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FashionPhotographyBlog.com caught up with Photo of the Week winner, Clayton Gornichec. Clayton is currently based in Springville, Utah living with his wife and daughter. “Sunday Afternoon” was the theme of the week that Clayton was a finalist and it was a hotly contested week between the voting but it was his photo, “Urban Siren”, that won in the end with the public. As the winner of Photo of the Week, I sat down with Clayton to find out a little more about his journey as a photographer and his winning photo.
Clayton’s photography story begins in Utah where he grew up. He had started his photographic passions photographing at high school. After which he enrolled at the University of Utah to assist furthering his knowledge in the visual arts. The photographer explained that “I first started shooting in high school for the year book, after which I started photographing weddings. Whenever I was looking for inspirations for my brides I would look at fashion ads. Eventually instead of just shooting weddings I wanted to create images like the magazine editorials and the ads that had been inspiring me. I approached a few local modelling agencies and began testing for them.”
Since his graduation, Clayton has been published in both online and print publications and magazines, has worked with several clothing thing companies to create their look books and ad campaigns, as well as winning awards for several of his works and being featured in art exhibitions. With his success to date, one would wonder how the photographer defines his style. When asked he replied that, “Honestly I don’t know what is different about how I approach a project from someone else because I don’t know how they approach it. That being said one thing that I am very picky and self-conscious about is the lighting of my images to the audience. When someone is seeing my work for the first time I don’t want them to see lighting first (I see images all the time and that is my very first thought, I can see they used 3 lights etc…). I want them to see the beauty of the image and then if they want to study it they can see the lighting.”
Speaking of lighting, his winning photo, “Urban Siren” gently caresses natural basking light onto the model’s face; quite an achievement to create that lazy Sunday afternoon feel. I asked the photographer about the inspiration for this piece and how he went about to achieve it. Clayton revealed that “This image was taken in a “party” house. One night while I was there I fell in love with the whole set up of the room, from the wood floor to the old style of the brick wall. After I saw that I knew I wanted to shoot there.” To create this shoot Clayton used his Nikon D700, Sigma 70-200, Calumet Travelite 750, and a fog machine to create a little bit of a haze effect.
To view more of his work or to get in touch with him, there are many ways to contact Clayton Gornichec. Here are just a few:
Website: www.gornichec.com
Email: gornichecstudios@hotmail.com
IG: @Gornichecstudios
Currently, we have another round of Photo of the Week running. To participate in the voting, make sure you “like” our Facebook page here and vote for your favorite photographer‘s photo out of the finalists in the comments section of the post. The photo with the most vote’s by the end of the week at Sunday midnight will win Photo of the Week and win the great prizes on offer.
Since FashionPhotographyBlog.com is Google’s #1 site on fashion photography in the world, you might be interested in entering our Photo of The Week competition. This could be your entry to some great exposure if you submit your photo and win. To find out more details on how to enter, make sure you join our mailing list. We will send you the entry details via your email. As a reminder, voting ends at the end of the week so make sure you get voting our Facebook page here.
What do you think of Clayton’s winning photo? We want to know what you think. Tell us in the comments below, do you agree with how this week’s voting outcome? What is your critique on this photo? We want to hear from you!
Ricoh has announced the Pentax XG-1 superzoom, featuring a 16MP BSI-CMOS sensor and a 24-1248mm equivalent F2.8-5.6 zoom lens – covering a 52x optical zoom range. Other specs include a fixed 460k-dot 3.0-inch LCD, built-in EVF and full resolution burst shooting at 9 fps. Read more
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Das Dorf des indonesischen Fotografen Herman Damar muss ein ganz wunderbarer Ort sein, wenn man sich seine Fotos ansieht. Herman erschafft in seinen Bildern eine Welt, in der man gern leben möchte: Glücklich spielende Kinder, Sonnenschein, Natur, stimmige Farben und selbst die arbeitenden Menschen sehen so wunderbar sorglos und vergnügt aus.
Vielleicht klingt das für viele nach Kritik, aber so ist es nicht gemeint. Die Bilder von Herman sind keine Reportagefotografie: Sie zeigen die guten Seiten des Alltags, Portraits von Menschen während der Arbeit, Orte und Momente, die man gern erlebt. Romantisiertes Leben, das mir ein gutes Gefühl gibt.
Herman arbeitet ausschließlich mit natürlichem Licht und ist Autodidakt. Erinnerungen zu schaffen ist seine Hauptintention, weshalb er versucht, nur wenig in das Geschehen einzugreifen und die Situationen so festzuhalten, wie sie sind. Die Bilder sollen zeigen, wie sich die Momente, in denen sie aufgenommen wurden, angefühlt haben.
Mehr von Hermans Bildern könnt Ihr auf seiner Webseite und auf 500px entdecken.
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Four wheels fixed onto an ordinary wood pallet have transformed it into a skateboard of sorts that can slide down tram tracks in Bratislava, Slovakia. The rails in the city happen to be just the right width to fit a standard Europallet perfectly, turning the humble warehouse staple into a personal vehicle.
