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The Corinthian
March 24th, 2009I don’t post much about my photography, maybe it’s because I don’t shoot enough to warrant it, but I want to change that. I’ve been thinking about my next camera and it comes down to a Nikon D90 or a Leica D-Lux 4. The Leica is winning because it’s compact and I’ll use it more, but I don’t like the lack of a short depth of field.
Anyway, I currently use a basic Panasonic FX33 which isn’t even good for family photos. I sometimes manage to get some decent shots from it like the one above. I came across this interesting apartment building in Manhattan and just snapped away. The curves of the building and the gray sky made for some excellent silhouettes. You can view more photos of the building here. I also snapped this nice pic this past weekend.
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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman
March 10th, 2009Visual Acoustics is a documentary film by Eric Bricker that explores the career of the extraordinary architectural photographer, Julius Shulman. His aesthetics, composition and style create timeless photographs that epitomize modern architecture. Shulman is easily one of my favorite photographers.
Unfortunately there isn’t a good online gallery of his complete work, you have to do some searching to find most of it. But there is an amazing book set titled Julius Shulman, Modernism Rediscovered that catalogues his personal archives. Gotta get my hands on a copy.
The film is being screened in limited cities, one of which isn’t NYC, which I don’t understand. Shulman himself will be speaking at some of the screenings and if you’re lucky enough to be in one of these cities, definitely check it out. It’s should be a good one.
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Max Wanger Photography
January 20th, 2009Gorgeous photography by Max Wanger. The colors and the emotions that are captured make the images exceptional.
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Kim Høltermand Photography
November 20th, 2008I’m loving Kim Høltermand’s photography. The colors, composition and subject matter give the images a very graphic feel. Makes me want to get back into photography.
Kim is also responsible for these excellent VW tribute posters but it seems like they’ve been removed from the site.
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Sun Silo
August 23rd, 2008I used to be obsessed with photography, so much so that I was about to leave my career in graphic design to pursue a career in fashion photography. It didn’t end up that way and I’m glad, but I still have a great love for it. I use to have a nice pro camera and would snap tons of photos a day, but now I have a basic point & shoot that I use for family pics and I haven’t shot a nice photo in a while.
Recently I’ve been messing around with the camera in my iPhone and in certain situations I’ve been somewhat impressed. For instance this shot I took today of the NYC skyline. The light was amazing and it was the perfect time of day where the sun was creating some amazing silhouettes. So I launched the camera app and snapped away and got some excellent results. The resolution of the camera isn’t great at all but this photo is pretty much straight from the iPhone with some slight tweaking in Photoshop. You can see a couple of more photos from this series including a nice panoramic shot I stitched together in Photoshop.
On a side note, a lot of photographers frown upon the use of Photoshop to enhance photos. I think that’s a load of rubbish. I started shooting before the digital crazy and I love film but in the digital age, using Photoshop to adjust an image is the same as using a darkroom to adjust an image. Photoshop is the digital darkroom of today. Just how photographers keep the film soaking in the chemicals longer for different results, I adjust the levels, curves, color balance, saturation, etc. in Photoshop to achieve my results. In the end it’s all the same but just using a different tool.
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Erika Pham Photography
May 5th, 2008The talented David Corti (AKA Mr. September Industry) has informed me that he just finished up some work for photographer Erika Pham. David designed a sexy business card as well as an elegant and simple site with some interesting navigation.
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Wear Palettes
January 7th, 2008Photo by Scott Schuman
Wear Palettes is a great blog by Swiss graphic design student Daniel that features about 1500 color palettes that are based on the photography at The Sartorialist. An excellent inspiration of color.
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Graphic — Photography
December 7th, 2007I love photography that implements graphic design into the composition. This gorgeous Flickr set by photographer Ram Martinez is exactly the type. I love how simple and graphic the backgrounds are and how he makes the model part of the design. When I first looked at it I wonder how difficult it must have been to setup this shot, but the more I look at it the more I’m convinced the the background was added in post production. Still, there must have been a crazy amount of planning to get this to work right. Ram did an amazing job.
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Frozen In Time
November 23rd, 2007This is one of the most amazing photos I’ve ever seen. Very powerful.
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Grant Hamilton Photography
August 23rd, 2007My other creative passion, besides design and typography, is photography. I just wish I had more time to focus on it but Grant Hamilton is someone who is excellent at taking stunning photos. My buddy Alex directed me to his work and his Polaroid portfolio just blows my mind. The colors, compositions and content of his photos are top notch. It’s almost graphic like. Definitely one of my new favorite photographers.
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David LaChapelle: Awakened
April 3rd, 2007If you love LaChapelle’s work as much as I do and you are in NYC, then check out his new exibit “Awakened” at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery from February 24 — April 28, 2007.
Tony Shafrazi Gallery
544 West 26th Street NY NY 10001
Tel: 212.274.9300
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Wee Planets
March 15th, 2007This is some pretty cool stuff. 360 degree panoramas projected to look like small planets.