My Newest Book Will Take Your Photography To The Next Level… or something
I have decided it was time for me to put it all out there... no holding back, no withholding of the secrets that I am privvy to. All of the stuff that other photographers wont tell you... I will. I am like a man on fire. Without the burning pants and sickly smell of...
Photographers Dump Film so They Can Emulate It Digitally… or, something…
"The company, founded back in March 2011, received the fifth largest Series A round Accel Partners has ever done; the investors are well known for the funds they granted a company called Facebook back when it was just starting up. Besides the app itself, VSCO’s known...
PROJECT 52 ANNUAL FOR 2013
Is available at Blurb if you love the feel of good paper and a quality book. We are also giving it out as a free PDF for all. Please feel free to share it with anyone you think would be interested. All images are copyright the photographer, and there is contact...
Hey Amazon… REALLY? Are You Kidding Me?
WHAT THE FUCK?. "On March 18, 2014 Amazon Technologies, Inc. (an operating subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc.) obtained a United States Patent (8,676,045) for a “Studio Arrangement” and a “method of capturing images and/or video.” ibook-store-widgetMany photographers will...
My Favorite Film Cameras and Film Choices
We do so many cool things in P52 and this idea is one a lot of the photographers are picking up on. We are going to have a fun little 'assignment' to shoot 24 frames of film in May. Just 24... but we want all of them to be 'good shots'. What started as a one shot per...
“Air” by Meggan Joy Trobaugh
At the Project 52 2014 group, the assignment was "Air". There were many wonderful submissions. This one by Meggan Joy Trobaugh was exceptional I thought. She carefully planned out the work and made the elements for the final work with a previsualized image already in...
A Fall Workshop in the Canyons Announced
The workshop is a blast. We all pile into a large, comfortable van and head off to Northern Arizona. Our first night is in Flagstaff, then off to the reservation lands of the Navajo, Vermillion Cliffs, Marble Canyon, Kaibab Plateau and more. We spend an afternoon and...
“Black Angels” – An Assignment for a CD Cover
This week the Project 52 PROS for 2014 are working on an CD album cover for a faux assignment. The music is George Crumb's "Black Angels" for Electric String Quartet. It is very challenging music. The students for this morning's Friday class really knocked it out of...
A Life, A Lifetime, and a Tie
John Thomas Banta had over 200 ties. Most were bold, loud, occasionally whimsical and always hard-to-miss. In short, they were very much like him. He dressed for occasions, often wearing his wildly interesting ties. And he lit up the room with his presence. He was a...
Is Giving One’s Images Away for Free a Brilliant Marketing Move?
... or a very very bad idea? Trey Ratcliff (Lost in Customs) has always given his images away on the Non-Commercial Creative Commons License. What is new today is his link to grab ALL of his favorite 500 images for free and download them in full high res form. See...
“What Should Photographers Charge in 2014?” – A Discussion with Rosh Sillars
My bud Rosh Sillars' recent article on "What Should Photographers Charge in 2014?" really hit home with me and a lot of my Project 52 PRO's. Pricing and figuring out what to charge is always a very difficult part of starting a photo business, and Rosh takes a very...
Shooting a Beer with Rui Bandeira
We have so many talented people in the Project 52 PRO group. Meet Rui Bandeira. He shared this shot with my last night and I knew I had to share it with you all. Here is Rui: "Hi, I had 3 goals for this shot: 1) it had to be fresh and make the viewer desire to drink...
Photoshop Repair: Bri in the High Desert
I like to play around in Photoshop a lot, and when I do I am going to start sharing what I do with my Project 52 Pros. And anyone else who wants to know what I do. I am not putting myself out there as a Photoshop Guru by any stretch of the imagination. I am simply...
WHY I AM CHUCKING ALL MY GEAR AND RETURNING TO SAND PAINTING AS MY VISUAL MEDIUM.
I have always loved sand. When I was a kid I would play in it, except when mum let the cat play in it first, and then it smelled sort of like my little brother, but... I digress. Cameras are obsolete. We hear every day about this new gizmo and that new gizmo, and how...
Project 52 Summer Group Opens For Registration
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Book Ideas: “What If…”
What if. What if you created a magazine instead of a book? Told a story or two in the magazine, showed a subject in depth, then printed 10 copies for influential art directors in your town and offered all who came to the site a PDF? (Blurb does magazines for as little...
ISLA: A New Book by Ernesto Bazan, Photographer
"No, I don’t [do assignments]. I stopped doing that, more or less, when I decided to become a teacher in 2002. Because of my workshops, I had to leave Cuba in 2006, which is ironic. I fund all my work thanks to the generosity of my students. This will be the third...
What Is The Biggest Problem with Your Photography?
The biggest problem may also be the one that most people focus on. No pun intended. "So let’s get the elephant out of the bag most of you keep it in and into the room where we can discuss it: most people are complaining about their cameras because otherwise they’d...
Photographs = Communication = New Creative
Photographs as communication. The new uses of photography continues to grow. "It’s not that my memory improved but, instead, that I started archiving these events and ideas with my phone, as photographs. Now, if I want to research the painter whose portraits I admired...
Omaha
I have been asked by Christopher Tierney to come out to Omaha for a workshop. I have not done workshops for a while, but I really like the midwest and look forward to spending some time there. REGISTRATION PAGE IS NOW READY. For more information, please click on the...
Documentary Photography with a Fresh Twist
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL DAVID FRIBERG Michael Friberg and Benjamin Rasmussen find a fresh way to explore the conflict in the Middle East. Part reportage, part editorial, they create a powerful new way of communication on a contemporary problem. “The way that we shoot...
The Last Project 52 Assignment for the 2013 Group
"Cooking With Chili" is the name of the faux cookbook. The assignment was to shoot to the layout. The students did a magnificent job with this, and I want to share the work with you all. You can see the layout, and it was provided as a layered PSD file to the...
Irene Liebler’s “Cooking With Chili” BTS Work
Irene Liebler is a photographer/designer in Connecticut. She is also a Project 52 member and has developed quite a unique style. This is a recent image for an assignment on P52, a "Cooking With Chilis" Cookbook Cover, shot to layout. In this post, she walks you...
Art And Its Detractors
"How has your art been received in your community? Do you have any detractors?" "Oh, yeah. That comes up all the time. If you really, really commit to something, someone will hate you for it. And that’s ok. But the further you pursue your art, and the more you come to...
