Stacy Reeves
Stacy Reeves, Dallas-born and based, has a keen eye for vintage/modern photographs and shares lots of them from all her shoots on her blog, stacyreeves.com. She prides herself on helping people move past their insecurities and feel beautiful. In addition to inspiring photos, she shares lots of great business resources for photographers, including a well-though-out Photographers Pricing Guide. Check out her latest posts (updated automatically):
- Rebecca and Victor’s Courthouse Wedding
- Abby & Zach’s European Day After Sessions
- Abby & Zach’s Piazza Peacock Wedding
- Alma & Kelly at River Legacy Park
- Sommer’s Vintage Modern Bridals
This entry was written by , posted on January 2, 2010 at 2:17 pm, filed under Photographers, Wedding Photographers and tagged business, Dallas, modern, vintage, weddings, Wordpress. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Zack Arias
Zack Arias is an Atlanta-based full time editorial photographer with a specialty in press and publicity photography for the music industry. On his blog he shares photos from his shoots, gear and gadgets and a regular podcast of photo critiques of other photographer’s websites. His style of writing is down to earth and easy to relate to, as evidenced in his story of getting back into photography:
My first run at being a freelance photographer left me heavily in debt and placed my family on the edge of destruction which eventually tipped right on over despite all attempts to keep that from happening. I came to a place in my career that required me to put the cameras down and take a “job.” After two years of leaving the cameras and selling them off to pay rent and fix beater cars, I was given a chance to come back as a second shooter for a friend of mine who shoots weddings. I took a D100 that he bought me, a 285 flash, an ample amount of faith, and quit my job at Kinkos in October of 2003. I was determined to do things differently this time around.
His minimalist approach to photography turned into a workshop in 2005 that he now teaches nationwide. It has become so popular that dates for the workshop regularly sell out months in advance. As of this post, dates for 2009 are not announced, but be sure to check the OneLight website for more details. And something I find interesting is that he his a dual shooter – carrying both Canon and Nikon equipment in his bag! Check out the latest posts (updated automatically):
- The Burj Khalifa :: From The Air
- Gulf Photo Plus :: My Shootout With David Hobby & Joey L
- OneLight Family Tour :: Photography & Music :: City Reps Needed
- Workflow :: Photo Mechanic to Lightroom to Photoshop to Delivery
- Fear :: And The Winner Is… + Discussion On The Subject
This entry was written by , posted on April 24, 2009 at 8:36 am, filed under Commercial Photographers, Editorial Photographers and tagged Atlanta, canon, Canon 5D Mark II, canon/nikon, editorial, Georgia, minimalist, music industry, onelight, publicity, Up and Coming, Wordpress, workshop. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Doug Menuez
Doug Menuez is an award-winning documentary photographer based in New York City. His more than 25 years in the business has varied from photojournalism to commissioned work and personal fine art book projects. He’s fascinated with finding the balance between art and commerce, evidenced in a post about a commercial campaign for Emirates Airline that allowed him to “get paid to shoot what [he] love[s] and would be shooting anyway”. He also shares his sources of inspiration and people who’ve influenced his career, but it was his post on the Zen of Film vs. Digital Gratification that really got me hooked.
Mulling it over, I couldn’t articulate it fully but definitely, I knew I had become lazy, really lazy. A spectacular sloth by the standards of shooting film. Film is hard. Film is a stone cold unforgiving killing bastard. Film is once in a lifetime, no excuses. F8 and really, really be there: ready, steady, in focus, correct exposure, and pressing the shutter in sync with life.
If you’re trying to make money and do what you love (shoot photos, tell stories, whatever you call it), Doug Menuez 2.0 is definitely a resource for inspiration. Check out the latest posts (updated automatically):
This entry was written by , posted on April 10, 2009 at 3:28 pm, filed under Commercial Photographers, Documentary Photographers, Fine Art Photographers, Photographers and tagged commercial photography, Emirates Airline, f8 and be there, film vs. digital, fine art, get paid doing what you love, Top Shelf, Wordpress. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Pat Davison
Pat Davison has held staff positions at major U.S. newspapers and freelanced for dozens of magazines over the two decades he’s been a photojournalist. Davison is now a professor at the University of North Carolina where he combines teaching with photography and multimedia projects. Being a prof doesn’t keep him from shooting though, as he still takes assignments and sells prints of his work. He has a slew of awards under his belt, but most noteworthy is that Davison shared the Pulitzer Prize in News Photography in 2000 with the Rocky Mountain News photo staff for coverage of the Columbine High School tragedy.
