Tag: portraiture
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Your Choice for Portraits: Cameras
written by plasticpopsicle on 2012-03-15 #gear
More often than not, we tend to lean towards a certain camera for a certain shooting purpose or style. Since it's all about portraits this month, why don't you share with us which one/s do you prefer when taking portraits?
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Some Unique Portrait Styles for Your Next Roll of Film
2017-07-01 #tutorials
Bored with the usual bust or look book shots when taking portraits? Get creative with these tipsters using an analogue camera and your favorite film stock.
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Best of the Best: Irving Penn
written by basterda on 2011-04-13
"A good photograph is one that communicates a fact, touches the heart, leaves the viewer a changed person for having seen it. It is, in a word, effective." – Irving Penn
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Nebulae Doubles: The Sky Is Not The Limit!
written by abecd on 2014-08-26 #gear #tutorials
Who doesn't love to shoot doubles? It's all fun and satisfying to shoot some double or even multiple exposure photos and see how they would come out. In this simple tipster, I will show you how to take the multiple exposure game to the next level!
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Awesome Albums: Melting Faces by earlybird
written by plasticpopsicle on 2014-05-01 #news
If portraiture is something you're interested in, we're sure you'll find the photos you're about to flip through nothing short of inspiring and impressive!
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On Beauty and Women: an Interview with Jordan Bunniie (NSFW)
written by Ciel Hernandez on 2016-11-06 #people
In a patriarchal society, everything that women are fighting for, especially for equal rights, are often labeled radical to many; but don't discouraged by impressions. Get inspired on how American photographer Jordan Bunniie becomes her own role model through her provoking artistry and vision.
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Portraiture in Reverse: a Candid Study of Toby Harvard
written by Ciel Hernandez on 2016-07-23 #people
Everything about a person can be read upon the sight of his face -- the squint of eyes, turn of lips or raise of brows immediately paint one's feelings like an open book; but these elements are shrouded in English photographer Toby Harvard's portraiture.
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Seeing Stars with Petzval 58 and Petzval 85: Antonio Castello's Musings at the Berlinale
2018-03-06 #people
It's one thing to see celebrities on screen, and another thing in real life. Photographer Antonio Castello shares to Lomography Magazine his first-time experience at the 68th Berlinale as he documented the event with two brassy lenses — the Petzval 58 Bokeh Control Art Lens and New Petzval 85 Lens.
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Portraits of Innocence: 35 Years Old, Forever Young
written by rossel on 2013-09-05
These black and white analog portraits from the late 1970s are still fresh, appealing and new. Shot with (always) available light with a Pentax screw mount analog camera and processed in my bathroom, they return to life with the help of my "digital darkroom" and are the precursors to my new/old "analog lifestyle."
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"Daddy_Lee" by Sean Marc Lee
written by Eunice Abique on 2017-09-21 #people
Like father, like son. These words can never get any truer than in Sean Marc Lee's endearing series, "Daddy_Lee".
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Scenes from a Winter Wonderland
2016-11-25 #culture #places
'Tis the season to be jolly! Get ready to bask and lounge around the flurries and live the winter days as if in a snow globe.
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Optic Matters: Choosing Lenses for Portraiture
written by plasticpopsicle on 2013-07-17 #gear #tutorials
Ask any professional or intermediate-level photographer about taking the best portraits and you will be told that good portraiture starts with choosing the right lens. So, which is it?
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Women & Crime: Mugshots from the 1960's
2017-03-30 #culture
While we don't accept nor condone acts of crime, we can't help but think how these mugshots of ladies with their catty eyeliners and puffy hairs just fit the 'femme fatale' image.
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Getting to Know Portraitist Cielo Yu and His Art
written by Ciel Hernandez on 2017-07-09 #people
Talented Taiwanese photographer Cielo Yu's portraits are not your ordinary bust shots and lookbook frames. In a sensual, elusive fashion, his portraiture work is a puzzle, a mystery not to be solved, but to be appreciated.
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The Underwater Pin-Up Girls
2017-02-12 #culture #people
A young photographer named Bruce Mozert took the chance in photographing employees from Silver Springs Park and turned them into underwater models in 1938.
