I am asked to write articles for various professional photographer magazines, and this month I’m 3 international magazines, all at once!
Professional Photographers of America, Professional Photographers of Canada, and PhotoWorld Magazine of China all asked me for articles, and coincidentally, they all printed this month, August 2010.
All US professional photographers should get this magazine in the mail automatically each month, but in case you’re looking for it on newsstands, here’s what it looks like.
My article is on Fashion Posing — how to break the traditional rules of posing to create something exciting. The basis of my article is that you have to know the rules of traditional posing in order to ‘break’ those rules and do something completely different, but that actually works visually and compositionally.
Here’s how the first page of my article looks (page 82-84).
I’m not only honored to be in this magazine, but feel it a special honor that I am in this magazine at the very same time they have a tribute to my favorite photographer and one of my ultimate photographic influences, Richard Avedon. Avedon was one of the most influential and longest standing fashion photographers in the industry, and he passed away in 2004.
He really raised the bar with fashion and advertising and storytelling, and I have sought after all of his art books (which are very expensive). I think I own almost all of them now. His article is on page 22-24.
You can see parts of the current issue at the official website, PPMag.org. And if you are a regular Bry Cox Blog reader, then you’ll remember I mentioned writing this article in a past blog post.
As far as the the Chinese and Canadian magazines go, I have not yet received my copies, but will post about them when they come.
If you’d like to see more of my work, or commission me to do a photograph for you, give me a call at 801-728-3317 and check out my website at BryCox.com.
And with those series of images, made this framed trio.
Then we went to one of my new in studio sets for a vibey grouping of cool images.
During the session, we got a bit of rain, but we decided to go outside anyway and get some fun images of her outside in the weather. I used one to create this painting. The final paintings are finished as a stretched canvas with hand glazing.
Our friend Benton, who is an expert fly fisherman, took my cousin Tony and I on a fishing expedition up the Colorado River. We started here, just below the dam. I call this image, “The best dam image of me.” 🙂
Here’s Benton showing off one of Tony’s catches. With his help, we caught a ton of fish — all however were too big to keep. It’s a funny rule on this part of the river.
Here was one of my catches, one of the biggest of the day. If I could have kept it, it would have made a great dinner!
Here is a pano looking out from our boat.
Because of my recent knee dislocation, I wasn’t able to wakeboard with everyone else. I’ve been working hard on rehabilitation, because I like being active and don’t want to miss out on summer fun. My knee was feeling pretty good so I tried some light surfing behind our friend Mark’s boat. It was great to get in the water.
If you haven’t seen or heard of this, you start behind the boat with a rope in order to get started, and then throw the rope back to the boat once you get your balance. A pro can surf on that wake indefinitely.
It not only was a great trip, but a reminder for me to photograph my casual moments in life, as well as the professional. Photographs are a great way to preserve memories not only for us, but for future generations.
What a fun shoot. And I really love photographing kids. They are so cute and genuine. And I know that when they are older, they will love looking back on their childhood with the help of these great portraits.
And then we did some fun fashion portraits while she was here. I thought it’d be fun to use some very specular light and over-expose the image for a very hip and fresh look.
I loved how these images look! Keri was a stunning model and was a joy to light and photograph. We really had a great time during this shoot and I loved her eyes and expressions too. I hope to do more photographs of her soon.
I am very excited by the look and quality of the images in this proof edition, love the presentation of one image per page. The entire book is 185 pages, and cost me a bit more to produce because it is printed in full color — all 185 pages! It contains images and street portraits that I created while traveling throughout China on two different speaking engagements last summer.
I would love all of you to have an early copy of this book, and have decided to sell the first set of these for my material costs only, $75!
I especially like these next few in motion, with all the colors of the stage lights.
What a great show! It is always fun to see these guys live and I encourage everyone to catch them when they hit a town near you.