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The great cold is still chilling in Geneva but I’d like to présent you with a few panoramic pictures shot in Geneva under thé snow last wednesday 1st of february.Geneva was not totally paralyzed but as it is often the case when it snows, a little bit of chaos was taking place in the streets of the city. Through these panoramics you can visit some iconic places of Geneva in 360 degrees. From the Bergues bridge to the Bastions Parc and wandering through Molard Place, Place Neuve and Bel-Air. Don’t hesitate to explore, click, zoom, open the google map on the right hand side and most of all post your commentaries. To go directly to the virtual tour visit you can click here.
Il suffit parfois d’une idée simple pour toucher les gens. Seth Casteel un photographe américain de Los Angeles, l’a bien compris. Alors qu’il traversait une passe difficile dans sa vie il a commencé à donner de son temps au refuge pour animaux de son quartier. C’est tout naturellement qu’il à mis se tallent de photographe au services des animaux pour leur trouver un nouveau maître. Il n’y a que quelques mois Seth était au prises avec des difficultés financières apret avoir acheté un caisson sous marin pour prendre les photos ci dessus. Mais c’est sans compter avec le succès foudroyant qu’elle on eu auprès du public. Il s’est réveillé un matin avec beaucoup d’argent sur son compte et un carnet de commandes pour des tirages dépassant toutes ses espérances su son site Little Friends Photo. Un simple album de ces photos sur facebook a réussi à amasser quelques 30’000 j’aime et à été partagé 22’000 fois. Sans compter toutes les personnes qui lui on demandé de venir photographier leur toutou.
Une idée simple, un concept simple, il n’en faut pas plus pour toucher les gens.
A Genève nous voyons peut être enfin la fin d’une vague de froid sans précédent. Mais au travers de l’Europe des situations similaires on plongé les habitants dans des situations déséspérées en en meme temps dessiné des paysages de fiction.
Et de courageux photographes l’ont immortalisé.
Le matériel souffre, mais c’est parfois dans ces moments de souffrance que les images les plus touchantes et remarquables font leur apparition. Voici quelques images capturées en Ukraine, Serbie, Bulgarie et bien au delà. Mais si vous avez des images saisissantes de ce froid glacial n’hésitez pas à partager un lien de votre photo ci dessous, et particulièrement les plus artistiques. J’adorerai les voir.
Tant attendu par les professionnels le nikon D4 est enfin sorti de sa cachette. Il sera disponible dès le 16.02.2012 au prix de CHF 6’998.- (prix de vente conseillé).
Les fonction vidéo sembles êtres au rendez vous, bien qu’on notera déjà l’absence de l’overcranking.
Coté photo c’est 16 millions de pixels et 11 images secondes ce qui laisse les 7 images secondes du D3s loin derrière .
Today I received an interesting email from a colleague photographer who struggles to live by her art. I think my answer may interest more than one and I would like to share with the rest of the comunity of pros in the making.
Here’s what she writes;
“Hi Laurent
Unfortunately I can not live from my photography! I am mostly in picture of architecture and landscape.
My website is not top because I did it myself on iWeb lack of funds but I will soon do so again by a pro so it becomes more serious. If want to go take a look: www.archi-nature.com
I hope we will have the opportunity to meet! In the meantime, best regards,
N. ”
And Here is my answer:
Hi N,
Yes indeed not easy to live from photography. Here are some tips you to go forward.
1 – Drop Iweb right away (iWeb does not correctly reference the site and images on google (plus it is no longer supported in OSX Lion)) Interest yourself into www.WordPress.org to you (free) c ‘ CMS is a Content management software with which you can work on your site in real time very easily . If you look at mine, I did everything myself. www.laurentegli.com.
2 – Get to know www.photoshelter.com its a system where you can make you a site in a few clicks at a very reasonable cost and that allows you to sell your photos yourself, have explanatory pages, a portfolio, manage downloads and many other things. and especially they have a section with books in pdf on how to maximize and increase your income photographic what managers are looking publications or how improved your visibility on the internet.
3 – For you website general look www.graphpaperpress.com layouts (style outside of your site) of web sites for photographers in wordpress. Their templates are compatible with PhotoShelter which means that the look of your site is the same for wordpress to PhotoShelter. If you are running a little on my site you will notice that the portfolio and the blog are two different addresses but the look of the site remains the same. Very useful to have a look very professional!
And finally advice No:4 (but this should be the No. 1; Follow business courses, by books, remotely on the web, but 90% of photographers have no idea how to write a quote into an accounting , make a budget. Press the trigger is 10% of the work, the rest is buisiness. How to talk to a client to get a mandate, how to maximize existing customers rather than seek new ones. Here all themes which you must pass 90% of your time. The decisions of the client to hire you never fall as much of your qualities as a photographer of your ability to build confidence that their project will end in good conditions and on budget. It is interesting to show that you have thought of everything before them and there is always time for discounts later when the work is going well. A little trick in passing that gave me a charge of marketing of a major cosmetics, do not be afraid to ask your customers what their budget? It sounds simple but it is better to give a quote to cover their budget with appropriate means and then to propose improvements that offer them a huge budget in which they will cut against their will.
I hope this information will help you see more clearly in your priorities.Feel free to comment, twitter, or simply clicking I like to pass this article.
“The eye of the photographer must know how to attract all the others”
I had , today , the pleasent surprise to receive this citation from my daughter Célia. As she was taking pictures for her argentic photography class (yes they still learn that) this simple phrase came to her. She was able to express in a few words what I’ve been trying to do all those years. I this she well deserves to be mentioned on the web as the inventor of this phrase (yes I checked). Does any one know any more citations involving photographers? Well this one is going on my wall!
Hey everyone, the photographs of Wines and Tapas 4th anniversary at Café Delux on Uni Dufour Rooftop are online. You can find here all the pictures from this event and and directly download a new profile for your facebook. Don’t forget to give a link to my webpage by pasting www.laurentegli.com on the remarks of the picture or just a link to my facbook profile www.facebook.com/eglilaurent.
Vista Salinas. Here is a Panorama that had been sleeping too long in the boxes. Since the moment it was shot in 2009 on the sides of the east of Lanzarote island salt ponds, I knew that this picture would end up in black and white. The arid volcanic soil and the non-existant vegetation in this south part of the national parc reinforces the lunar feel of this landscape. Caught between the land and the sea, the salt ponds sometimes dried sometimes floded look like a oversized human-made patchwork.
This photograph is available in the Panoramas of the world collection in large format Fine Art prints.
Je ne sais pas si vous aviez vu ce film sur le gagnant 2011 du TED mais je ne me lasse pas de le regarder. Quand je parle de développer un concept simple et de le pousser jusque dans ses retranchements ceci est un merveilleux exemple. C’est ici une expérience photographique qui s’affranchit du matériel et des règles basiques pour proposer un concept tellement simple qu’il révèle la vraie nature des populations et de leurs combats.
C’est le meilleur exemple que je puisse connaître d’Art Social
