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Mine is a simple one based on Zen thought yet complex in its simplicity.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Let the subject speak instead of you speaking to the subject.</span> Be it a person, place or thing - the authenticity of that which you are photographing will always shine through despite you. . .</span>Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-46356532248899142692012-01-28T12:16:00.000-08:002012-01-28T12:21:25.625-08:00Cult of Mac article on my presentation at MacWorld on iPhone Fine Art PhotographySuch a pleasure to get the support of Cult of Mac as a result of my "Zen and the Fine Art of iPhone Photography" presentation at MacWorld this past Thursday! Read it here and please feel free to pass it on. .<br /><br /><h2><a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/142821/these-apps-take-your-iphone-photos-from-banal-to-bliss-macworld-iworld-2012/" rel="bookmark" title="Read "These Apps Take Your iPhone Photos From Banal To Bliss [Macworld /iWorld 2012]"">These Apps Take Your iPhone Photos From Banal To Bliss [Macworld /iWorld 2012]</a></h2><div class="post-meta"><div class="social"><div class="f"><a style="text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cultofmac.com%2F142821%2Fthese-apps-take-your-iphone-photos-from-banal-to-bliss-macworld-iworld-2012%2F&t=These%20Apps%20Take%20Your%20iPhone%20Photos%20From%20Banal%20To%20Bliss%20%5BMacworld%20%2FiWorld%202012%5D%20%7C%20Cult%20of%20Mac&src=sp" name="fb_share" type="button_count"><span class="fb_share_size_Small "><span class="FBConnectButton FBConnectButton_Small" style="cursor:pointer;"><span class="FBConnectButton_Text"></span></span><span class="fb_share_count fb_share_count_right"><span class="fb_share_count_inner"></span></span></span></a></div></div><p class="meta-author">By Nicole Martinelli (9:47 am, Jan 27)</p></div><div id="attachment_142823" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 650px"><a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/142821/these-apps-take-your-iphone-photos-from-banal-to-bliss-macworld-iworld-2012/tumb-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-142823"><img class="size-full wp-image-142823" title="tumb" src="http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tumb1.jpg" alt="These Apps Take Your iPhone Photos From Banal To Bliss [Macworld /iWorld 2012]" height="337" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">@Jonathan Marks. The "before" photo is on the right.</p></div><p>SAN FRANCISCO, MACWORLD / iWORLD 2012 — If you want to create great photos from your <a id="KonaLink0" class="kLink" style="text-decoration: underline !important;position:static;font-family:inherit !important;font-weight:inherit !important;font-size:inherit !important;" href="http://www.cultofmac.com/142821/these-apps-take-your-iphone-photos-from-banal-to-bliss-macworld-iworld-2012/#"><span style="color: blue !important; font-family:inherit !important;font-weight:inherit !important;font-size:inherit !important;position:static;color:blue;" ><span class="kLink" style="color: blue !important; font-family:inherit !important;font-weight:inherit !important;font-size:inherit !important;position:static;">iPhone</span></span></a>, start by shooting everywhere. Including the dentist’s office or out the window of a friend’s bathroom.</p><p>Photographer <a href="http://www.jonathanmarksfineart.com/">Jonathan Marks</a> has snapped his evocative pics in both those places, plus waiting at a traffic light and at a Whole Foods parking lot. He shoots and processes everything directly on his iPhone, thanks to a handful of key apps.<br /><span id="more-142821"></span></p><div id="attachment_142825" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 650px"><a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/142821/these-apps-take-your-iphone-photos-from-banal-to-bliss-macworld-iworld-2012/tumb2/" rel="attachment wp-att-142825"><img class="size-full wp-image-142825" title="tumb2" src="http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tumb2.jpg" alt="These Apps Take Your iPhone Photos From Banal To Bliss [Macworld /iWorld 2012]" height="359" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">@Jonathan Marks. Another before and after shot from his Tumblr account.</p></div><p>“There’s never been a more exciting time to be making photos than right now,” he said after slide show presentation of his photos accompanied by New Age instrumental music during a talk titled “Zen and & the Fine Art of iPhone Photography.” The aim of his presentation, he said was “to inspire you to shoot and take part in this moving meditation.”</p><p>Marks finds his inspiration in the spotted muzzle of a friend’s dog, the vitreous eye of an old doll, washroom graffiti and the bevel of a Best Buy roof against a blue sky. He encouraged photographers not to question what they are attracted to, but use the fact that they have iPhone cameras handy to shoot the hell out of whatever catches their eye.</p><div id="attachment_142830" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 650px"><a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/142821/these-apps-take-your-iphone-photos-from-banal-to-bliss-macworld-iworld-2012/tumb3/" rel="attachment wp-att-142830"><img class="size-large wp-image-142830" title="tumb3" src="http://cultofmac.cultofmaccom.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/tumb3-640x316.jpg" alt="These Apps Take Your iPhone Photos From Banal To Bliss [Macworld /iWorld 2012]" height="316" width="640" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">@Jonathan Marks.</p></div><p>What had most of the packed room scribbling furiously, however, were Marks’ must-use apps. He has somewhere between 60-70 on his iPhone but reckons he heavily uses a handful or so.</p><p>His <a href="http://jmarksphoto.tumblr.com/">Tumblr account</a> is a testament to the magic that apps can work; Marks shows a starting shot and a final result every day. His standard procedure for editing – and all of his processing is done via the iPhone — starts with the crop function and adjusting levels for the horizon, black and white and the curve level for contrast where needed.</p><p>Here are some of his app picks:</p><ul><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fcamera-plus-pro%252Fid345752934%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Camera Plus Pro</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fpro-hdr%252Fid347104281%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Pro HDR </a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fsynthcam%252Fid412992079%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">SynthCam</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fslow-shutter%252Fid340712897%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">SlowShutter</a> (Get slow shutter effects – trails – with this app. “Really fun.”)</li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Finfinicam%252Fid388837429%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Infinicam</a></li></ul><ul><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fbest-camera%252Fid329800600%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Best Camera</a></li><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fface-cam%252Fid391088120%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Face Cam</a> (“If you shoot portraits – you gotta get this, it’s amazing.”)