Category: Video & Multimedia

Make Videos, Get Money: Vimeo’s CEO on Why Creators Should Get Paid

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“Tip Jar,” is exactly what it sounds like. Vimeo users can invite viewers to make donations and get 85 percent of the cash (Vimeo takes 15 percent, in part to cover transaction costs. In comparison, Kickstarter takes five percent). The second and more exciting feature is a “pay-to-view” setup which will allow users to charge viewers for access to content, customizing the parameters to suit their needs

January 10, 2020
A Conversation With Carlos Javier Ortiz on Facing Change: Documenting America

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Sara T’Rula, the interviewer, is a photographer working on cultural and political issues, and is based in Liverpool, England. In addition to shooting her own projects, she assists John Davies and Ed Clark. At photokina 2012, she grabbed ten minutes to talk with Carlos Javier Ortiz about FCDA where he delves into what the project is and the purpose behind it.

January 10, 2020
A Conversation with Danny Wilcox Frazier on Facing Change: Documenting America

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This video showcases Danny Wilcox Frazier’s work documenting rural issues across the United States for the Facing Change: Documenting America (FCDA) project. FCDA is a non-profit collective of prominent photographers and writers who have come together to explore the United States during one of the most enduring times in the nation’s history.

January 10, 2020
Fred R. Conrad Captures Joel Meyerowitz

On Assignment: Photographing the Photographer

Would Rembrandt tell Picasso how to pose? What happens when one photographer — Fred R. Conrad — is sent on assignment to do do a portrait of not just any photographer, but Joel Meyerowitz, whose color work changed contemporary photography.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/21/photographing-the-photographer/

“Most of us are much more comfortable behind the lens,” said Fred R. Conrad, a New York Times staff photographer. “And to just sort of barge in on another photographer and tell him to pose … you feel kind of funny.”

January 10, 2020
Video Interview with Master Photo Retoucher Amy Dresser

Video Interview with Master Photo Retoucher Amy Dresser – PhotoShelter Blog

Master photo retoucher Amy Dresser may have gotten her start with famed photographer Jill Greenberg, but today she works for a whole host of clients from Playboy to Barbie. And while her talents are in high demand, Amy humbly claims her work is relatively simple: remove what might be distracting, then pull the channels up and down…

via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/01/video-interview-with-master-photo-retoucher-amy-dresser/

Master photo retoucher Amy Dresser may have gotten her start with famed photographer Jill Greenberg, but today she works for a whole host of clients from Playboy to Barbie. And while her talents are in high demand, Amy humbly claims her work is relatively simple: remove what might be distracting, then pull the channels up and down to see if things will look more interesting with a different color direction.

January 10, 2020
Hitchhiker Gives Psycho the ax!

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If you did not know anything about paparazzi your impression might be very different: A young woman surrounded by young men, in a very defensive posture, looking terrified – that’s imagery we usually attribute to assault, to the presence of physical or emotional violence.

January 10, 2020
Philip Jones Griffiths

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This video is well worth 32 minutes of your time

January 10, 2020
ICP Infinity Awards 2013: Cristina de Middel

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The idea of an African space program may sound funny to some, but not to Cristina de Middel. Through a mix of fact and fiction, de Middel forces viewers to reinterpret a 1960s space program in Zambia in her photobook, The Afronauts.

January 10, 2020
Alma wins Web-Documentary award at Visa pour l’Image

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Alma, a Tale of Violence, a web-documentary by photographer Miquel Dewever Plana and writer Isabelle Fougère, has won the 2013 Visa d’Or France 24 / RFI Web Documentary Award

January 10, 2020
Peter Turnley: French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris

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In his new book “French Kiss – A Love Letter to Paris,” he reveals moments of poetry and beauty he witnessed as a street photographer during the past 40 years of documenting the city of love, which is his adopted home.

January 10, 2020
Lynn Johnson on the Heroic Nature of Humanity

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Lynn Johnson first recognized the extraordinary power of photography huddled in her school library as a child, looking through the Farm Security Administration’s iconic photographs of the Great Depression

January 10, 2020
Serrano Shoots Cuba

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Andres Serrano has come a long way from submerging a crucifix in his own urine. We followed the controversial artist around Cuba as he created a new body of work, photographing the country’s influential figures, political leaders, the poor, the rich, and the dead.

