Portrait photographer Brian Smith shares his thoughts as a Loweprofessional on location shooting, approaching public figures, and the art of getting comfortable with the subject in our exclusive Lowepro video profile on Vimeo.
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Interviews
How could shooting portraits of Burlesque Legends lead to celebrity portrait photography? This interview with Tamara Lackey of the reDefine Show takes you through the journey.
Along the way, we talk about the Art & Soul book and drop of few Secrets of Great Portrait Photography. Big props to Tamara, Kate Burgauer and Sarah Coppola of reDefine for this fab interview!
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Resource Magazine’s Winter 2012 issue spotlights the Value of Personal Work with this Pro Opinion. where I speak about Art & Soul and other personal projects I’ve done over the years and how they have served to propel my career. Never forget – shoot what you love to shoot…
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Cortney Pants goes All Access for this look at my X Factor photo shoot with Sony NEX-5N! Check out our set and my portraits of all the X Factor contestants at the end.
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A HUGE ART & SOUL THANKS to Liz Kelly for this wonderful interviews at the ART & SOUL Los Angeles Book Launch at the Sony Store at Century City. Nice Interviews with actors Tim Daly, Nia Vardolis, Richard Schiff, TCC’s Robin Bronk and me. Huge thanks to Schiff for the nice mention of my wife Fazia.
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HUGE SHOUTOUT to Me Ra Koh for this fabulous interview about my ART & SOUL project. We’ll be chatting live tomorrow night October 6 from 8-10pm ET (5-7pm PT). To read more of Me Ra’s interview with Brian Smith click here.
CLICK HERE to sign on for our online chat.
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If you missed my Webinar ‘Stop Waiting for Your Big Break’ yesterday with PhotoShelter CEO Allen Murabayashi it’s re-posted on PhotoShelter now. Allen and I talk about the way to advance your career through series of small breaks that take you work to the next level. As a long-time PhotoShelter user, I’m not only thankful fro their great product, but for the many ways they give back to the photography community. It’s wonderful to be a part of the family!
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Lynne Eodice of Rangefinder magazine wrote a very nice profile of me in the July issue of Rangefinder where we talk about my approach to portrait photography and how I got to this point.
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What day would be complete without another post from me about Burlesque?
American Photo has become the latest magazine to profile my photographs of Burlesque with this antastic article by Franklin Melendez in the July/August issue follows my burlesque shoots from 1993 up until now with photos of Tempest Storm, Dixie Evans, Inga Ingenue and the Amazing Knicker Kittens.
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HUGE THANKS to Ab “Scorsese” Sesay of the MAC Group for this fantastic behind-the-scenes look of my shoot with Burlesque dancers Angie Pontani, Amber Ray, Gal Friday, Jo Boobs Weldon, Peekaboo Pointe, Darlinda Just Darlinda and Bunny Love the latest additions to my Legends of Burlesque project which dates back to a 1993 shoot of Burlesque Legend Dixie Evans.
Great to see Angie, Darlinda and Jo again. Last June, we shot Angie rockin’ her Tiara as the reining Miss Exotic World and Darlinda as half of the fabulous Schlepp Sisters sporting rollergirl chic. Great to have a bit of one-on-one time with Jo since normally when I see her, she’s always working and I was always shooting, and she did a great job wrangling all our dancers. Gal Friday was glitterrific. Special thanks to the one-and-only Satan’s Angel for sending lovely Amber Ray our way!
What better way to show of how well the new X-Rite Color Checker Passport handles skintones, huh?
CREW:
Stylist: Fazia Ali
Assistants: Ryan Brooks and Melanie McLean
Video: Alejandro Gomez and Kirby Ferguson
Photographer: Brian Smith
Director: Ab “Scorsese” Sesay
EQUIPMENT:
Sony a900 Cameras
Sony Zeiss 24-70/2.8
Sony Zeiss 85/1.4
Sony Zeiss 135/1.8
Profoto Pro-8A packs
Profoto Pro Flash Heads
Profoto Giant Umbrella Silver 7’
Profoto Zoom-Spot
Profoto Ringflash
X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
X-Rite i1 Xtreme
Eizo CG241W Display
Apple 13.3″ Macbook Pro Laptop Computer
LOCATION:
Industria Studio 5
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