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Had an assignment in Encinitas today for a local paper, then after that went and fooled around and made these images. All in camera techniques, no silly photoshopping….

Here’s a sure fire way to impress an art director on a big shoot: use this new product which transmits liveview feed from your DSLR to a portable wireless monitor. No cables, ac, or wires. You can shoot, someone else monitors the monitor to see what’s doin. $335 bones from a company in Poland. Gotta get one of these. Someone please send to me as gift.

Here’s some cool video shot in 2000 frames per second showing a Canon 5d shutter opening and closing….

Shooting Driving Plates for 24 from Stargate Studios on Vimeo.

Okay, not quite a boy. Photographer and good guy Jerod Harris helped me out with a shoot today and stood in before the subject arrived… Photo shoot was about a writer who wrote a book about affection. (Hearts on ballo0n… affection… get it? Ugh.) Here’s the simple lighting I used (Elinchrom 72″ Octabank with Speedotron head inside):

Here it is, my new website: www.seekSHELTERimmediately.com.

This website is in addition to my main website, www.robertbenson.com. What you’ll see here are shelter images – homes – along with people that reside in ‘em. It’s an outsider looking inside some of the most unique homes in Southern California. It’s also a mixture of portraits, all with homes as a backdrop and theme throughout. I also have a collection of photos of homes near flightlines (flightline shelter) like the image above.

This is entirely a personal project; none of these photos were made on assignment. I used a mixture of film (Mamiya 7 and Hassy) and digital. The website itself, like robertbenson.com, comes from aphotofolio.com. Forget livebooks.com – if you’re shopping around for  a website that looks professional and is fully customizable, check out aphotofolio.com – they are the best around for multiple reasons, which I’d be happy to talk about to anyone who asks.

If you have or know someone with a unique home who would be open to a photoshoot, send them my way!

Bet this photographer has all the Gucci camera gear…… Read more on his new job title in a press release here.

Few days ago I posted info about a photographer in Haiti who was running a workshop where he charged attendees $4,000. He claims the workshop teaches photographers how to work and shoot in a disaster zone.

He received more than 60 hate mail type messages on his blog where he advertised the workshop (which he quickly deleted). You can read the photographer’s response to these messages here, cached by a sportsshooter member before he apparently came to his senses and rewrote his firey rebuttal. I offer this not to add fuel to a fire, but there is a lesson to be learned here; learned quickly if you follow a bit of this…

There’s something going on here that isn’t evident. Even if you look close you probably wont pick up on this…

It’s not what you think it is! They aren’t cars parked in front of a building!  Click here to see how photographer Michael Paul Smith is making these ordinary looking images look pretty cool, once you realize what’s going on. Click here.

No real point, just interesting: 2010 cover on top, 1992 cover below.