Barry Tanenbaum

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How He Got the Shot: One Ball And One Striking Photograph
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 04, 2016

Sports shooters live for moments of key action; they also cherish players’ reactions to those moments. Mike Corrado caught the latter at the start of the third game of the World Series, as New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard sent a message to Kansas City Royals leadoff hitter Alcides Escobar, who is known for crowding the plate and swinging at first pitches.

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How Photographer Stephen Wilkes Compresses Time to Create Startlingly Original Images
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 29, 2018

Stephen Wilkes carried the idea of day-to-night images for a long time. The seed was planted when he photographed the cast and crew of Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet for Life magazine.

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How Pro Sports Photographer Brad Mangin Makes Money Selling Baseball Photos Shot with His iPhone
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jul 24, 2017

Not long ago, pro sports photographer Brad Mangin wrote a story for the PetaPixel website that was titled, I Earned More From Photo Gigs in 2016 With My iPhone Than My DSLRs!

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How She Got the Shot: Deborah Sandidge Uses Multiple Exposures For Maximum Impact
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jan 26, 2016

The scene is often just the starting point of a Deborah Sandidge photograph. “It’s visualization,” she says. “I’m looking at a scene and imagining what’s going to happen over time.” What was going to happen at the San Antonio, Texas, River Walk was the continuing passage of the water taxis. Sandidge knew they were the key to an expressive, dramatic photograph, one that would get as close as possible to picturing the passage of time.

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How to Capture Crazy B&W Close-Ups of Wildlife: Anup Shah’s Rare Views of a Wild World
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Aug 01, 2017

Anup Shah believes there is an authenticity to the personalities of wild animals: an animal in the wild wears no mask and assumes no role that is not genuine; neither is that animal influenced by humans in the way a captive creature would be.

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How to Create Realistic Artificial Sunlight: An Elegantly Simple Solution To Light a Tricky Location
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jun 21, 2016

David X. Tejada’s assignment was a lighting demo for a how-to video and end-use images. The location was a private home where he was asked to create the effect of artificial sunlight. The weather cooperated by providing rain.

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How to Light for Environmental Portraits: Benny Migliorino Shares Tips on His Signature Style
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Jan 02, 2015

It’s welcome news to any photographer when the look of their images becomes a distinct, signature style. That’s exactly what has happened to Benny Migliorino, whose specialty is environmental and location portraits. “A lot of people say that what I’ve become known for is dramatic lighting,” Migliorino acknowledges, “but I didn’t set out to be known for that—it’s just the way I like to light, and the way I want my photographs to look.”

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How to Photograph a Celebrity: It Helps If You Can Develop Trust
Barry Tanenbaum  |  May 10, 2018

Steve Vaccariello had an advantage when he took this photograph of actor Alan Cumming for Aventura magazine. Well, actually three advantages. The first was that he’d photographed Cumming before. The second, they were friends.

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How To Sell iPhone Images: Ali Jardine’s Fantastic Photos of Her Kids Are a Booming Business
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Apr 07, 2017

Longer story short: With a high-flying imagination and no shortage of necessary technical skills, Ali Jardine turned a creative hobby into a creative business by networking the new-fashioned way—with Instagram, Snapchat, Flickr, Facebook, and probably some other social sites she didn’t have time to list or mention.

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How to Shoot Incredible Photos in Public Places (Without Getting Arrested): 6 Tips from Jordan Matter
Barry Tanenbaum  |  Mar 05, 2019

It would be easy to categorize Jordan Matter as a dance photographer—he has published three books of his dance images—or as a portrait photographer—it was what he did before turning to dance, and he still includes it in his repertoire.

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