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- New Release: 50 Lessons for Stronger Photographs
- Interesting Photo of the Day: Sunrise Photo of the Twin Towers During Construction
- How to Photograph a Silhouette in Front of a Giant Moon
| New Release: 50 Lessons for Stronger Photographs Posted: 11 Sep 2013 07:56 PM PDT Professional photographer and best-selling author David duChemin just released a very in-depth educational eBook deemed a “BigBook” at 200 pages in length. DuChemin has always emphasized the aesthetic side of photography over the technical and produced this guide in the way that he thinks photography students SHOULD be taught in school. There is no secret thing you will learn here or anywhere else, except this: study, practice, and don't forget that your most important assets as an artist are imagination, passion, patience, receptivity, curiosity, and a dogged refusal to follow the rules. Now available here: The Visual Toolbox – 50 Lessons for Stronger Photographs  New! The Visual Toolbox: 50 Lessons for Stronger Photographs “How new, shiny, sexy, small, large or European your camera is doesn't make a hill of beans' worth of difference to how it moves the human heart. Astonishing work is created on old lenses, Polaroids, Holgas, old Digital Rebels, and the venerable AE-1. You won't impress anyone, other than other photogra- phers, with your list of L-lenses. The only thing most of us truly care about are the photographs—the rest is irrelevant. Don't let it sidetrack you. Envy, gear lust, and the lie that better gear will make more compelling photographs just pulls your mind and heart from making art. Beauty can be made with the simplest of means.” Topics Covered (200 Pages):
 Pages from The Visual Toolbox (Click to See More)
How to Get a Discounted Copy for the Next Few Days:For the first few days, if you use the promotional code TOOLBOX when you checkout, you can receive The Visual Toolbox for only $17 (normally $20) OR use the code TOOLBOX20 to get 20% off when you buy 5 or more ebooks from the C&V collection. These codes expire at 11:59 PM (PST) September 17, 2013. Found here: The Visual Toolbox – 50 Lessons for Stronger Photographs Go to full article: New Release: 50 Lessons for Stronger Photographs |
| Interesting Photo of the Day: Sunrise Photo of the Twin Towers During Construction Posted: 11 Sep 2013 02:54 PM PDT Twelve years after the collapse of the World Trade Center, the senseless tragedy is still fresh in most Americans’ minds. Though construction on the new World Trade Center is nearing completion, and 1 World Trade Center now stands in the Twin Towers’ place, the New York skyline, depicted in countless photographs, will never be the same. The original World Trade Center, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, took seven years to build. Its architecture was innovative, and the project monumental–164 buildings had to be torn down to make room for its construction, and it was to be the tallest building in the world. The North and South Towers were constructed around central core columns and had load-bearing walls, which made for an interesting, hollow look during construction. This photo, taken at sunrise in 1972, is a rare and beautiful look at the towers under construction the year before the WTC’s ceremonial opening on April 4, 1973.  1972 Construction of World Trade Center (Via Imgur, Click for Larger Size) Construction of 1 World Trade Center, designed to replace and pay homage to the original twin towers, began in 2006. The main tower, with its illuminated antenna, is 1,776 feet tall–the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. The image below, taken in August 2012 during the tower’s construction, makes for an interesting comparison–it shows a far different scene from the original photo.  1 World Trade Center Construction (Via Imgur) The new World Trade Center complex is set to be completed by 2015. Go to full article: Interesting Photo of the Day: Sunrise Photo of the Twin Towers During Construction |
| How to Photograph a Silhouette in Front of a Giant Moon Posted: 11 Sep 2013 10:34 AM PDT In January of 2013 Swiss photographer, Philipp Schmidli, got it into his mind that he wanted to photograph the full moon with a subject walking in front of it so to give the moon scale. He began scouting locations from the comfort of his office using Google Earth and was eventually able to settle on the perfect location after making a couple trips to are in person. What he didn’t know at the time was that his adventure in full moon photography would carry on well into the summer and evolve from an image of a friend cross country skiing through the scene into a replication of sorts of the popular film ET’s movie poster which is shown below:  Remind you a bit of ET? After a few failed attempts to further perfect the image he captured in January, the photographer carried on his quest. After a few failed attempts in February and March due to uncooperative weather, Schmidli rounded up a friend in April to act as the subject of his photo, this time bicycling through the moon rather than skiing. When he posted April’s image to his blog, readers instantly began comparing the image to the movie poster for ET. While not his original intention, Schmidli noticed the similarities and vowed to make yet another full moon photograph, this time with the famous ET scene on his mind. Wen August rolled around, Schmidli was ready to take a crack at getting the ET replica shot made. Since the moons exact location in the sky is ever changing, after making some slight modifications to the location in which the shoot would take place, Schmidli asked three cyclist and some assistants to make the trek to the remote location.  The photoshoot required some heavy lifting across the mountainside.  This time, with three cyclist and ramp involved in the shoot, preparing the set was no easy task. To get the shot, Schmidli set up his Canon EOS-1D X, Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM, Canon Extender EF 2x II, tripod, and a useful Garmin GPS eTrex 30 unit in a second location.  The red circle indicates the location of the moonrise and cyclists. The 800mm zoom lens paired with the 2x teleconverter gave the photographer a combined focal length of 1600mm. In an effort to make the moon appear even larger than in his first attempts at the full moon photo, Schmidli increased the distance between the moon and the subject by 1000 meters from 300 in the January image to 1300 meters for this shoot.  The addition of the basket on the bike was also new to the August image and was intended to replicate the basket that ET rode in.  Adding a stuffed animal to the basket created the perfect silhouette.  Test runs were made continuously throughout the quick moonrise. Each cyclist made about 3 runs up the ramp before the moon had risen too high. Luckily Schmidli was able to get the shot in time. Using a lot of planning, preparation, and critical thinking Schmidli was able to pull off the final image without using Photoshop. Go to full article: How to Photograph a Silhouette in Front of a Giant Moon |
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