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At the beach…

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:06:12 +0000

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….

wireless monitor for camera

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:21:49 +0000

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.

Camera shutter in slow motion

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:56:20 +0000

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

Tricked out car cam

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 22:34:40 +0000

Shooting Driving Plates for 24 from Stargate Studios on Vimeo.

Boy with a balloon

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:26:17 +0000

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):

House photographer of a different sort

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:29:06 +0000

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!

Actor Drew Carey becomes NPPA board member

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:30:58 +0000

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

Disaster photo workshop part two

admin — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 02:42:59 +0000

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…

What’s wrong with this picture?

admin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:23:18 +0000

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.

Slippery slope

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:58:11 +0000

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