Gauntlet: It’s Another Dog Photo

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by Gary Fong
Photographer: Birgit-Cathrin Duval, www.takkiwrites.com

 
 

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Dog photos, cat photos…rooster photos…it’s all the same to me. Maybe it’s my allergies when I get around animals…but I tend NOT to gravitate to general animal photos.  Pet’s doing tricks, running around out of control, or licking the shoe wax off my loafers is not the way to make photo points with me.
 

Learning to Shoot an Ultrawide Lens

 

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Lessons from the Scene: Mental Visualization by Ginny Felch

by Ginny Felch, www.photographingchildren.com 
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This article is an excerpt from "Chapter 7: Evoking Expression and Emotion" of her book "Photographing Children" available from Wiley Publishing:
 

 

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As you look through photographs, whether they are your own family photographs, a friend’s collection, or even magazine images, you intuitively flip through them at a certain pace. Every so often you might come across one that stops you, slows you down, and invites you to explore or engage more deeply. It might make you smile, think for a minute, or take you back to a place in time. What a wonderful exercise this is to encourage your own observation skills and to see what pulls you in. The chances are very good that the photograph that stops you or slows you down contains something profound or alluring in the expression, mood, and emotion.
 

Our New Look

Fri, 03/05/2010 - 07:01

New Wap Site

 

If you have visited WeArePhotographers.com over the past few days, you have seen that we've got a brand new look.   We’re so happy to introduce Phase Two of the site that incorporates a lot of the feedback from our users over the past 7 1/2 months.  Also, underneath the covers we’ve moved the site to higher performance hardware, mitigating a few issues that occurred during unexpectedly high web traffic we received.   Thanks for giving us that problem to deal with!

Gauntlet: Skydiving - Chute or Shoot

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 10:04

by Gary Fong 
Photographer: Kevin Vandivier, www.kevinv.com
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Skydiving

 
If you’ve got one chance to get it right…don’t mess it. Kevin Vandivier had a shoot to get a skydiver jumping out of a perfectly good a bi-plane. The concept is to show the skydiver doing what skydivers do…taking that first BIGGG step in the wild blue yonder.