• Your full schedule. Classes and any other commitments you have, please include times as well as days.
• What part of the city you live in.
• Do you have a car? Do you require mileage compensation?
• Your skills! But the more info you can give me the better, if you say photoshop is a skill, send a before & after example.
• Your assisting experience (if you have any) listed
• Any references you have please include (photographers you’ve worked with, teachers, etc)
• If you want to send examples of your photo work feel free but that is less relevant to what I’m looking for.
• How long are you interested in this position?
• What equipment and software do you have (camera? Lights? computer? what’s installed on it? What versions? etc)
• Skills (of course, list them all)

What I am needing help with:

• Retouching, both creative images and high volume images
• Assisting on shoots
• Business help (let’s copyright some images together, this is a skill you’ll be glad you learned)
• Research
• Archived file management
• New file editing
• Blogging

There will of course be other things that come up. Right now I just don’t feel like I have enough time in the day and need help with everything. I’m happy to say that all of my past interns are now full time photographers (except one, but he’s a special case and I still have my fingers crossed that he’ll quit his insanely amazing job and go for it, but I don’t blame him for taking that job, it was an opportunity of a lifetime). Of course if you like, I’ll give you contact info of some of my past interns to talk with them about the experience. This is a serious learning position but also a working position. I need the help, which is great, but I also teach. So it is not the place for you if you are just interested in meeting a credit requirement. There are other places where you will be able to get that which will require less of you, and hey, no hard feelings, college is a lot of work so not everyone has this much energy. My last 2 interns already had graduated and that was great because they were able to get a really intense training.

What (I hope) you will learn:

• How to shoot better and more creatively (of course)
• How to edit and find your best images (we do portfolio reviews together)
• How to identify an images needs (It may look great to us but will it look great to an art buyer? Straighten this, crop into that -if your a cropper, etc)
• Waaaay more Photoshop that you know now. There is going to be a lot of Photoshopping in this.
• Lightroom work flow
• Business practices
• Client relationships
• Website management
• Blogging with WordPress (let me know how much you know about WordPress too)
• More things that I don’t have time to list, hence I need help!

So send me an email, with as much info as you can. Then I’ll get back to you letting you know if our schedules and skills are compatible. I’m posting here first to give anyone who already knows me a chance to respond first and then I’ll post online elsewhere.

Thanks!

Kate

Also very cool is Natan Dvir‘s personal project “Coming Soon”.

Also, super beautiful book by Caleb Cain Marcus, “A Portrait of Ice”.

There are so many this year it was a bit hard to get through. I would be interested to know of other readers favorites too. Enjoy!

So my goal has been (for a couple of years  now) and continues to be, what do I want to shoot for me? Staring for hours and hours at an outstanding image doesn’t mean it is what I want to create. But it does mean that I recognize greatness in a shot (thank you RISD for that). Oh the amazing photo editor I could be (but for the right publication, I couldn’t go through editing pictures of horrific events to find the one that was just the right amount of shock without too much goriness to represent the publication). Once again, those editing skills I can thank RISD for. As I wrote about earlier this week, Mike Brodie really inspired me. But a huge part of starting a project is letting yourself off the hook. It is complete illusion to believe every image you create will sell and will represent you. I have to work really hard to let go of the voice in my head asking “how is this going to market? how is this going to represent me?” and start listening to that other voice, the one that is quieter and yet always there that identifies what I find beautiful. Then, just have a camera with me and shoot. I think by shooting more, constantly, perhaps, I’ll fall into what I love. Around me are amazing people who create beauty everywhere. They create beautiful food, invite me to beautiful places, are just plain beautiful inside and out, and perhaps by not shooting these moments I’m doing them and myself a disservice.

So that is the goal, let’s see if I can stumble upon that thing that I must shoot. Stand bye for hopefully some new images to come!

Amazing how new toys always become the favorite toys. Of course, this is no substitute for the Canon, but it really is fun!

