Bits of Cairo: Street Life
The older the taxi, the better the price, says the taxi driver who had watched his colleagues and me negotiating fares. His taxi fare has to be very good, I guess. His taxi looks as if it had witnessed a good part of Cairos history. Maybe not the building of the pyramids at the border [...]
Sally Mann
Sally Mann is an American photographer born in 1951 and living in Virginia. She is famous for black and white portraits Immediate Family of her three kids taken with a 8×10″ large format camera. Here are some gallery links: Catherine Edelman, Houk Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, Artnet. The images show apparently unspectacular yet very intimate moments. [...]
Brent Humphreys’ Tour de France
Have a look at Brent Humphreys’ photos of Le Tour de France. And his behind-the-scenes blog at WTJ. He’s a photographer from Texas and lives in the back of a van for the three Tour weeks. Brents shots make the difference – he’s using some Profoto 7B lights on the street. His portfolio.
Biker
Another athlete portrait of a biker. For lighting, I used a small softbox directly in front above the lens for fill. Main light was coming from two bare flashes on both sides. These lights were warmed with 1/2 CTO gel each. I used another flash for the background with a green gel and a grid. [...]
Surfing in Black & White
Have a look at Chris Bickford’s black and white photos of surfers shown on the NY Times blog Lens. What an inspiration! I’ve re-edited some of my recent surf shots. Actually, these should have been done with my Crown Graphic large format camera on Polaroid 55… Next time.
Alpine Mountain Running
Long time since my last post. During the last weeks I was busy shooting stock. Not the most thrilling stuff and it takes a lot of time to optimize and streamline a workflow. But that’s a different story. Here are some new running photos shot this week in the Swiss Alpine mountains near Arosa in [...]
New Nikon Cameras
Looks like Nikon will finally release a DSLR camera with 1080p video very soon… Wired’s GadgetLab has the full road map, via NikonRumors. The Nikon D700x – with a full frame sensor – might come October 2009, while the D300s is available already in August. And the D4? In 2010. Sporting 30 MP and also [...]