“So I looked out over the endless view of frozen waves and into the orange glow of the setting sun. For an instant I became fearful of where I was when I looked behind me and saw a deep crevice that I could easily fall into if I lost my footing. But then I looked ahead to the orange glow on the horizon and I felt hope and with that a sense of security because I knew where I came from and I have the heart and spirit to survive.”
Yesterday I featured an amazing video by Simon Carter. Today, I point you to a second video featuring Carter, in which he talks (with an amazing, grounded calm) about exactly what goes into making great rock climbing images.
Both videos are featured in a Carter’s blog post yesterday, in which he gives the back story of the assignment.
Carter’s blog will be an RSS feed must for any photographers interested in rock climbing and what goes into making adventure images.
In this video, I love it when Carter talks about creating a “nice, stable platform to work from” — as he twists and turns in a harness tethered to multiple points on different cliffs. : )) Continue reading “Simon Carter on Rock Climbing Photography”
It’s hard not to get wrapped up in vintage photographs — even fairly mundane ones — which are given power simply by their age and which remind us that content and context is often the most intriguing aspects of an image, regardless of when or where they were made.
Head to “Shorpy” delve into the realms of considering what makes an image great or interesting both to you, as well as to learn a whole lot of interesting ideas and historic facts that have nothing to do with photography for photography’s sake. Shorpy is a refreshing reminder to photographers about what photography was originally conceived to accomplish — to capture history (then the present) in a manner that no other media ever had before.
For all is modern zest, photography was and remains a means o record. To share the present with precision. To evoke the past — even of only yesterday’s birthday party — with more power than was ever imaginable. (Although, sure, cave paintings and Renaissance statuary is pretty damn cool.)
I bet you a hundred bucks if you run a search using the words “las vegas headshots,” the number one result will be the blog of photographer Wayne Wallace, who, um, is based in Las Vegas, Nevada. He does shoot headshots but his range is much greater, covering fashion, editorial and commercial as well. And if you run searches for these services in the LV area, Wallace keeps popping up. What’s going on?
Regardless of political orientation, everyone seemed to be pretty perturbed last week when the White House shelled out $300,000-plus to fly Air Force One over New York City to take a publicity shot, not only spending money needlessly but also scaring the pants off the locals.
One of the best ways to get ideas and inspirations for your own blog – from design to content – is to regularly surf the Blogosphere, especially the far corners that don’t relate directly to your interests.
I give out this excellent and basic advice all the time but, um, I have to admit that I have a hard time doing it myself. After all, who wants to click around to sites that don’t interest them in terms of content? It’s kind of like reading a book just because I “should.” Doesn’t happen.