January 10, 2020
Stephanie Sinclair on Creating a Sense of Urgency

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Stephanie Sinclair has photographed child marriage, self-immolation, and sensitive gender and human rights issues around the world in hopes that the images will affect change. “When people see those photographs, I hope that they are overcome with a sense of urgency,” she says.

January 10, 2020
7 Golden Photojournalism Rules by a Reuters Chief Photographer

7 Golden Photojournalism Rules by a Reuters Chief Photographer | THEME

via THEME | More Photography: http://www.the.me/7-golden-photojournalism-tips-by-a-reuters-chief-photographer/

What are the key tips to shooting great news photography? This video by award-winning Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj, an experienced Asia hand, shares his seven ideas on how to shoot news photos that engage audiences and tell a great story.

January 10, 2020
Jodi Cobb on Cultural Exploration

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Driven by her family mantra “what can I do that I never have done before,” Cobb’s photographs tend to take the world behind closed doors, and into secret and forgotten lives of communities from across the globe

January 10, 2020
Explore Pyongyang North Korea Like Never Before in Mind-Bending ‘Flow-Motion’ Hyperlapse

Explore Pyongyang North Korea Like Never Before in Mind-Bending ‘Flow-Motion’ Hyperlapse

The ‘Enter Pyongyang’ flow-motion hyperlapse by JT Singh and Rob Whitworth debuted to the public two hours ago as of this writing, and already it has over

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/08/09/explore-pyongyang-north-korea-like-never-mind-bending-flow-motion-hyperlapse/

The ‘Enter Pyongyang‘ flow-motion hyperlapse by JT Singh and Rob Whitworth debuted to the public two hours ago as of this writing, and already it has over 3,500 upvotes on Reddit and almost half a million views… ON VIMEO!

January 10, 2020
Somehow this isn’t Tim and Eric

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The ‘Enter Pyongyang‘ flow-motion hyperlapse by JT Singh and Rob Whitworth debuted to the public two hours ago as of this writing, and already it has over 3,500 upvotes on Reddit and almost half a million views… ON VIMEO!

January 10, 2020
Juxtapoz Magazine – Watch: Glen E. Friedman & Ian MacKaye Discuss Photos in “My Rules

Juxtapoz Magazine – Watch: Glen E. Friedman & Ian MacKaye Discuss Photos in “My Rules”

Glen E. Friedman, who was most recently featured in our special Beastie Boys issue, will be releasing a book of his iconic photographs “MY RULES….

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/watch-glen-e-friedman-ian-mackaye-discuss-photos-in-my-rules/

Raised in North Carolina and educated in California, the Brooklyn-based photographer Bryan Derballa has an unwavering love for the outdoors. For the last four summers, he’s set aside his work in order to head into the country with his friends. For him, these journeys are essential to his livelihood. As he enters his thirties, they allow him to hang onto what he calls the “liminal state between youth and adulthood. It’s a period of uncertainty that occurs sometime after college but before homeownership, when friends become family and time becomes finite.”

January 10, 2020
Magnum Foundation’s #PhotoEX Symposium Now Available Online | American Photo

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Luckily, if you missed this free-of-charge event (or just want to revisit any of the discussions or projects presented that day) you can. Magnum Foundation has just released a series of videos featuring each of the presenters from Photography, Expanded as well as a few shorter interviews with the day’s presenters about their takeaways.

January 10, 2020
Video: The Technologies Inside Canon’s EF Lenses

Video: The Technologies Inside Canon’s EF Lenses

If you’d like a primer on the technologies found inside Canon’s EF line of lenses, look no further than this 12-minute introduction created by Canon. We

via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/01/10/video-technologies-inside-canons-ef-lenses/

If you’d like a primer on the technologies found inside Canon’s EF line of lenses, look no further than this 12-minute introduction created by Canon. We learn about things like aspherical lenses, fluorite lenses, diffractive optics, USM, lens coatings, and more.

January 10, 2020