Recently, the Los Angeles Center of Photography dedicated a weekend to the genre of street photography. The weekend included an exhibition, a workshop and a symposium which featured seven street photographers.
Read MoreImages from the Flickr Pool: Human Relationships
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about human relationships between people on the street. Using images submitted by TCF listeners, he talks about the challenge of making photographs that capture the relationship and interactions that people have with each other in a public space and how that can result in great images.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #310 - Thomas Heaton
Thomas Heaton is a UK based photographer who when he isn’t making a living as a commercial photographer in Whitley Bay, England is exploring the natural world with a camera. He creates beautiful landscape images not only in his homeland, but also during his many travels.
The Candid Frame #309 - Anna Mia Davidson
Anna Mia Davidson is a professional photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She believes strongly in the power of images to influence, inspire, and impact the way we see the world around us.
Read MoreImages from the Flickr Pool: Implied Relationships
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks implied relationships between disparate elements in the frame and how they can be linked by color, pattern, lines and juxtaposition. Using images submitted by TCF listeners, he explores how photographers can produce strong and effective compositions.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #308 - Mick Victor
Mick Victor is an accomplished photographer who makes the streets and not an office his studio. But his imagery in not typical street photography. Instead his images from his Art Unexpected Series are abstractions of marking and paintings that are an everyday part of our modern urban world.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #307 - Shannon Johnstone
Shannon Johnstone is a photographer who has been using her camera to change the lives of dogs at a local animal shelter. These are dogs, who were at risk of being euthanized. Her project and book Landfill Dogs has provided an opportunity to not only save the lives of hundreds of animals, but also create greater awareness of the importance of spaying and neutering pets.
Read MoreChallenge My Eye: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex talks about what he's looking for in the images he pulls from the Flickr pool for his YouTube videos. In it, he talks about searching for images that challenge the way that he sees and shoots. Choosing examples from listener photos, he touches on different choices based on lighting, composition and perspective.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #306 - Donna Pinckley
Donna Pinckley, a native of Louisiana, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography from Louisiana Tech University and a Master of Fine Arts in photography from University of Texas at Austin. She has received Visual Artist Fellowships from the Mid-America Arts Alliance/NEA and the Arkansas Arts Council.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #305 - Bruce Smith
Bruce Smith is a master fine-art nude, high-fashion and glamour photographer as well as a long-time friend of the show. For decades, he has produced amazing work for commercial and editorial clients from all over the world including some of the most popular and recognized fashion brands in bridal wear and swimwear.
Read MoreStaying Open: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, we talk about the importance of being open, of moving beyond our own visual routine and exploring all possibilities. Using 3 examples, we discuss how seeing a scene, a subject or a moment from a different perspectives can help to produce unique and exciting images.
Read MoreWorking the Scene in Street Photography
In this video, we take a slight departure from the regular content of the TCF videos. Here, I talk about the process in building up to a photograph I made in Los Angeles. I talk about being drawn to a particular element and how I went from there to attempt to make a more complex composition.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #304 - Sophia Nahli Allison
Sophia Nahli Allison is a visual journalist at the community level and a media arts educator. Born in 1987 + a native of South Central Los Angeles, she is passionate about stories that humanize the black and LGBT communities. She believes storytelling is a tool for social change.
Read MoreThe Candid Frame #303 - Sarah Takako Skinner & Marc Raco
Photographer Sarah Takako Skinner created the HOPE IS PROJECT as a way to understand the nature of Hope and inspire others to find it.
Takako has traveled the world, interviewing subjects and handing them a Holga camera and a roll of film, providing them with one simple instruction: photograph hope.
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The Candid Frame #302 - Wasim Muklashy
Wasim Muklashy is a media professional involved in everything from print publications to video production. He began his career writing for various Primedia and Conde Nast publications before founding a national newsstand print publication featuring everyone from Hunter S Thompson’s renown artist Ralph Steadman to influential political and philanthropic personalities including Congressman Henry Waxman and The Sierra Club’s founder Carl Pope.
Read MoreUsing Hats: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this video, we explore how to include people with hats as an important graphic element in a photograph. This is more than just photographing someone wearing a hat, but rather seeing as an important visual part of the picture that adds that all important flourish to the shot.
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