On Photography


Masked Beauty

Sharbat Gula's 1984 portrait by Steve McCurry for National Geographic magazine.

It all started with her being pho­tographed by Steve McCurry in 1984. Prob­a­bly one of the most famous por­trait in mod­ern times. What strikes the most are her eyes. You’re just drawn to them right away (at least I am).

I’ve been notic­ing some new por­traits that focuses on this style per se. So I fig­ured to make a list which I’ll con­stantly update as I get hypnotized.

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Eventful Weekend with Rhythm Natives in SF

My bro and his bro­hams, the Rhythm Natives, went to visit the Bay Area this past week­end. They were part of Bambu’s Smug­glers Tour in SF. I had the oppor­tu­nity in tak­ing some pho­tos from both their shows: Fri­day, May 20th at 111 Minna Gallery; and Sat­ur­day, May 21st at Rockit Room.

Luck­ily, we sur­vived The Rap­ture or I wouldn’t have been able to get these posted. =)

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Is It The Camera?

Well, is it? A cou­ple of months old in terms of the video/documentary in this post, but its still rel­e­vant. Prob­a­bly as rel­e­vant years ago when there were a lot of cam­eras to pick from. Any­ways… Lee Mor­ris of Fstoppers.com shoots a full fash­ion pho­tog­ra­phy ses­sion with the iPhone 3Gs.

Here’s the video.

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Photobooth

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These have been get­ting more and more pop­u­lar with today’s events; espe­cially wed­dings. But lately, this is prob­a­bly one of the nicest look­ing ones I’ve seen (though online). It was pro­duced by Mar­ija Ivkovic & Lach­lan Moore.

This is the worlds first fully portable, high res­o­lu­tion, dig­i­tal, archi­tec­turally designed part inflat­able pho­to­booth. Devel­oped by two com­mer­cial pho­tog­ra­phers from Mel­bourne, the con­cept was stum­bled upon when we turned a tiny room into a dig­i­tal pho­to­booth for a stu­dio lunch party. It was an instant hit, with queues of peo­ple and around 800 shots taken by the end of the night!

The fol­low­ing day we thought ‘let’s build one’. So we did!

Though based in Mel­bourne, they ser­vice most parts of Aus­tralia. It also seems that they are open to the pos­si­bil­ity of events out­side of the coun­try as they have it as an option on their site’s esti­mate form. For more info, you may check them out at photobooth.com.au