LOST
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1. no longer possessed or retained: lost friends.
2. no longer to be found: lost articles.
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Venice Skateboarding With Jason Cordova by Andres Tardio
Venice is known for many incredible things, but skateboarding is usually one of the first things that comes to mind when you hear about the city. History behind skateboarding is deep in Venice, of course, so when looking to photograph the city’s beauty, it’s hard to avoid skateboarding and its culture.
Jason Cordova, known as @jsun217 on Instagram, lived a block from the boardwalk for years. He’d been photographing Venice for a long time, sometimes taking on the skaters. One day, Cordova posted an image of Sean Johnson, a skateboarder that impressed him, on Instagram. Johnson tracked him down and off the strength of this post, a friendship grew. The two would continue working together on a series of images that highlight the awesome and inspiring skate culture by the beach, something Cordova has become passionate about capturing.
“I love the process of shooting skateboarding,” he says. “It’s definitely a huge challenge. The style, action, speed, movement; trying to be at the right spot at the right time, understanding each skater’s style, composing and capturing that single moment while also trying to tell the whole story.”
While some of these challenges may present themselves, they don’t outweigh the positives here.
“The Venice park is great,” Cordova explains. “The beach back drop, the sunsets, the crowds, the energy of that place can get really crazy and play a big role in the shoot.”
On August 9th, photographers from Seattle traveled south to Portland to meet up. The idea behind the cross-city trip was to connect with people who we’ve been interacting with on Instagram and other social platforms.
Instagramers Seattle and Instagramers Portland represent two major cities of the Pacific Northwest and are within a three hour drive so naturally, we thought this was a cool thing to do!
Paul and Morgan were awesome hosts and greeted us with huge smiles. They organized a scavenger hunt gifting away prizes from sponsors, Portland Art Museum, Boys Fort and Archie’s Press (check out pics here).
We talked with the PDX photographers, went to the pub, drove to the St. John’s Bridge (what a sight!), did a little shopping and went home – our day was complete!
Now we wait for our PDX friends to come to SEA : )
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I am excited to announce that my brand new book, Art of Everyday Photography: Move Toward Manual & Make Creative Photos is now available on Amazon! If you’d like to learn more about the book, check out this feature from Cloth Paper Scissors. This publication can also be found in bookstores and craft stores throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, and through other popular online book sellers and arts and crafts vendors.
Your Amazing Everyday Life written by Susan on Cloth Paper Scissors
I believe that there is extraordinary to be found in the ordinary, and that we can elevate our everyday lives by embracing and honoring that which is simple. I invite you to capture the everyday in your photography. Look for the finer details. The following ideas explain how.
An Aspect of a Morning Ritual
Maybe you greet the day with a cup of tea or coffee, the newspaper, journal writing, blog surfing, or stirring a pot of your favorite Irish oatmeal. Use the soft, diffused natural morning light that comes through a window in your home to illuminate your subject. How do you want the light to hit your subject: as backlighting, at an angle, or as front lighting? If the light is coming from the front, make sure the subject is far enough away from the window so it doesn’t get washed out by harsh direct light.
Something You Want to Remember
My daughter has a favorite pair of socks that just barely fit her at this point. She often wore them with her favorite striped dress—an outfit that captures her free spirit. I took a photograph of her wearing these garments because I always want to be reminded of her free spirit when I look back on her childhood.
Your Road or Block
As time goes on, the landscape changes, often dramatically. If you live in the country, trees grow, old barns fall, people build. In the city, your favorite shops and eateries are often transient. I lived in Boston in my twenties and the amount of transformation my old neighborhood has seen since then is pretty remarkable. Make photos of the significant places you want to remember: your favorite bookstore, cafe, coffee shop, gallery, or tree-lined street.
Elevate Your Errands to Art
Some ideas: a photo of a shopping cart in the rain, the artfully displayed artisan bread at the bakery, fresh catches of the day on ice at the local fish market, jams and jellies on a shelf at the farmer’s market.
What other’s are saying about Susan’s book:
“In this easy-to-understand book, Susan Tuttle encourages the reader to get her camera out of “auto mode” and finally learn how to use its features to create beautiful photos capturing the everyday moments of life, including portraiture, landscape, still-life scenes, food, pet photography, street photography and more. In addition to camera basics, Susan includes many tips and techniques for getting the most out of smartphone cameras and photo apps.”- Amazon
Connect with Susan and find out more about her new publication and older publications on her website Also, stay tuned for a more in-depth look at Susan, her work, and her publishing prowess in the coming weeks here at Grryo. We are so excited to be able to support a fellow artist!
