♥ 47
→ 10 Jan 12 at 10 pm
→ 10 Jan 12 at 10 pm
This guy is crazy… shooting 8-12 brands in four hours. And he’s seriously mastered strobing.
♥ 11
→ 10 Jan 12 at 9 pm
→ 10 Jan 12 at 9 pm
“So this was the first sunset I captured in 2012. It cost me $6,612 to take this photo.
$12 in gas to go from work to this spot and then home. The camera I took this with cost $2500. The lens was another $1600. The Singh Ray Reverse Neutral Density filter was $210. The Lee Wide-Angle Adapter and Foundation kit was another $200. The Slik Tripod was another $130. The shutter-release was another $60. When I got home, I uploaded it to a computer that cost me $1200, and then I used Lightroom 3 which I got for $200. I then exported it and tinkered with it in Photoshop which costs about $500.
12+2500+1600+210+200+130+60+1200+200+500= $6,612
So if you’re a magazine, website, corporation, sports team, or advertiser who wishes to use this photo, please don’t come and ask to use it for free, or in exchange for credit or “exposure”. You found my photo so obviously I have “exposure”. You have an advertising budget, and this is what it’s for. You obviously don’t expect your writers to work for free, or your secretary, or your boss. No one is going to publish it for free. Just because the picture is digital doesn’t mean it was free to make.
As someone mentioned, THIS single photo didn’t cost me $6,612, but if you wanted to create it, from scratch, that is what is involved. So I consider it the replacement value if it’s stolen, or how much my lawyer will send you a bill for if it’s found being used without my permission.
If you give your photo away for “credit” then the best possible scenario for you is someone will see your photo, contact you, and ask if they could borrow one of your photos… for credit. Try this… next time you’re at dinner, tell your waiter you’ll tell all your friends how good the service was if he gives you dinner for free.”
- John B. Mueller
via PetaPixel
Respect the value of an artist and his creations…
:::Nolis
♥ 14
→ 06 Jan 12 at 9 pm
→ 06 Jan 12 at 9 pm
Fujifilm X100… Ima just call it a late xmas present to myself since i didnt get much of anything.
♥ 20152
→ 06 Jan 12 at 12 am
→ 06 Jan 12 at 12 am
Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth. Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.
To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.
The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated. Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.
Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything. Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage. A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.
The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.
I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.
For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:
(via jouryoshi)
♥ 18
→ 05 Jan 12 at 6 pm
→ 05 Jan 12 at 6 pm
365 day self portrait project since 1999. Even kept going after becoming paralyzed in 2008.. Crazy
♥ 14
→ 30 Dec 11 at 12 pm
→ 30 Dec 11 at 12 pm
Nolis Universe 2011
The year of 2011 has been one of the craziest years of my life…. I’ve had the opportunity to shoot so many different people over the course this year and i’ve enjoyed every minute of it. I want to thank everybody from the models to the assistants to my amazing makeup, hair, and wardrobe stylists that collaborated with me. 2012 will be a huge milestone for my life so expect big changes in the future. I’ll be redoing my entire website as well as re-evaluating the direction i would like to take with my photography. It will be a change for the good. You may not see many updates on the site for a while but the blog will always be active. Also expect new mixes of my playlists in 2012 as well as the next installment of The Stew “Third Course”. But until then Happy New Years to everyone!
:::nolis
♥ 3
→ 28 Dec 11 at 4 pm
→ 28 Dec 11 at 4 pm
Case with built in cameras reveal the journey of your checked baggage. (ATL to NYC)
♥ 1
→ 27 Dec 11 at 3 pm
→ 27 Dec 11 at 3 pm
This is what a 5MB hard drive looked like in 1956… it weighed a ton! (literally).
♥ 12
→ 25 Dec 11 at 8 pm
→ 25 Dec 11 at 8 pm
Father films kids coming downstairs for the first 25 years of their lives for xmas… Merry Xmas everybody.
:::nolis
♥ 5
→ 23 Dec 11 at 12 pm
→ 23 Dec 11 at 12 pm
From the makers of the Money x Cars x Clothes x Hoes sweaters.. Dope Boy Magic ski masks… Coming soon
photos by Nolis
♥ 32055
→ 19 Dec 11 at 1 pm
→ 19 Dec 11 at 1 pm
The Most Beautiful Suicide
On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. ‘He is much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody,’ … Then she crossed it out. She went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building. Through the mist she gazed at the street, 86 floors below. Then she jumped. In her desperate determination she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure. The serenity of McHale’s body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding. Years later, Andy Warhol appropriated Wiles’ photography for a print called Suicide (Fallen Body).
(Source: addicted-to-dopamine, via destinysluvchild)
