May 2008
spring days
30/05/08 16:47 Filed in: Life
So my girl is away working in Roatan right now. I'm
missing her and working away. Sold a shot
today to a clothing manufacturer and magazines
have been making their selects and I've been
shipping them out. Life is good, but a big
part of me wants to be in the warm water with
my girl, 80 feet down and looking at
fishes. There have been both Manta Rays and
Hammerheads on the dives in the last week.
Here is a pic of T walking the dog a few days
before she left.
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Greg Heisler workshop superpost
24/05/08 10:54 Filed in: Photography
I just wrapped up a week-long photo workshop with
Greg Heisler. Vancouver Photo Workshops
put it on, and even though I've been shooting
for over 15 years, it was my first ever
workshop. 6 weeks ago I had no idea that
Vancouver even HAD photo workshops let alone
with photographers of the stature of Mr. Heisler. If you aren't
from the photo world and don't know his
resume, suffice it to say
that he is a very heavy cat, and is probably
amassed one of the most impressive bodies of
work in all of portraiture, and certainly of
the last 3 decades. He currently has 74 covers of Time Magazine
as well as countless other photos in just
about any magazine you can think of. So there.
Greg explains photography to the class: "First, get a camera. Now, make a masterpiece! This shit is easy."
One of the added bonuses of this week was the timely visit of Jay Maisel to Vancouver. He also happened to be doing a workshop, so we shared lunch one day, and he and Greg did a talk on the first night to a packed house. Jay is in the enviable part of his career where he can pretty much just stroll around and make photos of whatever he feels like. Being a master has its benefits.
Greg listens while Jay tells it like it is: "No you asshole, you're wrong!"
The workshop took place at the Ironworks studios in Gastown, an old industrial building with fantastic bricks and beams and skylights, all the things that make us nerd photographers happy when we are looking for backgrounds. There were a dozen or so people participating and besides Scott Serfas (who signed up minutes after I told him about the course a few days before it started) and I coming from a similar background, the other photographers were a diverse and interesting bunch. We had everything from the seasoned Newspaper photographer from Seattle, to the photoshop wizard from Vancouver Island, to the San Francisco stock photographer and many more. All in all a varied and talented group.
Of course I won't go into the details of the course, but it was really great to have 5 days to listen to a veteran explain his work, his process and many techniques as well. After a few days of conversation it's easy to forget that the man cracking jokes in front of you has shot so many hugely influential and interesting people. His humility and attention to detail are an indication of where his success comes from. At the end of the day he is a guy who loves making great pictures, and being that everyone in the class felt the same way, it made for some great conversation.
Thanks to Marc Koegel who is the director of the Vancouver Photo Workshops, his little venture in Vancouver is a huge asset to us locals and as it grows I look forward to attending many more classes. Now if I can just scrounge up enough dough to do the Gorman one...
Here are some shots from the week:
A little lecture at the Ironworks
"No Scott you have it all wrong..." Wait, I think he's winking at you!
Explain to me "the light."
Um, I think it might be infected
The ever pensive Mr. Heisler.
Greg explains photography to the class: "First, get a camera. Now, make a masterpiece! This shit is easy."
One of the added bonuses of this week was the timely visit of Jay Maisel to Vancouver. He also happened to be doing a workshop, so we shared lunch one day, and he and Greg did a talk on the first night to a packed house. Jay is in the enviable part of his career where he can pretty much just stroll around and make photos of whatever he feels like. Being a master has its benefits.
Greg listens while Jay tells it like it is: "No you asshole, you're wrong!"
The workshop took place at the Ironworks studios in Gastown, an old industrial building with fantastic bricks and beams and skylights, all the things that make us nerd photographers happy when we are looking for backgrounds. There were a dozen or so people participating and besides Scott Serfas (who signed up minutes after I told him about the course a few days before it started) and I coming from a similar background, the other photographers were a diverse and interesting bunch. We had everything from the seasoned Newspaper photographer from Seattle, to the photoshop wizard from Vancouver Island, to the San Francisco stock photographer and many more. All in all a varied and talented group.
Of course I won't go into the details of the course, but it was really great to have 5 days to listen to a veteran explain his work, his process and many techniques as well. After a few days of conversation it's easy to forget that the man cracking jokes in front of you has shot so many hugely influential and interesting people. His humility and attention to detail are an indication of where his success comes from. At the end of the day he is a guy who loves making great pictures, and being that everyone in the class felt the same way, it made for some great conversation.
