The return

My friends! Due to problems of everyday life, let this column stopped for a long time, more there I want, but it is time to start again. Internet has its fans and enemies, but it is undeniably a valuable marketing tool and its ease of reaching thousands of people at once. This is one of the ways I found to disseminate my work, and here is link for those who want to meet you.

Photographer or VideoMaker?

The digital age is growing. When you think everything was placed in a digital camera, appear more news to torment the most consumed. The hit of the moment, are Dlsr which also makes videos. Canon came out in front with a powerful 5MarkIII making videos with quality equal or superior to many cameras for video professionals. Why not be outdone, Nikon launched the  D90, in lower resolution, yet to be seen with respect. After other releases, which already is hard to describe, other models are launched. For photographs of the social area, is some questions: Who will leave the scene? The Video maker or photographer? Is one of the two will service both for the same price of one? With respect to quality, I give a link to my partner who works in the area of commercial videos made with a Nikon D5000.

A coffee bean or Angelina Jolie

Hello, friends. After a while without appearing to new posts due to professional commitments, I am back, asking apology to readers of this blog.

The subject today is the difficulty to photograph things that are apparently easy. The mission was photographing a simple coffee bean to use the opening of a catalog industry. We started with the task of choosing a grain perfect in shape, texture and crumb well apparent. Nearly 3 hours later to examine 2 pounds of coffee, grain by grain, find at least 4 grains that could be our perfect models. Let us then to the picture. To answer the lay-out the picture would be in final size 20×30 cm, which demand a great quality in the catchment, which would be done with RAW capture each with approximately 12 megapixels. This draw from the scene, the old Sony H9 which is capable of shooting with 3 cm of proximity. Then decided to use a macro to 100 mm, which left the grain with approximately a 1:1 ratio, which was insufficient to achieve the desired proportion. Solution 02: put an inverted lens, which solved the problem of proportion, but returned another, the lens was so close I did shadow, the light that should be hard to emphasize textures. Resolution 3: shoot in the sun, a light that would be a razor shape and solve the problem. Except that photos on external, there is a wind factor that in the slightest breeze insisted swing the granule of coffee. Thanks to a providential chewing gum, I decided the last barrier. Brought to the computer, the image pleased to Elton Lança, the director of art, which participated in the whole process and felt in the skin  the joys of an advertising photographer. Time of production: 7 hours.

To justify the title, sometimes a coffee bean is more work to do a cover of Vogue with Angelina Jolie!

The dream camera and car

There are things that for most people are dreams. For those who like the dream of sophisticated car is a Bugatti Veyron, with its one thousand horses of force and the possibility of reaching the 400 kms per hour. For photographers the Hasselblad will always dream of camera. With entry into the digital age, the great camera maker  was not stopped in time and still became better equipment that a photographer could dream of. This video shows the meeting of these two monsters in a photographic study of high technology. Look and dream, after all, you can always win the lottery

The power of image

A large part of humanity lives today under the power of image. We are bombarded by it all the time, the outdoor ads are increasing, in tvs, in magazines. Finally, an avalanche already provided by the film director Ridley Scott, in his classic film Blade Runner. And in the midst of this massacre is that if visual highlight some photographers, who with his touch of genius can draw the attention and in some cases become the center of the controversy. Without shadow of doubt, one of these, it Oliviero Toscani. The photographer managed, with your photos, build brands and destroy concepts. Who does not remember the famous image of a priest kissing a nun? Away from the media for some years, returned last year with an image that ran the world, made for the clothing manufacturer, and that addresses the issue that is precisely one of the Achilles heels of this industry, with anorexia. The image is this and the conclusion of you and ladies.

Inspiration for Photography

From where comes the inspiration? For each type of artist it occurs in different ways. I remember a film about Pollock, which showed that his inspiration came when he saw footprints and dripping paint falling from his brush. One of the ways that inspire me are very videos clips, with its associated images to music, that really lead me to a trip, which usually lead me to a creative start. This video is part of this collection  I worship, and apart from everything he’s still a class of photography. This videowere directed by David Finche and it format with photos of expensive editorial is a bottomless pit of inspiration.

Nude is Art?(2)

One of the items to be considered in a work of art is its originality. Then a photograph of the naked, besides having a tenue line between obscenity, as I said earlier, has yet to be extremely original. I believe that the photo must have a speech and this must be our imagination to other horizons, and that its implementation has this strain of creativity and talent to become a work of art. In this post I would cite Elena  & Vitale Vasilieva, especially in this serie of women fill in mud. I find it very original, and took me to think about the studies in clay, and that will be the basis for large sculptures as the Pietá, for example.

Cover making of

A cover of a magazine is always very important for all involved, either because they leverage sales of the magazine, is the portfolio of photographer and model. Then the production details that have most often escape to readers. Then we go:

Meeting of creation: For the cover of the magazine INBOUL the creative staff has determined that the theme would be “City Vision”. What I would have to do something that would lead to a referral of large cities and that still maintain a pleasant climate.

Production: With my philosophy of trying to not complicate things, and bearing in mind the directive of creation, for choosing the particular model, which fell  on this future top model, Duda Morais, that its clean look, with her short hair, and therefore outside the standards of current models, look like the street kids. For the clothes chosen by only a shirt male, recalling the situation of modern girl who sleeps in the house of the boyfriend.

Implementation: For the photo sessions, as almost always work alone, without assistants, I have chosen a basic lighting, with only an umbrella and a gold reflector. The makeup woman Ge, has done an excellent job, with a clean makeup, that the situation demanded. I always  work with films, and I know that visor is more  i important to look digital displays, and provided with excellent work of the model, we have only 40 clicks, in more or less 30 minutes, desqualifying  the myth that in the digital age, we need 1000 images to achieve an interesting result.

Post production: Choosed 5 pictures that could give a good result, left for finalisation, made by the director of art Matheus, of retoucher company  Audace, which chose to run a background in 3d, recalling a graffiti wall , which actually completed the climate that I had imagined. Lights yellow applied to complement, basically the yellow reflector that I had applied in the photo, were made with the five test pictures chosen and the result is this:

Inspired by Chanel

One of the extensions of the work of a photographer is the direction of films and videos. After all these are just photos, which once designed a sequence of 24/30 frames per second, in the sense of forward motion. As photo, also needs a talent for environment, light and action, and many photographers have been left very well in this role, so much so that some of them never returned to the photo static. The example of today goes to photographer and director Bethina Rheims, who made a memorable film for Chanel See the film and after the making of. It is worth

Conceptual Photography

The conceptual art is a little difficult to explain and to understand, but a simple phrase may shed light on the subject: “The conceptual artists are more mystical than rational, they proceeded by jumps, reaching conclusions that can not be achieved by the logic” ( Sol LeWitt); The art is no longer considered to be primarily a visual display of ideas and thoughts. One of the best artists I know is MIsha Gordin. This conceptual photographer, who is one of the winners of the world, makes the photo image of your dreams in a way that has a thin line between insanity and poetry. The image is beautiful, and its concept, is in the imagination of every.