such as the too-easy lure of technological gimmickry to smooth over lack of artistic know-how; self-education and cultivation of a unique creative vision with responsible and mindful use of technology; so-called “naive” art; the future of point-and-shoots and DSLRs in an age of camera phones; and the relevance of professional photographers over the coming decade.
Here are some quotes from the show:
Lindsay Adler:
It has nothing to do with the technology but about the person. In the end, if you’re a good photographer, if you have good ideas, that’s what wins.
Jeremy Cowart:
Photographers, instead of going out and pursuing personal projects, they are just obsessed with blogging, [social media, etc.] Sometimes I just want to scream on Twitter, ‘Why aren’t we talking about images?’
Greg Gibson:
iPhoneography makes photography accessible to the masses and as a result, it makes it easy to get fooled and tricked into thinking that now exposure’s easy, focus is easy, that photography’s easy.
Jerry Ghionis:
I believe the digital revolution has made us lazy. Many new photographers learn to shoot RAW, over and underexposed by two stops, do what you want in Photoshop, slap a filter, slap a texture on there, and it will be okay.
Tamara Lackey
You want the viewer to feel something when they look at the portrait, that ability to empathize with another individual and pour that into a portrait doesn’t improve with a greater pixel count.
Dane Sanders
When I am at my most creative, it has very little to do with what I can pull off technologically.
Sue Bryce:
If i know enough to sustain an income and market myself, in an industry that is so flooded with photographers and yet I can stand out, by offering a brand that is better than others, then who gives a f*** if I don’t know your old craft?
Cliff Mautner
I’m a much better photographer now since I went digital; my skillset has increased ten-fold. I think everybody here can say to themselves, I am a better photographer now because of digital.
Find out more by watching the video here or on iTunes. Next week: Travel photographer and blogger Gary Arndt. Have questions, suggestions or praises? Please email photo@twit.tv.
You all are in for a big treat. Today’s TWiT Photo episode features a panel of eight industry experts and insiders engaged in pointed, and often heated, discussion addressing: Is Technology a Menace to Photography? Convened at a private WPPI studio in MGM’s Grand Arena; the luminary-studded group included Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Gibson, celebrity photographer and Help-Portrait creator Jeremy Cowart, reDefine host Tamara Lackey, Fast Track Photographer educator Dane Sanders, legendary wedding photographers Cliff Mautner and Jerry Ghionis, hot emerging fashion photographer Lindsay Adler, and glamour queen Sue Bryce.
We discussed topics, such as the too-easy lure of technological gimmickry to smooth over lack of artistic know-how; self-education and cultivation of a unique creative vision with responsible and mindful use of technology; the future of point-and-shoots and DSLRs in an age of camera phones; and the relevance of professional photographers over the coming decade. If your ears aren’t already burning, they will be. TWiT Photo is streamed live on Tuesdays at 1:30pm PT/4:30pm ET on http://live.twit.tv, part of the TWiT Netcast Network. Viewers can also find episodes of TWiT Photo on http://twit.tv/photo or on iTunes.
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Jerry Ghionis is recognized as one of top wedding and portrait photographers worldwide. He spills the light on how he creates and captures emotional scenes at a wedding. Not only has Jerry won the WPPI wedding album of the year seven times, he was also named the 2011 Australian Wedding Photographer of the Year by the Australian Institute of Professional Photography (AIPP). Jerry then shows us how to use available light in a photo shoot with Catherine!
Here are Jerry’s top tips and a few images from his inspiring portfolio:
1 Shoot for the wedding album.
2 Photography is more about communication than it is about technique.
3 Never forgo the fine art of lighting and posing.
Find out more by watching the video here or on iTunes. Next week: Travel photographer and Google+ superstar Trey Ratcliff. Have questions, suggestions or praises? Please email photo@twit.tv.
