As I’ve mentioned before, a large part of my job is to make portraits of executives at my firm. The new visual identity for the firm which was officially launched today calls for environmental-style portraits rather than studio shots. The more of these that I do, the more I realize how similar all the shots [...]
Although I have never really paid much mind to the Canon/Nikon “whose lens is bigger” contest that rages on photoblogs across the internets, I did find it interesting to hear that demand for Canon’s digital lenses has increased so dramatically that they’ve outsourced the manufacturing to Taiwan.
Those of you worried that a move away from [...]
Alternate title: “I’m Too Busy To Play With My New Camera and I Am Therefore Grumpy”
Poster in the background is a beautiful photo of Zhang Ziyi by Davis Factor for Corbis. As a side note, Corbis used to send out these awesome posters as promos but their rep told me recently that they stopped because [...]
I had a photo published in TimeOut New York this week. It was from a photoshoot of a theater company that I did some pro bono work for last year. It’s the size of a large postage stamp, but still, always cool to see your work in print.
Update: Here’s a link to the article for [...]
You gotta love being a photographer. You get to shoot all kinds of cool stuff, like women doing martial arts with lions and shit. Check out this photoshoot (photog is off camera right). Kickass.
Photographer: “Ok yeah, that looks great … beautiful … give me some intensity..”
Photographer: “Excellent, show me some real movement … can I [...]
On Friday night I joined some friends at a BBQ joint in Brooklyn called Fette Sau (Fat Sow for the who’s at home). It’s an amazing place with tons of great food, dozens of varieties of rare and interesting bourbons, and of course lots of beer. The first time I went to Fette Sau we [...]
Apparently people aren’t willing to let instant film go gently into the dark. SavePolaroid.com
On February 8, 2008, Polaroid Corporation announced that it will discontinue production of all instant film. This site will document the aftermath of this announcement and will serve as a home-base for the effort to convince another company to begin producing the [...]
In the digital world of Flickr and the plethora of online photography applications, we don’t often think about making actual prints. Hell, Polaroid has even stopped making film. In my staff photographer position, 90% of my work goes straight into printed publications, but rarely do we have a need for actual photography prints. I find [...]
Jonathan Gayman is a corporate photographer and design consultant in New York City. He also likes to talk a lot of smack here on Exhibit 5a.
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