</li><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fcamera-genius%252Fid304169579%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Camera Genius </a></li><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fdynamic-light%252Fid422494924%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Dynamic Light</a></li><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252F%252Fid324321778%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Perfectly Clear</a></li><li><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=Xc0it6706YY&offerid=146261&type=3&subid=0&tmpid=1826&RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Ffilterstorm%252Fid363449020%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D4%2526partnerId%253D30">Filterstorm</a> (“Small version of Photoshop, to me.”)</li></ul><p>As a parting shot, Marks reminded aspiring shutterbugs to get the photos off your iPhone to “share the love,” and because your iPhone <em>will</em> crash sooner or later. (He uses <a href="http://www.ecamm.com/mac/phoneview/">Phone view</a> to transfer his pics to the computer.)</p><p>And remember to use that iPhone as a phone sometimes, too. Your mom will be grateful.</p>Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-32672559010081735372012-01-25T15:26:00.000-08:002012-01-25T15:31:47.662-08:00iPhone Life Magazine InterviewIn anticipation of my presentations tomorrow at MacWorld and the Apple Store in downtown San Francisco I was asked for an interview by the Editor in Chief of iPhone Life Magazine.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">The video is here:</span><br /><br />http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/12791/interview-jonathan-marks-iphone-photography-expert?utm_source=newsletter-unspecified&utm_medium=email<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">The transcript of the interview is here:</span><br /><br /><p><strong>Alex:</strong> Hi everybody, my name is Alex and I’m the editor in chief of <em>iPhone Life </em>magazine. Today we’re chatting with Jonathan Marks, who is a professional photographer and multimedia artist. Jonathan will be presenting on the first day of Macworld talking about iPhone photography, and he also happens to be a contributing writer to iPhone Life magazine. Jonathan, it’s a pleasure to have you with us today!</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Jonathan: </strong></p> <p>Alex, thank you very much for having me, truly my pleasure.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: I love people’s stories; how did you get into photography?</strong></p> <p>J: That’s an interesting question, Alex. When I was quite a bit younger, I was always in pursuit of some way to express myself. But I wasn’t a loud kid, I wasn’t a highly athletic kid, I was very average in many respects, but I knew I had this eye that needed to somehow come about. So I started with photography when I was very young and pretended like I was this avid photographer that knew exactly what I was doing and going and shooting horribly blurry pictures, and blown-out pictures, off-center, and things that just didn’t really jive, but I knew I had it in me. So it was a passion that I’ve been pursuing essentially all my life, on the side. I’ve always had something else going, so as not to have to rely on it and I could pursue it as a hobby and a passion.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: And when did you start getting into iPhone photography?</strong></p> <p>J: I got my iPhone about two years ago. I was a bit of a holdout for a while. I had another smartphone, and I was happy with it. Now that I look back, it was foolish, of course.</p> <p>I really started to gravitate towards the iPhone as a result of the photography more than anything. Yes, I love Apple, actually I have been using Apple products since 1986, almost since they started, and I have used Apple products ever since. Never been a PC guy (pardon the pun). At the time, I was carrying a Canon 5D everywhere I went, thinking that I would always have something with which to shoot, but I found that I really wasn't using it as much as I wanted to once I discovered the iPhone and it's photographic capabilities. The rest, as they say, is history.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: The first iPhone you got was the 3G?</strong></p> <p>J: Yes.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: Since then there have been so many apps and new gear focusing on iPhone photography. How have you seen that change?</strong></p> <p>J: That's a really valid and pertinent question these days. Thanks to your terrific blog, which I get every day, where you introduce no less than 10 to 15 apps -- and kudos to you for doing that -- there is certainly a great proliferation of photography apps in particular. The thing that I go back to more than anything, Alex, is that my photography is not based on how many new apps I can get, or how I'm going to experiment with all of them. I do I try apps all the time for my photography, but really it's a personal expression of my fine art that I am striving for with my iPhone. I have found that no matter how many new apps come out, I gravitate to essentially the same small corral of apps that do a lot of what I'm trying to do, without overextending myself or feeling overwhelmed with so many apps on my phone that I don't know where to turn.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: So you feel that with a small group of apps you can cover the majority of what you want to do with the images.</strong></p> <p>J: Yeah, I would have to say that what I've found most useful in that regard is just having a basic understanding of some photography software. Whether it's Photoshop, or Lightroom, or those who use Aperture, there are a lot of small fixes that one can do to an image that can enhance it without having to take it to such an extreme artistic realm that one loses the feeling of the image. Granted, there are those that are happy to take an image and turn it into line art or some cartoon-looking thing, and that's their presentation and all the power to them. I fully support and encourage individual expression. For me, my goal is to really maintain the photographic integrity of the image, but present it in a way that I can attain with apps. I want to do more things with the same apps than people really know are possible, as well as combining a lot of apps.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: For our readers or amateur photographers out there, can you give us a couple of little tips?