Photography
New portrait gallery in Big Folio
17/05/10 20:15 Filed in: Website Updates
A new oversized collection of
portraits done for the new online magazine Outlish.com, featuring
young adults making their mark in Trinidad and Tobago, is posted here...
Comments
Kenisha and the wireless triggers
19/04/10 21:01 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 726 posted
12/04/10 19:01 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 726, a longer view
perspective on the surge in interest in photography, is posted here...
The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...
The original Facebook discussion on the subject is excerpted here...
New galleries posted in Stock photography
28/03/10 22:01 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 722 posted
15/03/10 23:46 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth
722, a reminiscing over the 20 years that Photoshop has been with
us, is posted here...
Local Lives 11 posted
20/02/10 22:51 Filed in: Website Updates
An
expanded gallery of Local Lives 11, a photoessay about the J'Ouvert
band Chocolate City, is posted here.
A downloadable PDF of the story as it appeared in the Guardian's
Carnival souvenir is available here. Curious about how Local lives gets done?
There's also a vidcast on the the download page.
Mining a lost archive
01/02/10 23:14 Filed in: Website Updates
The
backstory on 'A Gift of the Past,' in Caribbean Beat's
January-February issue, about a collection of my father's old
negatives and the history of Carnival that they revealed, is
posted
here... The text from
that story is posted
here...
The Local Lives process
18/01/10 23:32 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographing Debbie Ali
04/01/10 22:10 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographing a kidnapping victim on
the very first day of the year proves to be the kind of challenge
that makes photojournalism really interesting.
BitDepth 712 posted
04/01/10 22:08 Filed in: Website Updates
Giselle, finally
22/12/09 00:05 Filed in: Website Updates
In the 23 years since Giselle La
Ronde-West won the Miss World title, I have never once photographed
her. Womanwise gives me my first
shot at an ageless beauty.
Diamond cover
14/12/09 22:04 Filed in: Website Updates
Lystra, decades later
07/12/09 22:48 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on a session with
veteran model Lystra Cudjoe are posted here...
Career contemplation videocast
07/12/09 22:43 Filed in: Website Updates
A videocast of a presentation covering
my career to date prepared for St Joseph's Convent students and the
bpTT photography club is posted here...
Womanwise Virtual Gallery
01/12/09 00:38 Filed in: Website Updates
Interested in the photos I've been
doing for Womanwise? There's now a virtual gallery of the work
available here. It's made for big screens, I'm afraid.
Shoot Mystie for me, said the editor
01/12/09 00:30 Filed in: Website Updates
The wonderful world of Mystie.
Behind the Womanwise shoot.
Yes, I get to shoot Wilhelmina models
23/11/09 23:07 Filed in: Website Updates
Photo session number 13 turns out to
be an encounter with a former Wilhelmina model. I laugh at your
reputation for bad luck! Hahahahaha! Oh, and the photographer's notes are here...
Destra in da house
16/11/09 22:42 Filed in: Website Updates
Planning for a pregnant Destra takes
some forethought and some strategy. Here's how I tackled the challenge.
10 ways to improve your photography
09/11/09 23:21 Filed in: Website Updates
Womanwise gone wrong
09/11/09 23:19 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on a tragedy of
errors that scuttled a strong effort at delivering a good Womanwise
cover in challenging circumstances are posted here...
Photographing Carolyn Pasea
02/11/09 23:15 Filed in: Website Updates
Photography notes on my session with
music producer and talent manager Carolyn Pasea for the Sunday
Guardian's Womanwise magazine are posted here...
Local Lives 10, The Children's Ramayana posted
17/10/09 22:54 Filed in: Website Updates
My photo essay on the Bal Ramdilla, a
learning experience at the Hindu Prachar Kendra that involves
children in the writing, directing and performance of the epic
Ramleela is archived online here as a downloadable
PDF.
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...
You can view an expanded online gallery of images from the shoot here. If you just want to read the text, that's to be found here...
Background notes and technical information about the project has been added here...
Derek Walcott's 1992 Nobel Lecture, which meditates on a Ramleela in Felicity, is here...
TDC Divali Competition
15/10/09 11:58 Filed in: Website Updates
The Tourism Development Company
launched its Divali photography competition for amateurs. I took
issue with one of the terms. Five hours later, the company