For a photographer, finding that personal subject, the one that makes you want to hop on a freight train for 4 years and wander around the country documenting an underground group of runaways, is a rare thing. We love and admire images like these and think “if I had only been there back then, I would have shot that”. Yet here Brodie shows us that it still exists. Then things get crazier, parents of children who have runaway have been able to see their kids in the shots and know they are alive. The levels of this project just keep getting deeper and deeper. So today, hats off to Mike Brodie. I’m not surprised he put down the camera, how could another project come close to this one? And when a project is over, it’s over. You know it. At least, despite him stepping away from making new work, we have these outstanding images to reflect on. A few of my favorites are here in the post but visit Mike Brodie’s website for them all or check out his book, “A Period of Juvenile Prosperity”, if you can get your hands on a copy.

Via: Emil Protalinski for The Next Web

“Google expands photo sphere viewing from Android and Google+ to the Web with new widget

Google on Friday announced the launch of a photo sphere viewing widget that you can embed in any website. This is a big change, as it means 360 degree panoramic images taken with Android devices are no longer limited to just Google’s services.

For those who don’t know, Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) features a photo sphere camera that lets you snap photos in any direction and piece them together into what the company calls “photo spheres.” You can then view these on your phone, share them to Google+, add them to Google Maps, and now also anywhere else on the Web.

Here’s how the new viewing widget looks:

The above example is from professional photographer Colby Brown‘spersonal blog. He worked personally with the Android team to make the feature possible, and thus his website is the first to use the new viewer. Go check it out for yourself (use touch gestures or mouse panning and the scroll wheel to zoom).

If you want to share your own photo spheres, Google has posted instructions for how to use the new viewer, which requires JavaScript. First, you’ll need to add the following JavaScript resource to your site:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>

Next, you can the actual photo sphere viewer by using the g:panoembed element:

<g:panoembed imageurl=”http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kr97Eucg6sM/UKGEuvo_eBI/AAAAAAAAi0s/adq8uqyhm_k/photo.jpg”
fullsize=”4096,2048″
croppedsize=”4096,1380″
offset=”0,480″
displaysize=”600,400″/>

In addition to the required parameters (imageurl, fullsize, croppedsize, offset, and displaysize) there’s also an optional autorotate option. As Brown notes, many mobile devices let you take amazing standard panoramas “but the end results are always the same….a flat image that makes it somewhat difficult to really get a feel for what you are looking at.”

This new viewer helps solve that, while also promoting the feature all over the Web. Many people who stumble on these panoramic shots will want to know how the site’s author made them, and the answer will be: “well first… you need to get an Android device.” Smart move Google.”

Now, go have fun my fellow photo nerds. Enjoy your weekend. xoxox Kate

And now, your wallpaper.

So a few weeks ago when I signed up to go on this amazing hike in the Everglades hosted by my friend Christopher (who works for the Florida Trail Association, which I joined, and highly recommend joining)! We would head a few miles south on one trail then due East, through the Everglades following not a trail but an old logging railroad until it met up with the Florida Trail a few miles later. Then we would head a bit more South to Roberts Lake (off trail but easier to find) hike around the lake, then back to the Florida Trail and a few more miles then back at the start. Confusing? How is this, we hiked a big Q shape where the bottom of the Q wasn’t on a trail. And I decided to bring my camera. The best shooting of the day was around Roberts Lake. The ground there, unlike most of the hike, was covered in water, and the swamp was just that, swamp. Yes there were alligators. And yes, snakes too. And a wonderful collection of other animals and plants. And yes, it was kind of scary to be walking around in the Everglades swamp, not being able to see what you were going to step on, or how deep you may sink into the mud and water, but it was beautiful.

I don’t know that I made any new friends on the trip. Holding my camera by default makes me way more serious. But fortunately most of the hikers were already friends (and family) that I know and love (and know me without a camera in my hand). So I believe they probably forgave me for any of my bossy/me first behavior that may have happened, and I suspect the hikers I didn’t know yet were perhaps distracted themselves by the beauty of the Everglades, or the direction of the compass when off course, or their cameras themselves. Some of these shots will likely show up as Wallpaper Wednesdays. But for the moment, here are two shots from around Roberts Lake, showing off the serious beauty of this giant park.

Two shots from around Roberts Lake in the Big Cypress Preserve in the Florida Everglades