Competitions: The Couples Photo Contest by ViewBug
Valentine’s Day is around the corner, and if your a photographer, chances are you’ll capture a few good couples; your best snapshots and photo-shoots of a dynamic pairs and duos are the ideal concepts for the ongoing ViewBug “Couples Photo Contest.” Winners will be selected by ViewBug’s resident and guest judges based on your image quality, originality and creativity. Sounds like a plan! Don’t rush, the deadline isn’t until April 12th, 2012 so for the love’s sake…snap that camera. The prizes include:
* 1st Place — Digital Photo Frame and 500 reward points.
* 5 Runner Ups win a digital camera cleaning kit and 300 reward points.
* Worldwide exposure!
Videophiles: Face-Off 2011 Opening Night Recap
We got you on camera! We had a blast at FACE/OFF opening night here at The Box and from the looks of this behind the scenes video courtesy of Smash Le Funk, so did you. For 2012, we’re going even BIGGER so get to it and snap that camera or shoot that video to submit — we’ll be sure to salute your work and put it on full blast. Enjoy the clip!
Shot@SMASHBOX: The Newsweek Oscar Roundtable
Mugshots. Mugshots that just so happen to be the stars of Newsweek‘s annual Oscar Roundtable, hosted with grace on Stages 1 & 3 right here at Smashbox Studios in West Hollywood. There’s some good news floating around right now: The Sexy Beast gave us a good mention yesterday in David Ansen’s up close & personal review and write-up which spills the beans on every single moment they had here. Talk about behind the scenes shenanigans! Photographer Gavin Bond did quite the job on capturing every ounce of each star’s unique personality, don’t you think? Don’t you worry lovers, we have an impeccable black & white portrait series with these mugs, too — cute little doggie included! Get closer after the jump… Read more
Travel Mix: The Salton Sea by Philip Bloom
Filmmaker (DP, Director) Philip Bloom has over 216 shorts, time-lapses, and creative travel videos on Vimeo. His website is full of content like features, film reviews and tons of engaging factors that make us think it may as well belong to a sought after production company; at his passion rate for filmmaking, he is sought after. For our Travel Tuesday mix, we’d like to share his capture of the Salton Sea Beach — shot on a Canon Rebel T2i and a Kessler Crane Pocket Dolly Traveller. Comprende? On his blog he states, “I exposed it [Rebel T2i] to the harsh, hot, dirty Salton Sands where it’s very dirty and sandy. It’s not the ideal environment for a consumer camera, but it worked just fine. I had a few overheat warning issues after about two hours of solid shooting in the sun…the buffer ran out and it stopped recording. This is the first time I’ve seen this.” We understand Philip. However, the video you shot looks fantastic.
Smashbox On Location: Glam P.R. x Drykorn F/W ’12
Mohave Desert Motels and Baboon Monkeys never looked so prim and proper. Glam PR Production Services teamed up with German fashion label DRYKORN to produce a David Lynch inspired editorial shoot for their Fall 2012 campaign. Photographer Daniel Woeller, best known for his cinematic storytelling and inspiration drawn from classic films, gained support by the Glam PR’s production team and the Smashbox Photo Angels…who provided heavenly location services. Keep this fashion label afloat in your bookmarks, the jackets are modern and classy. Take a look-see… Read more
Photophiles: Photos We Love, Chinese New Year Edition
Bring on the Year Of The Dragon. With millions of ethnic Chinese Koreans and Vietnamese across Asia ring in the Chinese New Year, fireworks and family traditions go forth from Beijing to Bangkok and Seoul to Singapore…and we picked a series of action-packed images that set the celebration tone. Enter the dragon… Read more
On The Rise: Terence Ryan x Alan’s Right
Straight out of Boston, Terence Ryan releases his first music video titled “Alan’s Right.” Gathering up a few of his filmmaker friends accompanied by a RED camera and Ryan Sheetz as director, this 20 year old artist blends the lines between genres. He’s a producer, engineer, writer, singer and rapper and fresh of the 3|4 label who always send us something spectacular. Thanks, gents — here’s to another fresh new artist making his way on our 2012 radar. If he wants to visit Quixote Studios in Boston, give us a ring!
Feast Your Eyes: A Shopping Spree @Modernica Props
Now that Face Off has moved to the W Hotel via Photo LA, we have to give a proper shout out to Modernica Props — our retro setting for the photo sessions booth wouldn’t have been possible without the help of their lustful, creative objects and the help of owner, Frank Novak. They really know how to roll out the red carpet for us interested folk — They even blogged about our little shopping spree there right after we left! Needless to say it was a blast meeting Novak, the Modernica crew and the immense collection so we just had to capture a bundle of handsome snapshots while spending hours oooh-ing and ahhh-ing down every single aisle, floor, nook&cranny. Decisions are tough on us sometimes, you know? If you’re filming, photo-producing or artistic directing, head on over and tell them we sent you. Seriously, name drop. Enjoy the photo tour… Read more
Weekend Shenanigans: January 20-22, 2012
Thank you, Robert Redford. That idea you had in 1981 to gather friends and colleagues in the mountains of Utah has spiraled into one of the best launching pads for film artists. Bundle & Buckle up, The Sundance Film Festival 2012 opens this weekend and lasts all the way until January 29th…a whole lotta days…a whole lotta film. Going? Tweet at us here and here, we’d love to catch a drift of your perspective. As for an Angeleno-based weekend, there’s a hybrid of art and culture requesting your presence, including Face Off & The W Hotel, Westwood. Enjoy. Read more
The Smashbox Photo Sessions @Photo LA, Part 2
Welcome to Part 2 of a dynamic re-cap of our experience at Photo LA, 2012. Ed Cañas was one of our lovely photographers that was responsible for taking your portraits in our photo sessions booth — and impressed us with some sweet snapshots of the event… that he took the liberty to exclusively gift to us! Sweet, right? This camera-happy, emerging photographer was also a previous Smashbox Digital team player…and was a featured artist at Face Off 2011. Big time KUDOS. Check out how he bounced from booth to booth and captured the heartbeat of the show… Read more
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