Sunday, January 31, 2010

Roland Gomez - Photographic Therapy - FreePhotographyBook.com

 

Roland Gomez, is the founder of Garage Glamour, author of three photography books, a Lexar Media Elite Photographers since 2004, and conducts photography workshops, lectures and seminars in the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe. He has just published his latest book Photographic Therapy--The Power of Photography to Help Build or Rebuild Self-Esteem and it is available for free. The books can be downloaded at www.freephotographybooks.com.  On his blog, he has a great post where he explains that "this book on phototherapy is a mainstream book for everyone. The more specific target audience is people who believe in the power of photography to help build or re-build self-esteem."

Links Reference in this Post:
Roland Gomez - Photographic Therapy--The Power of Photography to Help Build or Rebuild Self-Esteem - http://www.freephotographybooks.com/?awt_l=K74xh&awt_m=1b1hxh3jnMxPF8
Roland Gomez Website - http://rolandogomez.net
Roland Gomez Blog - http://rolandogomez.net/category/blog 
Photographic Therapy Blog Post - http://rolandogomez.net/2009/10/phototherapy-photographic-therapy-therapeutic-photography-yes-its-real
Lexar Media - http://www.lexarmedia.com 
Garage Glamour - http://www.garageglamour.com/


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Thursday, January 28, 2010

V Magazine - The Size Issue - # 63



V magazine is about fashion, art, music, film, architecture, culture, and everything in between. It is a great magazine that varies from month-to-month and year-to-year. The current issue, #63, focuses on Size, showing how women of all size are beautiful. With all the recent discussion concerning the size of models, this issue is very relevant.

Links referenced in this posting:
V Magazine - http://www.vmagazine.com/
PDF Preview of V Magazine # 63 - http://www.vmagazine.com/page.php?pn=THE%20SIZE%20ISSUE

Posted by Al Milligan, Al Milligan Photography

Monday, January 25, 2010

Seth Godin Blog Post of January 18, 2010 - Unrealized Projects

If you don't know who Seth Godin is and you are interested in business and marketing then you should.  He is the author of probably the most popular marketing blog in the world and is the author of 12 bestselling marketing books that have been translated into 33 languages.  He is a marketing genius, very entertaining, and his insight and advice really makes you  think. It's good advice to follow.

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post called "Fear and Photography" and in it I mentioned that Fear was one reason by we don't complete projects that we sometimes have in mind. When I say "We" I mean myself and other photographers as a whole and other than myself no one specific. When I received this email the other day I started thinking that Seth Godin really hit the nail on the head with this post on why we need to put fear aside and as he says "ship".

Here is the Seth Godin post of January 18, 2010, Unrealized Projects in its entirety:
When I was at MOMA last week, I saw a list of director and artist Tim Burton's projects. Here's the guy who's responsible for some of the most breathtaking movies of his generation, and the real surprise is this: almost every year over the last thirty, he worked on one or more exciting projects that were never green lighted and produced. Every year, he spent an enormous amount of time on failed projects.
A few: Catwoman, Conversations With Vincent, Dinosaurs Attack!, The Fall of the House of Usher, Geek Love, Go Baby Go, Hawkline Monster, Lost in Oz, Mai the Psychic Girl, Mary Reilly, Superman Lives, X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes.
One key element of a successful artist: ship. Get it out the door. Make things happen.
The other: fail. Fail often. Dream big and don't make it. Not every time, anyway.
Tim got his ideas out the door, to the people who decided what to do with them. And more often than not, they shot down his ideas. That's okay. He shipped.
Next!


I would suggest that if you are not already a subscriber to his daily blog posting emails that you should go and sign up for them right now.  On the upper left hand side of his blog is the box where you put your email address so can subscribe. It will be we'll worth you time to read them daily.

Links referenced in this posting:
Unrealized Projects - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/01/unrealized-projects.html
Seth Godin's Blog -  http://sethgodin.typepad.com/
Seth Godin's Website - http://www.sethgodin.com/sg/

Blog post written and posted by Seth Godin on January 18, 2010

Reposted on this blog by Al Milligan, Al Milligan Photography

Monday, January 18, 2010

Zok Vampire - Caesar Lima



Vampires seem to be very popular right now and this is a great photograph. It is on the cover of the January / February 2010 issue of Digital Photo Pro. The photograph was taken by Caesar Lima for Marzocchi Italy. This photograph was also awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2009 IPA (International Photorgraphy Awards) competition in the beauty category.

Links referenced in this posting:
Digital Photo Pro Magazine - http://www.digitalphotopro.com
Caesar Lima's Blog - http://caesarlima.blogspot.com
Caesar Lima's Website - http://www.caesarlima.com
Marzochi Italy - Marzocchi Italy - Designs and produces suspensions for motorcycles and mountain bike since 1949
IPA - International Photography Awards - IPA (International Photography Awards)
IPA 2009 Honorable Mention - Professional- Beauty category - http://photoawards.com/en/Pages/Gallery/zoomwin.php?eid=8-10324-09&uid=&code=Beauty


Posted by Al Milligan, Al Milligan Photography

Monday, January 11, 2010

California Sunbounce- The Gage video, Greg Gorman, and the latest Canon - Inside, The Story Behind The Photograph Ad - Part 2

Here is the 2nd part of the California Sunbounce video on the The Gage. In this video, Greg Gorman continues to talk about how he used it to create the photograph used in the latest Canon Inside, The Story Behind The Shot ad.



Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxqPmini0U

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Saturday, January 9, 2010

California Sunbounce- The Gage video, Greg Gorman, and the latest Canon - Inside, The Story Behind The Photograph Ad - Part 1

I am always going out on the internet and looking for interesting photography videos. As I wrote in a posting a couple of weeks ago, California Sunbounce has a great selection on videos on their website that shows you how  famous photographers use their products.

I was in my local Borders Bookstore over the weekend and notice the latest  Canon, Inside: The Story Behind The Shot ad, featuring model Dominique Sharp, in the back of the January 2010 Issue of Photo District News. The ad was shot by Greg Gorman and the shooting of the photograph used in the ad, was featured in the video for the California Sunbounce-The Gage. It is always interesting, to me, to see how other photographers work and the equipment they use.

Below is the 1st of the 2 videos showing how to setup the California Sunbounce-The Gage and how Greg Gorman used it to create the photograph in the latest Canon Inside:The Story Behind The Shot, ad. The 2nd part of the video will be in the next post.



Link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFPvHdFZ04c

The finished shot of Dominique Sharp that appears in the latest Canon, Inside: The Story Behind The Shot ad and shot by Greg Gorman.




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Fear and Photography

I recently watched the movie "Strictly Ballroom", a great quirky Australian movie by Baz Luhmann, on DVD. There is a great line in the movie which is repeated a couple of times that goes " A life lived in fear is a life half lived".

As photographers we sometimes use fear to prevent us from taking photographs. It may be the fear of approaching someone, the fear that the picture won't come out as we envision it or any number of other reasons. The bottom line is that we need to not worry about making the perfect picture every time and we just go out and shoot. The more we shoot the better odds we are going to have of getting the picture(s) we envision.

One of my goals for 2010 is not to let fear interfere with my photography.

Here are some addition quotes concerning fear and failure:
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure." - Sven Goran Eriksson
"Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something." - Frederick Smith
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin Roosevelt

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