</strong></p> <p>J: Yes, that’s easy, I’ve found that there are some really basic steps that I do with every single image, and it’s a little daunting to those who have never heard of or used curves and levels, but every image that I use I start with a crop. Everything I do is a square crop, it goes back to my medium-format days. I much prefer the square format. I find it to be more challenging, to center or not center images, but I love the fact that I am bound by a perfect square. And trying to pull an image out of that and give it the feeling I want is important to me. I always adjust the levels to get a black point and a white point that’s solid. And then I almost always put in a contrast curve. At that point, the sky is the limit. There’s always a sharpening level in there too, sometimes at the beginning, sometimes at the end. Without getting too technical, I can say that the main thing that people can do is really try to define their darks and their lights, because really, what draws people to a photograph, or what causes them a little bit of dismay, is when there is great contrast. Sometimes you strive for that, extreme black or whites; other times you don’t necessarily want to have such an extreme contrast that your eye is drawn to that and away from the subject.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: Tell us a little bit about your iPhone photography presentations.</strong></p> <p>J: So I was invited to present at the flagship Apple store in downtown San Francisco last July. I came in there on the advice of a professional photographer and she said, “You really should show Apple what you’re doing." I showed the gentleman there and he said, “I want you here.” So, two months later I was presenting to arguably their largest crowd ever for a photographer, or so I’ve heard, because they have photography events there every month. The presentation that I did then -- that I’ve since adapted for Macworld coming up on Thursday as well as the Apple store -- is called “Zen and the Fine Art of iPhone Photography.”</p> <p>The difference between this year and last year, [when] I did a vastly different presentation with great music [that was] very energetic, [with] a lot of information, the one factor that I’ve added and defined this year is the “fine art” aspect, as opposed to Zen and the Art of iPhone Photography. My emphasis right now is really on producing limited edition fine art pieces that are a result of my iPhone capture and processing. The iPhone is just one of many tools that people are going to use to make images. Today it’s the iPhone; tomorrow, who knows what.</p> <p>The presentation will cover such things as how to see and really feel an image, the apps that I use to bring that out, and how to present that image in the end.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: Is the “Zen” part the feeling aspect?</strong></p> <p>J: Yes, the Zen part is really allowing oneself to be in their world with minimal, if any, preconceptions. One of the best parts of my show, or so I’ve heard in the past, is that I show the before and after images. So I show a starting image, and then I show how it ends up. What’s fascinating is to see people’s reactions when they look at the before image, and in their mind, somebody sees a chair is a chair is a chair. They may come to my presentation and come away thinking, “Oh, so a chair isn’t necessarily a chair; a chair is something that blocks light. I see now that I can use the light and the dark of this and play with the shadows.” It’s expanding someone’s recognition of the world in a way that is beyond definition that allows their subconscious to enter and really make the image what it is instead of taking the image.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: For the people watching [or reading] this, in his<em> iPhone Life</em> articles Jonathan goes through that process step by step, and it’s really cool to see the before and after.</strong></p> <p>J: Yes, I call it a three-step process, and I’ll be discussing this at Macworld. I call it Inception, Creation, and Presentation. I find across the board for all of my fine art images, when I capture an image I may not know why, but there’s something that drew me to that particular shot, to that image, wherever I was, whatever I was doing. As you said, what I do in the magazine is really go step by step what I do on a daily basis, as I’ve been doing for almost 2 years now, and every day uploading just one finished piece.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: You do one every single day?</strong></p> <p>J: I’ve done one every day for almost 2 years exactly. I upload it to my Facebook page, to Twitter, to Tumbler. In fact, speaking of the before and after, if we direct people to my Tumbler site (<a href="http://jmarksphoto.tumblr.com/">jmarksphoto.tumblr.com</a>), there I post the original and final images. One image a day every day is challenging at times, it’s taxing -- there are days when it’s 11:50 pm and I’m trying to jam that image out before the end of the day to stay true to it -- but it’s always there.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: Wow, kudos for the consistency! Have you been surprised by the reception of iPhone photography?</strong></p> <p>J: The surprise has been not so much that the iPhone can take photos; what’s been really enlightening to me is the reception of the iPhone’s capabilities, and how technology has changed our ability to produce imagery that heretoforth would require someone sitting in a computer for many hours, or sitting in a dark room. And let’s face it, most images, if not all images, have some sort of work done to them, whether it’s black-and-white film from 40 years ago or digital images from 10 years ago. What I really love seeing is [that] people’s eyes really just light up when they see the capabilities of the iPhone, and I might be doing it sitting at a traffic light or waiting for a dentist appointment. So that in and of itself is really exciting for people, because it opens their eyes to using their camera as more than just a camera and taking images, but like I said, really making images.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: How do you prepare for your presentations?</strong></p> <p>J: [laughs] It’s a lot of work! I wish they would give me deadlines that are far earlier than they are. Because I’ve known for months and I’ll sit there and jam the thing out until moments before it’s due, and I’m still working on my presentation tonight and I will until the very last minute. It’s an organic process for me. Asking me to think about and articulate what is intrinsically a part of me, it’s not something that comes naturally. If you talk to an artist, they have artist's blood, whatever that is. Whether they are a cartoonist, whether they are a photographer, whether they make stained glass -- there’s something in there that compels then to create and to produce. Asking them to find that is almost like asking somebody who is blind to define a color. You really can’t get a grip on that and get a grasp on that, so I sit here and work on my presentation. I’m finding that every time that I’m away from it, I have some other thought that I want to share. It’s not all well of me that I can just pour out on paper and into a presentation; it’s been a challenge. At the same time, it’s been most enjoyable for me to be able to work on articulating that which is really not able to be articulated.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: What do you hope the audience walks away with?