Sally Davies Discusses Women Street Photographers

The following is an interview between photographer, Sally Davies and Michael Ernest Sweet, an award-winning Canadian writer and photographer. Davies' specialty is street photography; a genre in which she claims to be a "man's world." Click the link below to read about her experiences in a "man's world."

Photographer Sally Davies Discusses Women Street Photographers 

Chelsea Mazur Photography

In the process of searching for photographer's to interview for an assignment in school, I came across Chelsea's website. She is a contemporary, editorial-style portrait photographer that works out of Chicago, IL. Although she spends a lot of time in studio, Chelsea jumps at the chance to shoot outdoors as well. For an example of a shoot outdoors, click the link below. 

Downtown Chicago Editorial

And why not, follow her on Facebook. 

Chelsea Mazur Photography on Facebook

Seeking Inspiration

Hey everyone,

I'm sorry it's been a month since I last posted, It's been crazy.

Anyway, I have one class this semester, it's a photography business course. I guess it's going to be extremely useful, but I only have one shooting assignment. This doesn't leave much for me to keep my creative juices flowing.

I'm in the middle of finding inspiration for shoots so that I can at least photograph once a week.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to keep my creative juices flowing, let me know.

Much appreciated,

Brittany

It's Been Too Long

Hey everyone,

I'm sorry I haven't blogged in a while. I've had a lot going on.

A few weeks ago I came across an article about fine-art double exposures. The series is titled Human Nature and it is a collaboration between  Erica Simone and Jaci Berkopec.  The idea is to take a photograph of a human figure and combine it with a photograph of nature that in some way may represent the muscles or even bones of a human. Check out the link below to see how seriously awesome these are.

Fine Art Double-Exposure Photography: Human Nature

An Interview with Joel Meyerowitz

So i'm really excited about this week's post. I just found an article that is an interview recently done with Joel Meyerowitz. Joel Meyerowitz is my favorite photographer, so you could imagine my excitement when something new surfaces. Meyerowitz is an award winning street photographer who has been making photographs for 50 years. He had a major influence in changing the attitude about color photography, however regardless of that, reading this interview with him is totally worth it.

Half A Century Of Making Photographs: A Conversation With Joel Meyerowitz

Stripped Down Portraits Expose The Problem With Stereotyping Masculinity As Violent

This article is out-dated, but it's a good thing to see. So very often, people pair the terms masculine and violent together, creating a stereotype against men. However, there are men that exist that are not violent; men that are role models to other people.
The goal of photographer, Jodi Bieber, was to breakdown the connection between masculine and aggressive. She spends one to three hours with each subject in order for him to strip down his "invisible armor". For more information on this project, click the link below.

Stripped Down Portraits Expose The Problem With Stereotyping Masculinity As Violent

Drones Are Photography Game Changers.

Hey all, it's been too long. I've been going through a lot but I found this video about how drones are becoming game changers in the photography business. Take a look at the link below for more details:

How Drones are Changing the Landscape of Film, Photography, and Graffiti

There's This Thing Called Geometry and It's Beautiful

Happy Wednesday!

So I came across this article that is nothing but photographs of geometrical shapes and patterns found all around us. The shapes and bright colors are eye-catching, along with the repetition of shapes in some of the photographs. Many of them are composed in a slightly abstract manner.

Repetition is one of those things that they teach you about in the basic photography classes, and they claim it is one of the elements that make a good photograph. They teach you all of these "rules" and then tell you that it is okay to break them if they don't help your photograph.

Photography is very, very subjective.

Dizzying Photos Reveal The Everyday Geometry Hiding In Plain Sight

Disclaimer: They are not dizzying.

#FollowMeTo Couple Gets Married

Photographer, Murad Osmann, famous for the #FollowMeTo series, just got married to his girlfriend. For those of you who have never seen this project, here is a link to Osmann's Instagram (Murad Osmann's Instagram) and to see how he incoorporated this project into his wedding, here is a link to the HuffPost article.
#FollowMeTo Couple Gets Married

I honestly think this is one of the most fun long term projects a person could do.

The Fine Line Between Legal & Illegal

Hey everyone! So this has been in the news a lot lately, artist, Richard Prince sold strangers' Instagram photos for $90,000. This has caused an uproar and a huge debate on whether or not what he did was legal. It's true that when you post something to social media whether it be Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram, nothing is safe. Everyone can see it. But does that give them permission to take them and claim them as their own? What do you guys think? Here's a link to the article:

Richard Prince Sold Strangers' Instagram Photos for $90K and It's Probably Legal

Have a safe holiday weekend everyone!