A little over a year ago, Instagram announced it was adding video to its widely used app. Immediately, a collective groan was heard across the mobile photography community. But while the addition of video certainly added plenty of dull content, (to this day, I still believe most folks scroll right past a video), a good number of artists were able to produce creative works of art.
The account @creativevideo was started in the hopes of finding and highlighting these videos, as well as to encourage others to make their own. And while I’ve always tried to highlight ‘videos worth watching’, there have been a handful that stood out among the rest- with two qualifications: 1) they contained an exceptionally creative idea, and 2) they were created solely using a mobile phone.
While the number of photo editing apps is nearly infinitesimal, quality video editing apps are few and far between. For this reason, finding a video that truly stands out can be somewhat difficult- it usually takes a unique idea to begin with, and may require the use of multiple apps to achieve the end result. The following four videos, to me, stand out, and the artists were kind enough to let me share them and the describe their process.
The first is by Frederic Genest, who came up with the idea of combining Hipstamatic photos with a timelapse app:
Here is how I proceed and you will see that it’s pretty simple at the end. I use Hipstamatic to shoot each picture. Middle or low resolution, because it takes too long to record each picture in high res and it’s definitely not necessary. You need to have in mind that the more pictures you take, the longer the length is. The longer distance you travel in between each shot, the faster the journey is. Then I use the Timelapse Pro app to edit the pictures. Why? because you need to be able to choose a very low number of frames for each picture. The right ratio is 2 frames for each pic and 15 pics per second. This, you can’t do with any other iMovie or slide show app. So you don’t use TimeLapse for what it’s initially made. You click on the edit menu, then “import images”, then “save as movie” in which section you can choose the number of frame per second (15 by default), and you can choose the quality of the compression, as well as add a piece of music from your library. Them you save that film in your library before uploading it to Instagram. Here it is, this is the way I do it.
“Hipstamotionpicture” by Frederic Genest
Mira has made many amazing videos that seem to have a double-exposure effect. This was just one of the ones I was enchanted with. Here, she describes how she does them:
My creative process doing this vid:
Positioning the camera and finding the lighting that dramatizes the scene, then I take a few movies so I have something to work with.
I used Slopro to speed or slow some parts in the movie, Reverse Camera to reverse the movie and Cute Cut to edit it all and get the layered effect and to add music.
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Péw made this amazing time lapse film that stood out from the rest. Here’s how it was done:
About the video, actually the idea just came out.. I always love taking puddle photos, and that day, right after the rain, I went outside to take some puddle shots, it was around 4 or 5 pm. When I looked at the cloud’s reflection in the puddle, the idea came out! So I started to put my iPhone on a tripod, standing around the puddle with the cloud as a background, and started to capture myself using a self timer camera app (camera+ app) …but then I thought it would be awesome if the clouds were moving! So I decided to create a timelapse video, I stood around the puddle and let my iPhone start recording for about 15 minutes! And yes, I was standing still for 15 minutes to get the moving clouds.. I was recording using iLapse for the timelapse and added the music using CuteCutPro. 30 frames per second.
“Standing In Motion” by Ahmad Renaldi
Last but not least, Roberto blew me away with this video; it’s essentially an animated version of his photo editing style. Here’s his process:
For this video, I shot a 39 frame motion burst, then had to individually outline each frame. Then, using Image Blender, I created 38 backgrounds of solid color blocks, to add my “Gridient” effect to the overall piece. Then I created another set of backgrounds to overlay with the original set of backgrounds, which was done in Image Blender as well. I used stark colors in the background so that the overall juxtaposition between the color blocks & outlined frames would provide a nice silhouette look to the running subject. Then after additional touch-ups in ArtStudio, the motion burst slides were ready to be placed on their backgrounds. This meant each image, one by one, had to be matched with the exact backgrounds in the right order. That way, each frame moves in a solid consistent motion, giving a sense of continuity and fluidity. Once the final assembly of the outlined slides & backgrounds was done, everything was spliced together in iMovie. After a few pitch adjustments, and the addition of my music track, the project was finished. Then wahoo, the two day development process came to a close.
“Motion Gridient” by Roberto Cuevas