graciously amended a critical parameter of the competition.
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...
The original post on the matter, sent via e-mail and posted as a Facebook note was also posted here...
I've extracted all the responses that came via Facebook comment threads, e-mailed responses and web comments here...
To put some context on this, I've added a post about my own experiences as a content creator with various incarnations of the local tourism company here...
Notes on Allison Demas photos
12/10/09 22:28 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on a cover shoot
with Allison Demas and her daughter Aisha for Womanwise are posted here...
Wendy Fitzwilliam - photo notes
28/09/09 22:36 Filed in: Website Updates
Photography notes on my photo session with Wendy
Fitzwilliam and her son at her home are posted
here...
Photo notes on Dr Pat Mohammed posted
14/09/09 23:37 Filed in: Website Updates
Photographer's notes on my photo shoot
with UWI lecturer Dr Patricia Mohammed are posted here...
BitDepth 696 posted
07/09/09 21:00 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth#696, a look at Peter Krogh's
updated edition of his seminal book on digital asset management is
posted here...
BitDepth 668 posted
23/02/09 19:28 Filed in: Website Updates
BitDepth 668, musings about the ways
that technology has changed my photographic approach to Carnival is
posted here...
New Galleries, including Viey La Cou series
15/02/09 15:21 Filed in: Website Updates
The Viey La Cou series is now live in the
Virtual Gallery. A behind the
scenes account of the 1989 shoot is posted in my photo
blog.
The GayelleTV gallery formerly in my portfolio has been revisited, re-edited and is now posted in Virtual Gallery format in that section.
The GayelleTV gallery formerly in my portfolio has been revisited, re-edited and is now posted in Virtual Gallery format in that section.
Blog post on Canon's wireless flash sync
14/02/09 00:06 Filed in: Website Updates
Notes on what happens
when you press two of Canon's ETTL strobes with wireless sync into
service in the middle of the St James Hosay celebrations.
Carnival portrait series to run from Friday
09/02/09 21:46 Filed in: Website Updates
The Viey La Cou series, portraits of
traditional Carnival characters that I shot at that celebration in
the early 80's, will begin on Friday.
On Duke
15/01/09 22:52 Filed in: Website Updates
Mass updates
04/11/08 09:43 Filed in: Website Updates
After
almost a full week of hacking my lungs up and blowing my sinuses
into a rather vast assortment of tissues, I've finally mustered the
energy to begin posting to the site again.
Fortunately, I'm working from copious notes from the show floor at PhotoPlus Expo 2008, so the assortment of drugs and remedies I've been ingesting hasn't quite succeeded in wiping my brain pan clean of what I encountered over the three days of Expo.
Herewith, a roundup of all the new postings to the site...
BitDepth 651 covers a panel at PhotoPlus on the way Microstock has changed the face of not just stock photography sales but the profile of contributors.
There are additional notes from that panel posted to my Photo Blog here.
BitDepth 652 covers the panel of winners of this year's All Roads Project. Just one of the winners was able to make it, and his story is a remarkable one.
Day One of my PhotoPlus expo blog coverage covers the hunt for a new sling bag.
Fortunately, I'm working from copious notes from the show floor at PhotoPlus Expo 2008, so the assortment of drugs and remedies I've been ingesting hasn't quite succeeded in wiping my brain pan clean of what I encountered over the three days of Expo.
Herewith, a roundup of all the new postings to the site...
BitDepth 651 covers a panel at PhotoPlus on the way Microstock has changed the face of not just stock photography sales but the profile of contributors.
There are additional notes from that panel posted to my Photo Blog here.
BitDepth 652 covers the panel of winners of this year's All Roads Project. Just one of the winners was able to make it, and his story is a remarkable one.
Day One of my PhotoPlus expo blog coverage covers the hunt for a new sling bag.
Blogging the show floor
22/10/08 16:48 Filed in: BitDepth+
The next
installment of BitDepth (October 28) will be a report on highlights
from this year's PhotoPlus Expo, but from Thursday evening, I'll be
blogging my findings and notes from the show floor of the PhotoPlus
Expo 2008 at the Jacob Javits Centre in New York for the duration
of the three days of the show.
You'll find that coverage posted on my photoblog here...
You'll find that coverage posted on my photoblog here...
BitDepth 647 Posted
29/09/08 20:51 Filed in: Website Updates
PhotoBlog: Lenses, not cameras
22/09/08 21:11 Filed in: Photography
A new
