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THE IMPORTANCE OF PHOTOGRAPHING PEOPLE - BY MICHAEL O'BRIEN
- 1. Photo by Toni Frissell The Importance of Photographing People
- 2. Paul Strand Quote ©Michael O’Brien The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. Quote from Paul Strand
- 4. Henry Fox Talbot 1800 – 1877 Key Inventor of Photography ©Michael O’Brien
- 5. Henry Fox Talbot 1800 – 1877 Key Inventor of Photography ©Michael O’Brien
- 6. The birth of photography View from the Window at Le Gras Joseph Nicéphore Niépce 1822 Key Inventor of Photography
- 7. NADAR Gaspard-Félix Tournachon 1820–1910 portrait photographer extraordinaire Franz Liszt
- 8. NADAR Gaspard-Félix Tournachon portrait photographer extraordinaire The Photographer’s Mother
- 9. NADAR Gaspard-Félix Tournachon portrait photographer extraordinaire Gustave Dore
- 10. NADAR Gaspard-Félix Tournachon portrait photographer extraordinaire Charles Baudelaire
- 11. NADAR Gaspard-Félix Tournachon 1820–1910 portrait photographer extraordinaire Sarah Bernhardt
- 12. Julia Margaret Cameron 1815 - 1879 Ellen Terry 1864 Carbon print
- 13. Julia Margaret Cameron 1815 - 1879 Tennyson
- 14. Eugene Atget
- 15. Eugene Atget
- 17. Irving Penn 1917–2009 The Small Trades The Coal Man
- 18. Irving Penn 1917–2009 The Small Trades Chimney Sweep
- 19. ©Michael O’Brien Young Boy, Ecuador 1989 Originally shot with Kodak TriX film Scanned on Imacon Uploaded into Lightroom as high res TIFF Then over to Silver Efex for finishing touches
- 20. Workflow Three using Lightroom®4, Silver Efex and Photoshop ©Michael O’Brien
- 21. “Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” Henri Cartier-Bresson
- 24. Placa de la Revolucion, Habana, Cuba © Michael G. O’Brien
- 25. Children of the Revolution, Habana, Cuba © Michael G. O’Brien
- 26. Eugene Atget
- 28. Maestro Esteban Valdez San Miguel d’ Allende, Mexico © Michael G.O’Brien
- 29. © Michael O’Brien Photography
- 30. ©© Michael G. O’Brien
- 31. Adegboyega Najeem Hammed © Michael G. O’Brien
- 32. © Michael O’Brien Photography
- 33. www. com Manuel Alvarez Bravo
- 34. Create Legacy
- 35. Michelle
- 36. Michelle
- 37. Michelle
- 39. © Michael G. O’Brien
- 41. Communicate feelings and create empathy
- 43. Brothers, Yucatan, Mexico © Michael O’Brien
- 44. © Michael G. O’Brien
- 47. Inishmore, Aran Islands Republic of Ireland © Michael G. O’Brien
- 48. © Michael G. O’Brien www.michaelobrienphoto.com Los Golondrinas Ecuador
- 49. Eugene Atget
- 51. © Michael G. O’Brien
- 55. www ©Michael G. O’Brien.com
- 57. www © Michael G. O’Brien.com
- 58. © Michael G. O’Brien
- 59. 1. Be prepared. 2. Be comfortable. 3. Be respectful. 4. Talk to/connect with the subject. 5. Get closer to the subject if possible. 6. Photograph people at work or engaged in their daily tasks. 7. Make the picture as if it matters. 8. Study the masters. Michael O’Brien’s Tips for improving your photographs of people
- 60. To create a narrative or tell a story…. and now a brief slideshow
- 62. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 63. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 64. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 65. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 66. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 67. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 68. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 69. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 70. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 71. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
- 72. www ©Michael G. O’Brien. www.michaelobrienphoto.comcom
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Editor's Notes
- The first permanent photograph (later accidentally destroyed) was an image produced in 1822 by the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce. His photographs were produced on a polished pewter plate covered with a petroleum derivative called bitumen of Judea. View from the Window at Le Gras (La cour du domaine du Gras) was the first successful permanent photograph, created by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 at Saint-Loup-de-Varennes. Niépce captured the photo with a camera obscura focused onto a sheet of 20 × 25 cm oil-treated bitumen. As a result of the 8-hour exposure, sunlight illuminates the buildings on both sides.
