Last Monday night was Betty Pages 70th birthday. So we decided to shoot a small tribute to her and roll in history. Page was “Miss January 1955”, one of the earliest Playmates of the Month. Often referred to as the “Queen of Pinups”, her jet black hair, blue eyes, and trademark bangs have influenced artists for generations.
Yousuf or Josuf (his given Armenian name was Hovsep) Karsh was born in Mardin, a city in the eastern Ottoman Empire (present Turkey). He grew up during the Armenian Genocide where he wrote, “I saw relatives massacred; my sister died of starvation as we were driven from village to village.” At the age of 16, his parents sent Yousuf to live with his uncle George Nakash, a photographer in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Karsh briefly attended school there and assisted in his uncle’s studio. Nakash saw great potential in his nephew and in 1928 arranged for Karsh to apprentice with portrait photographer John Garo in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. His brother, Malak Karsh, was also a photographer famous for the image of logs floating down the river on the Canadian one dollar bill.
A few months ago I suggested building a fake church window out of card and colour gels. Well we never got around to it but it has been in the back of my head ever since then. Today I wanted to do some thing a bit creative with my son … so we built it
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Unfortunately I only got to spend 1 day at photograph this year but what a day…. I had several stands on my visit list and managed to get to them all and pick up a few cool toys for the studio at the same time.
The big news this year would have to be the Hasselbald Luna. The prototypes that we got to play with are based on the Sony NEX 7, but with custom hand made body. It sits very nicely in the hand (even with my big sausage fingers). It will be custom hand made to order in a variety of finished but at approximately 5000€ its not in my price category.
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This is the first product review on my new site :). Vadim from Lens Loops sent me a few samples of their cool new designed camera strap.
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Lens Loops is an American start up company, their first product is a camera strap using car seatbelt webbing. It has a retro look to it and comes in several different colours and an XL version.
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I was in Munich all last week and meet up with some great people from the “Flickr Munich Photo Walk” group (but more about that another day). I got back late Friday night just in time for the “Last Friday of the month shoot” at the lightGIANTS studio.
I have been organising the Friday night shoots in the lightGIANTS studio for about a year now. And every time I announce one it amazes me how quick they are booked out. Last month Nadine and Speedy from Zumba Events were in the studio doing their thing.
A few months ago Sascha was in the studio. He was about to audition for a new musical and needed a few portraits. Musicians and Actors are always fun to photograph they tend to be more open to something a bit different and have no problem being the centre of attention for a while.
The shoot was so much fun. We put some Rockerbilly on the sound system I threw him a retro style microphone and while he rocked the studio I shot and shot and shot….
