Photographer David Friedman has been photographing inventors since 1998. During the course of that time he has sat down with 47 men and women who have their names on patents for products as diverse as cellphones, US Navy antennas and ‘Squirt-gun Shoes’. We spoke to David recently about his project – read what he has to say and take a look at a selection of images. See gallery
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kwerfeldein geht ab morgen zwei Wochen lang in die Sommerpause. Aber keine Angst, Ihr werdet dennoch mit tollen Bildern und Serien versorgt. Wir haben für jeden Tag einen Artikel der Kategorie Vollbild vorbereitet. Ihr habt also etwas weniger zu lesen, aber dafür mehr zum Gucken. Sonntags gibt es weiter wie gewohnt die browserFruits. Wir wünschen Euch einen schönen Sommerurlaub, entspannt Euch gut, egal ob in fernen Ländern oder Balkonien.
Fotospecial: Klassisch schön – schwarzweiße Frauenportraits
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• Ein interessantes Interview mit Julius Schrank über die Arbeit als Fotojournalist haben wir bei der Taz entdeckt.
• „Sofortbildtage“ ist eine Serie mit lauter Bildern des selben Himmels, der doch immer ein anderer ist. Im Polaroidformat.
• Die Ausstellung „Paparazzi!“ in Frankfurt thematisiert das ambivalente Verhältnis zwischen Stars und Fotografen. Zeit Online hat Bilder sowie Infos zur Ausstellung.
• „Niemand will diese Fotos sehen“ – Christoph Bangert wurde von Zeit Online zu seinem Buch „War Porn“* interviewt. Herausgeber Martin Gommel hat es hier vor Kurzem ebenfalls rezensiert.
International
• Coulton Morris steht buchstäblich Kopf, wenn es um seine Bilder geht.
• Es ist immer wieder spannend, wenn irgendwo uralte, unentwickelte Filme entdeckt werden. Wie dieser Film, der 70 Jahre lang in einer Soldatenkamera in einem Schützenloch bewahrt wurde.
• Aus der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Prue Stent und Honey Long entstand die etwas skurrile Fotoserie „Bush Babies“, die Frauen in der Natur zeigt.
• Manuel Irritier zeigt mit seiner Bildserie „Urban Barcode“ die scheinbar endlosen bienenstockartigen Hochhausfassaden von Hongkong – Sinnbild für die immense bauliche Dichte dieser Stadt.
• Über die Langzeitbelichtungen von Francesca Woodman berichtet NY Books.
• Theron Humphrey beschloss eines Tages, quer durch Amerika zu reisen und ein Jahr lang eine Person pro Tag zu fotografieren. Damit er bei dieser Unternehmung nicht allein ist, holte er „Maddie“ aus dem Tierheim und nahm den Hund mit auf die lange Reise.
• Immer wieder wird darüber geredet, wie stark unser Frauenbild durch die Werbung geprägt ist. Dabei geht es Männern nicht anders.
• Hinter den Kulissen von Filmen entstehen hin und wieder Fotos, die uns zum Lachen bringen und einen komplett anderen Blick zulassen.
• 28 Fotos von Vivian Maier sowie ein Interview mit der Kuratorin der Maier-Ausstellung Anne Morin haben wir bei lensculture entdeckt.
Neuerscheinungen und Tipps vom Foto-Büchermarkt
• Den Bildband „Haru and Mina“ von Hideaki Hamada kann man jetzt auch international bestellen. Der Fotograf hat darin die schönsten Bilder seiner beiden Kinder Haru und Mina gesammelt. Wer mehr von diesen Bildern sehen möchte, kann dies in diesem Feature von Fubiz. Das Buch kostet inklusive Versand umgerechnet etwa 30 €.
• Über Robert Capa muss man eigentlich nicht viel sagen, denn er ist einer der bekanntesten Kriegsreporter. Wer einen Bildband von ihm besitzen möchte, dem empfehlen wir: „Robert Capa. Retrospektive.“* Er kostet 39,95 Euro.
Wettbewerbe
• Die Vereinigung Professioneller Kinderfotografen hat einen Wettbewerb ausgeschrieben. Gewerbliche Fotografen über 18 dürfen daran teilnehmen und ein Bild kostenlos in eine der sechs Kategorien einreichen. Jedes weitere wird mit 10 € berechnet.