Davison’s blog, Carolina Photojournalism, is not so much about his personal work (which you can find on his website) as it is a place to show off the work of his students, from beginning to advanced. It’s also a place to find out about the latest amazing multimedia project the students have done, like covering the Special Olympics live, documenting life in southern Thailand after the 2004 Asian tsunami, or documentary storytelling in the Galapagos. The multimedia projects are a truly amazing time of learning for students. I know firsthand from the 2005 project in Santiago de Compostela, Spain that I was a part of while at Carolina where I got to photograph the ancient tradition of caring for wild horses called “a Rapa Das Bestas”.
If you’re in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina area it’s definitely worth checking out a photonight on the first Tuesday of every month where you can hear from photographers like Antonin Kratochvil, Kristen Ashburn, Chris Rainier and many other known and unknown photographers (photonight is where I was first exposed to the work of Vincent Laforet). Finally, if you can’t tell already, I studied under Davison from 2005-2006 and found him to be a truly inspirational teacher, mentor and friend.
View the latest posts (updated automatically):
- Forging Family Against the Odds
- Stings Target Prostitution in Durham Neighborhood
- PhotoNight LVI with Brian Storm of MediaStorm
- Now Accepting Applications for CPJW 2010
- PhotoNight LV with Travis Dove
Also, Pat asked me to make sure that Chris Carmichael gets credit for being the one who updates the Carolina Photojournalism blog.
This entry was written by , posted on March 28, 2009 at 3:39 pm, filed under Photographers and tagged Antonin Kratochvil, Carolina Photojournalism, Chapel Hill, Chris Rainier, JOMC, Kristen Ashburn, Pat Davison, photonight, professor, Pulitzer Prize, Special Olympics, Thailand, Top Shelf, UNC, Wordpress. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.
Vincent Laforet
Vincent Laforet is perhaps best known for his aerial photography, which got a lot of attention after he published striking aerial images of hurricane Katrina’s devastation in New Orleans in the New York Times. I was privileged enough to hear him speak at The University of Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication about his time in New Orleans, and I even scored a portfolio review with him (later that night I got into a wreck on my bike, so I think I forgot most of his advice). I remember being blown away by the beautiful graphic nature of his images and wanting very badly to be in a helicopter photographing myself.
On his blog, http://blog.vincentlaforet.com, he shares highlights and previews from current projects he’s working on as well as stuff that inspires him. He is obviously a lover of gadgets and shares a lot about his equipment, software and general work flow. In fact, he’s a member of Apple’s “Aperture Advisory Committee” and a Canon “Explorer of Light” and “Printmaster”. I’m not really sure what all of that means, but I think it means he gets access to lots of free goodies, and gear that hasn’t yet been released. Before the Canon 5D Mark II was released, he got to test it out and give feedback, and posted HD video samples shot with it. His posts on that actually helped me decided to upgrade to the 5D Mark II because my original 5D had been stolen, along with my HD camcorder, so naturally the Mk II was a viable option. He’s got some great tutorials and tips on using the 5D Mk II, like this one and this one. He often shares behind the scenes video from his projects that are extremely helpful for photojournalists and generally interesting for anyone else.
Check out the latest posts from Vincent Laforet’s Blog (updated automatically):
- First Winner Announced in “Beyond the Still” Canon & Vimeo Contest
- So what does an HDSLR Hybrid Shoot Look Like?
- Interview on A PhotoEditor
- The Big Players are coming to join the HDDSLR Party! (PART I)
- Excellent Post on Grading
This entry was written by , posted on February 21, 2009 at 11:36 am, filed under Commercial Photographers, Photographers and tagged aerial photography, Canon 5D Mark II, The New York Times, Top Shelf, Vincent Laforet, Wordpress. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink.