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Portrait Class Members Discuss the Workshop
"Imitate. Assimilate. Innovate." - Clark Terry, Jazz trumpet genius. This portrait class (and the companion 102 class) have been huge successes. The students are fired up and some are saying they are making the best images of their lives. We look closely at the work...
24 Frames In May
Begins today. It's a non-contest, and just for fun. Not many rules, but a few guidelines: This is for film cameras only. Black and White or Color is fine, and there are no restrictions on the type of film you shoot. Polaroid is OK. 4×5 or sheet film cameras are OK....
New Photography Books
From Amazon. I love Photography Books, and have a wall of them waiting for me when I have some quiet time and simply want to stimulate my brain. From early works of Steichen and Cunningham to books by Demarchelier and Watson, the photography book is one of my great...
Two New Online Workshops
Project 52 Project: Incredible Egg (Shot to Layout)
The layout was furnished and the photographers had to shoot to a fixed set of parameters. Size and position of the type could not change. [gallery link="file"...
Nicole Fernley: Cookbook Project
Project 52 members sharing recent work. Nicole Fernley: "These four images come from a larger selection of images that I recently shot for The Cheese Lover’s Cookbook, so the common thread is, of course, cheese. The cookbook author made most of the food, and we worked...
David Price: Illustrated Proverbs
David Price: "This project grew out of some recent discussions about drawing inspiration from anyone, anything, and everything around you. I admit, I drew a lot of inspiration for this idea from Irene Liebler’s series she did across last year of Common and Idiomatic...
Learning from the work of Ritts, Lindbergh and Moon; Hiram Chee
Hiram Chee, one of the longest running members of Project 52, shares a post of portraits he did during the 8 Week Portrait Class. Learning from the work of Herb Ritts, Peter Lindbergh and Sarah Moon Check it out for some wonderful portrait work.
From the Early Days of Color Photography
The year was 1913. I absolutely love these images. From composition through framing and of course the patina, they are simply lovely. "Mervyn O'Gorman was 42 when he took these pictures of his daughter, Christina O'Gorman at Lulworth Cove, in the English county of...
Read more“I have always been more interested in the power of what a good photograph or film can do – not who created it and what box that creator fits into. I’m interested in the story one has to tell. We are visual communicators and we are all unique but only if we listen to our own voice and create from that voice. Whenever I have trusted and listened to my internal voice and created from my own unique perspective and my life’s experiences, I have been “on purpose” and my work has resonated across genders, race and age. I suppose I could copy or mimic the “style du jour” whether it is HDR or photographing hipsters with tattoos and attempt to be someone I’m not. I don’t have the desire to do that because that is not why I became a photographer or filmmaker. That’s not to say that I don’t like and appreciate photographers who are following these styles but it’s not me and creativity doesn’t come from mimicking others. I’ve seen a lot of styles and techniques over the decades I’ve been in the photo business. They come and they go – just like the photographers who chase after the latest trend.”
“Labels, Finger Pointing, Fear, and the Real Value of Photography”
"I have always been more interested in the power of what a good photograph or film can do – not who created it and what box that creator fits into. I’m interested in the story one has to tell. We are visual communicators and we are all unique but only if we listen to...
24 Frames In May (2015 Edition)
TWENTY FOUR FRAMES IN MAY Last year the Project 52 folks were invited to a special project: shoot 24 frames of film in the month of May. The idea was to treat a single frame of film with the same deliberate attention we would give it if it were a sheet of 8x10....
Portraits Inspired by David Bailey
Monday I shared the images from the 8 Week Workshop, and today I share some from the Portrait 102 Workshop. These photographers studied the work of David Bailey and were inspired to make some lovely portraits. [gallery columns="4" link="file"...