In this edition of LightSource, Bill and Ed talk with commercial photographer Dan Couto.
Hosts:
Bill Crawford, publisher of StudioLighting.net (Flickr)
Ed Hidden, exclusive IStockPhoto.com photographer (Flickr)
Theme Music:
Sean Campbell and Steve Hill (Firesickle.com)
Special Guest:
Dan Couto, commercial photographer.
LightSource Episode 56 (Interview Series) [41:42 minutes]
LightSource E056 [19.1 MB]
In this episode:
Bill and Ed discuss:
Special Guests Dan Couto discusses:
- Getting inspiration from comics
- Converging art mediums
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
- How vision arrives
- Creating illustrative pin-up portraits
- Using old specialty software
- Why cinematography school is great
- Getting great composition
- How he got started in photography
- Shooting Your Way to a Million – Richard Shabura
- His favorite equipment
- Mixing 3D and 2D images
- Archive Magazine
- Inspiration from old magazines
- Getting to be instinctive with color
- Ballistic publishing exotique series
- Viewing art to understand color