Photography has been a passion of mine from an early age when my granddad showed me his film cameras, but during my teen years I lost my interest in photography. About 10 years ago, however, I decided I would rekindle it and this year I plan to push my work out to a wider audience. My first camera buy was a Fuji bridge camera with which I quickly realised its limitation. … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: Giovanni Savino
I am a well-traveled renaissance man, who was born in Florence, Italy and calls New York City home. I worked covering hard news worldwide for the past thirty years, collaborating with the greatest names in journalism from whom I learned many technical and editorial skills that help me tell visual stories today. I discovered photography not through a brownie camera … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: CJ5ive
For me, when somebody photographs something, they are allowing you to view the world through their eyes and that is exactly what I try and do. I believe anything can be used as a subject as the deeper meaning is to give people permission to see what you see, if only for 1000th of a second. My introduction to photography just sort of happened. There wasn't a conscious … [Read more...]
Caption Your Photos
The most disturbing factor that I notice on several photos published on the internet is that they are left untitled or without any caption. Many photographers believe that the photo should speak for itself, it need not be accompanied by a caption. I think its not so. I believe that every photo should come with a caption. I'm speaking here mostly in respect to Street or … [Read more...]
Photo Profile: Hugo Jacquet
My relationship with visual art started when I studied computer graphics. It opened my mind to the different ways that images can make us feel something, which sometimes can be very deep and strong within us. But I came to photography very recently by myself, attracted by technical and optics stuff and how to use it as an expression way, combined with … [Read more...]