</strong></p> <p>J: Mouths agape [laughs]. My goal really is to inspire. I want them to come away with a newfound love of their smartphone, not even limited to an iPhone or any [particular] smartphone. Last July, when I presented at the Apple store, I got emails from people saying, “Hey, I really want to thank you. I left there that night, and I took this great picture on my way home, and I really want to share it with you, and I don’t usually use my phone to take photos.” So if I inspire people to make greater use of their phone’s camera abilities, and capture the world in a way that is uniquely their vision, that’s all I want. That’s all I want out of it. </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: What about the future of iPhone photography? Where do you think it’s going?</strong></p> <p>J: I wish I knew [laughs]. Here’s what I can say, and I firmly believe this. There’s a point in which the “iPhone” part of iPhone Photography is just going to disappear. And when that line gets so blurry that people just look at it as just photography, which is really my goal, which is why I’m pursuing the fine art aspect of this and why I have galleries interested and I’m really going to pursue that with a fervor, because it’s not so much about [the novelty of] taking it with an iPhone. What it does is it enables me to have my singular vision come out in a way that’s purely mine. Today it’s the iPhone, tomorrow it may be some other tool, and at some point, you can see as people were coming up with medium format, as it became much more accessible to people, there was a time when people talked about their medium-format camera. But then that dropped and dissipated and you just realized, it’s a camera, it’s a capture device. Whether it’s an iPhone, whether it’s your Canon gear, yes, it’s all capable of different functionality and standard of excellence that you’re going to find in the higher quality DSLR and medium formats than you are iPhones, but it’s less about that and much more about just the fact that the iPhone right now is one means by which people are making, or taking, photos. For me it’s about making photos using the iPhone, and where it goes from here is anybody’s guess. It’s an incredibly exciting time to be a photographer!</p> <p>I was just recently asked to photograph a somewhat famous author, and I told them I would do it, but only with my iPhone. The publicist loved it! She loved it because [the author] is an older gentleman, and he would like to become more “current.” How great would it be to have his photo taken with an iPhone and put on his promotional material and his book cover. So I would like to pursue that with the iPhone, until that just drops off, and it becomes just another great shot.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>A: What’s next for you?</strong></p> <p>J: To be honest, Alex, I love being open to the possibilities. I don’t put definitions in what I do; I don’t limit myself. I’m highly motivated. I get up early, I go to sleep late, and I fill my days with so much joy and amazement and wonder. What I want more than anything right now is for the fine art that I’m doing with the iPhone to go further. I want people to recognize my unique take on the world, and make it a collectible item to the point that 5 years from now, iPhone photography and my name -- we’re the same, baby! [laughs]</p> <p>You can check out Jonathan Mark’s work on his website: <a href="http://www.jonathanmarksfineart.com/">www.jonathanmarksfineart.com</a></p> <p>And his Tumblr site, where he posts one before/after picture every day: <a href="http://www.jmarksphoto.tumblr.com/">www.jmarksphoto.tumblr.com</a></p>Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-73664320400749411082012-01-10T22:13:00.000-08:002012-01-11T11:59:03.039-08:00Photography's Greatest Challenge - Capture a 3D world in 2D<span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8KVZziFQICelz3cXtsK2nuILoN5T96Sfe3rgIcoXfSX1Erae5PQU-2AVmIY_3twiNyuUNt96vT-vvlYLOllH9dDlqv7M0Qk8ThRTWrM9keam6WUO4SeyN08_Hi6omK6Kjbl1DErCZG4/s1600/IMG_0188.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8KVZziFQICelz3cXtsK2nuILoN5T96Sfe3rgIcoXfSX1Erae5PQU-2AVmIY_3twiNyuUNt96vT-vvlYLOllH9dDlqv7M0Qk8ThRTWrM9keam6WUO4SeyN08_Hi6omK6Kjbl1DErCZG4/s400/IMG_0188.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696252896750556994" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Times; panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0.1pt 0in;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: Times;font-family:";" >Okay, so you wander around every day consciously and unconsciously taking in the sights and smells and sounds of the world around you. On every level your being is absorbing information and processing it with the knowledge and comfort that comes with trusting your brain will put it all together. Take a cup of coffee for example. You smell the coffee yet you see the steam rising from the top of it knowing it's too hot to drink, all the while enjoying the rich black oily texture you see within your cup. Easy, right?<br /><br />Sure, I just painted the picture for you. The scene is right there in your mind or so you think. What I haven't told you is the color of the coffee cup, the orientation of the coffee cup handle to the right or left, the surface on which it sits, the surroundings in the room, whether the hand reaching for it is black or white, male or female. So much information is omitted and now you think that perhaps the picture of the scene just formulated in your mind is not what you thought?!<br /><br />Ah yes, then you see the photograph of it, for there before you lies the 3D scene rendered in 2D with abundant information provided. Not only that but that 3D scene, forever inscribed in 2D was taken in a mere fraction of a second with precision and accuracy tied to that very moment in the grand continuum of life. Talk about a challenge!<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt; margin-left:0in;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd;mso-para-margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Times; mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";" ><br /></span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:.1pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:.1pt; margin-left:0in;mso-para-margin-top:.01gd;mso-para-margin-right:0in;mso-para-margin-bottom: .01gd;mso-para-margin-left:0in"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:Times; mso-bidi-Times New Roman"font-family:";" >As Buddha says – “Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise!”</span></span></p><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span><br /></span>Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-89069783389753759472011-11-27T05:09:00.000-08:002011-11-27T05:27:21.246-08:00Do not speak, unless it improves on silence. . .<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPP_-vWWli8qDMY0pXE0vpMk9epvmPTL7v6XynXdCkdS-rFG76ksG_f6ighTa9X7Vom21DyTwyfT4e8M2sr6L21rU-0bxrxSeF-GjyFBf0dsu8qKLQ_Pyh-0Olt88AGMhEggiX0gj7WRI/s1600/10_October_2011.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPP_-vWWli8qDMY0pXE0vpMk9epvmPTL7v6XynXdCkdS-rFG76ksG_f6ighTa9X7Vom21DyTwyfT4e8M2sr6L21rU-0bxrxSeF-GjyFBf0dsu8qKLQ_Pyh-0Olt88AGMhEggiX0gj7WRI/s400/10_October_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5679664010110234994" border="0" /></a><br />For most of us the inundation of information upon us at any one time is staggering if not overly abundant and at times even deafening. We end up spending so much time attempting to decipher what we are to make of the multitude of messages coming at us that it seems more energy and conscious thought is spent weeding out than welcoming in.