This is a good explanation of the use of light when shooting portraits.
While the video uses studio lighting to explain the effects, the same sort of principles apply when you are using natural light.
Similarly while the story is about shooting still photos, the same concepts can be applied to shooting video, using light sources for affect.
(Source: theslantedlens.com)
( originally posted on Mixed media reporting tumblr )
While we tend to do a good job with stories as they unfold, we often fail to follow-up. What happens after the court case, the flood, the award winning?
With or without you is a Reuters story, returning to the story behind one of their high profile images from the Japanese Tsunami.
The main image is one of those great shots, but more interesting to me in this ‘revisit’ context, is the three images of Yuko Sugimoto on the highway.
These three photos show a consistent style, starting with Yuko’s own dilemma, and concluding with her son replacing the photo in her arms.
This sort of presentation style is outside our current CMS, but it would work in a blog post, and will be possible in our new Core Media CMS.
( originally posted on Mixed media reporting tumblr )
“When you’re out shooting, it’s really important to take into consideration all of the elements that are presented to you. You need to constantly ask yourself whether this thing or that thing can help you tell your story more effectively.”
On Using Elements In Your Scene To Help Tell Your Story
( originally posted on Mixed media reporting tumblr )
Satyajit Das is one of the world’s leading experts in derivatives and risk management. He’s worked in financial markets for over 30 years, and consults to banks and investors.
In this conversation, Richard Fidler manages to take the murky financial jargon and turn quite complex ideas into a consumable piece of audio
( originally posted on Mixed media reporting tumblr )
This is a good example of balance in a photo. Notice the bench with the two friends in the top left third junction, balanced by the bicycle in the bottom right third.
(oiginally written for abcmmr blog photo courtesy Josh Adamski )
Consider the world light,
And the spirit is not burdened;
Consider the myriad things slight,
And the mind is not confused.
Consider life and death equal,
And the intellect is not afraid;
Consider change as sameness,
And clarity is not obscured.
~ Lao-tzu
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I made a special trip to Toowong Cemetery and the war graves there to take this Remembrance Day photo this year.
I sat with the talking clock on my phone so I could take it at precisely 11.11.11 11:11:11
Unfortunately my camera clock wasn’t set as accurately.
Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there’s nothing else to gaze on,
Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore,
Big mountains heaved to heaven, which the blinding sunsets blazon,
Black canyons where the rapids rip and roar?
Have you swept the visioned valley with the green stream streaking through it,
Searched the Vastness for a something you have lost?
Have you strung your soul to silence? Then for God’s sake go and do it;
Hear the challenge, learn the lesson, pay the cost.
Have you wandered in the wilderness, the sagebrush desolation,
The bunch-grass levels where the cattle graze?
Have you whistled bits of rag-time at the end of all creation,
And learned to know the desert’s little ways?
Have you camped upon the foothills, have you galloped o’er the ranges,
Have you roamed the arid sun-lands through and through?
Have you chummed up with the mesa? Do you know its moods and changes?
Then listen to the Wild — it’s calling you.
Have you known the Great White Silence, not a snow-gemmed twig aquiver?
(Eternal truths that shame our soothing lies.)
Have you broken trail on snowshoes? mushed your huskies up the river,
Dared the unknown, led the way, and clutched the prize?
Have you marked the map’s void spaces, mingled with the mongrel races,
Felt the savage strength of brute in every thew?
And though grim as hell the worst is, can you round it off with curses?
Then hearken to the Wild — it’s wanting you.
Have you suffered, starved and triumphed, groveled down, yet grasped at glory,
Grown bigger in the bigness of the whole?
“Done things” just for the doing, letting babblers tell the story,
Seeing through the nice veneer the naked soul?
Have you seen God in His splendors, heard the text that nature renders?
(You’ll never hear it in the family pew.)
The simple things, the true things, the silent men who do things —
Then listen to the Wild — it’s calling you.
They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching,
They have soaked you in convention through and through;
They have put you in a showcase; you’re a credit to their teaching —
But can’t you hear the Wild? — it’s calling you.
Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us;
Let us journey to a lonely land I know.
There’s a whisper on the night-wind, there’s a star agleam to guide us,
And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go.
“Call of the Wild” ~ Robert Service
