Inspiring Photographers
“Shake it, shake it, shake it like a Polaroid picture.” – OutKast
Here is to upping the ante on instant gratification. Polaroid as a company may have come and gone [or at least is on its way out like all the other big guns in the industry] but some creative soul has created an online tool called the Polaroid-o-nizer to mimic the look and feel of those instant wonders.
This is what I came up with – a picture I recently shot of my son who just turned 2 … months old!
In a major push to reach couples making their wedding plans for 2005, 2006 and beyond, I have decided to invest heavily in some advertising in Shaadi Style magazine.
If you know of anyone getting married, please refer them to me and direct them to my wedding photojournalism web site at Pipal Productions. I pay $100 for each client/couple that signs on for my services.
Ian Perry Scholarship: Deadline is June 21, 2005. Hop to it!
Hasta la vista Kodak
Ian Perry Scholarship: Deadline is June 21, 2005. Hop to it!
Hasta la vista Kodak
I am thrilled to share with you some great news. I have been chosen to be a part of the Wedding Photojournalist Association. Open only to photographers with real photojournalism experience, this association promises to connect me with discerning cosmopolitan clients who know the difference between traditional [read = boring] photography of weddings and the much more exciting world of wedding photojournalism that I promote and offer through my company Pipal Productions.
If you or someone you know is interested in my wedding photojournalism services, please have them contact me. As a way of saying thanks to you, I offer $100 for every referred couple/client who signs on for my services.
You would think that a blogger working on a blogging project at the SAJA convention would have a moment to post to one's own blog, but it's been pretty busy here.
Yesterday, the convention got into the swing of things; the super workshops, including one for photographers in Jackson Heights led by David H. Wells, were all-day affairs. I bowed out of managing the photo workshop this year as I am involved in producing the convention blog project written by students and edited by professionals.
One of the best workshops I snuck into was the one by Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson, both discussing the looming video blogging or vlogging rage. Their mission is simple; to go past the usual gatekeepers of visual content and to essentially become citizen journalists. Well, not really journalists but documentarians of life as they see and perceive it. It's a novel concept and what they are doing is utterly noble. Their secondary mission, if there is one, is to promote the vlogging enterprise; to create vlogs and to view them.
David Burnett's camera choices. Read the article too.
How to do anything photographic
Some podcasts about photography from Sparkcasting.com [be warned this can be a lot of idle banter]:
“the life and struggles of being a professional news photographer”
Asia Source interview of Rituparno Ghosh.
For the last several weeks I have been quietly working with a dedicated group of journalists on a project that will go live today – the SAJA Convention Blog. The general idea is this; student bloggers and a few journalists who will work as editors will come together and publish this site during the upcoming SAJA Convention. Starting June 16 through June 19, you'll see blog posts throughout the day. I am even going to give podcasting a shot. Do let me know what you think. Feedback is vital.
Ok, sing along with me now. I am switching to digital. There I said it. A full blow confession in the middle of the night. Listen, it had to happen. I am tired of running to the lab to get images processed, scanned and then reprinted. Pain in the you-know-where. As I have hinted [ok, more than a hint] I am heading into a camera store near NYC to buy a Nikon D70s. There is virtually no difference between this model and its predecessor – the D70, yet I hanker for the newer version. Ok, ok, the LCD display on the back of the newer version is about 25% larger. And size does matter right?
Well, I have been reading about file formats and sizes and the discussions and differences between capturing images in RAW format or compressing them as JPGS. Ideally, one should be using RAW and only RAW. JPGS simply throw away too much information as it brings the file size down to something we can somewhat easily email. This NYTimes article hammered this notion home, though the author seems to have forgotten to mention that there are variations even among RAW producing cameras. And there might just be variations between cameras made by the same manufacturer. Quite the conundrum, eh? Any thoughts on how I should proceed?