Thanks to Marc Koegel who is the director of the Vancouver Photo Workshops, his little venture in Vancouver is a huge asset to us locals and as it grows I look forward to attending many more classes. Now if I can just scrounge up enough dough to do the Gorman one...
Here are some shots from the week:
A little lecture at the Ironworks
"No Scott you have it all wrong..." Wait, I think he's winking at you!
Explain to me "the light."
Um, I think it might be infected
The ever pensive Mr. Heisler.
A change and some rain
14/05/08 13:40 Filed in: Web
So I have to change the address of my blog, and I'm
going to be doing that over the next couple days,
so for all you millions of people who have your rss
feeds directed to this web address, please check
back in a day or two and re-subscribe to the new
address. I've been putting off doing this for
awhile, but as I get to know more about all this
web nonsense, I can see that I'm going to be a bit
phooked if I don't change now.
So how is the weather in Vancouver?
So how is the weather in Vancouver?
It's RAINY
animation time
13/05/08 14:53 Filed in: Best of The
Web
This is the best thing I've seen in a long, long
time. It makes the scope and scale of so much art
seem very tiny.
Thanks to [in plain sight] blog for bringing to my attention and and especially blu who created this craziness:
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Thanks to [in plain sight] blog for bringing to my attention and and especially blu who created this craziness:
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
Photoshelter.
10/05/08 18:15 Filed in: Work
I recently started using Photoshelter and had some
shots accepted into their "collection". For
those of you who don't follow this stuff, it's
kinda a web based stock agency with lots of
control and the ability to set your own terms.
I'm new to it, not sure how it's going to work
out, but excited to put up a bunch of my work.
The downside is that everything has to be reviewed by photo editors to be accepted and the turnaround time is pretty long, so to get a sizable quantity of shots up there will take me awhile, but the fact that they only rejected one of my first ten images is encouraging. Especially considering the fact that I've never shot "stock" photos. Here is the widget. You may have seen it on my facebook and myspace pages. If you feel like putting it on your facebook or mayspace page, that would make me happy. I'll buy you a beer.
The downside is that everything has to be reviewed by photo editors to be accepted and the turnaround time is pretty long, so to get a sizable quantity of shots up there will take me awhile, but the fact that they only rejected one of my first ten images is encouraging. Especially considering the fact that I've never shot "stock" photos. Here is the widget. You may have seen it on my facebook and myspace pages. If you feel like putting it on your facebook or mayspace page, that would make me happy. I'll buy you a beer.
from the hood
06/05/08 16:45 Filed in: Photography
Just trucking away on submissions around here.
Getting a budget and business plan in place for the
summer project. Hope to get the green light by the
end of the week so I can break the silence and get
to work.
I still find time for walks around the neighbourhood. It has finally become spring around here and we've been loving the warm weather. Here are some shots from the last few days. The last one is HIGH-larious.
waiting for mommy.
traffic pattern change. ain't that the truth.
t said that this looks a little like our wallpaper.
boots on the ground
juckstah-poe-zishun
such a cliche, but so rad. shaka!
the title of the washed up book is "How to Start a Home-Based Photography Business". Timely Visual Metaphors are epic.
I still find time for walks around the neighbourhood. It has finally become spring around here and we've been loving the warm weather. Here are some shots from the last few days. The last one is HIGH-larious.
waiting for mommy.
traffic pattern change. ain't that the truth.
t said that this looks a little like our wallpaper.
boots on the ground
juckstah-poe-zishun
such a cliche, but so rad. shaka!
the title of the washed up book is "How to Start a Home-Based Photography Business". Timely Visual Metaphors are epic.
The rooof is on fiyah!
02/05/08 11:54 Filed in: Photography
So I've been dying to shoot on our rooftop patio
ever since I moved in, and yesterday was the first
day that I had enough time and the weather
cooperated. Dave and Keith were in the
neighbourhood so they got to be my first victims.
Thanks guys!
We did a couple different set ups and it was good fun. I learned a thing or two about the space and I'm stoked to do more. How did we do?
Dave
Keith
We did a couple different set ups and it was good fun. I learned a thing or two about the space and I'm stoked to do more. How did we do?
Dave
Keith