Though there are some high-end noise-canceling Bluetooth headphones available, I found it hard justifying spending $200 - $400 on headphones that I wouldn’t use on a regular basis when working at home. I wondered whether there were some more reasonably priced headphones that might fit the bill.
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The Candid Frame #476 - Michael Benanav
Michael Benanav is an author and freelance photographer known for immersing in foreign cultures and bringing compelling stories and images back from distant places. His most recent book is Himalayan Bound.
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The Candid Frame #475 - Radliffe "Ruddy" Roye
Radcliffe “Ruddy” Roye is a Brooklyn-based documentary photographer specializing in editorial and environmental portraits and photo-journalism photography. A photographer with over twelve years of experience, Radcliffe is inspired by the raw and gritty lives of grass-roots people, especially those of his homeland of Jamaica. Radcliffe strives to tell the stories of their victories and ills by bringing their voices to matte fibre paper.
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Olaf Sztaba & Ibaronex Discuss Their Upcoming Workshop
Olaf Sztaba & Ibarionex Perello discuss their upcoming collaboration in Vancouver, Canada. On August 23 - 25, Olaf & Ibarionex will share their mutual approaches to seeing and photographing on the streets. More than just a street photography workshop, it’s an opportunity to develop a new way of seeing and reigniting your passion for photography.
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The Candid Frame #474 - Jasmin Mara Lopez
Jasmin Mara López is an award-winning journalist, radio producer, youth media educator and filmmaker that works in the U.S. and Mexico. Born in Los Angeles with familial roots in México, her childhood was impacted by issues experienced on both sides of the U.S.- México border. This instilled in her a strong passion for immigrant rights, youth empowerment, and social change.
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Photographing Summer Events: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex suggests taking advantage of summer events (concerts, festivals, farmers markets, etc) to create intimate street photography. As people are more comfortable with the presence of a camera, it provides the perfect opportunity to photograph people being people.
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The Candid Frame #473 - Willem Baptist
Willem Baptist is a Dutch filmmaker and documentary-director whose latest film is Instant Dreams. Instant Dreams is a feature documentary about the fascination and love for Polaroids. When Polaroid announced the end of instant film in 2008, the last still working factory was bought by a small group of enthusiasts.
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Photographing a Farmer's Market
In this week's video, Ibarionex shares images taken during his recent street photography workshop. Using images by his students, he discusses a different approach to photographing a public event which in this case is a local farmer’s market.
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The Candid Frame 472 - Jessica Chou
Jessica Chou approaches her subjects with as little preconceived notions as possible, allowing people the space to collaborate with the moment and the place they inhabit. She strives for honesty and to look at things as they are, without artifice or judgement. The result is something that is at once observant and intimate. While her photography is documentary in style, it is led by the possibilities for storytelling and expression within a single frame.
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The Candid Frame #471 - Jesse Dittmar
Jesse Dittmar is a celebrity portrait photographer who began serving as an assistant for some of the industry’s best photographers including Chris Buck and Annie Leibovitz. On his own, he has photographed celebrities including Jodie Foster, Uma Thurman, Tom Hanks, Sting, James Earl Jones and more. His photographs have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines including The Hollywood Reporter, Village Voice and Rolling Stone.
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Fixed vs Fluid: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the difference between fixed and fluid elements in a scene. He demonstrates how to use the fixed elements to begin building a composition and then use the fluid elements to complete a strong photograph.
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The Candid Frame #470 - Sophie Mayanne
Sophie Mayanne is a 26 year old fashion and portrait photographer, splitting her time between London and Cotswolds, UK. Her style is unmistakable, favouring raw, striking imagery that is hers and hers alone. Her work has been recognised by both the fashion and music industries, and has been particularly favoured by up and coming artists & publications who admire the honesty and genuineness in her images.
Behind The Scars is a photography campaign that celebrates scars of all shapes and sizes, and the incredible stories behind them.
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The Candid Frame #469 - Sarah Marie Rooney & Sasha Dylan Bell
Sarah Marie Rooney and Sasha Dylan Bell are photographers who collaborated on a conceptual photographic project titled “Fear of Dreaming”.
This work explores the inner conflict, following a dreamer who has lost her way. The portraits which solicited the involvement of a trained dancer explored the process of being overwhelmed by fear to moving through and out of it.
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The Candid Frame #468 - Julieanne Kost
Julieanne Kost is a Principal Evangelist at Adobe Systems, responsible for fostering relationships with customers through meaningful and inspirational Photoshop and Lightroom instruction. As a highly sought-after speaker for the industry-standard Digital Imaging franchise, she devises and presents motivating and educational training sessions, sharing original techniques and tutorials worldwide — via live events, Adobe.com, her own website (jkost.com) and blog.
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Eliminating Distractions: Images from the Flickr Pool
In this week's video, Ibarionex discusses the importance of eliminating distracting elements from your compositions. He explains what to look for and how to eliminate such elements from your street photographs.
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The Candid Frame #467 - Diana Lundin
Diana Lundin is a commercial pet portrait photographer based in Southern California. After a successful career as a writer and editor, she embarked on a second career as a photographer. Her commissioned and personal work evoke the unique personalities of pets and the special relationships that they share with their caregivers.
This summer she will be releasing her first book Dogs vs Ice Cream, a selection of over 100 portraits of a wide variety of dogs eating the tasty treat.
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