This shot from my winter surfing project shot at Hampton Beach New Hampshire was selected as the parting shot in this May’s Outside Magazine. If you haven’t checked it out yet it’s project #2 on my portfolio.
At the Picture of the Year Contest
in Denmark the judges asked the finalist photographers to show them their raw files. Where they decided to draw the limit on how much manipulation was acceptable is very interesting.
I’m still working on perfecting my shooting overhead technique. There are a lot of people that shoot in a big car friendly studio or set up a big C stand with a boom then shoot lots of frames in that one position. That might work well for a portrait, but for sports, I’m really leaning towards as much maneuverability as possible by just mounting the camera on a really really long monopod which I can swing like a boom above the action. Since sports shoots frequently capture repetitive action that repeats in one line I’m also thinking there are film grip solutions that would work well too…
Dispatches
Dispatches has a great issue on Russia that almost gets me nolstagic for woman peddling pickled cabbage and concrete Stalinist housing blocks.
Also a great source of complete photo essays is:
Fifty Crows
And if you haven’t discovered it yet, look at it before it goes defunct (crossing my fingers it doesn’t):
The Boston Globe’s Big Picture
They have featured some incredible shots of Afghanistan lately.
Big Picture – Afghanistan
I recently shot 2 portraits for the Mar/Apr 2009 Technology Review issue.
I photographed the co-founder of Rock Band Eran Egozy on stage at the Middle East in Cambridge in a composite where he was playing each of the Rock Band instruments. It turns out his specialty is clarinet. Have them come up with an electronic clarinet yet?
I also shot a portrait of Philip Tan who runs the Gambit Lab, a video game development project which is a collaboration between MIT and the government of Singapore. He had a very entertaining collection of plastic toys in his office.