Photo Series Captures Struggle With Insomnia

Photographer, Jenna Martin, struggles with insomnia and has created a series of surreal photographs to depict her struggles.I tend to really enjoy surreal photography if it is done well. Jenna Martin's photography is absolutely gorgeous and very neatly done. Click the link below to see her series, "To Dream a Dream."

Artist's Surreal Photo Series Captures Her Struggle With Insomnia

Satellite Photos of the World

Artist Benjamin Grant based his satellite photography project on the Overview Effect. The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by some astronauts and cosmonauts during spaceflight, often while viewing the Earth from orbit or from the lunar surface (Wikipedia). This project is supposed to demonstrate how human activity as changed our planet, for better or worse. To see the photographs and learn more about this project:

Beautiful Satellite Photos Show Our Fragile World From Above

Photographs of Summer

Recently, The Huffington Post featured an article of photographs of inflatable inner tubes. Seems simple right? These photos are some serious eye-candy. The colors pop and the photographs are fun to look at. My favorite ones are those that feature people in them. To see for yourself, click the link below:

"These Deliciously Retro Photos Of Mediterranean Summer Are Candy For The Eyes"

Adorama's Sunday Family Funday

For those of you in the New York area, Adorama will be having a street fair on June 14th. There will be food, games, and prizes along with the latest cameras and consumer electronics. Leading photo and video manufacturers will make an appearance such as Canon, Fuji, and Nikon.

For more information click the link to the article below:

Adorama's Sunday Family Funday

Tips for Traveling Photographers

PDN featured an article today about traveling photographers. The article contains travel tips from more than 20 traveling photographers. Some of the tips include packing your tri-pod and lighting stands in a golf bag or a ski bag because airlines tend to not charge over-sized bag fees for sporting equipment. Click the link below for more tips:

Pro Photographers' Favorite Travel Hacks

Welcome Summer!

Today marks the end of the spring semester at school. I plan to move ahead into the summer with a personal project that I hope will consume the summer months. I hope that this summer I will be able to apply what I have learned this semester. For the next few months I hope that I can capture new and exciting photographs. For those of you who are not into Photography, take this time to capture what you see everyday, challenge yourself, and never settle. For those of you who practice photography on a day to day basis, I encourage you to continue doing what you love to do. Now is the time to get that shot that you have always wanted to capture. 

When opportunity knocks, answer.

FujiFilm Instax Mini 8

Today I bought the Fujifilm Instax Mini 8 and I love it. It is basically the modern version of a Polaroid camera. The camera comes in five different colors and creates instant images the size of a credit card. This camera is great for the everyday snapshot and the small image size makes it easy to carry them around with you. 
For those of you who don't enjoy the bells and whistles of a DSLR camera, this camera is so simple to use. There are five settings for lighting, indoors, cloudy, sunny, super sunny, and high key. All you do is push a button to turn the camera on, change the light setting accordingly, set up your composition in the view finder and push the shutter button. The photo instantly comes out of the top of the camera and within minutes you have yourself a lovely little photograph. 

FujiFilm Instax Mini 8

Pantone Portraits

I came across this article yesterday while I was on Snapchat; I saw it in the Daily Mail discover page. I thought that this was a very unique portrait project. Angelica Dass, a Brazilian fine art photographer, took portraits of people and then took an 11x11 pixel swatch of the subject's face a matched it to the corresponding Pantone color. I seriously cannot get enough of this project. Below is a link to the article, I hope you find it as fun as i do. 

'Humanae' Portraits Match People of Different Ethnicities With Their Pantone Color

New Black & White Leica

The new Leica M Monochrome camera is a strictly black and white camera and is completely blowing my mind right now. According to www.pdnonline.com this camera is three times faster than the original and uses a 35mm 24 megapixel monochrome image sensor. It is said that because the image sensor doesn't have a color array, it produces sharper images. However the part that really blows my mind is the fact that it can perform an ISO of 25,000. 

Leica M Monochrome Sees The World In Black & White

Welcome!

Welcome to Brittany Mikel Photography!

      I have been practicing photography for some time now. I am currently a second year photography major and I am still in the midst of finding myself and what I like to photograph. As I have been exploring the realms of possibilities, I have been told that I have an eye for structure, like that of an architect. However, portraiture is something that I really enjoy, so I have spent the past 15 weeks constructing a portfolio of both architecture and portraits. These photographs can be seen on my website:




www.brittanymikelphotography.com