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A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
Richard Avedon –
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I was recently invited on a photo tour called Vibe Israel by a non-profit organization called Kinetis, I wanted to share my experiences of the trip with you.
Six of us were on this tour of Israel, a tour to show what Israel has to offer to photographers, to show a different side to Israel compared with the one you might typically see in the news. The different styles and personalities of the six photographers on the tour made for a fantastically fun and inspirational few days.
Heading down to the Dead Sea with the crew
Travelling with the specific purpose of photography can be a daunting thing, especially with the ever present fear of having your precious camera gear gate checked when you’re about to embark your flight. Is my bag overweight? Will ground crew single me out? Do I look like I’m struggling with this bag? All of these things play through my mind on every flight I’m about to catch, sometimes even when I’m not travelling with a heavy bag! I’ve been very fortunate thus far to have not been stopped for a heavy, or overly large, camera bag at the gate and this trip was no different (although I did have my backpack sent through the Xray machine four times).
I was travelling with a MindShiftGear Panorama camera backpack, the beauty of the Panorama is that you can use both the belt section and the top insert section to put your gear – if you get stopped and asked to gate check your bag, you can pretty much break it down into sections and nine times out of ten you’ll get it through, onboard with your camera gear. The few basic pointers for trying to get you and your camera onboard that I quietly recite to myself every flight are:
There’s a lot to be said for only packing what you’re going to need – will I need to take a 100mm macro lens to Israel? Will I use my 5.8mm fisheye? As it happens, I used both of those lenses and I’m glad I packed most of my gear, but I did use a two bag strategy/ Doug Murdoch, president of thinkTankPhoto camera bags writes about it on his blog, a quick interesting read. I had a small laptop bag with my Apple MacBook Air 13″, a WD My Passport Pro 2TB drive for content and all the cables, pens, paper, passports, tickets, etc. Then my camera backpack and my roller bag with my tripod, clothes and another flattened out camera shoulder bag (for short wanders down through markets where I didn’t want to take a backpack) and this combo proved to work really well for me.
So we’re packed, we’re flying, we’re there. I’ve been to Israel once before and was very excited to go back. Arriving into Tel Aviv quite late, then driven to Jerusalem to meet up with the others, we stayed at this great place called Abraham Hostel on the first night (if you’re travelling on a budget, it’s a great place to stay) before travelling across to the hotel we were all meeting at, Dan Boutique Hotel. Thankfully they were totally fine with us setting up Ben’s Broncolor and blasting away on the roof!
On the roof playing with light…
A quick introduction to the people on the tour: Adam Lerner, Mike Kelley, Rebecca Litchfield, Benjamin Von Wong, Jared Polin and Simon Pollock (me – Hi!). Mike isn’t in the photo above as he likes to go to bed at 8 p.m. every night hehe. The next day, after a tour of the old markets and surrounding area in the old city of Jerusalem, we headed for the Dead Sea, each of us with different ideas for what we wanted to do when we arrived there – fashion, portraits, landscape, it was set to be an epic adventure.
Church of the Holy Sepulchre at 16mm
Arriving at Ein Gedi, the rain was starting to set in and with a call time of around 4 a.m., it was pretty much a quick dinner and directly to bed – poor Eyal had to put up with my snoring, sorry Eyal! The rain hadn’t stopped the next morning, and we were told that with the Dead Sea clouded in, it was something people rarely get to see. As it turned out, the road was washed away in a couple of places and we had a pretty hard time getting the models, stylists and hair and makeup folks into the area of the Dead Sea that we were using for the shoot – thanks to some handy local wrangling and a police vehicle, we were all set to go once the weather cleared, and clear it did. Here’s a setup shot and a few photographs from the shoot day at Ein Gedi.
To give you an idea of where we were…
I was very fortunate to essentially have my own personal guide from epic photo tour company, PhotoTeva which was fantastic as I’m certainly no landscape photographer, but had an amazing time taking in the amazing scenery unfolding before me.
The storm rolled through…
Protecting your gear and keeping it off the deck was pretty important. The water is ultra salty (1/3rd salt, someone was saying) and the ground we were on was all salt – very sharp salt (see, I used the macro lens).
The salty residue was super sharp and happy to cut you up!
