Here is your chance to enter and WIN a ThinkTank Retrospective 20 valued at $159!!!!
The contest will be open from September 3rd ending at 11:59pm Eastern time on September 19th. (Be sure to read below to find out when you should e mail me)
Here are the contest rules and how you get entries. (open to anyone around the world)
1. You must be signed up on the Fro List to WIN. If you are already on there you will receive 1 entry (The one for the Free Ebook)
2. You will get 5 entries for signing up in the Forum to be a member right here
(If you are already signed up in the forum you get 5 entries)
3. You will get 5 extra entries for answering this question on the forum Click Here
4. If you have purchased a shirt you will receive 1 entry for each shirt. If you would like to purchase a shirt click here
5. If you are a member of the Flicrk Photo Group, Twitter, FB Fan Page and you subscribe to my Youtube Chanel (all can be found on the right of the page) you get 1 entry for each.
6. You must email Fro@FroKnowsPhoto.com starting September 17th with how many Entries you have accumulated. The subject line MUST read “ThinkTank Contest” for your entries to be tallied. Please only send one e mail, your first e mail will be the only one opened.
There will be ways to receive bonus points throughout the contest so keep an eye to twitter,facebook and your email.
How the winner will be selected. If you have 15 entries you will occupy for example slots 1-15 on the list, the next person has 20 entries they will occupy slots 16-36 at the very end I take the number of total entries and use random.org to randomly select three peoples names. With the final three names Lil will get her chance to randomly select from the final three. The winner will be announced in a video and will be notified the within one week of the contest ending.
This weeks Flickr Photo of the Week comes from both the Flickr Photo Group sign up here. http://www.flickr.com/groups/froknowsphoto/
And the Beginner Critique section of the web site which can be found here http://froknowsphoto.com/froknows/
What I liked about this photo is that it was captured by a true beginner who has been shooting for only two months. Take a listen to the conversation that I had with Christina about this image she captured of her daughter. Christian really is off to a great start in photography as she is already out of Auto and has an understanding for composition and not cropping along with how to control her depth of field.
Be sure to sign up on the forum and flickr photo group.
You all have seen this photo weather on my web site, youtube or in Rolling Stone. Now for the first time ever anywhere you will get to see the Exclusive behind the scenes footage from this shoot!!!!
What you can see if Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction (this was during the Satellite Party tour) decide to undress in a busy store to stand in with the mannequins for a picture.
What amazes me to this day is the fact that we ran out there, composed the image, took 3 shots and we were done. It is amazing the power that a photo can hold.
As you take more and more pictures and your lightroom catalog starts to fill up with thousands of images what should you do?
What Greg and I do is create multiple catalogs to house different years of images. For example I have a catalog that covers just 2008. When I need to go back and find images from there I just switch catalogs in Lightroom. In a matter of seconds you are back to work with all of your old collections and photos that are in that catalog.
You can continue the conversation over at the forum http://froknowsphoto.com/froknows/ If you have any questions please post them there and Greg will answer them
During last weeks photo shoot in NYC of some fitness friends, I invited Adam Lerner who is a reader of the site to tag along and capture some candids. Well here he catches me lifting weights instead of shooting pictures.
When it comes to traveling with your gear some people like to travel light and others like Greg and I like to have what we need to get the job done. There are always those situations where you can not take everything and have to decide which lenses are in and which are out.
In this case Greg and I had to photograph a destination wedding in St. Petersburg FLA and decided to take the same gear we use when we stay local. I personally like to have all my lenses with me as each lens will allow me to capture the scene slightly different. On wedding days you have a lot of opportunities to switch glass and try different angles, so having a nice selection of glass allows you to do that.
But lets get back to what gear we took and how we got it there. We started off packing the ThinkTank Airport International Rolling Case with 2 bodies, Q-Flash with batteries, Nikon 300 2.8 and a few other random lenses. Greg and I both packed our ThinkTank Shape Shifters with a Pro Body, the Hebrew Trinity and other lenses. I utilized the Airport Check In to cary my lap top and Ipad on the plane.
We met all guidelines as we each had one cary on bag and one “man purse”. We had no problems at all going through security in a timely manner.
Now, you may ask how much is all of this gear worth? The answer to that is roughly $45,000!!!! Keep in mind that 4 pro bodies will run that number up pretty fast (see list below the video)
I want to show you the Power of the Internet and how random people can stumble upon not just pro’s pictures but anyones pictures. I got a random Flickr message last week from RollingStone.com that they would like to use the image below for an online article. What this proves is anyone can get their work seen and published weather it is the 10,000th picture you took or the first. You never know who will stumble upon your image and decide they would like to use it for something.
Remember, there are no more gatekeepers, you can get to anyone you ever wanted to shoot with a little bit of digging. Put your work out there make sure its tagged, key worded and linked back to your place online so people know how to find you.
Good Luck!!!
Click the image to go to rollingsotne.com to read the article.
This weeks photo of the Week takes us to Israel where I captured this image behind the Wailing Wall. Many of the classic images you see from Israel occur in front of the wall but I worked my way around the back to capture this cityscape.
What I love most about the shot is its something different for me. It doesn’t include a main focus on a person but made me try to capture something different, a city scape.
Take a listen as I break down how and why this image was created.
Nikon D3
Nikon 14-24 2.8
1/2500th @ 4.5 24mm
RAW NOT CROPPED
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