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February 17th, 2009 by Kris
Ok, so according to Kodak the #4 (out of 10) thing that you can do to take a better picture is to move in close! So, it happens that I found a great example of this from a Japanese artist, Naoya Hatakeyama.
He creates art images from the mining industry of Japan, he also uses remote cameras to move in real close, to EXPLOSIONS. Anyway, no more words, time for pictures:
February 16th, 2009 by Kris
I was emailed over the weekend by a gentleman, Kirk, and he had one very pointed question for me.
“Why do we need to look at other people’s photos, your blog is suposded to be about taking a better photo, not look at this cool <expletive> that I found on the internet today. What gives man?”
Well, first off Kirk, thank you so much for reading! I am always open to what people have to say and their opinions. And here is a very pointed anwser,
Unless you see what’s out there that is “leading edge” and pushing the envelope, you work will become stagnant and stale.
This journey of being an image maker and story teller is not about finding something and sticking with it! This is a walk, it need to be more about the trip than the destination. Feel free to disagree with me, but I whole heatedly believe that we simply have enough time on this earth to stop learning, even for a few weeks or days!! So, all that to be said, I post these other artist work, not to say shoot like this or look how cool your work could be if you did this – I post them up so that you might think about lighting, photoshop, camera angles, or any other of the 1000 pieces to the image making process in a way that you may have not thought about in the future!
Now go out and shoot something beautiful, or terrible. The important thing is that you are out there with your camera!!
~Kris
February 13th, 2009 by Kris
(Forgive me Ricardo, if I’ve misspelled your name!!)
So, I saw these images on coloribus this morning and had to look up the photographer that produced these pictures (or dynamic concept driven images!) and found the work of Ricardo Salamanca.
February 11th, 2009 by Kris
So this topic depends heavily on research from this original article that was posted by Holly Buchanan April 30th, 2007
So let’s talk about this for a second, the answer apparently is YES! and no. So in March of 2007 an eye-tracking study was done and researchers found men and women focused on slightly different body areas . . . or parts. Let’s face it guys glance below the equator first, right? Well . . . in April of 2007 antother study came out saying men look at faces and first and them move south and women do the opposite. This second study brought in two variables:
Holly Buchanan (the lady I’m bogarting all the above research) has an interesting bit here on the importance of content in an image, especially when marketing to women.
In 2006 at the University of Flordia did a study where they too 100 college aged women and presented images of attractive women to them. The results? The more seductive the woman pictures, the more it left the women bored and uninterested!
The researchers determined that women we looking to “emulate” a more “wholesome” model than an overly sexy model.
Why am I talking about this? Simple, when you go to create an image for a client – even if they don’t know – you have to know who you are appealing to.
Just something to think about before you hit the shutter the next time!
February 6th, 2009 by Kris
So apparently this guy’s works been all over the internet for sometime and I’ve just been hiding in a hole. Never the less, this is great work anyway you slice it. The photo-illustration of Tebe-Interesno (Dmirty Maximov):
February 4th, 2009 by Kris
“You have to eat the elephant one bite at a time.” -Chase Ezel
Ok, maybe chase wasn’t the guy that said this first, but he said to me and so that’s who gets credit. Hope this inspires you this afternoon, it helped me out.
