ryanpfluger: Sometimes you get emails that you just need to talk about.  I often get messages on here and through email about my color palette for my images.  People either love it or hate it, but it brings up a point that I should talk about.  I don’t usually like taking about technique/equipment etc… but I know for a lot of new photographers it’s the immediate question that pops up.  My color aesthetic is extremely deliberate and important to the emotional mood of my work.  I spent years experimenting with film and processing to establish what is now my photography.  There are no rules that one NEEDS to abide by, but knowing technique/lighting/theory is imperative to creating your own expressive form.  With that said, spend the time to have as much knowledge as possible of your craft, but also of outside influences.  Take it all in, and use it to tell us your story, how you want to tell it.  Not everyone may see it how you do, and that’s totally ok.   My two cents for the day.

ryanpfluger:

Sometimes you get emails that you just need to talk about.  I often get messages on here and through email about my color palette for my images.  People either love it or hate it, but it brings up a point that I should talk about.  I don’t usually like taking about technique/equipment etc… but I know for a lot of new photographers it’s the immediate question that pops up.  My color aesthetic is extremely deliberate and important to the emotional mood of my work.  I spent years experimenting with film and processing to establish what is now my photography.  There are no rules that one NEEDS to abide by, but knowing technique/lighting/theory is imperative to creating your own expressive form.  With that said, spend the time to have as much knowledge as possible of your craft, but also of outside influences.  Take it all in, and use it to tell us your story, how you want to tell it.  Not everyone may see it how you do, and that’s totally ok.   My two cents for the day.

ryanpfluger

PC152405 on Flickr. I swear this is an “I’ve got it figured out!” look.

PC152405 on Flickr.

I swear this is an “I’ve got it figured out!” look.

puckbox: Light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light (by Dominique Guillochon)

puckbox:

Light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light (by Dominique Guillochon)

Flickr / deegoo

politico: newsweek: firstbook: Our friends at Random House Children’s Books have generously agreed to donate one brand-new book for each new follower we gain on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter this week. Those books will go to thousands of schools and programs serving kids from low-income families across the country. Please Re-blog! To learn more about First Book, please visit: www.firstbook.org Consider yourselves followed (and re-blogged). Likewise. Followed and re-blogged. 

politico:

newsweek:

firstbook:

Our friends at Random House Children’s Books have generously agreed to donate one brand-new book for each new follower we gain on Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter this week. Those books will go to thousands of schools and programs serving kids from low-income families across the country.

Please Re-blog!

To learn more about First Book, please visit: www.firstbook.org

Consider yourselves followed (and re-blogged).

Likewise. Followed and re-blogged. 

firstbook

apartment-221b:

Henri Cartier-Bresson’s well worn black paint M3; this is the other Black One

wooricamera.com

Google Transparency Report

newsweek:

azspot:

We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove. Separately, we received requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. We did not comply with those requests, which we have categorized in this Report as defamation requests.

(via @timberners_lee)

OK, yes, this is alarming. But in the context of the Occupy brutality videos it’s important to note this disclosure from Google covers January to June 2011—well before #OWS hit the streets.

azspot