There is a fine line between work and play being a photographer, which is what is so amazingly wonderful about our job. A client calls and asks you to spend a couple days in “X” city, making whatever photos you want as long as they somewhat fit the story. In general, that is all the 36 Hours series The New York Times is: tip-toeing that line.
Tag: Chip Litherland
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professional tourist | Redlights and Redeyes
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a week with wolverines | espn the mag
I love gigs for this client. ESPN the Magazine sent me to follow around the University of Michigan Wolverines for a week as they entered a tough stretch of games in the BIG 10. I travelled with the team on their plane and buses all day with full access to whatever we needed. Quite refreshing access, and the University was amazing with their hospitality.
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leica en méxico
Color is what drives me and how I see. It’s the first thing I look for when breaking down a scene, and the last thing that stands in the way of a good photo. Without it, you’re in black-and-white-land, and as much I love BW photography, there’s nothing like an oversaturated gratuitous explosion of color within four corners of a frame. It is my mistress, my muse, and my mission.
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expired at the kentucky derby | Redlights and Redeyes
expired at the kentucky derby
My goal, now – albeit pretty lofty – is to spend the next year trying to shoot every major sport’s biggest game with expired film. I’ve been buying lots of film off eBay, friends have been sending it to me (hint), and now I’ve accumulated rolls in varying speeds and ages (all the way back to the 60’s) to go after this thing. I don’t care if I make money off of it, for me this is a challenge, a way to recharge my thinking and to be honest just to have fun carrying around three clanky Nikon F series cameras around my neck.
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expired at the daytona 500 | Redlights and Redeyes
expired at the daytona 500
This was an awesome experience to approach a shoot with a different process – and that art-making process gets lost in the craziness of this business. Getting imagery out to the world in the matter of seconds just because we can seems to have taken over the fun and thought of what it was like in the film days (which makes me sound old at 38). Slowing down that process and having an interactive, personal experience with pictures is something I’m so happy to bring back into my workflow – if even for just a single shoot.
All that being said film is a pain in the ass. We have it so easy now
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auto focus | the player’s tribune | Redlights and Redeyes
auto focus
I’ve never shot IndyCar before this shoot for the fine folks at The Player’s Tribune, but what I learned in a couple days of running around the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg reaffirmed everything I thought it would be from covering other racing: it’s extremely loud, painfully hot, but so much fun to shoot
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A Look Back: 4 of PhotoShelter’s Longest Standing Members Reflect on the IndustryPhotoShelter Blog
A Look Back: 4 of PhotoShelter’s Longest Standing Members Reflect on the Industry – PhotoShelter Blog
As part of Member Appreciation week last week, we caught up with a few of our longest standing members to find out what their biggest accomplishments have been in the past 9 years, and how changes in the industry have affected them personally, their caree
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2014/07/look-back-photoshelters-longest-standing-members-reflect-industry/
These photographers, including Chip Litherland, Brad Mangin and Ami Vitale are continuing to amaze us, churning out fantastic work and staying on top of their game.
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airscapes | tampa, florida
Link: airscapes | tampa, florida | Redlights and Redeyes
Client: ”Want to spend five hours in a helicopter for us over Tampa?” Me: ”Sure, what do you want me to shoot?” Client: “Whatever you want.” Me: Big smile.
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go irish and/or roll tide
Link: go irish and/or roll tide | Redlights and Redeyes
I sat there after the first half with Alabama up several touchdowns up on Notre Dame and ate a terrible hot dog in a media room where all the photographers just looked depressed. All of the excitement, the adrenaline, and preparedness was sucked right out of everyone. No hopes of a comeback. There were just a lot of shocked Notre Dame faces and chants of “Roll Tide!” Over. And over. And over
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lebron, wade, and i
So LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, and I were there together hanging out and….well, there really isn’t going to be a time I get to say that again, so I’m going to take advantage now.
I was lucky enough to be part of the huge team that the fine folks at ESPN the Magazine put together for their latest One Day, One Game series. The point is to give fans a glimpse into everything that it takes for one single game to be put on with vignettes from every angle imaginable. It was one of my most fun shooting days ever, and I don’t think I can really go back to “normal” access after this. Of course I will, but now will at least have a hard time wondering why I can come back into the locker room and photograph a player in the ice bath.
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From Photojournalist to Wedding Photographer: Video with Chip Litherland
From Photojournalist to Wedding Photographer: Video with Chip Litherland – PhotoShelter Blog
Our live webinar with editorial photojournalist and wedding photographer Chip Litherland was a huge success – nearly 1,000 photographers came out to learn how Chip made the move from taking photojournalism assignments to building a successful wedding phot
Our live webinar with editorial photojournalist and wedding photographer Chip Litherland was a huge success – nearly 1,000 photographers came out to learn how Chip made the move from taking photojournalism assignments to building a successful wedding photography business. After 10 years in the business, and now shooting 20-25 weddings per year, Chip had a lot of advice and best practices to share.
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I-4 or bust
I-4 is an interesting road. Connecting Daytona, Orlando and Tampa, it slices the nub of South Florida right off the map, it provides a vast array of landmarks – strange kitschy theme parks, vasectomy billboards, and rest stop oasis after oasis. It is also fertile ground for voters and an area candidates target every election cycle.
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newt, mitt, ron, and rick…
here are some random rectangles from the week of covering Mitt Romney’s win in the Florida Primary with some scraps from the cutting room floor as a bonus.