entry on my photography blog explores the importance of high
quality lenses on digital camera bodies. Find it
here...
Fundraisers for Jeffrey Chock annoucned
22/09/08 21:15 Filed in: Photography
Dreamscape goes nuts
08/09/08 20:19 Filed in: Website Updates
Trinidad
Dreamscape freaks out after
finding out that Noel Norton is shooting with a digital
camera.
Chock fundraising
08/09/08 23:09 Filed in: Photography
PhotoBlog: I hate shooting tethered
12/08/08 22:59 Filed in: Photography
Beat Big Up for La Fleur Morte
28/07/08 22:09 Filed in: Photography
One of my personal projects, La Fleur
Morte, is featured in the July/August issue
of Caribbean
Beat.
The story by journalist James Fuller offers some kind words about my work and manages to date me quite nicely.
I'm not so ancient, however, that I'm likely to be doddering about humming Neil Diamond songs for inspiration, so please note that James misheard me and the quote that he cites is by Neil Gaiman, not the composer of the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull that some folks consider to be quite inspirational.
The image enlargements on this page are quite large and will require at least a 17 inch monitor to view properly, but anything less just didn't do the reproduction of the pages and the sample image of the flower of the Chalice Vine (Solandra Guttata) just didn't seem right any smaller.
You can view the story online here...
You can also access many stories from the current issue of Caribbean Beat as well as archives of the magazine by signing up for a free subscription here...
There's a blog posting on my website and links to other material about the project here...
Interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie of Gayelle TV's Cock a Doodle Doo.
Slideshow movie that I prepared for that appearance.
Download the interview here and the slideshow here.
The story by journalist James Fuller offers some kind words about my work and manages to date me quite nicely.
I'm not so ancient, however, that I'm likely to be doddering about humming Neil Diamond songs for inspiration, so please note that James misheard me and the quote that he cites is by Neil Gaiman, not the composer of the film Jonathan Livingston Seagull that some folks consider to be quite inspirational.
The image enlargements on this page are quite large and will require at least a 17 inch monitor to view properly, but anything less just didn't do the reproduction of the pages and the sample image of the flower of the Chalice Vine (Solandra Guttata) just didn't seem right any smaller.
You can view the story online here...
You can also access many stories from the current issue of Caribbean Beat as well as archives of the magazine by signing up for a free subscription here...
There's a blog posting on my website and links to other material about the project here...
Interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie of Gayelle TV's Cock a Doodle Doo.
Slideshow movie that I prepared for that appearance.
Download the interview here and the slideshow here.
RBTT becomes RBC
15/07/08 11:23 Filed in: Musing
Photo Blog Posting: Pixels are Not free
24/06/08 12:15 Filed in: Website Updates
A new Photo Blog posting is available on
the real cost of digital images...
Stock photography section
16/06/08 23:11 Filed in: Website Updates
New photography blog added
16/06/08 23:08 Filed in: Website Updates
Decided to move my ruminations about
photography to a new blog. The first few entries consolidate
information about my photojournalism projects and contemplate an
egg. Read more here...
BitDepth 628 posted
19/05/08 19:43 Filed in: Website Updates
Instant obsolesence
28/04/08 19:30 Filed in: Photography

Hosay in full swing
16/01/08 20:45 Filed in: Photography
La Fleur Morte
18/12/07 00:03 Filed in: Photography




Click on each photo to see an enlarged detail.
These images are excerpts from a larger work that is in progress in which I examine the way that flowers, the reproductive organs of plants, deteriorate after they are picked and discarded.
The first two images were selected for display in the Art Society's November exhibition for 2007 and you can view an interview with Magella Moreau and Dennis McComie on the Gayelle Morning Show, Cock a Doodle Doo here and download the interview here. If you're curious about the slideshow I put together for my appearance, you can find that download here and view it here.
Tapes on RAW
22/10/07 21:47 Filed in: BitDepth+
Gayelle TV interview
16/08/07 20:14 Filed in: Photography
AMPOTT Judges' Notes, 2005
12/08/07 16:49 Filed in: AMPOTT

AMPOTT Judging
10/08/07 20:31 Filed in: Photography

The Modern Eye
06/08/07 21:20 Filed in: Photography
Alex Smailes & Carnival
25/06/07 20:23 Filed in: Photography

I've also written about Noel Norton here... Read More...
Five Fingers
07/05/07 17:07 Filed in: Photography