While the streetcar systems of many cities run on wider ‘broad gauge’ tracks, Bratislava is among those with a one-meter width. Other cities where the pallet tram hack would work include Antwerp, Basel, Belgrade, Bern, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Zurich. Watch it in action at Vimeo.
Slovakian artist Tomas Moravec says of his project, “A new transport vehicle brings change into the spatial perspective of a passenger in motion and generally changes the life of the city, through which the pallet can run, guided by a map of the city lines.”
Where pallets were once used just a couple times and then thrown away, now they’re reclaimed for all sorts of projects, often requiring very little modification. Check out 13 DIY pallet projects for porch swings, home theaters and garden trellises, as well as 19 more clever pallet creations.
Pallets have become all the rage as the DIY crafting movement began utilizing pallets as the building blocks for creative weekend projects.
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Avoid the crowds of tourists and take your own tour with the Tram Sightseeing App. Available only for Gothenburg, the app gives you a virtual tour using GPS.
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A surging DIY movement is bringing wooden pallets out of obscurity and into people’s homes as popular do it yourself foundations.
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Adobe has updated both the iOS and Android versions of its free Photoshop Express mobile app. The new version comes with a number of added features and improvements but to many photographers the most useful new function will be the ability to edit Raw files. We gave it a try – read more on our sister site, connect.dpreview.com.
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Changing shutter speed not only changes the amount of light that enters the camera, it also changes the way your images look. By changing the shutter speed, you’re allowing the film or digital sensor to be exposed for a longer or shorter period of time. That affects how motion is portrayed in your image. A short (or ‘fast’) shutter speed will freeze motion, whereas a long (or ‘slow’) shutter speed will allow you to show motion.
Let’s take a look at a few examples using slower shutter speeds to show motion in your images:
The image above shows what happens when you use a slow shutter speed while holding the camera still. In this case the shutter speed was 1/40th of a second, which allowed me to hand-hold the camera while still showing some motion on the cyclist. The slower the shutter speed, the more movement in your subject.
The image below was made with a shutter speed of 1/15th of a second. That’s starting to get a little slow for hand-holding so I rested the camera on the top of a fence rail on the side of the road. The image shows a cyclist riding along the road, followed closely by a skateboarder. Both the cyclist and skateboarder are blurred quite a lot, but they’re still identifiable, while the rest of the image is still in focus. It gives a feeling of movement, without moving the camera.
Moving the camera while making an exposure is another way to show movement in an image. Instead of keeping the camera still and using a long shutter speed – you move, or pan, the camera with your moving subject as you expose the image. That way the subject remains sharp, while the background becomes blurred.
This image of another cyclist riding along a boardwalk was also taken at 1/40th of a second, panning with the rider and following him from right to left as he passed by. The shutter speed was slow enough that the background is blurred, while the bicycle and rider are relatively sharp.
Remember, the subject doesn’t have to be ‘tack sharp’ when you’re showing movement. Sometimes a little blur on the subject helps to enhance the feeling of movement in the image, as it does in this case. Notice the spokes of the bicycle’s wheels are blurry too, which also helps to show movement. Using a faster shutter speed while panning would have resulted in the background not being as out of focus and the wheels would have been frozen in time with the spokes clearly visible. In essence, the cyclist would have looked like he was stationary and balancing on the boardwalk, not moving as he actually was.
Cyclists and other fast moving objects are not the only subjects for slow shutter speeds. What about shots including moving water. I think it’s fair to say we’ve all seen images of the sea or a river with water that looks buttery smooth. That smoothness is also achieved by using a slow shutter speed.
The following three images were all taken from the same location on the side of the Yarra River in Melbourne, Australia. The camera was mounted on a tripod for stability and the images were made at different exposure values. The first image was made with a shutter speed of 1/4 of a second, which is relatively fast for this type of photograph. The individual ripples in the water are clearly visible. You can see some movement, but not much.
The second image was made with a shutter speed of 2 seconds. The water is starting to get smoother due to the longer shutter speed. The individual ripples are starting to disappear.
The final image in this series was exposed for five seconds. The water has now become much smoother due to the movement while the shutter was open. Photography is an art form and there is no right or wrong way to photograph any subject, but for me, the third image with the smooth water is much more appealing than the first two versions.
Why not experiment with different shutter speeds next time you go out to make photographs. It’s a great way to add interest to an otherwise static and maybe boring subject! All it takes is a little imagination and patience and you can come away with some really interesting and different images – like this water drain for example, which was hand-held with a shutter speed of one second. The ghostly images passing over the drain make it a little more interesting than just the drain grate itself. The most important thing is to experiment – and have fun!
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I (Kevin) have thousands of friends on Facebook. I know a few hundred. These friends are mostly fellow photographers who share their passion and recent images. I have always enjoyed sharing my images and getting feedback. A few years ago I took notice of a certain photographer Valerie Millett on Facebook. She seems a natural when it came to landscape photography and over the years I watched her images mature and take a beautiful form using color, light and excellent composition. I asked Valerie to tell us her story and we share that today. Portrait Of An Emerging Photographer. It’s wonderful to see in our adventures and workshops how many women are enjoying and making incredible landscape images. We have previously published Eleanor Brown’s work and Jackie Ranken’s.
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