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FlashFrog Blog

Posted on 05 March 2009 by Terry

I’m always on the lookout for new ideas for shooting and happened to run across Zetson’s Flash Frog. I love his commitment to being creative and even his profile on his blog lists his real job as a spare time interest.

“I’m Zetson. I live in Norway and photography is my main interest nowadays, in addition to playing guitar and singing. In my spare time I work as an air traffic controller.”

Like the Strobist.com site, he breaks down images like the one above and walks you through the steps of creating them. The great thing is that he uses simple items like light bulbs, sockets, etc. to create some great work that makes it seem so easy.

I think i’ll give his “Warhols Lightbulbs” idea a try.

Check out Flashfrog

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Tags: 500 rolando gomez, ideas, Models, posing

Professional Photographers: Get the Creative Spark You Need to Design Better Poses and Spice Up Your Portraits.

Posted on 28 February 2009 by Terry

New Book Release from Amherst Media: 500 Poses for Photographing Women- A Visual Sourcebook for Portrait Photographers. Filled with images by some of the world’s best portrait, fashion and commercial photographers, this book provides a resource for photographers seeking inspiration for their own work.

Buffalo, NY (PRWEB) February 28, 2009 — 500 Poses for Photographing Women
Stuck on what to do with a particular client or unsure how to use a given prop? Flip through the sample portraits, pick something you like, then adapt it as needed to suit your tastes. Looking to freshen up your work with some poses? Find a sample that appeals to you and look for ways to implement it (or some element of it) with one of your subjects.

It can be difficult to remain creative day after day, year after year, but sometimes all you need to break through a slump is a little spark. In this book, you’ll find a plethora of images designed to provide just that.

FEATURES:
- Inspiring images from top portrait, fashion, and commercial photographers
- Head-and-shoulders, three quarter, and full length poses
-Ideas for location and studio portraits
-Poses for both traditional and contemporary portrait styles

Includes images by: Steven Begleiter, Dan Brouillette, Stephen Dantzig, Rick Ferro, Deborah Lynn Ferro, Rolando Gomez, Wes Kroninger, Chris Nelson, Billy Pegram, Hernan Rodriguez, tim schooler, Jeff Smith, Cherie Steinberg Cote, Vicki Taufer, Marc Weisberg and Jeff & Julia Woods.

Order via Amazon

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Tags: portraits

At work

Posted on 24 February 2009 by Terry

When the economy makes big news, many photographs of people at work come across the wires, usually to help illustrate a particular story or event. By collecting these disparate photos over the past few months, I found that a global portrait emerged of we humans producing things. People assembling, generating, and building items small and large, mundane and expensive, trivial and important. I hope you enjoy this look into some people’s work lives around the world. (45 photos total)

Electric Time Co. employee Walter Rodriguez cleans the face of an 84-inch Wegman clock at the plant in Medfield, Mass. Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

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Tags: buddhism, China, Dalai Lama, great prayer festival, tibet

Tibet’s Great Prayer Festival

Posted on 17 February 2009 by Terry

Tibetans recently observed Monlam, or The Great Prayer Festival, with prayers, ritual dances, traditional foods and giant tapestry-like paintings. Ethnic Tibetans are maintaining their traditional culture while change slowly comes their way. Chinese officials have prohibited the festival in the past, and still discourage participation, and more change will be arriving soon by rail as the Qinghai-Tibet railway between China proper and Tibet is scheduled for completion three years from now. Chinese government officials are now preparing for possible trouble in March, on the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when the Dalai Lama fled into exile, and tens of thousands of Tibetans were killed. Foreign travelers have now been banned from large parts of western Tibet until late March. Several portraits in today’s entry come courtesy of photographer Hugo Teixeira. (33 photos total)

Footprints carved in wood, which locals believe were made by a worshipper who prayed at the same spot for decades, are seen at a monastery near Tongren, Qinghai province February 5, 2009. Local Tibetan monks and pilgrims gather to celebrate Monlam, or Great Prayer Festival, one of the most important festivals in Tibetan Buddhism. This post does not come under the Creative Commons License as this is from an outside feed.(REUTERS/Reinhard Krause)

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Tags: China, Chinese, david Gray, Lantern Festival

China’s Lantern Festival, and an unfortunate ending

Posted on 12 February 2009 by Terry

Marking the end of the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival takes place on the 15th day of the year - during the first full moon. People across Mainland China and Taiwan celebrate the festival in many colorful ways, from fiery folk traditions to firework displays and laser shows. Unfortunately, this year’s festival ended on a somewhat sour note as an unauthorized fireworks show set an unoccupied skyscraper on fire in downtown Beijing, and one firefighter lost his life fighting the blaze. Collected here are 27 photos of the festival, and a handful from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel fire in Beijing. (27 photos total)

A performer dressed in traditional costume sings during the celebrations for the lantern festival in the city of Tianjin, located 100 km (62 miles) east of Beijing February 9, 2009. The lantern festival marks the last day of the two-week Chinese lunar new year celebrations. This post does not come under the Creative Commons License as this is from an outside feed.(REUTERS/David Gray)

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Tags: flight 1549, hudson river, new york, salvage, stephen mallon

The salvaging of flight 1549

Posted on 09 February 2009 by Terry

Photographer Stephen Mallon had full access to the salvaging of flight 1549 from the Hudson River. Great images from interior shots after it was pulled out of the river to the fuselage being loaded on a semi and driven through the streets.

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Tags: eric gauger, large format, notes from the road, toyo ax, web design

Notes from the Road

Posted on 05 February 2009 by Terry

For years I have subscribed to Eric’s email list and only recently have I gone back to check out his work. I was blown away by the revamping of his site, which could have been a year ago, but to me it is new. It is one of the cleanest designs I have seen for a photographer’s site and his images are outstanding. I never realized he shot everything with a large format Toya AX camera. At more than 40 lbs for all his gear, you know he has to be dedicated when it makes a decision to go out and shoot.

I just had to share my new rediscovery. Check out Notes from the Road

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Tags: Beawiharta, boston.com, Indonesia, Sumatran elephants, Travel, Travel and Vacations, Way Kambas Elephant Conservation Centre

Scenes from Indonesia

Posted on 03 February 2009 by Terry

Ecologically blessed, economically challenged, vast and diverse, Indonesia is a country of contrasts. made up of 17,500 islands (only about 6,000 of those inhabited). Indonesia is populated by over 230 million people, speaking over 740 different languages and dialects within 300 distinct native ethnic groups - it is the fourth most populous country, after the United States. Impoverished conditions amongst people living in an area so rich with natural resources has also put extreme pressure on the environment, as increased mining and deforestation make more of an impact. Collected here are only a handful of photographs from Indonesia over the past several months - again, it’s impossible to sum up such a diverse subject in a single collection. (32 photos total)

An elephant keeper collects food for the elephants at the Elephant Conservation Centre in Way Kambas National Park on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island January 25, 2009. Since 1998, 22 elephants were born at Way Kambas Elephant Conservation Centre. Sumatran elephants, the smallest of all Asian elephants, are facing serious pressures arising from illegal logging and associated habitat loss and fragmentation in Indonesia, said Conservation Centre authorities. This post does not come under the Creative Commons License as this is from an outside feed. (REUTERS/Beawiharta)

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Tags: B&W, celebrities, celebs, inspiration, portraits

Silver Beauties

Posted on 30 January 2009 by Terry

If you are serious about photography you undoubtedly look at others work for ideas and techniques to help sharpen your game. I have always been a sucker for great B&W images, especially of beautiful women. Silver Beauties has a great collection of images to help you get back in that creative groove.

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