What happens when you first pick up a camera? Sebastião Salgado, one of the great documentary photographers, shares his experience in a September 5, 2007 article in The Times (“Taking the espresso train”): … Sebastiao Salgado is recalling the camera that changed his destiny. The memory is more than three decades old, and yet still…
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One of the best books I’ve found about wedding photography is Marcus Bell’s Master’s Guide to Wedding Photography: Capturing Unforgettable Moments and Lasting Impressions. Bell is one of the world’s great wedding photographers, and he offers some excellent lessons in this book. Very highly recommended!
It’s always fun to see a well-known photographer at work. In this link, documentary filmmaker Mike Pulcinella shares some video of Martin Schoeller photographing a bodybuilder. Schoeller has a very distinctive portrait style sometimes called “Big Heads”. Schoeller’s book “Close Up” features many of these portraits.
Henri Cartier-Bresson helped develop a style of photography that influenced generations of photographers that followed. He was a master of quick composition and became known as the photographer of “The Decisive Moment” (the title of his 1952 book).The idea of photographing the decisive moment is sometimes misinterpreted by new photographers as photographing ONLY the decisive…
Back in 2002, I attended a workshop with Denis Reggie entitled “Digital Wedding Photojournalism”. While teaching film photographers how to go digital, Denis also offered his insights on the art and business of wedding photography. His approach to weddings, explained and illustrated during the 4-day workshop, inspired me to change careers and to start photographing…
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