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Why You Shouldn’t Date a Photographer

July 8, 2013 — Leave a comment

41 Reasons to be exact and very funny….

29. THEY FIND BEAUTY IN THE WEIRDEST PLACES

That includes dirty alleys, places with a lot of poverty or just about any other location normal people would stay away from.

31. THEY WON’T PHOTOGRAPH WHAT YOU ASK THEM

Think having a photographer partner will bring you advantages? Think again. Photographers are very proud and stubborn creatures and they will rarely photograph anything they consider unworthy, unless it’s paid or they like it.

41. WHEN STARING INTO YOUR EYES, IT USUALLY MEANS SOMETHING ELSE

You might find it to be a romantic moment, but it’s usually a process that goes on in their mind and has to do with how they would correct the tiny imperfections on your face.

 

via http://hotpenguin.net

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What Photography Software is the Best?

July 8, 2013 — Leave a comment

First Photoshop followed by Lightroom. Lightroom is for processing jobs and groups of images where Photoshop is for high end detail and retouching work. It’s not an either or situation.  Both are (for me) indispensable but very different tools.

I have been using Photoshop since day one and it never ceases to amaze me how deep the program  actually is. I don’t think anyone can actually know Photoshop completely. The beauty of the software is you can find 2-3 completely different paths that will solve what ever you can visualize in your head. We seem to be in a Photoshop Renaissance of sorts since now a new generation has grown up on it. I think in the future people will look back and see that Photoshop released a torrent of creative energy in photography and no doubt changed it forever. I am now convinced it has freed photography from the chains of the straight documentary image much like photography freed the painters to move from realism to expressionism, abstraction, surrealism etc. All the “bad Photoshop work” aside. I think these are very creative times in photography and Photoshop is the main engine behind it. If you don”t believe me take a look at Thomas Ruffs interview regarding his new large scale “photograms” (which they are actually not). The work is all computer generated and Photoshopped. We are in a new age so go out and make an image no one has ever seen.

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The Tent Photographs of Abelardo Morell

July 4, 2013 — Leave a comment

The always curious photographer Albelardo Morell is known for making photographs using rooms as a Camera Obscura but he has taken the process one step further by inventing a Tent Camera which projects the landscape viewpoint existing outside the tent onto the ground inside the tent. He then photographs this projection merging ground and horizon image in a new kind of double exposure. His images are currently on view at the Stephen Daiter Gallery.

“I have worked with my assis­tant, C.J. Heyliger, on design­ing a light proof tent which can project views of the sur­round­ing land­scape, via periscope type optics, onto the sur­face of the ground inside the tent. Inside this space I pho­to­graph the sand­wich of these two out­door real­i­ties meet­ing on the ground. Depend­ing on the qual­ity of the sur­face, these views can take on a vari­ety of painterly effects. The added use of dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy on my cam­era lets me record visual moments in a much shorter time frame– for instance I can now get clouds and peo­ple to show up in some of the photographs.”

via the artist’s web site

 

The Tent Photographs of Abelardo Morell

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How Google will Change SEO and Link Building in 2013

June 28, 2013 — Leave a comment

Excellent overview at Spread Effect on Matt Cutts talk. If you have a web site and don’t know who Matt Cutts is, or what the heck SEO, or Link Building is, you better pay attention as when he speaks from his office at Google the entire web stops, looks and listens.

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Buying art online for investment?

June 22, 2013 — Leave a comment

NPR reporter and National Deputy Editor Uri Beriner wades in ankle deep (online) to invest in painting and give us a report about his purchase. The good news is he found something he liked. The bad news is if he was actually going to buy something for an “investment” he should of gone through a local gallery and worked with a pro to find a work of art that might actually be a good investment (or at least by an artist collected by major collectors or museums – preferably both).  The perils of online art purchases and not working with a pro…

For more info on how to collect art see my other post

 

I check in with Price one last time after making my online purchase. Not a bad choice, she says, especially because it’s painted in the style of the impressionists; they’re always popular. But she offers a caveat: “It’s unlikely you’d be able to turn around and sell it tomorrow. This is an emerging artist. This is an artist who is not brand name. That again goes to perhaps there being some difficulty in reselling the work.”

Via NPR

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