Anything that didn’t move fast enough was essentially ‘salted’
We only had a day at the Dead Sea and were supposed to head out into the desert to stay together in a big tent. The weather had other ideas and we all piled in the super bus and headed back to Tel Aviv for an impromptu camp out on our new friend, Adi’s floor. A highlight of the trip – impromptu awesome. When you’re travelling on a holiday, and things don’t go to plan, you do your best to make the best of the situation that you’re placed in – this was certainly the case and we had a fantastic evening before checking in to The Diaghilev Live Art Boutique Hotel (which I highly recommend if you’re travelling to Tel Aviv).
The next couple of days were filled with amazing food, adventures and people – rather than bore you with my musings, I’ll tell this part of the adventure in photographs.
Jared, Adam and I visited a fish market where the fish come off the boats and are snapped up by people waiting on the dock.
Adam Lerner, a portrait…
The fish market…
We managed a little beach time and happened across a great drum circle!
A Tel Aviv beach…
Addicted to drums…
Von Wong takes flight…
Fro Knows…
The fish market…
With only a day or two left to run, we had a load more to pack into our schedule, a visit to Israeli photojournalist and Canon Ambassador, Ziv Koren. We spent some time talking to Itzik Canetti, who has developed a nifty laser focus system for photographers, and we were hosted by Wix on our last evening, for drinks on the roof of their building – stunning.
The point of the photo tour was for us to see a different side of Israel, a creative and vibrant side – and that was exactly what we saw. Lots of tech startup, lots of art and culture, some great coffee and amazing food. If you’re thinking about going somewhere on a photo tour, I’d certainly put Israel on your list! Big thanks to Kinetis and the whole team that made this trip possible. You can learn more about the not for profit work that Kinetis do on their website.
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There has been a lot of chatter lately about the Sony 50mp CMOS chip and the cameras it has been put it. Phase One and Hassleblad have both announced 50mm versions of their backs in the last few months. Pentax announced theirs too and just last week started to ship the Pentax 645Z. We we managed to get our hands one and Michael with Nick Devlin take this new camera through its paces. Is it all the camera everyone was hoping for? Now you can find out by reading Pentax 645Z First Impressions Review.
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Eylül Aslans Fotografie hat vor allem eins: Humor und zwischen all dem auch eine angenehme Portion Poesie. Die 24-jährige Fotografin studierte an der Universität von Istanbul französische Literatur und erzählt anhand von Fotos gern Geschichten, wie sie selbst sagt.
Jedes Foto hat in meinem Kopf eine Geschichte, und es liegt am Zuschauer, diese Geschichte zu finden. Fotografie ist auch ein Hilfsmittel, um meine wahre Persönlichkeit sichtbar zu machen, denn in der Türkei ist die freie Meinung schwer auszusprechen. Durch die Fotografie fühle ich mich frei und wohl.
Ihre Fotos fallen auf, eben weil ihr Blick so anders ist. Weil er sichtbar macht, wo wir nicht genauer hinschauen, weil wir entdecken, und weil sie uns ein Schmunzeln abringen oder nachdenklich stimmen. Ihre Fotos geben den Blick auf Details frei und verschleiern doch das, was wir nur vermuten.
Im Mittelpunkt ihrer Arbeiten steht vor allem der weibliche Körper, den sie mit ihrem ganz speziellen Blick fokussiert und darstellt. Eylül Aslan ist auf dem besten Wege, sich einen ganz eigenen Stil zu schaffen und dem weiblichen Subjekt eine neue Form zu schaffen.
Eylül Aslan ist seit 2012 Wahlberlinerin und möchte zukünftig ihr Wissen und Sehverständnis mit Hilfe der Ostkreuzschule weiter ausbauen.
Man sollten sich diesen Namen unbedingt merken und ihren Arbeiten auf flickr folgen oder aber – für die Liebhaber des Haptischen – ihr Erstlingswerk „Trauerweide“, erschienen 2013, für 40 € erwerben.
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Suburbs are far older than most of us tend to realize, but when we talk about urban sprawl we most often think of the planned communities that popped up during the industrial revolution. Photographer Christoph Gielen spent seven years documenting some of these communities in America from a helicopter, creating a fascinating series that he calls Ciphers, which he published in a book of the same name.