<br /><br />To this I strongly suggest you allow yourself time every day to enjoy silence. Find a simple moment to commit to doing nothing, absolutely nothing for some set period of time. Be it a minute or an hour, enjoy the silence of mind, body and soul. Speak not nor be spoken to, and for once every day allow silence to be the loudest part of your day. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-16322343077227299392011-11-09T14:33:00.001-08:002011-11-09T14:34:35.748-08:00Is photography an exercise in Buddhist thinking?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjeygZKku8qQD_ABFW_DZ_XaEEiZkPJibSLZwp6IBQMPfMA6Bql__LQCn0B8u-73ntMP5POVZSM17ABChN6U3v-eDSt01BuAJ15GBS1NbVK8mEMydOKHA28lzf5Anhnlt9DdspN3TEGY/s1600/7_August_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXjeygZKku8qQD_ABFW_DZ_XaEEiZkPJibSLZwp6IBQMPfMA6Bql__LQCn0B8u-73ntMP5POVZSM17ABChN6U3v-eDSt01BuAJ15GBS1NbVK8mEMydOKHA28lzf5Anhnlt9DdspN3TEGY/s400/7_August_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5666548366314901410" border="0" /></a>Roughly ten years ago in the old days (I know, since when is a mere ten years ago the "old days"?) when film was the standard in photography, the notion of presenting your final image as envisioned when you shot it was a matter of developing the negative through skill, trial and error, and often a bit of luck. Literally and figuratively this meant taking the negative and turning it into a positive, turning it into an image that was as you imagined it when you shot it and thus give it the look you want all who see it to remember and associate with you.<br /><br />Much like Buddhist philosophy which believes that we are not to change the world but the way we experience it, all of us who use digital capture devices, be it a camera or camera phone to capture the world around us have what I would say is the same responsibility. As photographers at any level we have the opportunity now more than ever to creatively turn the digital negative into a positive, much like life. After all, when you think about it life is one unprocessed negative as we take in the information before us with our senses unconsciously aware in that very moment of "capture". And then, like processing the digital negative from our camera, we wisely decide what to do with the information our senses have introduced into our consciousness so as to produce the desired effect.<br /><br />So I challenge you to now think of the negative in any situation, photographic as in life, as an opportunity to turn it into something positive. Whatever you do it's your life to live as it is your photo to make. Just enjoy the process. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-53530465614345682782011-10-06T21:51:00.000-07:002011-10-07T16:57:52.977-07:00Voyeur or photographer?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7a86oXPvuhuDE3o10I_scTBawM_tJlhz_Iwk9ouhfgDZeefAjxIB8H4CZ9hcuuDyZHLyoMSBLi7WFCZL5i0qKQoVAbosBx076wvmrm6KzLGav7Kg0zD0k-BvoUsyJwPE0PRfe-MxJvc/s1600/IMG_0028.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7a86oXPvuhuDE3o10I_scTBawM_tJlhz_Iwk9ouhfgDZeefAjxIB8H4CZ9hcuuDyZHLyoMSBLi7WFCZL5i0qKQoVAbosBx076wvmrm6KzLGav7Kg0zD0k-BvoUsyJwPE0PRfe-MxJvc/s400/IMG_0028.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660609673770253506" border="0" /></a><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><br />As one who loves to capture select moments of my daily life in photos I start to wonder sometimes what the draw is when I feel so compelled to grab a shot before it leaves my proverbial frame. Am I making art or stealing a moment? Am I the observer? The archivist? The collector of treasured scenes? Or perhaps am I simply an outsider watching the scene unfold before me, akin to a voyeur?<br /><br />Really, ponder this if you will. Is there a difference between one who stands anonymously in a darkened room simply watching life unfolding outside with keen awareness, and a photographer with camera in front of their face capturing life unfolding before them, this time with a sense of permanence as it is recorded?<br /><br />Judge not the voyeur, for it is only a matter of time before you are the one being observed as you are photographing another. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-77964792127559554902011-10-02T21:59:00.001-07:002011-10-03T09:06:36.449-07:00Context is fundamental in reading images<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7XMU-TR2IPKPffknA9H2VIhY8d5E6Nkr3wfI9qf_gD_bXedySNAsozs9LRJGQg2jjVkUsmKSRUtAf1zLcyNa9arijbI13mzzGQaZH599BGZGFj87yfR2W1OTuZYKoWJdnn86jK8FrMg/s1600/IMG_6438.JPG"> <img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW7XMU-TR2IPKPffknA9H2VIhY8d5E6Nkr3wfI9qf_gD_bXedySNAsozs9LRJGQg2jjVkUsmKSRUtAf1zLcyNa9arijbI13mzzGQaZH599BGZGFj87yfR2W1OTuZYKoWJdnn86jK8FrMg/s400/IMG_6438.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5659126262757981698" border="0" /></a><br />Falling down or shooting up? What do you see? How do you see it? In what context is this image resonating within your consciousness, your world, your universe?<br /><br />Funny how the state of mind we're in at the moment we first come across an image can so dramatically change the way we see or "read" an image. As crazy as it may seem, we've all experienced it when eating something at some point in our lives. Come on! Who hasn't found him or her self shelling and enjoying a delicious bowl of pistachio nuts when, without looking, you shell one and plop it in your mouth and it's one of those rancid bitter ones. Now, think about how that would color your view of that whole bowl you just enjoyed if that bitter one was the last one to be had. What impression do you think you'd have the next time you saw a bowl of pistachio nuts?! Delicious and tasty or rancid and bitter?!<br /><br />Unlike pistachio nuts, if an photo resonates within you in a manner that leaves you with a bad taste or uncomfortable feeling, fear not! There are always more images in the bowl. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-23565404524871272362011-09-17T07:36:00.001-07:002011-09-18T17:28:15.736-07:00So little for so long. . .<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNp2ywHGtHKDbfACoLvWLDcqOLMUK1R2cxKBhQ-57KJZXujgMwIR_4MfMefftw1-1pzIqkXtD8BL5YlDpZtzV8VSEUPrh6y4naWMPCeW_bgrycQnHu8NvKxyFFbWhsDgFaMxFTmLu0uo/s1600/IMG_3034.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilNp2ywHGtHKDbfACoLvWLDcqOLMUK1R2cxKBhQ-57KJZXujgMwIR_4MfMefftw1-1pzIqkXtD8BL5YlDpZtzV8VSEUPrh6y4naWMPCeW_bgrycQnHu8NvKxyFFbWhsDgFaMxFTmLu0uo/s400/IMG_3034.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5653374414075344226" border="0" /></a>The wonder of photography continues to amaze me even decades after I first began to delve into it. And no, I speak not of the magic one experiences the first time they are in the darkroom with a variety of toxic chemicals, a seemingly blank strip of film and a small lonely red light to illuminate everything within.<br /><br />Nor for that matter do I raise this point after continually being blown away by the astounding advances in digital capture and post-processing over the years, all of which enable us as photographers to do so much more with our images than we ever thought possible.