Twittle Dee, Twittle Dum
Twittle Dee, Twittle Dum, if you’re not tweeting today, you’ll fall under the latter and probably on your knees—so stand up and tweet, you just might become a twitterati (twitter A-list twit, tweeple or twitter) . [caption id="attachment_1085" align="alignleft" width="202" caption="© 2002 Rolando Gomez"][/caption] If you’re not twittering, you’re probably missing out on up-to-the-second headlines and some interesting micro-blogs from some famous tweeples. Heck, even the world’s journalists have a central depository for their real-time tweets, the Muck Rack. Event Twitter.com, which sometimes acts like the power company in a third-world country with frequent outages, is realizing they have exploded beyond their ...
Editorial, Commercial, Photojournalism?
I've been working on a new web site and today someone posted about how to distinguish the difference between editorial photography and other genres of photography, so I replied and liked it so much that I thought I'd share it here, though cleaned up from my original forum post. First, editorial photography normally has a photojournalistic feel to it as it tells a story, often used to illustrate a concept or idea designed around the contents of a specific publication. Photojournalism is sometimes considered a form of editorial photography, though the distinction is that photojournalism often involves a news story. As an example, for ...
Is It a Lens Barrel or a Gun Barrel?
Some will say that when 1994 Pulitzer Prize photographer Kevin Carter, 33, claimed his own life from what many believed taking one too many heartbreaking photos (particularly an image of a vulture sitting on the left of a starving Sudanese child, waiting for the child to collapse), that photography is dangerous--is it a lens barrel a gun barrel? It all depends whom you ask. I myself have almost 30-years experience as a photographer, many of those years photographing women in my private glamour group for what I like to call Photographic Therapy so I can tell you from my own ...
The Many Characters of Chairs
Chairs come in many shapes and forms and are constructed from an almost limitless variety of materials. This makes them a great posing aid for models. Don’t get caught up in believing all chairs have to have four legs. While working in the Virgin Islands, I recently photographed a model sitting on a palm tree that came out almost horizontally before it rose vertically—thus it was a great chair. (Though you must be careful when sitting a scantily clad model on a tree; there can be ants or other bugs!) Chairs are filled with character. Sometimes the chair back itself has ...
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Goals, the Key to the New Decade
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Happy New Year, Even Better Decade!
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Amazing Friends! Playboy Photographer and Casino Owner
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To Write About Life, You Have to Experience It First
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Photographing a Best Selling Author…Well I’m not into romance novels but I was lucky enough to photograph New York Times best-selling romance author Lisa Kleypas. I shot these in 2007 originally for St. Martin’s Press for her first book with them, Sugar Daddy. Lisa has written over 20 books in her career. The funny thing is when she first called me, I didn’t know at... [Read more]
The Enigma of a First Time Shoot
Sometimes music and the viewing of music videos can help invigorate a model and photographer for a great shoot, especially when there is more music than words, as in the style of Enigma’s The Principals of Lust. Music also helps relax the model and photographer during their first shoot, especially if they’ve never met beforehand and their... [Read more]
Existing Light in Moab
This is first in a series of “How it Was Done” and I begin by taking you to the Moab, Utah’s Canyon Lands. While the concept of this section is to focus more on how a photograph is created, I decided for this first article I’d provide information on an entire photo shoot that created some wonderful images, rather than just one... [Read more]
Editorial, Commercial, Photojournalism?
I’ve been working on a new web site and today someone posted about how to distinguish the difference between editorial photography and other genres of photography, so I replied and liked it so much that I thought I’d share it here, though cleaned up from my original forum post. First, editorial photography normally has a photojournalistic... [Read more]
Is It a Lens Barrel or a Gun Barrel?
Some will say that when 1994 Pulitzer Prize photographer Kevin Carter, 33, claimed his own life from what many believed taking one too many heartbreaking photos (particularly an image of a vulture sitting on the left of a starving Sudanese child, waiting for the child to collapse), that photography is dangerous–is it a lens barrel a gun barrel? It... [Read more]
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