Photography, since its very inception, has always dwelt at the crossroads of art and technology. From the very first daguerreotypes that astonished 19th-century audiences to the modern digital revolution that has ushered in the age of a camera carried in every pocket, the medium has never been anything of a stranger to disruption. Now, a new and novel disruption looms ever so ominously large — or perhaps, it may have already arrived — in the form of artificial intelligence. Algorithms […]
We often hear people calling themselves fine art photography maestros, but are they actually what they claim to be? Over the years the digital photography has taken new turns and achieved milestones that seemed unattainable. Anyone can take a great picture with a camera, however, how do they convert their photography into art. People say that there is a fine line between photography and art, although we believe that these very photographs can be converted into pieces of fine arts […]
Just for the sake of whatever interest there may be… This is an old experiment I did about five years ago — the purpose of which was to judge the viability of recording and producing an album ‘on the cheap’ in my own poorly equipped home-studio, all by my little lonesome. I put together this cover of a J.J. Cale tune (Although, my version is really a cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s cover of J.J. Cale) with me playing all of […]
So, here it is: My first ever attempt at producing and directing a music video. I had almost exactly zero experience with any sort of video production prior to this project. Yet, I acted as casting director, costume designer, concept creator, set design, art director, producer, director, editor… you pretty much name it. It was also shot on a shoe-string budget… and, when I say shoe-string, I really mean shoe-string! The entire project took about two months to complete, and […]
Frustration! The factory warranty on my Paul C. Buff 64″ soft-silver umbrella ran out exactly 52 days ago — less than two full months ago. Last night my PLM completely disintegrated. The (what looks to me to be a rather flimsy, thin and fragile) wire ring, which the umbrella ribs attach to at the top point of the umbrella, snapped upon opening it. The umbrella is no longer usable. It’s entirely FUBAR. What’s really frustrating is that it was hardly […]