An incredible story behind the images of the Time cover shoot in Burma by Platon.

This is a great video (6 minutes) from Time magazine. Photographer Platon speaks of his experience in Myanmar (Burma) capturing a portrait of Aung San Su Kyi. (there is a short advert at the beginning)


What a wild ride. I especially appreciate him sharing his  interaction with her, his approach, words and ultimately the portraits. No technical info here, just another extraordinary experience in photography. TR

source: Time.com

Panama Canal: Time-Lapse photography and video

I recently transited the Panama Canal on a large private yacht. This being my third time in the canal, I decided to play around with video and incorporate some time-lapse images too.

This is not HD as I'm not really a video shooter, but I have to admit that I enjoyed trying to tell a story with moving pictures in addition to the stills. So I may find myself investing in something better soon. All the video was shot with a Canon G11 compact digital and the time-lapse images were shot with a Nikon D300.

I used the intervalometer feature on the D300 set to shoot every 15 seconds. I edited the stills in Aperture and put the video together using iMovie. Pretty basic editing tool for video but I think it turned out to be pretty cool. Enjoy TR

TED talk: David Griffin of Nat Geo talks about photography. (video)

I'm a huge fan of TED.com. I just watched this presentation by David Griffin, photo director of National Geographic. Good stuff.



If you can't see the entire frame, click HERE to go directly to it on the TED website.

If you don't know about TED.com already. Check it out. Interesting, intelligent, successful people discussing something that matters. Beats the hell out of facebook, twitter and the other mindless banter polluting the bandwidth. This blog included. Peace, TR

Time-Lapse video, Building a Yacht

I’ve always been fascinated by the time-lapse movies of huge construction projects like what you see on the Discovery Channel. This was an opportunity to make my own miniature version.

The movie is made up of 2400 photographs taken at intervals ranging from one every 30 seconds to one every minute. Although this project took several months, the movie only shows a few decks of the yacht coming together over a period of 10 days.

Watch the movie then read the story.

The video includes audio; you may want to adjust your volume before beginning.

Here’s the story