Seen from within, urban sprawl seems like little more than closely-built homes that all look the same. But there is a deeper meaning to these communities that is sometimes glossed over. They were built at the height of the country’s growth phase, when driving miles to work didn’t seem like a bother because gas prices were low and expected to stay that way.
But the best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry, and eventually suburbs became more of a headache and an eyesore than the pleasant communities they were meant to be. A 45-minute commute between work and home became an extremely expensive proposition, but suburban homeowners were stuck with their “American dream” hoames. Today, these relics of a time gone by are still mostly inhabited, their residents still driving long distances each day.
The goal of Gielen’s project was to draw attention to the effect these communities have on the environment. The practice of building further and further away from city centers, and in turn creating the need to use cars to drive long distances, creates an environmental burden that he calls “fascinating and profoundly unsettling.” Regardless of your opinion of these far-flung planned communities, there is a certain sort of lovely aesthetic to the patterns and shapes formed by the streets, green spaces, and tiny box houses that make up the American suburb.
Aerial views of suburban communities often bring to mind careful planning and strategic placement. These digital suburbs are refreshingly chaotic.
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Many kids dream of becoming an astronaut. While few of us will ever go on a space walk, photographer Tim Dodd has done what might be the next best thing – he bought his own space suit. His was the only bid in an online auction for a Russian high altitude space suit, and he’s turned this unusual purchase into a clever photo series. Titled ‘Everyday Astronaut,’ he transforms the everyday into something a little otherworldly. See gallery
related news: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)
In this article you are going to join me on a real client photo shoot photographing cocktails and learn how we created the final images. You can see a previous ride-along doing head shots on a white background here.
The client is a 1960′s Tiki themed cocktail bar in downtown San Diego. They just revamped their cocktail menu and needed photos for advertising, marketing, social media, and PR.
The bar is to the left of some foldable colored glass windows. I decided to open these windows to let in some natural light to the bar top. I didn’t get a photo with the windows open as I was in a rush, but here is the bar setup:
With these windows open there was nice soft, indirect lighting. I decided quickly that I wanted to use the back of the bar as the background.
I grabbed a glass with pineapple leaf garnishes for a quick test. I set my camera on the bar, selected aperture priority, set the glass in front of it, shot at f/20, and got this:
Meh. After seeing this I decided I didn’t want to see all the details in the background because it was competing with the glass. I dialled the aperture to f/3.5 and took another test shot:
Much better. The glass was being lit from the natural light coming through the windows to the right of the glass. The problem was that the back bar was too dark.
If I overexposed to get the background brighter then the glass would have been overblown. The solution? Use a strobe to light the background.
Now that I had the cocktail the way I wanted it, I needed to throw some light on that background. I recomposed the photo and got this:
I grabbed an Alien Bee 800 strobe and popped on a 40 degree grid to keep the light beam tight. I didn’t want the light to spread over the whole area, just the back bar. I placed the light on the far left side of the bar and popped the flash. Note: I didn’t end up using that umbrella.
You can see the back bar was now lit up.
Much better! It wasn’t quite there yet, but we were getting closer.
The light from the strobe wasn’t evenly spread across the background. See the hot spot of highlights on the top left side in the photo above? That needed to go.
I angled the strobe so the light would cast across the background instead of just the left side. I grabbed another garnish glass and took a test shot:
Much better. Now I had the background the way I wanted it. From there it was simply a matter of composition.
I had been planning on filling the frame with each cocktail vertically until the client mentioned they wanted space to the side of each photo to write editorial content.
Instead of shooting with my 100mm f/2.8 macro lens I shot this all on a 24-70mm f/2.8 lens.
How cool is that garnish? A dolphin playing with a ball in its mouth – awesome. This left some room off to the right for editorial content.
I decided to switch this up and leave some space on the other side. This is helpful for magazines that alternate left and right pages.
Sometimes breaking the rules is fun. Shooting this cocktail straight down the middle clearly makes it the focus but still leaves room off to the sides for editorial.
Sometimes shooting from a low angle and slightly angling the camera upward can give a cocktail a ‘big’ appearance.
All in all it was a pretty straight forward shoot. I had to do a little problem solving with balancing natural light and artificial light, as well as how to best compose the cocktails.
The client is happy with the images and so am I.
If so, let me know in the comments. I would love to take you on more client photo shoots with me and show you how they come together. Now I’m off to enjoy a nice Tiki cocktail!
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