<br /><br />No, what truly amazes me is the simple fact that something that can take so little time to make can last so long! Think about it! In 1/125th of a second, maybe even 1/250 or 1/1000 (as in one one thousandth of a second!), you capture something that will be viewed and admired for all eternity! It will live on forever. It can be viewed for seconds or minutes or hours or days, if not longer. And what was the investment of your time? A fraction of a second. That's it!<br /><br />Okay, so maybe you take longer than that to hone your craft or develop your photographic eye but think about it in the big picture (no pun intended). What other medium of expression takes such a short period of time (measured in mere fractions of seconds) to produce and yet lasts so long (a period of time that remains immeasurable)?Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-63340224650167401132011-09-08T07:00:00.000-07:002011-09-08T07:50:30.508-07:00Do you see what I see?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4IQpY35lhyphenhyphendEgdXoyMV3tjd3maBfurKEWRLFzKk1OtyYoKELVFqBq6ACEhePH5mfLkZDmQ77dnuRhYqCyeYcvsrZbb8kxA2PgR61D9DFaRQnEs4IpYpWfsCafpCm3YpoD57OK83_Hsk/s1600/16_January_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB4IQpY35lhyphenhyphendEgdXoyMV3tjd3maBfurKEWRLFzKk1OtyYoKELVFqBq6ACEhePH5mfLkZDmQ77dnuRhYqCyeYcvsrZbb8kxA2PgR61D9DFaRQnEs4IpYpWfsCafpCm3YpoD57OK83_Hsk/s400/16_January_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5649988799274696674" border="0" /></a>So, do you see what I see? Really now, you should see it as it's right there in front of you. Oh wait, of course you see "it", the proverbial "it" being that which your eyes and brain are wired to see in this image as well as all others you happen upon, be it by choice or intention.<br /><br />The point here being that anything and everything you see in the world around you is up for interpretation, thus is the beauty of the visual arts. And for this very same reason you will find I don't title my images, other than the date of capture. After all, were this called "Bored one afternoon and I decided to hold a colander up to the light and photograph it with my iPhone to see what I could do with it creatively", would it mean any more or less to you?!<br /><br />So, do you see what I see? Or does it really matter anyway?Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-62468989248755998842011-08-20T14:44:00.001-07:002011-08-26T21:45:43.587-07:00But EVERYONE is a photographer. . .<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2KRpcoPIzycB6b1yarObKGh9Xbfiwwhda_pumclUw1CZYG0pMF5YGU97oJNhMLIp7s2HImyEeW__RGcRTNJFWAKoqWlk_zlpvba6OKO0LdGub_4ujEaUBv02-B3CmtuFnupD8QAMIuk8/s1600/IMG_1507.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2KRpcoPIzycB6b1yarObKGh9Xbfiwwhda_pumclUw1CZYG0pMF5YGU97oJNhMLIp7s2HImyEeW__RGcRTNJFWAKoqWlk_zlpvba6OKO0LdGub_4ujEaUBv02-B3CmtuFnupD8QAMIuk8/s400/IMG_1507.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5644287638544415650" border="0" /></a>
<br />Really? Is everyone a photographer because he/she carries a camera and can inexpensively and with little if any training take a photo?
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<br />I bring this up because of the multiple times as of late that others have said to me "I wish I was a photographer", or worse yet hearing from fellow photographers that they are tired of the business because "everyone has a camera", to which I can only reply that everyone may have a camera but a camera does not but make a photographer.
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<br />Think about it! Is everyone a race car driver because he/she has a car? Is your neighbor who gardens on the occasional weekend with a top rate hoe, the nicest shovel and a package of Burpee seeds a landscape architect?
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<br />I challenge you to be who you want to be, with nary a concern for the potential label associated with it. Just do it and let your effort speak for itself. Who knows? You may end up being hired to design your neighbor's garden while you are out there arranging your plants in such a way as to capture them with your high end Hasselblad gear and associated Phase One digital back, because after all. . .you are "a photographer"!
<br />Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-55636766026794890702011-08-15T21:38:00.000-07:002011-08-20T14:50:09.832-07:00Find your style, in photography as in life!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG29k4-5kP1XHhlfN-EqguGiOeo2K0Cgf1bBdop1mF4FxvoK7Ol7iLDr9HxZ9x7DiQQOnIhrLTXLxgsgmknc-U5mNRURDrCLLSlyTzYxQBMu2AyqXUVd98rNBbnCh5roiDj6qtxz0oKaU/s1600/10_June_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG29k4-5kP1XHhlfN-EqguGiOeo2K0Cgf1bBdop1mF4FxvoK7Ol7iLDr9HxZ9x7DiQQOnIhrLTXLxgsgmknc-U5mNRURDrCLLSlyTzYxQBMu2AyqXUVd98rNBbnCh5roiDj6qtxz0oKaU/s400/10_June_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641319204217409874" border="0" /></a>Like a fingerprint, you have a unique style that is all yours, distinctly and consistently you! I speak here not merely of photography but of everything in life upon which you put your personal stamp, be it knowingly or unknowingly.
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<br />So, what is the unifying factor here between your photography and living life at large? Simple! You are you and there is no other you! YOU are perfect because you are perfectly you! You barbecue a certain way, wash your car the way you wish, you work and love and live in a manner that is distinctly yours! Now, armed with this very elementary reminder I say you venture out and capture images that speak to who you are, to how you uniquely see the world and then share your vision freely and confidently.
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<br />Your goal should not be to please everyone in every manner in every moment. I suggest you let go of the opposition you project into your photography and like everything else you do, let it speak for itself, for your photographic style will be yours and yours alone, just like your barbecue!
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<br />Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-72356674863834104552011-08-09T21:55:00.000-07:002011-08-14T18:27:39.743-07:00Follow your passion!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygUfuVzOE8kamQ3eUP8x-7FMNzd8TMkWcih-KPk39kbiajjVjx6krspTl4QTARu0IPyE2baTZmj_ma4qrC3Y5iHJQbdYD_iNTOCXqlrgC-Du56Tz1YYoEe-ZHhKSrUOWd4dWfBcFlIVc/s1600/17_February_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiygUfuVzOE8kamQ3eUP8x-7FMNzd8TMkWcih-KPk39kbiajjVjx6krspTl4QTARu0IPyE2baTZmj_ma4qrC3Y5iHJQbdYD_iNTOCXqlrgC-Du56Tz1YYoEe-ZHhKSrUOWd4dWfBcFlIVc/s400/17_February_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5639845831596068914" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:130%;">
<br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Wondering what level of commitment to your craft you adopt. Do you shoot to support your life and all its trappings? Are you "needing" to shoot to feed the sustenance machine that you and those in your immediate world depend on staying well greased?
