Video of the Week: Know your Rights!!!

Awesome ACLU sponsored video about photographers rights!!!






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(via a Photo Editor)

Photographer of the Month: Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark is street photographer who inspired my photography in college.  Her revealing, uncropped images were an inspiration for me as a photojournalist.  I never liked cropping my images too much.  I shoot for what I wanted in the camera rather in the computer.

I believe in today's world of iPhones and camera-phones, everyone does some form of street photography now.  Usually for humor, cuteness, updates of their own life or news, but Mark's photograph's are deeper than that.  They are reminiscent of paintings of realsim in the 1850's.  Like she explains in the video, it reveals truth.  Mary Hellen Mark is the modern day realism artist.




(via New Yorker Magazine)

Video of the Week: Bentley Ad

Richard Morris shows how he composited several images for a Bentley promo photo.  Watch, learn, enjoy!





(source, jalopnik.com)

Cool Photographer: Sebastian Mlynarski

Sebastian Mlynarski is an awesome photographer that caught my eye when I saw this album cover for Cold Cave's Cherish the Light Years.

This photograph (on right) of band member Jenifer Clavin is nearly perfect I believe.  The smoothness of the shades of gray throughout the photograph, but it has great contrast. Her eye is so well lit but has that great texture of the shadow from her knitted hood.  Very classical, dark and beautiful.  The flowers I think give it that classical painting look to the composition.

Mlynarski has many other great photos on his website.  Also check out his personal work. He has also done music videos which is a major plus in my book.


image from www.mlynarski.net

Tokihiro Sato

Today at the Frist Center, I saw work from fantastic photographer/ sculptor, Tokihiro Sato. These images were created within the camera. He flashed lights into the camera during hours-long exposure, creating a Shinto-eque look.

(image by Tokihiro Sato from www.efimera.org)

Photographer Jill Greenberg

Here's a nice vid about a very talented artist.

(via Strobist)

Nessa first vid

My good friend and photographer Nessa K. made her first HD video using a Nikon D90.

Check her photography on the first hyperlink. She started an up and coming wedding photography business in Austin, TX. If you like her wedding stuff, her art is 10 times better.

Remarkable

Gerardo Nigenda

(via TIME.com)

A very interesting exhibition and articles in TIME and BBC (audio slideshow*) about blind photographers. Truly amazing; this gives me a whole new perspective in photography.

*recommend to listen

Cool

This was shot entirely on a Canon 5D (SLR camera) with Lensbabies by Photographer/ Director Chris Milk.

Cool

Frames Per Second - Exhibition in Salon Projektionist - Vienna from dirk rauscher on Vimeo.

This is a cool Video/Photo installation by Dirk Rauscher. Where he combines photograms and video projections.

100 days of photographs

© Callie Shell / Aurora for Time

Callie Shell has photograph Barrack Obama since 2004. Above, is part of a photo series of the Obama administration's first 100 days in office.

In this video documentary, Shell describes how she captured behind-the-scenes images of the Obama White House.

Nabil

Nabil Elderkin is one of my favorite new directors/ photographers. The more works by him I see, the more I like. He recently did Kanye's "welcome to heartbreak" and up and coming artist Mr. Gordon, "there will be tears"

I really like the video distortion look.

MR HUDSON "There Will Be Tears" Directed by: NABIL fx: weirdcore from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.