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New York in Neon: New & Exclusive Shots from Toby Harvard
2016-11-23 #people
English film portraitist Toby Harvard is back with his new, experimental and colorful play on analogue. See them first here in Lomography Magazine.
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Choe More: Capturing the Spirit of Youth
written by Julien Matabuena on 2015-09-17 #people
Choe More refuses to confine his photographic style into a single, pre-cut template. Instead, he prefers to see it as capturing fleeting moments, "about remembering and about feeling," he says. He likes it when emotions, whether positive or otherwise, are stirred within those who look at his photos.
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David LaChapelle: Bedazzling Psychedelia (NSFW)
2017-11-08 #news
The American photographer David LaChapelle often borrows styles and aesthetics from art history, making him stand out as a commercial photographer. His new series "New World" welcomes us to his hyper-realism.
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Rollei Royale: Psychedelic Portraits of Game of Thrones Characters
2017-07-17 #culture
These Game of Thrones portraits by renowned photographer Miles Aldridge were taken with a Rolleiflex 6001 and a Kodak Ektar 100 film for a TIME Magazine.
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Best of the Best: Philippe Halsman
written by basterda on 2012-04-19
"Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most." -- Philippe Halsman
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Feminine Energy: An Interview with Nora Lowinsky
written by Eunice Abique on 2017-09-28 #people
Nora Lowinsky's enchanting portraiture is about women, for women.
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The Eclectic Portraiture of Cielo Yu
written by Ciel Hernandez on 2017-06-04 #people
We get an intimate profile of Taiwanese photographer Cielo Yu as he captures people in the most unlikely and unique compositions he can come up with.
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"#GirlGaze": How Women See the World
2016-10-27 #news #people
Curator, photographer and women's advocate Amanda de Cadenet's photography exhibition features various perspectives by women, encompassing all issues surrounding the female gender.
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The Lost Art of Music Photography: Portraits by Anton Corbijn
2016-09-14 #news
If you dig the hits of artists such as The Rolling Stones, Nick Cave, Nirvana, U2, Depeche Mode, Metallica and LL Cool J, look into some of the Dutch photographer Anton Corbijn's creative catologue of musician portraits here in Lomography.
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Louis Vuitton's Double Exposure
written by ricah_018 on 2011-03-25 #news
One of the biggest fashion brands out there, Louis Vuitton puts the analogue in the spotlight with its short film entitled, "Double Exposure". This film shows insights into analogue photography and is accompanied by an informative look into wet plate photography.
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Styles of Portraits According to Length
2017-02-03 #culture
How do you take a portrait, and how many ways can you take one? Allow our Lomographs to teach you a thing or two about different kinds of portraiture in terms of size and length.
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The Dark Pantheon & Peculiarities: Viktor Koen
written by Ciel Hernandez on 2017-01-29 #people
New York-based photographer Viktor Koen has already cemented his distinction and style in art photography, but his oeuvre might rattle the faintest hearts with the twisted beauty of his tintypes of beasts and creatures from Greek mythology, and photogravures of nightmarish children.
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Modern Rococo: Portraits by Jordan Tiberio
written by Ciel Hernandez on 2016-12-04 #people
Portraiture -- a favorite among artists and photographers. Most of the traditional and classical rules are still being followed, and it take a certain level of creativity to be distinct. But here, portraitist Jordan Tiberio re-imagines old, playful aesthetics and imbues them into her photography.
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Artistic Portraiture: Pavel Baňka on Drawing with Light
2016-11-22 #news
Drawn on silver gelatin with a camera, Czech photographer Pavel Baňka's astounding portraits reminisce the nostalgic feel of early 20th century art photography.
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The World of Colors And Symmetry: An Interview With Diane Villadsen
written by Ivana Džamić on 2016-11-03 #people
With a wide range of interests, Diane Villadsen always wanted to pursue as many things as possible. With a linguistics degree and her passion for photography, she managed to communicate a creative vision through her photographs and make a language that everybody understand.
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