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<br />Or are you shooting because it's what you feel you must do, because it's your passion and your joy and your most innate desire?
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<br />I dare say you strive for the latter and trust your instinct, your gut and your heart that your passion can and will successfully not only support the machinations of life but instead will provide for it in supreme abundance. And then, only then will you find yourself quickly realizing that shooting for a client provides a paycheck, shooting for your passion provides a lifestyle!</span></span>
<br />Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-46343569011299267492011-08-06T12:18:00.002-07:002011-08-09T16:02:57.979-07:00Your personality as exemplified by your imagery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhety4FnuCIdPtmc5lB5orKzC6_eOR4KdGa8C0hyphenhyphen2b4korUthj0eww1b3NFEyA-vQBynlKTlXrpzugJTMopgpTAEXS9k-X8ba-Uz8uDWsC-1cxdL6CJ-h1JERlDb_nUU8UhDqxDDFbOwdQ/s1600/17_March_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhety4FnuCIdPtmc5lB5orKzC6_eOR4KdGa8C0hyphenhyphen2b4korUthj0eww1b3NFEyA-vQBynlKTlXrpzugJTMopgpTAEXS9k-X8ba-Uz8uDWsC-1cxdL6CJ-h1JERlDb_nUU8UhDqxDDFbOwdQ/s400/17_March_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637824714487682578" border="0" /></a>
<br />What does your photographic take on the world around you say about what's going on within you? Are you capturing what you are feeling and sharing that through the photos you take?
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<br />Chances are the times you decide to stop and shoot, be it with your smartphone or your Canon DSLR, there is something resonating within you that compels you to do so. What may seem like a simple photographic grab may just be the result of a deeper manifestation of a feeling or mood you may not even be conscious of at the time you shot it.
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<br />Knowing this, might you venture back and look at your photos with a different eye? Perhaps they might now take on a new life? Perhaps. . .
<br />Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-35115305413802012572011-08-04T12:45:00.000-07:002011-08-04T18:22:22.275-07:00What other medium happens so quickly and lasts an eternity?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vWv5VKxO7w5EH8Pjz1IPGXFQa1PvkhpagHc1oB8qo8JSD_dTV5hAk4snsy9bULE93erjiRcJ67-bO87Bie5Ymf72wkKbaskID5QoedSpy1m1GX3EqfB8qwzzq-EiMChZWPvV3AnVcmE/s1600/27_May_2010.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2vWv5VKxO7w5EH8Pjz1IPGXFQa1PvkhpagHc1oB8qo8JSD_dTV5hAk4snsy9bULE93erjiRcJ67-bO87Bie5Ymf72wkKbaskID5QoedSpy1m1GX3EqfB8qwzzq-EiMChZWPvV3AnVcmE/s400/27_May_2010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5637090011069897234" border="0" /></a><br />There, but for a fleeting moment in time, sits the scene before you. The mood, the time of day, the weather, the sunlight or moonlight or lack thereof, the person or place or thing within, your placement relative to what you see, the activity around it, the amalgam of the scene is there for but a moment. And what do you do? Capture it with your camera for all eternity!<br /><br />The irony of this glorious medium of photography is that it and it alone takes so little to capture something that lasts so long (forever in fact, if we continue to upgrade our storage). And what does it take you to make that image? All of a fraction of a second? Maybe 1/500th of a second in the grand and infinite time line of life, death and eternity?<br /><br />Think about it. I would even suggest you look at life itself as an endless stream of fractions of seconds and covet every moment before you, not just capturing them with your camera but with your eyes, heart, and soul, for those moments too will be fleeting. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-35805500181306177722011-07-31T21:19:00.000-07:002011-07-31T22:15:57.913-07:00Seeing the world in black and white<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjan0ilJiQ8L3ID0eoWKfidG6YwASWIXoo2JKeC5MbkVIHKwVSjaVdlhXjmzBZ5qn7zO2FQ7KVkYH9tz4VHiDDjbzY27dXnotEWQ8Ht2_sZaPwyYwOqrIPqRPvgQS7MZzWED6_Nco8LrHk/s1600/26_February_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 398px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjan0ilJiQ8L3ID0eoWKfidG6YwASWIXoo2JKeC5MbkVIHKwVSjaVdlhXjmzBZ5qn7zO2FQ7KVkYH9tz4VHiDDjbzY27dXnotEWQ8Ht2_sZaPwyYwOqrIPqRPvgQS7MZzWED6_Nco8LrHk/s400/26_February_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635738107653131666" border="0" /></a><br />Take all the color out of your mind, strip your consciousness of preconceived thoughts as they pertain to sunsets and rainbows and black birds and blue jays and let the shape of things before you shape your appreciation for them. One needn't have color to know that color exists since contrast and contour, shadow and texture have a palette all their own.<br /><br />Go on, look at the world in black and white at times and watch how it colors your appreciation for it. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-89255637662031320752011-07-28T15:40:00.000-07:002011-07-28T15:47:49.271-07:00Is there truth in photography?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFaBhHML6vaJ5VjbvSl3apvPLNUSAw7Uhkgcg4Mmxn9r1oyusoMZ1VlHvC75obujLGOirU_Nhr-AAHIf8ePFjNM4w50cGbFR1dxAenzg41WH4GI273P36jKuZGf3Gq8paXKYFMMLqQp8/s1600/25_January_2011.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIFaBhHML6vaJ5VjbvSl3apvPLNUSAw7Uhkgcg4Mmxn9r1oyusoMZ1VlHvC75obujLGOirU_Nhr-AAHIf8ePFjNM4w50cGbFR1dxAenzg41WH4GI273P36jKuZGf3Gq8paXKYFMMLqQp8/s400/25_January_2011.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5634536969255389282" border="0" /></a><br />Whilst sitting here preparing for tonight's presentation at Apple I am starting to wonder where the truth is in the images I will show. Sure, they are a slice of time at that very moment and for me the truth lies in the convergence of the elements necessary to produce the image right there, right then. I see it, I capture it, I show it.