Hello everyone! Its been a minute since I have done an “official” Photo Friday post but I got something awesome lined up for you this week. I recently took a trip to Cumberland Island for an awesome camping experience with my girlfriend. I haven’t been camping in quite a while but when you combine perfect weather with camping on a beach you really can’t go wrong. We snapped off quite a few photographs and got a bunch of great ones. If anyone out there is interested in looking into taking your own camping trip at Cumberland Island you can get some more information at their website.
Some of you might recognize this weeks photographer not for his photography but for a little viral video from a few years ago. Thats right, Noah Kalina is the maker and star of the famous YouTube video where he takes a picture of himself every day for 6 years. Little did I know when I first saw that video that he was a photographer himself. He’s been making a name for himself more and more in the commercial world and has been producing some really great work lately. One of my favorite essays on his website is his “What Happens in Vegas” essay. Its a series of self portraits taken all over landmarks in Vegas with the same facial expression every time. This essay is only a small example of Kalina’s work and talents. Check out more of this series after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
We had so much fun duking it out against Esperanza last night at Graveyard Tavern that we’re already talking about doing it again! We’ll go even bigger next time! Thank you to everyone who came out and witnessed the throwdown, and special thanks to those who participated as part of Team Process. The final score was 3 - 2 in favor of Process! We won the categories of Darts, Pool, & Bearfights. Esperanza kicked our butts in Arm-wrestling and Sticker High-jump.
I’m in TX this weekend and I decided to check out the monument-of-excess that Jerry Jones built for the ‘Boys. The field isn’t laid out right now because they are busy setting the stage up for the U2 concert on Monday night. As you can see, the highly-controversial scoreboard has been raised to 110 ft to set up the stage area for the U2 bros to run around.
About a month ago, we were contacted by Kristina Feliciano, from Stockland Martel Blog. Kristina is the one responsible for making it one of the best photography blogs out there. For those of you who may not know, Stockland and Martel represents some of the brightest and hottest talent in the photography industry, to include Georgia’s own: Liz Von Hoene and Jim Fiscus. Kristina had read one of our Photo Friday posts about Stockland Martel photographer, Hans Gissinger. She thought it would be fun if Hans and I got a chance to speak again, and catch up since the last time we spoke. Like before, I decided to do a photo for Hans in appreciation for taking the time to speak to me. Here is a link to that conversation. Big thanks to Hans, Kristina, and the Stockland Martel crew. We love collabos! Kristina, let’s do this again soon. Enjoy, ya’ll.
I apologize about the lack of updates lately. We, among other ATLiens, have experienced being flooded out from historic rains over the past few weeks. Here are some photos taken at our apartments by Jared Dalcourt this past Monday. Read the rest of this entry »
I found some really awesome videos on the world wide web this week one of which was done by an Australian photographer by the name of Keith Loutit. After looking a little bit more I found that Loutit had a whole series of videos that use a combination of tilt-shift lenses and time-lapse photography. Take these two things and combine them into video and you get some really amazing imagery. Here are a few of my favorites after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Today I got back all but one roll (stupid, I know) of the rest of my film from my trip to Seattle. I had not used a Holga for years but I bought one before this trip just to see what I could get. Every one of these cameras is different and its always cool to see the differences.
This week I bring to you some of my own work from recent photo shoots I have been working on. Most of these are out-takes and behind the scenes images. Hope you all enjoy them! Read the rest of this entry »
What’s up world?? This is Joe Martinez, taking over for my good friend Ross for this week’s Photo Friday. I wanted to share some images I created during my recent trip to Greece last month. This is my second trip to Europe this year, and my first time in the Mediterranean. I definitely took advantage of the beautiful weather, good food, and amazing scenery. It was also a great opportunity to practice a fun technique that some of you may have seen floating around the internet. “Tilt-shift photography” is a selective focus technique using a specialized lens that controls the orientation of the plane of focus of a particular scene or subject. The results vary, but it’s possible to achieve what some have dubbed “fake miniature” photography, creating the illusion of a miniature or toy model look. Some clever Photoshop enthusiasts found a way to do this without the use of this lens making the technique available to anyone with a little patience, the right image, and few Photoshop tools. A simple Google search will provide you with several tutorials on how to achieve your own tilt-shift images. More T-S photos from Greece after the jump! Read the rest of this entry »
This week I share with you The Photographic Dictionary. The concept is pretty simple, to define words thru imagery. If you’re looking for a good place to get lost on the internet this Friday I highly recommend checking out this website. There is a ton of great young talent to check out and they even take submissions for words and post a new photographers work every day in the fresh meat section. Here are just a few of my favorites from the dictionary. Read the rest of this entry »
This week I bring to you the work of Adam Krause. I first meet Adam several years ago on a cross country road trip I took while I was in college. Spending 10 days in a car with someone can be a really amazing experience and with Adam things were never dull. After the road trip he went back to Orlando and I went back to Jacksonville and we would run into each other on occasion but that was about it. Then a few years ago, I was looking through a photo magazine and noticed he was picked to be one of the top 30 photographers under 30 and I was shocked! Since then Adam has been putting out more and more work and he was recently published in American Photography. Check out more of his work after the jump.
