This Sunday is the deadline to enter this year’s NYPH ‘Capture Brooklyn’ Photography Contest sponsored by AdoramaPix, PowerhouseArena and Laminall, so get those freakin’ entries in now or Fuggedaboutit!
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Photography
My good friends at PhotoShelter have created a super-slick-gotta-have-plugin-for-Wordpress-blogs which allows you to post photos to your WordPress blog directly from your PhotoShelter account. Talk about simplifying your workflow!
Simply Select an image from a gallery and select “Insert Image.”
and then in the words of one of the greatest poets of our generation: “BAM!”
Or it you prefer more security, you can choose to upload a flash image:
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Grover Sanschagrin of PhotoShelter put together this great article about Professional Photographers who also shoot with Point-and-Shoot cameras.
It’s great to see that so many of my friends also carry a small camera with them everywhere they go. Afterall, the best camera you can own is the one you’ve got with you…
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I’ll be one of the speakers at the Emerge Symposium in Miami this September 10-12th at the fabulous Mayfair Hotel & Spa in Coconut Grove. I’m going to be speaking and working with participants all day Saturday, September 11th.
Emerge Photography Symposium is geared towards photographers who advance best through small group, hands-on collaborative learning.
This event provide learning channels via three components:
– Instruction lectures by award-winning industry professionals
– Intensive hands-on photo shoot sessions
– Round table critique discussions of your images
Emerge Photography Symposium provides value by way of intimate interaction and a personalized experience. Listen to the the stories and experiences of industry professionals. Learn about how they developed their careers and ask questions about key pieces of information they wish they knew when they were starting out, or advice on how you can improve your craft and techniques.
Let me repeat: There will be no large conference room hall. Brian Smith, Tony Yang and Norman Chow certainly will not have microphones. It’s personal. It’s about you, me, your future new friends, a wealth of knowledge, and an awesome weekend in Miami, FL.
Come with your brain ready to soak, a prepared trigger index finger and a laptop to show off your new skills.
Early-bird registration will close Friday, August, 6, 2010. Hurry! Save $150 if you register before July 30, 2010!!!
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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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And a drumroll please…Six of my Burlesque portraits won in the Celebrity/Editorial Portrait Category of PDN’s Faces 2010 Competition. The July 2010 Photo District News includes photos of Candy Carmelo and Kitten DeVille. The rest of the winning entry includes Dirty Martini, Roxi DLite, April March and the Chicago Starlets. My thanks to the lovely and talented Burlesque dancers. Take a bow ladies!
EQUIPMENT:
Sony a900 Cameras
Sony Zeiss 24-70/2.8
Profoto 2400 Acute 2
X-Rite ColorChecker Passport
X-Rite i1 Xtreme
Click here for a Behind-the-Scenes look at one of my burlesque shoots.
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Nice Shout-Out from Grover Sanschagrin of PhotoShelter with his PhotoShelter Blog post about X-Rite’s behind-the-scenes video “Brian Smith: Color and Burlesque” which shows an inside look at one of my burlesque photo shoots. Thanks for the love, PhotoShelter!
PhotoShelter is the ultimate destination to host your online photo archive or to secure any images you plan to include on photo sharing networks. You can SAVE $30 on PhotoShelter if you click this link.
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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
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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With the Deadline quickly approaches for Blurb’s Photography Book Now Competition, Suzanne Caballero Knowlton of Blurb interviewed me for the Blurberati Blog about what makes a great photo book with shout outs to Elliott Erwitt, Irving Penn, Albert Watson, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Sebastião Salgado and publishers Steidl, Tashcen, teNeues and Assouline.
I’m happy to join an all-star panel of Photography Book Now 2010 judges Darius Himes, Monica Allende, David Fahey, Michael Mack, Lesley Martin, Susan Meiselas, Erin O’Toole, Martin Parr and Judith Puckett-Rinella as Brian Smith Juror Number Ten.
Get your entries in NOW to Blurb’s Photography Book Now 2010 Competition! The deadline is July 15th…ENTER NOW!
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BIG THANKS to Pieter Wisse for featuring me as today’s photographer on his 500 Photographers blog. Peter is profiling five active photographers a week for 100 weeks. It’s a very clever way of compiling the work of 500 photographers and shucks, I’m very honored to be Photographer #041…
500 Photographers has spotlighted the work of a number of familiar names like Todd Hido, Dave Hill, Marc Hom, Nadav Kander, Benjamin Lowy, David Maisel and Michael Wolf, but it’s even more fun to “discover” the work of someone you might not have been familiar with.
Pieter Wisse is a photographer based in Rotterdam. He’s owner of Four Eyes Photography & Art, a gallery and bookstore that publishes Four Eyes Photography Magazine and recently published his book ‘I believe in 88′. When Pieter is finished, 500 Photographers will be an amazing archive of photographers of the 21st century. Thanks for making me a part!
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