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Between Frames: July 2014

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Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Calling Time of Death. I was out trail running the other day, and my foot got caught up on a rock or root or something. That’s part of trail running, and my body automatically went into a trying- to-recover mode. One step to try and right things, then another…but no nice this time. I was going down. At that point, my brain went into another automatic mode: falling down mode. My body loosened, braced for impact, and I did a somersault as I hit the ground. It’s a fine balance,...

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Between Frames: December 2014

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Friday, December 5, 2014. Standard “rules” of composition exist mainly to keep a viewer’s eyes moving around on a work, and to not let them get tripped up someplace or led off the work. It’s an orchestration that, when done to perfection, causes the four corners to disappear, and attention to dance around freely inside. But that’s how the standard rules work. Less standard compositions might make the viewer very aware of the frame. A person moving into the frame—or out of it—is a good example. The eye co...

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Between Frames: October 2012

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Monday, October 29, 2012. Way back in the day, very few people could read, and even fewer could make books. People relied on speech and a few drawings to handle their storytelling needs, turning to the professional writers and book makers rarely, and only for very special things like Holy Scripture. Fast forward to today, where reading and writing are as common, if not more common, than speech. The written word has become as ubiquitous as the spoken word. We might now only reside at the dawn of a mass vi...

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Is It Time To Eliminate Stills From Your Shoot? | A Photo Editor

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Search on A Photo Editor. Is It Time To Eliminate Stills From Your Shoot? May 15, 2012. Last summer I was having dinner with an Art Director who was fielding emails from a client who wanted to pull stills from the commercial video shoot to drop into the background of the commercial stills shoot he was on. He bemoaned the fact that he would probably have to show them how horrible that would look to convince them it could not be done. When photographer Kevin Arnold. Stills, Meet Motion. Of course, the draw...

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Does Adobe’s Sudden Shift To Subscription Only, Unnecessarily Screw Photographers | A Photo Editor

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Search on A Photo Editor. Does Adobe’s Sudden Shift To Subscription Only, Unnecessarily Screw Photographers. May 13, 2013. Last week Adobe announced a sudden shift to subscription only on future releases of Photoshop. This seems inevitable as the whole software industry has moved away from major releases in favor of incremental improvements. An article in Mashable has Adobe explaining. The reasoning behind the move from perpetual licensing to subscription:. What Adobe found with its Edge apps was that cu...

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Between Frames: February 2013

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Saturday, February 2, 2013. From Rack to Life. 8220;The moment a garment ceases to be worn, it no longer exits.”. That’s one little sentence in the book “Fashion: The Twentieth Century” by Francois Baudot that really made me stop and think. Maybe because it resonated with my goal as a fashion photographer to take clothes from the rack and transport them into the light of day and give them life. A fun life, a hard life, a frivolous life—each shoot is different, but the goal is always the same. But I&#8217...

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Between Frames: Feel The Frame

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Friday, December 5, 2014. Standard “rules” of composition exist mainly to keep a viewer’s eyes moving around on a work, and to not let them get tripped up someplace or led off the work. It’s an orchestration that, when done to perfection, causes the four corners to disappear, and attention to dance around freely inside. But that’s how the standard rules work. Less standard compositions might make the viewer very aware of the frame. A person moving into the frame—or out of it—is a good example. The eye co...

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Between Frames: August 2014

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Tuesday, August 5, 2014. When I was a kid, we’d sometimes play a game that involved fake punching or hitting, getting as close as possible without actually making contact. The goal was to make the other person flinch, or, if you were the other kid, to not flinch. With experience, just about anyone could learn not to flinch. When a client hires a photographer for an important job, I think one of the main things they want and are paying for is no filching. But maybe it won’t be okay, right? Not that photog...

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Between Frames: March 2012

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Thursday, March 8, 2012. Contrast #2 (or, Tone Music vs. Color Music). Using this thinking for fashion photography, clothes with big blocks of tone are a perfect candidate for black and white and strong light and shade. And for bold prints or bold color blocking, better to stick with high-key lighting. In the end, however you decide to light and style it, try to make it sign out loud. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. A beautiful, simple portrait. But what jumped out at me was the contrast of those zippers a...