Make using your fancy camera a piece of cake
If you’ve got a fancy pants modern camera collecting dust on your shelf while you collect vintage-y pictures on your phone, here’s a reason to pull out your actual “camera” again. Thursday, Brooklyn Creative is hosting a free seminar with its top photo instructor, Charles Lavoie, who will walk you through photography basics so you can actually learn to use that hulking piece of machinery . Topcis include basics such as: what’s a DSLR?; Functions and features common to all digital cameras; Controlling exposure; Shutter speed vs. aperture; Your camera’s “film” speed; Focal lengths, and which faux-vintage filter should you use (kidding!). Attendees will also get a discount card for 10 percent off the next class at Brooklyn Creative. Read the rest of this entry »
A few weeks back, OK, practically a month ago, we invited readers to submit their best pictures of sidewalk detritus bared by the Great Brooklyn Thaw. (The contest was inspired by our own sighting of a dead rat, an inflated condom and a crumpled hemorrhoid-cream tube, all in one block.) You came, you shot, you sent pics — of dead birds, hypodermic needles, umbrella graveyards, a soundboard thingy, a purple marital aid, and much much more. From this bounty of urban grotesquery comes not a single victor, but a veritable minyan of them. A limited edition Brokelyn t-shirt to all who entered. (You’ll be contacted via Flickr.) Thanks!
One problem with all the incredible Brokelyn-approved stuff out there is that we need more eyes, ears, pens and lenses to cover it all. And right now, we’re smack in the middle of a photographer drought.
If you’re an under-worked photographer, or an over-overworked but generous one, or really, if you’re any kind of real photographer who wants to shoot happening events, stores and other Brooklyn phenomena for Brokelyn, we want you. We’ll send you on some missions, and your shots will be seen by the masses. The work’s unpaid, but we try to make up for it with heaping praise. And if you’re someone who’s shot for us before (thank you), but you haven’t heard from us in a while, let us know what you’re up to these days. Email jonathan@brokelyn.com.
So you think you can take pictures? So do tens of millions of other Flickr poolers. Next month, aspiring Man Rays can find out if they have what it takes to make it in the increasingly competitive, decreasingly remunerative photography field at the powerHouse Portfolio Review.
Like a speed-dating version of art school, the review allows a photographer at any level of accomplishment to have her work critiqued in five 20-minute sessions with different professionals in the field on Sunday, Feb. 28. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex and Alexis (or vice versa), photo by Di Bezi Photography.
We’re big fans of the Brooklyn Bride blog, which isn’t so much about nuptials (eeuww!) in our home borough as it is about froufrou-free weddings anywhere. This week, the blog features a magazine-worthy engagement shoot of Alexis and Alex (which one’s which?) of Brooklyn, who look like they were dreamed up by a stock-photo agency to pop up when the words “hip” and “romance” are typed in: There she is, all bony and pale, in her terry-cloth romper with vintage cowboy boots. There they are, two-stepping in front of his LP collection in wooden crates. And how about an insouciant, limby smooch on the hammock? Perfect! A question: has anyone ever seen Alex and Alexis on the streets of Brooklyn? Read the rest of this entry »
The folks over at Brooklyn Creative have been treating you to the occasional free class to help you sharpen your non-phone-based photo skills. Now they’re making practically free access to their classes a weekly affair: Starting this Friday, you can reserve a seat for a class at the Dumbo-based center for just $1! You can learn about Photoshop, Lightroom and other camera basic during the two-hour workshop. This Friday, the topic is Intro to Photoshop, followed by Intro to Lightroom next week and a DSLR Crash Course on Nov. 14. Space for the Dollar Friday classes is limited so reserve your seat here. I mean, what else are you doing with your dollar?
Make using your fancy camera a piece of cake
If you’ve got a fancy pants modern camera collecting dust on your shelf while you collect vintage-y pictures on your phone, here’s a reason to pull out your actual “camera” again. Thursday, Brooklyn Creative is hosting a free seminar with its top photo instructor, Charles Lavoie, who will walk you through photography basics so you can actually learn to use that hulking piece of machinery . Topcis include basics such as: what’s a DSLR?; Functions and features common to all digital cameras; Controlling exposure; Shutter speed vs. aperture; Your camera’s “film” speed; Focal lengths, and which faux-vintage filter should you use (kidding!). Attendees will also get a discount card for 10 percent off the next class at Brooklyn Creative. Read the rest of this entry »
A few weeks back, OK, practically a month ago, we invited readers to submit their best pictures of sidewalk detritus bared by the Great Brooklyn Thaw. (The contest was inspired by our own sighting of a dead rat, an inflated condom and a crumpled hemorrhoid-cream tube, all in one block.) You came, you shot, you sent pics — of dead birds, hypodermic needles, umbrella graveyards, a soundboard thingy, a purple marital aid, and much much more. From this bounty of urban grotesquery comes not a single victor, but a veritable minyan of them. A limited edition Brokelyn t-shirt to all who entered. (You’ll be contacted via Flickr.) Thanks!
One problem with all the incredible Brokelyn-approved stuff out there is that we need more eyes, ears, pens and lenses to cover it all. And right now, we’re smack in the middle of a photographer drought.
If you’re an under-worked photographer, or an over-overworked but generous one, or really, if you’re any kind of real photographer who wants to shoot happening events, stores and other Brooklyn phenomena for Brokelyn, we want you. We’ll send you on some missions, and your shots will be seen by the masses. The work’s unpaid, but we try to make up for it with heaping praise. And if you’re someone who’s shot for us before (thank you), but you haven’t heard from us in a while, let us know what you’re up to these days. Email jonathan@brokelyn.com.
So you think you can take pictures? So do tens of millions of other Flickr poolers. Next month, aspiring Man Rays can find out if they have what it takes to make it in the increasingly competitive, decreasingly remunerative photography field at the powerHouse Portfolio Review.
Like a speed-dating version of art school, the review allows a photographer at any level of accomplishment to have her work critiqued in five 20-minute sessions with different professionals in the field on Sunday, Feb. 28. Read the rest of this entry »
Alex and Alexis (or vice versa), photo by Di Bezi Photography.
We’re big fans of the Brooklyn Bride blog, which isn’t so much about nuptials (eeuww!) in our home borough as it is about froufrou-free weddings anywhere. This week, the blog features a magazine-worthy engagement shoot of Alexis and Alex (which one’s which?) of Brooklyn, who look like they were dreamed up by a stock-photo agency to pop up when the words “hip” and “romance” are typed in: There she is, all bony and pale, in her terry-cloth romper with vintage cowboy boots. There they are, two-stepping in front of his LP collection in wooden crates. And how about an insouciant, limby smooch on the hammock? Perfect! A question: has anyone ever seen Alex and Alexis on the streets of Brooklyn? Read the rest of this entry »
