Well, in the chess match between Canon and Nikon, Canon has once again made a ‘first move’. Perfect timing for the upcoming Photo Plus Expo, this release of their new monster DSLR will surely great some stir–and probably some anger with Nikon folks. Quick summary: 18mp, full frame CMOS, 12 fps, ridiculously fast processing, all of the amazing movie capabilities you would expect–now with 2 different compression options. Those are just to name a few. I’ll let these guys fill in the rest:
Well, it’s finally here–my new and improved website! You’ll find that branding and such has not changed but the layout is a bit different, you can find me easier on the social networks and you can even join my email list by clicking the link on the right side in the blog. Please feel free to peruse and let me know what you think! Special thanks to Liz at Someone Creative and Jim at Snacksize.
Stay tuned for some even BIGGER changes that I will soon be launching–a new section of my website that I am so incredibly excited to share with you all! Keep checking back and make sure you ‘Like’ my Facebook page and follow me on Twitter.
Photography training mogul Kelby Media Group has launched an iPad only digital publication called ‘Light It’. The premiere issue (available now), is free–yes FREE–and can be downloaded here: Light It. No word quite yet as to how much subscriptions will be, but knowing the Kelby crew, it will be worth every penny! I’ve downloaded it myself and have included a couple screenshots. The content not only looks amazing but is of course incredibly useful. It’s not super ‘ad heavy’ but they are present–interested to see if paid subscriptions will diminish some of the ads. Entire spread is 54 pages long, I’d say 30-35% is full page ads.
I recently finished a very cool project for a new product launch called BioBliss. I did product photography, video testimonials and this instructional video. To see the rest of the work and to check out the product more, go to their website at www.biobliss.com!
In case you don’t know about them already, my good friends at LensProToGo have just released a new video produced by Stillmotion entitled ‘Meet the Family’. LensProToGo is a fantastic company and if you ever need to rent anything, they’ll have it! Be sure to check out their website: LensProToGo.com
I don’t know about you, but this scares me…just a little…
“The camera that turns light into living pictures.
This year, Lytro will debut the first light field camera for everyone. OK – you’re not everyone. You are a beautiful, unique snowflake. And you deserve an amazing camera that lets you capture life’s singular moments, like baby’s first steps not second, with maximum magic and minimum hassle. No more fighting with dials and settings and modes. No more flat, boring, static photographs. With a Lytro, you unleash the light.”
So a camera that needs no dials, no focusing, no nothing….you focus AFTER you take the photo….huh? wow…. well, click here to get the nerd explanation. But let’s suffice it to say that Lytro could quite possibly be a came changer for the photography industry. Take a look at the Lytro image gallery to become a believer–just click around on the image to change it’s focus point.
A recent shoot I did for Wellbridge Athletic Club in Cambridge at Charles Square.
I have recently began working with a not for profit organization in Boston called Hospitality Homes–a great organization providing housing for family and friends of patients seeking care at Boston area medical centers. The organization has a few donated apartments in and around the Boston area that have completely empty walls. I’m looking to provide them with some amazing photography and art so that the nice people who stay in these apartments–some for long periods of time–can have inspiring art to look at instead of empty walls.
Baby Regina and her mother from Cancun, Mexico staying at one of Hospitality Homes' apartments while getting treated at Children's Hospital Boston
Details:
Deadline will be Sunday, May 1st. Please email me directly–brian@briantetrault.com–if you are interested and let me know what you’ll be donating. Drop offs and shipments can go to our studio: 681 Main Street #3-39, Waltham, MA 02451 (Google map) or I can arrange to pick up your pieces.
Thanks so much in advance for your generosity. Let’s make these homes warm and inviting for people who are far from their own homes and are going through stressful times.
The above photo was taken for a print mailer as part of a Mother’s Day campaign. Liz at Someone Creative is working on the new print collateral and website for Hospitality Homes. Here’s a link to the current website: www.hosp.org. Stay tuned for the amazing new design!
Hospitality Homes mission:
Hospitality Homes provides temporary housing in volunteer host homes and other donated accommodations for families and friends of patients seeking care at Boston-area medical centers. Since 1983, Hospitality Homes’ unique, home-away-from-home lodging option has provided a caring response as well as relief from emotional and financial challenges for these individuals and families.
If you haven’t heard yet, I have officially started a business with my good friend Jim Hooper at Hooper Tetrault Studios. Our new website is up and running we’re really excited to announce that we got our first bit of work published! The publication was for Great Backyards magazine and they actually originally gave the incorrect photo credit but we got them to fix it :). The landscape work was done by our friend Clara Batchelor of CBA Lanscape Architects–who also submitted the work to the magazine. The original job was shot for Vicki Baker at Su Casa Designs.
Here is the tear sheet. Hooray for our first publishing!
