Apr
18
2013Jon Jacobsen Photography
http://www.flickr.com/photos/loganart/
https://www.facebook.com/JonJacobsenPhotography
What kind of equipment (camera body, lens, filters, flash, tripod, cleaning equipment other) do you use?
Canon 60D, 28mm 1.8, and my eye.
What do you like and dislike about your equipment, specially your camera, and how would you improve it?
Maybe the quality of the lenses isn’t the greatest one.
What is your favourite lens, and why?
I don’t have any specific favourite lens, but I like those which are between 28 and 35mm. Just because I like space a lot, and I use to work in small rooms.
When you travel, what is in your essential photographic kit bag?
Camera and reflector.
What kind of software/tools do you use for post-processing, if any?
Photoshop.
How long have you been taking photographs? How do you find inspiration?
It’s been 9 years already. Inspiration is everywhere, I find it in my daily life.
Which style of photography do you like the most, and why?
Portraits are my favourites, especially those taken when the person just woke up or are laying down in the bed.
What goal are you working towards within your photography and when will you know you have reached it?
I don’t have any specific goal more than creating and pay my bills with this. You never know when you reach your goals until you live it.
Looking at your own work, which piece is your favourite? Why?
Today, this one: http://jon-jacobsen.com/post/41024898661/reformula-selfportrait
Does your work fit into any one or more distinct genres (nature, landscape, long-exposure, black-and-white, infra-red, urban, artistic, macro, vintage, vernacular, social, street)? If other, please specify.
Fine Arts, Surreal Photography, Self portraits.
Are there any photography websites that you visit regularly?
Tumblr.
What is the one most important lesson that you have learned since you started taking photographs?
Have guts.
And finally, what other interesting photographers would you like to see in this blog?
Benoit Paille and Yann Faucher.
Apr
18
2013Brooke Shaden Photography
http://brookeshaden.com/gallery/
https://www.facebook.com/brookeshadenphotography
http://www.flickr.com/people/brookeshaden/
What kind of equipment (camera body, lens, filters, flash, tripod, cleaning equipment other) do you use?
I use a Canon 5d Mkii and a 50mm f/1.4 lens on a tripod (any tripod I can get my hands on, as I lose my so often!).
What do you like and dislike about your equipment, specially your camera, and how would you improve it?
I am always happy with my camera, and if I had to change anything about my equipment, I would change the way that I work so that I am always evolving and keeping up with my imagination.
What is your favourite lens, and why?
I love the 50mm f/1.4 lens. I tend to see life from a 50mm perspective, it just feels right when I shoot. I love shooting primes as well. I was never in the zoom habit and doubt I will ever be. I tend to choose a spot to shoot from and then I stick to it, or move my camera instead of zooming.
When you travel, what is in your essential photographic kit bag?
Usually all of my equipment! When I travel it is usually because I am teaching a workshop, so I have my camera, lens, tripod, laptop, and the necessary cables!
What kind of software/tools do you use for post-processing, if any?
I use Photoshop CS6 these days, and have used/could use anything from Photoshop 7 to GIMP.
How long have you been taking photographs? How do you find inspiration?
I have been taking pictures for 4 years now. I find inspiration in all things, especially from within. There are certain themes that I have always thought of, from the first short story I wrote when I was 9 to the pictures I take today. I find endless inspiration in those themes. I love anything antique/vintage, anything old or decaying. I am inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite painters and they way they paint light and skin. I love nature, and so I often shoot in nature.
Which style of photography do you like the most, and why?
My first love has been and will always be conceptual photography…but I don’t mean that as specifically as it sounds. What I mean is that I love any type of photography where it is clear that the photographer had intent while shooting, or an idea behind the image. I love something that will make me stop, stare, find details and think.
What goal are you working towards within your photography and when will you know you have reached it?
I plan everything very heavily before I begin my shooting process, so by the end of the edit I stop when the picture looks like what I envisioned in my mind. If I don’t have a full concept beforehand, I suppose there is a certain feeling that I get, one that checks all the boxes that I use to determine if I like a picture. I look at color, composition, how tight the compositing is, etc…
Looking at your own work, which piece is your favourite? Why?
I am interested right now in a piece of mine called “Between”, because of the message, the dream-like state of it, and the whimsy that I dreamed up. Sometimes a picture matches my dreams, and this one does. It is how I wish I could exist…between worlds.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/brookeshaden/8333453293/in/photostream
Does your work fit into any one or more distinct genres (nature, landscape, long-exposure, black-and-white, infra-red, urban, artistic, macro, vintage, vernacular, social, street)? If other, please specify.
I think my work is conceptual fine art photography, and it fits pretty tightly into that genre 🙂
Are there any photography websites that you visit regularly?
I always check in on social networking sites like Facebook and Flickr. I love 500px and Bluecanvas as well!
What is the one most important lesson that you have learned since you started taking photographs?
Think first, then do. I love the idea of thinking about what I want as a photographer and how my brain works. If I think about what I want to create, I am more likely to be happy with an image in the end.
And finally, what other interesting photographers would you like to see in this blog?
Peter Jamus, Maryanne Gobble.