<br /><br />To the observer of photography, I wonder just what they see? For instance, in this image above is this the shadow of a shopping cart on a wall or is it a shopping cart behind a nearly sheer backdrop? For that matter, does it matter?<br /><br />As I see it, the truth in photography is what you want it to be. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-82481011731105407012011-07-26T07:26:00.000-07:002011-07-26T07:30:19.562-07:00Does photography show what's there or what's not there?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8sv_77QA_V5-aEDUhbwN-uYx5qxE0G_gFEoH3cT_5MTYuXFj28KCGf5irhqHosX_8fopEbf5_icDJu4oLNJfgcblpLf8fVeF9TZhXMUak4WGI-FGaBfdyVGt0gyMo8WiHQcDzp4njaM/s1600/26_April_2010.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 358px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU8sv_77QA_V5-aEDUhbwN-uYx5qxE0G_gFEoH3cT_5MTYuXFj28KCGf5irhqHosX_8fopEbf5_icDJu4oLNJfgcblpLf8fVeF9TZhXMUak4WGI-FGaBfdyVGt0gyMo8WiHQcDzp4njaM/s400/26_April_2010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633665876628955682" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:lucida grande;" >Been pondering this of late. Is photography about capturing the scene before you, the moment in time that for a split second (or 1/125th of a second, give or take a fraction of a second), everything stops long enough to get recorded for all eternity</span><span style="font-family: arial;">? Or conversely is it perhaps about recording what's not there, literally. Is the negative space really there? Is it that which is necessary to define a positive image? Ponder that if you will. . .</span>Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-27284539691508245682011-07-24T19:12:00.000-07:002011-07-24T20:31:10.118-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiphalKffVtpJfePSwJItdUNgwJdv25Zrrwft-WrcDZjTOq10sKy5WEnHNE-vZCEi4pPydZUH7XXtPw4MV-gfI3CasV9VoOIhQmZ2xUjt6a7UpOfDUp0vU_XJ_zFRUCtxkFLOyRQ2Wz4/s1600/IMG_5066.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkiphalKffVtpJfePSwJItdUNgwJdv25Zrrwft-WrcDZjTOq10sKy5WEnHNE-vZCEi4pPydZUH7XXtPw4MV-gfI3CasV9VoOIhQmZ2xUjt6a7UpOfDUp0vU_XJ_zFRUCtxkFLOyRQ2Wz4/s400/IMG_5066.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5633107332766679458" border="0" /></a><br />Such a supreme pleasure it was to work with Austin and Lisa here in my garage studio yestrday, shooting for hours with JUST my iPhone and a Calumet Travelite strobe's modeling light as the only light source. That, a reflector appropriately placed, a white backdrop, patience, a reminder to not take ourselves too seriously since we are, after all, only shooting with an iPhone, and the end result is a panoply of stunning images.<br /><br />One of many final images is shown here, but I invite you to come to my Apple presentation this Thursday night if you are anywhere near San Francisco to see a full spectrum of images from this shoot yesterday. All images shown Thursday night will have been shot with, processed in, and uploaded from my iPhone.<br /><br />Prepare to see the power of the iPhone, the creative vision behind its user (that would be me!), its various apps, and come meet Austin and Lisa, both of whom will be in attendance Thursday!<br /><br />Until then. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-75343272588368596242011-07-22T22:14:00.000-07:002011-07-23T18:08:44.369-07:00An evening at Apple fast approaches<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX34ozLb7WmLhCGEJyWdYDp5oop6Hs2unoiO-zbITqXi9MnprLrLWBAgUzoBkhmnK9h1j5YHKbGGDifljzhfork9ojKH9g9159NitfyGwwqK2mX-aw5GA3H1EV78ufyy4mV8osE9uvBbw/s1600/10_July_2010.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX34ozLb7WmLhCGEJyWdYDp5oop6Hs2unoiO-zbITqXi9MnprLrLWBAgUzoBkhmnK9h1j5YHKbGGDifljzhfork9ojKH9g9159NitfyGwwqK2mX-aw5GA3H1EV78ufyy4mV8osE9uvBbw/s400/10_July_2010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632719559690288386" border="0" /></a><br />Project based work, my favorite! Having always waited until the last minute to do school projects you'd think I would have learned by now. That being said, here I am scrambling to put together the very best presentation I can for Apple next Thursday, even though I have had almost two months to prepare accordingly.<br /><br />How is it going you ask? Let's simply say that I just came back from a terrific meeting with my DJ for the night (Levente) to discuss mixes he'll be pulling together to go with the show. The excitement is building, the ideas flowing, the music will please, and the night to come is almost here. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57076629043205082.post-10628462547631803232011-07-21T11:48:00.000-07:002011-07-23T18:09:17.745-07:00Finally. . .a website!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkhHHiQH1MgTNCcZiAwEvkS_jxdEMw_jc4UpTDIOv-3WhoivZDhaIfJnL0tkLZs1_IqL7WBFmQrHMRNgD9fK8s-lg4vV16GzNe2tNtdRqga5HyGog8TI-RIsPo5fWUzrF_fAVukeWMmI/s1600/30_August_2010.JPG"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipkhHHiQH1MgTNCcZiAwEvkS_jxdEMw_jc4UpTDIOv-3WhoivZDhaIfJnL0tkLZs1_IqL7WBFmQrHMRNgD9fK8s-lg4vV16GzNe2tNtdRqga5HyGog8TI-RIsPo5fWUzrF_fAVukeWMmI/s400/30_August_2010.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5632719699972571330" border="0" /></a><br />So, after decades of shooting, tens of thousands of images, and countless hours spent wondering just when I'd FINALLY put up a website, it's done! There, how hard was that? Quite elementary to be exact, and somewhat enjoyable to be honest.<br /><br />Now, the only issue remains as just how many images I want to go through to find those that make it on to the site. For now, it is up. It is done! I finally have one item I can cross off my long and overwhelming "To-Do" list! One big item at that!<br /><br />Well, now that I think about it. Maybe I shouldn't cross it off just yet, I still have to go through my images for an even stronger look. Oh well! So close and yet so far. . .Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01842007355736648698noreply@blogger.com0