- Photography can drive home how quickly the world has changed since the photographic process was invented in the 1820s. It’s difficult for contemporary poets, for instance, to feel the reverence in which 19th-century poets were held as authors of some of the finest expressions of the human spirit. It’s true that the range of poetic voice has increased enormously over the last hundred years, and this has alienated many readers (and enriched many others)–RT is more inclined to blame the deterioration of academic disciplines other than science and mathematics for the current exile that poets everywhere are enduring. This photograph by the eminent photographer Julia Margaret Cameron reminds us of poetry’s lost dignity. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, along with other Victorians, has acquired a dry and dusty reputation (more than likely, RT suspects, because he indulged in lengthy, narrative poetry), but Tennyson is without doubt one of the great poets in the language. For proof, people should read Tennyson’s “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”, a passionate evocation of love.
- Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine. In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work The Small Trades began. Created in 1950 and 1951 in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consists of portraits of skilled trades people dressed in their work clothes and carrying the tools of their respective trades. Capturing the humble coal heaver and the crisply dressed waiter with equal directness, Penn's arresting portraits also underscore fascinating cultural differences. The Small Trades was Penn's most extensive body of work, and he returned to it over many decades, producing ever more exacting prints. Two hundred and six unique images from the series are flawlessly reproduced in this book. In addition, the introductory essay describes the history and context of The Small Trades series and its importance to Penn's career and the history of photography. An interview with Edmonde Charles-Roux, the chief editor for French Vogue from 1952 to 1966, who assisted him on the assignment in Paris, provides fascinating insights of the Paris sittings. An exhibition of the series will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from September 9, 2009, through January 10, 2010.
- Photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917) is renowned for his innovative contributions to portrait, still life, and fashion photography, and a career that has spanned more than six decades at Vogue magazine. In 1950, Vogue assigned Penn to photograph workers in Paris, and thus his monumental work The Small Trades began. Created in 1950 and 1951 in Paris, London, and New York, The Small Trades consists of portraits of skilled trades people dressed in their work clothes and carrying the tools of their respective trades. Capturing the humble coal heaver and the crisply dressed waiter with equal directness, Penn's arresting portraits also underscore fascinating cultural differences. The Small Trades was Penn's most extensive body of work, and he returned to it over many decades, producing ever more exacting prints. Two hundred and six unique images from the series are flawlessly reproduced in this book. In addition, the introductory essay describes the history and context of The Small Trades series and its importance to Penn's career and the history of photography. An interview with Edmonde Charles-Roux, the chief editor for French Vogue from 1952 to 1966, who assisted him on the assignment in Paris, provides fascinating insights of the Paris sittings. An exhibition of the series will be on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum from September 9, 2009, through January 10, 2010.
- Juxtapositioning the grave, interior, soul searching look of the child on the left, with the friendly outward and open smile of the child on the right
- Black and white - Tri X film rated at 200 asa - hasselblad 6x6 cm neg format
- Take a meter reading beforehand if possible…meter off your hand or a grey card if you are in the same light as them. Decide what ISO, shutter speed, aperture combination you want to use…try your best not to be fumbling around with your camera in front of the subject. 2. Relax!! Take a deep breath! If you are really tense the subject will rarely relax. Being prepared allows you to feel confidence. 3. The great portrait artist Josef Karsh said “ the only thing I arrived with when I came to Canada was my good manners”…be courteous,always ask permission and never show anger,especially if they refuse you. Smile, be friendly. 4. Talk to and connect with the subject…if you do not speak the language and there is no one to translate then use gestures and sign language. Make eye contact if that is culturally acceptable. Be cautious about photographing women and children until you know it is acceptable.