A conversation with Nick Lovell, Fashion Photographer, Instructor By Bob Killen What happens when you put the creative genius of fashion photographer and Orange County Center for Photography and Digital Arts teacher, Nick Lovell, together with a half-ton of ice,[…]
Six Reasons to Study Fine Art Photography
Your photographic vision may lean towards commercial, portraiture, wedding, fashion, industrial, or a wide combination of these genres. Perhaps you are a pro, an advanced hobbyist, or maybe you are new to the field and just exploring the exciting possibilities[…]
Night Echoes – Exhibit Review
Night Echoes by Kathy Curtis Cahill Susan Sontag observed in a brilliant essay, “Literature is writing that one wishes to reread.” So, it is with Kathy Cahill’s Night Echoes, a confident visual theme of want, desire, and contemporary exploration of[…]
Fine Art Photography Exhibit Review
Rust Revised by Bill North Calumet Gallery 1135 N. Highland Ave. Hollywood, CA 90038 October 4 – November 4, 2013 Artist Reception: October 10th, 2013 – 6pm In a time when photographs have become commoditized, and to a great extent[…]
Imagineering Methods for Theme Creation— Tools
The Photographer’s Sketchpad “I decided to become a photographer because I can’t draw (paint, etc.)” is a refrain I often hear from fellow photographers and students. I would not consider myself a sketch artist or painter, but I do rough[…]
Cell Phones
When Thoreau said, “You can’t say more than you see,” he assumed that sight was the premiere sense of all our senses. Of course, at the time he delivered this quote, wet plates were just coming to Walden Pond. DSLR[…]
Fine Art Photography Career Development
Comes to The Orange County Center for Photography and the Digital Arts You have something that you want to say with your photography. You want to move beyond the image in front of you to the soul of the image[…]
Imagineering Methods for Theme Creation—Tools
The Photographers Journal The best fine art photography project is the one you finish. However, finishing and starting are two points in time that share wired ends. One cannot finish without a start and one cannot start without a finished[…]
On Making Heat and Light – Interview with Nick Lovell
“Producing a music video requires many of the same skills, creative approaches, and sensitiveness that we find in a fashion shoot,” Nick Lovell pointed out during a recent interview at the Orange County Center for Photography and Digital Arts (The[…]
Are Point-and-Shoot Cameras About to Have a ‘Kodak Moment?’
Point-and-shoot Cameras–the equivalent of the Kodak Instamatic from film days–are not selling… and the ones that have sold are sitting in drawers or on shelves, collecting dust. Americans are taking more pictures than ever, but it’s not with their cameras,[…]