Last week I was fortunate enough to visit my dad and grandparents in Seattle. I was born out in the Washington state area and its always a great feeling heading back out there. I shot a lot of images of my grandparents and my father as well as some sights from my adventures around the city. If you have never been out to Seattle then I would do yourself a favor and go out there as soon as you get the chance. Its a pretty rad city with tons of stuff to do. This collection of images is just a small amount of what I shot while I was there and hopefully I will have some more for you once I get my film back from the lab. Check out my photos after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Awhile back, I gave everyone a preview of some behind-the-scenes at Megan Huntz’ lastest photo shoot by Jorge Menes of EC. Well, Jorge has sent over his images and I decided that this week’s Photo Friday was an appropriate venue for debuting the new looks.
This week I bring to you a pretty interesting story. Guillaume and Remi were recently the winners of the Grand Prix du Photoreportage Etudiant which is a pretty big photojournalism contest put on by Paris-Match, a French magazine. Their essay depicted the trials and tribulations of students and the things they need to do to survive. The images make for a really interesting photo essay except for one small thing… they were all staged! That’s right, all the images from the award winning photo essay by the two students were all staged by the two which they revealed at the award ceremony. After looking at the images from the previous years winners the previous years the two art students thought the images looked more like vacation photos than photojournalism. They did it to prove to everyone that the styles used so often in most photojournalism work could be staged and still have the same effect. The images are pretty awesome and to know that they are all staged makes me wonder about what other photos that you see in the newspaper and in other news sources are staged too. If you can read french you can check out the story here or check out more after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Way back in the day when I first started getting into photography I used to frequent a message board (this was before blogs) called Paper Brigade. The message board was run by a couple of dudes that went to the New England School of Photography and usually was filled with band photography. This was where I found out about the Day 19 duo and where I found out about Dennis Ho. Dennis was a dude that lived in Jacksonville while I did and was a bit of an inspiration to me when I was first getting into photography. He was always going on tour with crazy bands like Weezer or The Get Up Kids for weeks at a time and that was what I really wanted to do for a while. Needless to say I never got into the whole band photography thing but I was really excited to meet someone who was. Dennis is a super cool dude and has been a friend of mind for a good while now. Although he hasn’t been shooting as much recently as he did when I first meet him its always fun to look back at some of his work and reminisce on days past. If you want to check out more of Dennis’ work you can check out his website here or after the jump.
This week I was fortunate enough to work with celebrity photographer Lionel Deluy. I worked on a job for an upcoming hip hop star and it was a fun filled day of Lambos, crack houses and getting yelled at by neighborhood vigilantes. Lionel is the first big LA celebrity photographer that I have worked for and it was a really interesting experience. After watching videos on YouTube of Lionel as a guest star on America’s Next Top Model a couple of years ago and shooting for Kat Von D’s new book I was expecting the worst. Much to my surprise Lionel and his assistant Odyssey turned out to be really awesome dudes, making our 12 hour day a breeze. It seems like Lionel has shot just about everyone there is to shoot as far as celebrities and musicians are concerned so this is only a small portion of his work. Check out more work after the jump or on his website here.
Last Friday marked a pretty major moment in world history with the 10th Iranian presidential election. While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reported as winning the election supporters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi believed there was foul play. Thousands of Mousavi supporters began protesting thru-out the country with massive demonstrations taking place in Tehran.
The images that have come out have been incredible but since the first batch of pictures came out the Iranian government has banned all foreign media.
The most interesting part of all of it is how the U.S. State Department is using Twitter as a means to keep in touch with what is going on. The State Department asked Twitter to delay their scheduled maintenance so that people in Iran could still update their accounts while protesting continued to go on. I’ve never heard of a country blocking off all foreign media while such major demonstrations are going on but Im really glad that these images made it out before that.
What up world? This is Joe, filling in for Ross for this week’s Photo Friday. I came across this article a while back analyzing a photograph taken by Madonna’s publicity team as she goes through the process of adopting yet another Malawian baby. In a bid to make her attempted adoption look more romanticized, Madonna has created a bit of propaganda with the above photo. Martin Parr explains the motives behind converting the photo to sepia after the jump:
