Saudi Arabian Women Unveiled

Through Ziyah Gafic's lens, VICE was invited into a world rarely visited by outsiders to lift the abaya and niqab and meet the women underneath (who are newspaper writers, doctors, and members of the ministry of education).

Check out more episodes of Picture Perfect: http://vice.com/picture-perfect

Watch the best documentaries online here: http://bit.ly/VICE-Documentaries

Originally aired in 2011 on http://VICE.com

I'm going to get a 2nd home in Chernobyl, it's quite beautiful actually

VICE accompanies photographer Donald Weber to the buffer zone at Fukushima, Japan, where the eerie silence mirrors that at Chernobyl, and follow him as he attempts to document the unfolding nuclear crisis.

Check out more episodes of Picture Perfect: http://vice.com/picture-perfect
WARNING: this video shows a dead body!

links to Shuttermade portfolios

http://shuttermade.com/elizavetaporodina
http://shuttermade.com/annhe
http://shuttermade.com/eleanorhardwick
http://shuttermade.com/nikoline
http://shuttermade.com/karlaread
http://shuttermade.com/mo
http://shuttermade.com/samuelpritzker

eXplore Photographers lectures on TED

http://www.petapixel.com/2010/05/20/14-powerful-ted-talks-by-photographers/

BOMBard your mind with images & photographers!

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/10/interview-with-benjamin-von-wong/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/24/photographs-of-birds-caught-in-mist-nets/

Light Painting Links

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/24/beautiful-light-painting-photos-created-on-the-streets-of-nyc-in-the-1970s/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/10/01/the-surreal-light-painting-photography-of-a-blind-photographer/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/08/20/topological-light-painting-photos-created-by-tracing-entire-rooms-with-one-led/

http://www.photographyblogger.net/25-awesome-spinning-pictures/

Projection & related Photography Links

http://www.bitrebels.com/design/10-examples-of-projection-art-photography-slightly-nsfw/

http://www.daportfolio.com/76887/gallery/102907#4

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hfphotography/sets/72157605774852254/with/2605586898/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/06/13/portraits-of-people-with-their-pictures-projected-onto-themselves/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/28/photographs-of-mirrors-on-easels-that-look-like-paintings-in-the-desert/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/14/underwater-photos-that-mimic-the-look-of-baroque-paintings/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/projectedimagebodyart/pool/

Multiple Exposure

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/28/people-vs-places-double-exposures-by-two-photographers-on-one-roll-of-film/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/07/23/multiple-exposure-portraits-created-in-camera-using-a-dslr/

http://www.petapixel.com/2012/09/10/create-beautiful-surreal-photographs-by-stacking-your-film-negatives/

http://shuttermade.com/alisonscarpulla

Glitch Art

http://blog.soulwire.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/glitchmap.swf

Light Painting Photography Videos

exploring flickr pART1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/womannchns/page1/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/xochipilli/5786371910/in/photostream/

i-phone photos part 1

Check out this Olloclip:
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/04/06/iphone-lenses/



a video made with OlloClip on iphone 4

Scratch Cam App does this to photos-
http://www.flickr.com/groups/scratchcam/pool/
http://ashcroft54.com/2011/12/01/scratch-cam-for-30-days/

Pic Grunger does this-
http://www.flickr.com/groups/picgrunger/pool/

Combo of apps-
http://www.flickr.com/groups/comboapps/pool/

http://www.iphoneart.com/home

 iPhoneography blogs:
http://ashcroft54.com/

cell phone picture + art flickr group:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/cellphonephoto/pool/with/5510566194/#photo_5510566194

Phonosynth app:

Iphone user creates video on her favorite iphone apps:

This band did an entire music video using the hipstamatic app. on the iphone in stop motion:




a user's five favorite camera apps for iOS 4:

DSLR to Iphone: http://www.silberstudios.tv/blog/2012/08/instagram-from-your-dslr/

check out Vice's Picture Perfect Series!

I highly recommend watching all and every episode in Vice TV's Picture Perfect Series

This episode is about photographer James Mollison an Englishman born in Kenya who lives in Venice.

somethings to think about: lay-outs, passport photos, photo books

HDR photography: 7/8/2012

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doncenter/sets/72157628251646835/

Body Farms:workshop 7/8/2012

Controversy leads to more controversy. Being reviewed as controversial causes controversy and may spark people/magazines to approach you with controversial subject matter to shoot!

Being controversial with your photography can lead to more controversy! 

Joel-Peter Witkin 

is an American photographer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work often deals with such themes as death, corpses (and sometimes dismembered portions thereof), and various outsiders such as dwarfs, transsexuals, hermaphrodites, and physically deformed people. Witkin's complex tableaux often recall religious episodes or famous classical paintings.

used dead people and parts in Mexico to compose and model in his photos! 

http://acidskull.com/body-fail-the-morbid-photography-of-joel-pete

http://www.edelmangallery.com/witkin.htm
http://www.picsearch.com/index.cgi?start=1&width=1658&q=Joel-Peter%20Witkin
http://www.salon.com/2000/05/09/witkin/singleton/

Sally Mann-

is an American photographer, best known for her large black-and-white photographs—at first of her young children, then later of landscapes suggesting decay and death.

You must look at images daily, bombard your mind with photography!

Helps with your own visual memory and visual placement to look at tons of photographs other than yours.  Ask yourself why you do or do not like a particular photo, or how the photo could be improved!  Observe what works, what captivates you, what draws you in, how's the lighting, what's the style, what sort of equipment and set-up was used to make the photo? Did the subject even realize their photo was being taken?  Was there even a subject or was the photo entirely composed of objects or a landscape?  Or all of the above?

What makes a picture work? 

Tireless attention to what makes a picture work is often overlooked and taken for granted.

-Whatever it is about the shot that grabs a viewer's attention and makes him reach for his wallet. The problem is, it may not be the same element for every viewer. I think the only hard and fast rule here is to make the viewer see what you saw in the scene when you shot it...

-(Aesthetics, Technique, Style, Emotion, Composition, Lighting, Depth & Perspective) It would be nice if a picture has to say something, told a story but it doesn't have to. Sometimes it depends on who your audience is to determine if it will sell or not. A picture of an athlete no matter how good might not sell too well in bakery shop.

-Work for who? What kind of picture? Who is communicating through it, and to whom are they communicating? 

Look at contemporary advertising's use of photographs. Some images are purposefully bland, ironically banal, or deliberately awful in technical terms ... because that "works" for the message that particular ad (or its art director, anyway) has in mind.

It's as unanswerable a question as saying, "what makes writing work?" If it serves its intended purpose, it works. But the intended purpose could place the qualitative/content aspects of a given image into nearly any condition. 

Please begin bombarding your mind with images on the daily!!

http://framework.latimes.com/

http://socialdocumentary.net/

http://www.fotovisura.com/home/

http://beautifulplacestovisit.com/

http://life.time.com/#index/74

http://www.primecollective.com/features/

http://www.agencevu.com/stories/index.php

http://www.cbsnews.com/2300-501465_162-10011709.html?tag=page

explore photographers--->

http://kuletski.com/

http://www.bharatsikka.com/index.html

http://www.sasharudensky.com/index.html

http://www.belaborsodi.com/

http://www.ianruhter.com/

http://www.jansochor.com/

visual news postings:

http://www.lostateminor.com/category/photography/

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2012/01/05/captured-welcome-home-the-story-of-scott-ostrom/5172/

exhibitions:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14096169@N07/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/floridamemory/

http://vintagenatgeographic.tumblr.com/

Joey L. covered in workshop:7/8/2012

We looked at the work of photographer, Joey L.  He's a 22 year-old, Canadian, based in NYC.

Joey L. started off doing band photography and portraits at a very young age.  At age 15, started entering photography competitions in DPChallenge using a point-and-shoot digital camera.  After his photos starting earning recognition & prizes, he began producing educational DVDs for aspiring photographers.  Taking band portraits of whatever band, no matter how well-known or not earned him and the bands he photographed recognition, leading him to photograph main-stream bands. 

check out his Holy Men Portraits:
http://www.joeyl.com/personal-galleries/holy-men-2/

He has at least 2 sources of light (other than the sun) on his subjects, generated with lighting kits, flash/flashes and/or reflector dishes.  Notices the striking light in the subjects' eyes of the Holy Men, that's the light source reflecting off their pupils!
What's in Joey L.'s camera bag?
http://www.joeyl.com/gear/
(out of our budget, but doesn't mean we still can't create excellent photos!)

clients include National Geographic:
http://www.joeyl.com/personal-galleries/the-cradle-of-mankind/




Joey L. refrains from documentary photography, and would rather put his camera down and watch a tribal dance, than photograph it.  Also, he is going for a fantasy look in his photos, I learned this from a video posted on his web-site: 

The Mentawai, Behind the anoScenes Documentary from Joey L on Vimeo.

I also watched this video on Joey L:

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Here's a link to the homepage of Joey L.    http://www.joeyl.com/