by Brian Smith on June 30, 2010
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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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Amanda Sosa Stone has updated the Shoot in Florida Web Portal. It’s a great place to find Florida Celebrity Photographers, Florida Portrait Photographers and Florida Sports Photographers for Portraits of Athletes in Florida and now Amanda is adding cool new resources when you’re searching for a photographer for your next Shoot in California or Shoot in New York.
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by Brian Smith on October 21, 2009
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A BIG shout out of thanks to Anna Pande, Sagar Sheldekar and Aditya Kuber for this wonderful interview on Fotoflock.com about celebrity and news photography. Great questions, Anna and amazing job turning my ramblings into sentences. You guys are the greatest!
These guys have a great site and it’s great to be in the company of Joyce Tenneson, Steve McCurry, Richard Sexton, my good friend Chip Simons and my photo brother Matthew Jordan Smith. Check out Fotoflock for some amazing interviews including one showcasing the fantastic work of Hasselblad Masters Award winner Tarun Khiwal.
You can read the entire interview here.
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Traveling lighter than normal on our trip to Nepal and India with all my gear packed in a ThinkTank StreetWalker HardDrive Backpack. I’ve been using ThinkTank bags for a few years now and they have the best working design and construction in the market. But for this trip I wanted something smaller, so this backpack was just the ticket.
Here’s what’s in the bag:
Sony a900 Camera
Sony Zeiss 24-70/2.8 lens
Sony Zeiss 85/1.4 lens
Sony Zeiss 135/1.8 lens
Sony HVL-F58AM Flash
Sony NP-FM500H Batteries
13″ Apple MacBook Pro 2.53 Ghz with 500gb hard drive
500gb LaCie Rugged Hard Drives
8Gb SanDisk Extreme IV Compact Flash cards
Gepe Card Safe Extreme Watertight Case
SanDisk Extreme FireWire CF Card Reader
Belkin Mini Surge Protector with USB Charger
Sony HDR-SR11 60GB Hybrid HDD High Definition Camcorder
Giottos Large Rocket Air Blower
Visible Dust Arctic Butterfly
Delkin Sensor Scope
(16) AA Batteries
Voltage converters, chargers and plugs
The coolest little space-saver was the Sony BCTRM charger that I picked up when I was in New York before heading off to India and Nepal. It’s the perfect travel charger for the Sony Alpha cameras. It’s barely the size of the batteries, so it fits in any bag with a minimum of space. Though I bought it for my trip, it’s staying in my camera bag from now on.
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APA|NY Image Makers Lecture Series
Featuring: Brian Smith: Advocacy for the Arts
Wednesday, August 12, 6:30-8 p.m.
Admission: Free (seating is limited)
SoHo Apple Theater, 103 Prince St at Mercer
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith will speak about his latest project, ‘Art & Soul’ shot in partnership with The Creative Coalition and Sony. The project features Smith’s portraits of celebrities along with personal messages from each artist on how exposure to the arts inspired them and positively impacted their lives.
Over 100 celebrities including Anne Hathaway, Ellen Burstyn, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, James Denton, Jamie Kennedy, Alyssa Milano and Taye Diggs have been photographed for ‘Art & Soul’ with the goal of producing a coffee table book aimed at raising the public awareness of the importance and impact of the arts by allowing creative artists to use their celebrity to shine a spotlight on the importance of the arts and arts education.
In May of this year, Tim Daly, Dana Delany, Alfre Woodard, Kerry Washington and Barry Levinson of The Creative Coalition presented the Art & Soul to The White House and Congress as part of their successful effort to advocate for increased funding for the arts and arts education. Smith will discuss the story behind the commission, his approach to the shoot and the significance of being able to use his photographs for arts advocacy.
THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR:
SONY
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by Brian Smith on May 27, 2009
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Brian Smith – The Future of Editorial Photography
May 12th Time: Social hour & Food: 6:00; Program: 7:00
Location: EP Levine, 23 Drydock Ave, Boston MA 02210
617-951-1499
Editorial Photography is undergoing rapid change, yet the death of magazine photography has been greatly exaggerated. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Brian Smith, President of Editorial Photographers, will discuss how to maximize the creative and commercial rewards while avoiding bad contracts, stagnant rates and rights-gobbling appetites of multinational media corporations. Smith will discuss the need to charge properly for the time and expense of digital capture and processing and why photographers and agencies may be to blame for unreasonably low caps that some magazines that some magazines have placed on digital fees. Photographers, when united, have been able to affect positive change to the industry for fair contracts paying higher fees and space usage and how photographers unwilling to turn down bad deals can send it all tumbling down.
Seminar Topics:
• How to get and keep the attention of photo editors and art directors at top magazines
• How production value can make your work stand out
• What are the best things you can do in a slow economy • How to maximize re-licensing, syndication and reprint revenue
• How will the shift to online content will affect rates
• What you should know about editorial that nobody told you
EP President Brian Smith’s first magazine photograph appeared in Life Magazine when he was a 20 year-old student at the University of Missouri. Five years later he won the Pulitzer for photographs of the Los Angeles Olympics. Based in Miami Beach, his work has won awards in World Press Photo, American Photo, Pictures of the Year and Communication Arts Competitions and has appeared on hundreds of magazine covers including Time, Forbes, Business Week, Sports Illustrated, and New York Magazine. Smith is a Sony Artisan of Imagery. His work can be seen at: www.briansmith.com
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My thanks to American PHOTO magazine’s Editor-in-Chief David Schonauer for the great feature about our celebrity shoot for the ART & SOUL project in their current May/June 2009 issue. Along with Sony and The Creative Coalition, American PHOTO’s publisher Jeffrey Roberts was a key organizer of the project – my thanks to him for his support.
It just goes to show that life sometimes takes your full circle, since in my younger days when I was named one of American PHOTO’s “New Faces” in magazine photography.
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by Brian Smith on May 18, 2007
in Athletes
Over the years, I’ve photographed portraits of athletes on their way up from Alex Rodriguez, Andy Roddick to Maria Sharopova. Some make it…and some don’t. None have been as rewarding to watch on their march to greatness as the Williams Sisters. While photographing Serena Williams for this week’s issue of Time Magazine, I was reminded of the very first time I photographed the sisters back in 1994 when Serena was a mere 12-year-old phenom.
Serena Williams, 2008
Venus & Serena Williams, 1994
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