If I walk away with the same pictures I’ve made before I feel like a complete failure.
Tag: Chip Litherland
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the creamsicle strikes back
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One Shot: Chip Litherland’s “FOCUSED”
One Shot: Chip Litherland’s “FOCUSED”
“For the last couple years, a small dusty bag of 35-mm. film peered at me from my desk,” the Florida-based photographer Chip Litherland told me when I …
via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2011/10/chip-litherland-focused.html?currentPage=all
“For the last couple years, a small dusty bag of 35-mm. film peered at me from my desk,” the Florida-based photographer Chip Litherland told me when I asked him about the genesis of his current project. “The internet, camera phones, and motor drives have burst the dam of photography, causing a flood of imagery into the world, and ‘FOCUSED’ is my attempt to stick a wad of gum in that dam to stop the leak for even a brief second.”
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Back to Basics: Analog Photography Project Aims to Slow Things Down
Back to Basics: Analog Photography Project Aims to Slow Things Down
Sometime in early November, Florida photographer Chip Litherland will load five 35mm cameras with color film, carefully pack them into shipping cases, and mail them to five different photographers around the globe. Each photographer who receives a camera
Sometime in early November, Florida photographer Chip Litherland will load five 35mm cameras with color film, carefully pack them into shipping cases, and mail them to five different photographers around the globe. Each photographer who receives a camera will be challenged to shoot just one picture before they have to ship the camera on to someone else.
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on self-assignments (with a side of mud, booze, and rednecks)
Chip Litherland:
What’s the point? The photography business can be a rat race. There are tens of thousands of photographers out there doing exactly what you and I do. Everyone has one unique thing – a vision. That vision can be driven by ego, competition, passion, fear, curiosity, artistry, adversity, and talent. What drives yours? It should be you.
Sometimes feeding the beast is easiest when that beast is you.
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It’s Guest Blog Wednesday featuring Chip Litherland! « Scott Kelby
Working as a staff photojournalist has its challenges. How do you stay inspired, happy, and passionate about photographing a white guy in a suit standing in front of a building? How can you make compelling images that give your photo subjects a voice in their own community when you can only stay for only 10 minutes? Why am I photographing this plate of food that barely resembles food? How do you make a picture that says “ribbon-cutting” without literally shooting the ribbon being cut?
You just do. Here’s how
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coloroholic
Color is just as important to photography as composition, light , and moments. I generally rate it higher than any of those just for the pure fact that it is the common thread throughout all of them. Color evokes mood, emotion, visual responses. It helps add contrast in certain situations. It can make a photo sing. It can make a photo sink. I promise you’ve I’ve edited out a better moment out of a series of photos, just because an “off” frame has better color. It is that important.
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zut alors! | Redlights and Redeyes
I spent the weekend in Saint Martin/St. Maarten (depending on which side of the island you are on) for an amazing wedding shoot. Dear God, that place is gorgeous. This is coming from a guy who lives on the beaches of Florida.
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houston deconstructed | Redlights and Redeyes
I was in Houston, Texas, to shoot a wedding this weekend for a quick 36 hours. On Saturday, I took advantage of being a father and not being able to sleep in for the life of me. I woke up early, grabbed a 5D Mark II, a 50mm f/1.4 and just wandered with no direction. No ambition. No list of things to shoot.
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i’ll just shoot some weddings | Redlights and Redeyes
Obviously, the newspaper and magazine world is in flux. Photographers are ducking for cover and holding onto staff positions when they can and others frantically preparing exit plans when they finally pull the eject lever. Some have that lever pulled for them and are left floating through the air with a “What now?” look on their face.
“I’ll just shoot some weddings.” Sounds easy enough, right?
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100 things completely right about our jobs | Redlights and Redeyes
4. The sound of a shutter…and someone not noticing.
5. Realizing my entire portfolio adds up to about 10 seconds worth of life.Link: 100 things completely right about our jobs | Redlights and Redeyes
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bitter and then some | Redlights and Redeyes
What I’ve learned from the last month of blogging and saying what I feel is that all of a sudden I become the bitter, cranky photographer trying to suck all the fun out of photography and make people quit their jobs. Trust me, if anyone did something because I said it, then I would be first in line to kick my own ass.
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pushing the box while thinking outside the envelope – Shooting from the Hip
I guess I am pondering creativity tonight because of a comment one of my favorite photographers, Chip Litherland, made recently on aphotoaday, an online community of mostly young photographers.
Link: pushing the box while thinking outside the envelope – Shooting from the Hip
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accidental rothko | the book | Redlights and Redeyes
Chip Litherland:It is with great pleasure that I get to announce my foray into the self-publishing world with the release of the Accidental Rothko book with over 60 pages of saturated goodness
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ikea and the fair | Redlights and Redeyes
I’m not exactly sure what it is about shooting at fairs that makes it difficult. Honestly, it has to be visual overload. Sometimes there is just too much going on to really concentrate on a particular moment – carnival workers yelling at you, a big vat of teen angst and love, unreal smells, ridiculous clutter – it all just messes with me.
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roll tide | Redlights and Redeyes
I was sweating out a prep football practice here in Florida when ESPN the Mag called with a cool last minute assignment. Always fun to see their name on the caller I.D. I was to jet off to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, for the weekend to cover the University of Alabama Crimson Tide take on their bitter rivals – the University of Tennessee Volunteers. It got even better. I didn’t need to cover every-down, game action – just wander the stadium making pictures of what a true megafootball college program is all about.
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a flight and a crash | Redlights and Redeyes
Chip Litherland says:
This one game provided a few outs for me…luckily my chance of shooting with a wider lens from directly behind home helped me land the home plate leap. He was called safe. It was one of those moments where I felt the lens snap out of focus for a brief milli-second – spurring a frantic chimping session.
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Redlights and Redeyes
I’ve been staring at this photo by Florida photojournalist Chip Litherland for a few days now. I kept a browser window with his blog open, intending to post it. His blog always has something cool on it.Link:
Redlights and Redeyes
