The outstanding documentary photography of Claire Martin

on September 10th, 2010

Claire Martin is as quirky as it gets: with a degree in social work and communications she faked a resume to land a job as a chef on luxury cruisers and ended up becoming a documentary photographer who had the guts to live in a community of squatters and shoot the street life of Vancouver’s [...]

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Headshots – Fear and Loathing

on August 9th, 2010

Ever had to have your photo taken and freaked out? Looked at a photo of you and thought “Gee I look like crap”? Then watch this. Awesome video and great advice for headshot photography – not only for actors, but for corporate types, personal photos etc (I’m not including kids because they do it naturally). Watch until the end, there’s a great mantra you can use for your next portrait shot.

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Annie Leibovitz and her fantastic Disney portraits

on October 17th, 2009

Annie Leibovitz. Are there any words to describe her work? Are there any words to describe her subjects better than her work? Annie is the photographer behind the Demi Moore naked and pregnant cover of Vanity Fair; behind the clothed Ono and naked Lennon cover of Rolling Stone. And the story-teller behind Disney’s series of celebrities-as-fairytale-characters series. Just amazing.

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Graphic design photos: Cute animals

on October 8th, 2008

New set of images from the Dreamstime series. I really love these – as I suppose I love animals in general. Logistics: as usual, clicking on the image will take you to the Dreamstime website, where you can buy it. Happy browsing!

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Graphic design photos: Quirky shots

on September 7th, 2008

New set of images: quirky shots I’m not really sure what to use for, but are too cool to not post. They’re not my photographs, but images I have sourced from various artists for some of my designs. Sometimes I do wish I was a decent photographer… Logistics: clicking on the image will take you [...]

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Graphic design resources: Portraits

on September 1st, 2008

These are my favourite images this week; having bought a subscription to Dreamstime.com for one month and 89 dollars, which covers up to 300 images (isn’t that insanely cheap?!) I have been frantically browsing for good photos and realised that It’s very difficult to find unusual and beautiful images and There are plenty of such [...]

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