I’m beginning to take slideshow production more seriously, not least because it’s a key part of my next book, which I’m still writing. One of the interesting, tempting, but ultimately risky techniques is injecting movement into still images. The standard technique for this is [...]
If you’re shooting a photo essay, this is basic and standard. But perhaps so basic that it rarely gets spelled put. 3+1 is my term for it, but it’s been around since the days of Life magazine…. For more, see the blog I wrote for Photo.net here.
Every so often, my friend Steve Vidler calls to urge me to join him shooting the kind of event I would normally be too lazy to bother with. For anyone who doesn’t know Steve (but you can find out about him here in an interview [...]
The other day a photographer from Singapore, Patrick Tay, wrote with some questions that struck a chord. More than usually interesting questions, in other words, and the first were about the professional side of photography. This, of course, exercises the attention of professionals greatly, [...]
This shot (well, a lot more than one shot) brings back memories. It was part of one of the most enjoyable stories I ever had, a feature on Industrial Light & Magic, the special effects facility set up by George Lucas, initially to do [...]
Sometimes it seems as if a whole line of subjects is getting closed off because they’re just so over-photographed. And it always seems a shame – the Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal and Grand Canyon are all wonderful in their way, and everyone should get [...]
You may have seen something similar to this on YouTube, and thought it was a new invention. The Chinese choreographer Zhang Jigang certainly seems to have appropriated credit for it. In fact, it’s a very old dance, and it comes from the arrival of [...]
