3.28.2012
Fenton Patch POLE Publication
Hace unos meses fotografié a mis profes (y amigas) durante sus entrenamientos de pole. Esta semana, el diario Fenton Patch de Estados Unidos publicó un articulo que les comparto en el cual salen mis fotos!
1.27.2012
Music
Una noche de musica en el Casco Viejo de Panamá.
Por ahora solo estas dos imagenes, mas por venir.
Tere
Siente la música
10.11.2011
Nick Brandt
En el blog del NY Times, Lens, encontré el siguiente articulo sobre el fotógrafo Nick Brandt. Vi las imágenes y fue como "WOW!" en mi cabeza...creo que es de mis fotógrafos preferidos. Presenta la naturaleza de manera mágica, las fotos parecen cuadros, retratos planeados y modelados por los animales. Les comparto algunas imágenes a ver que opinan.
Quiero ir a África.
In East Africa, Fine Art Meets Conservation
We always recommend using the “Full Screen” feature to view photographs on Lens. Here, we kindly demand that you click it.By MIKI MEEK
Nick Brandt’s stark and soulful portraits are an intimate glimpse at a world under siege. A mournful ranger holds poached ivory tusks, an abandoned ostrich eggs sits on a stretch of parched earth and a small herd of elephants surrounds a skull.
Mr. Brandt has been photographing the threatened wildlife of Kenya and Tanzania for more than a decade and has released his work in two volumes: “On This Earth” (2005) and “A Shadow Falls” (2009). He’s now halfway through shooting the final volume, and a selection of that new work opens at the Fotografiska Museum in Stockholm on Oct. 6.
Over the years, his photographs have taken on an intentionally darker tone to reflect increasing pressures on the region, mainly from demand by Asian markets. Raw ivory now fetches up to $800 per kilogram and rhino horn is worth more per ounce than gold dust, according to the World Wildlife Fund. Elephants that Mr. Brandt photographed just a few years ago have already been killed.
“It’s getting harder and harder to capture these animals because every year there’s less of them,” Mr. Brandt said. “So I’m actually taking longer and longer to take these photographs but my mission is still to try and show them as sentient creatures.”
His first book was a vision of an Edenic paradise with lush landscapes and ethereal moments like a cloud of dust exploding over an elephant’s head while the scenes in his second book become progressively emptier and drier. By the end, the trees have vanished and the water has evaporated.
You will not find action shots or telephoto lenses — the usual hallmarks of wildlife photography — in Mr. Brandt’s work. He opts for tight and solitary portraits in sepia or black and white. The resulting photographs feel like artifacts from a bygone era.
“I’m waiting for the moment where the animal seems like they’re posing or where they’ve set themselves into a landscape like an Edward Curtis,” Mr. Brandt said.
This means he can spend weeks with an animal without taking a single photograph. For a profile of a lion in Kenya’s Maasai Mara, he watched it sleep under clear blue skies for 17 days. But the moment of satisfaction finally came when a strong wind blew in and the lion sat up (see photo 5 in the slide show above).
Working with guides, Mr. Brandt shoots almost exclusively from a car with a medium-format Pentax 67II and spends three months of every year photographing all around East Africa. (He’s based in southern California).
“What I’m doing feels slightly insane in its impracticality, especially coming from being a director where you’re a control freak and with animals, you’re anything but in control,” he said.
Mr. Brandt’s introduction to the region came through his previous career as a music video director. In 1995, he went to Tanzania to work on Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” and was enraptured by what he saw.
“It was so moving. I felt like I was watching these incredible creatures move across a landscape before man was around,” Mr. Brandt said.
Frustrated that he couldn’t quite capture this same sense of awe with video, he left his successful commercial career for photography. Lately, he’s also expanded into serious conservation work with his non-profit Big Life Foundation, which focuses on wildlife in the Amboseli ecosystem in Kenya and Tanzania.
With donations from Mr. Brandt’s photography supporters, the year-old organization now has 120 rangers, all local, who collaborate with communities to reduce poaching and conflicts between farmers and wildlife.
“I’m a pessimist, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to give up on trying to limit what’s happening,” Mr. Brandt said. “Sometimes you have to realize that it’s extraordinary that there are any elephants left at all.”
He plans to release his third book in September 2013 and says the title will complete a sentence he started with his two earlier book titles, “On this earth a shadow falls…”
9.22.2011
Cuadernito Rojo
Estas son solo algunas de las imagenes que tome como parte de mi proyecto para el Taller de Luz que estoy viendo. Estoy buscando fotografiar las relaciones entre parejas y entre padre/madre e hijo/a. Como siempre, recibo cualquier critica o comentario.
Muchas gracias a mis excelentes modelos, me alegro mucho que les haya gustado el resultado!
9.21.2011
De mi clase...
Les muestro un par de fotos que tome en mi Taller de Luz en la universidad. El ejercicio era trabajar con iluminación continua en estudio. Fue un concepto de grupo y estas son las mejores fotos.
9.09.2011
Martina Leeloo Dallas
Casualmente, hoy hoy lei sobre la la fundación Second Chance Photos la cual se enfoca en hacer fotografias animales en adopción para mejorar sus probabilidades de ser adoptados. Normalmente los animales que llegan a refugios o hogares de paso son fotografiados a su llegada y están nerviosos y/o asustados. Esta organización promueve el uso de la fotografia como instrumento de ayuda en los procesos de adopción.
Personalmente creo que es algo obvio, las imagenes transmiten mucho y pueden lograr suscitar emociones al que las vea. Un perro asustado, en una foto de pobre resolución y color no va a transmitirle mucho al que vea la foto así el perro sea Lassie o Bethoven. Aqui les muestro un ejemplo:
Análogo
Mirando entre las diversas carpetas de mi computador encontré estas tres fotografias analogas que tomé durante mi primer semestre de la universidad. Definitivamente no hay nada que se compare con revelar y ampliar tus propias fotos...para mi es un espacio y tiempo de calma y concentración, de relajación y no hay nada mejor que ver esa imagen revelandose frente a tus ojos y que salga justo como te la esperabas. Tristemente no es muy facil tener un laboratorio análogo así que si les gusta la fotografía y tienen la oportunidad de revelar les recomiendo mucho hacerlo!
Terreno montañoso
Moo
Hermanos
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