I came across Gina Vasquez’s work at the very beginning of my creative journey in the photograph realm. Her incredibly vibrant and deeply touching self-portraits blew me away. Many of her shots featured things like light bulbs glowing on the beach, goldfish floating in balloons, and hundreds of birds decorating the sky. This phenomenal creativity […]
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When you plan on shooting portraits, which lens do you reach for first? 85mm? Perhaps 90mm or 135mm or a long zoom? Those are all great choices, you can’t go wrong with any of them. But what happens when you want to break out of the mold? The last time we discussed taking an unconventional […]
Self-portraits. You may associate them with vanity and arrogance. You might even consider self-portraiture an overrated genre and dismiss it completely. In reality, taking compelling photos of oneself is far more than a desire to look gorgeous. There is an abundance of photographs which feature the artists themselves expressing negative or neutral emotions; though seemingly […]
When you first pick up a camera, chances are that you are going to spend a lot of time shooting portraits of your family, your friends, your pets and whoever else you can cajole into sitting still for long enough. Maybe this was the entire intent of you getting a camera, or maybe it’s a […]
Let me first make one thing perfectly clear: when I speak of self-portraiting, I do not refer to the “selfie.” “Selfies” and self-portraits are not interchangeable terms, nor do they measure up to the same level in photography. Now that we’ve got that over with, we can move on. Why Self-Portraits Can Help You Improve Your Photography […]
When you first pick up a camera, chances are that you are going to spend a lot of time shooting portraits of your family, your friends, your pets and whoever else you can cajole into sitting still for long enough. Maybe this was the entire intent of you getting a camera, or maybe it’s a […]