Joe Baraban’s Photography Blog - Stretching Your Frame of Mind

Mano a mano

Years ago I was shooting the annual report for Anderson Consulting, and they had me travel virtually around the world shooting their clients in action. A dirty job but someone had to do it!

One of their clients was S...

Nice and simple

Since my background is not in photography but in painting and design, I still consider myself an artist; specifically a painter of sorts.

Before the school closed due to the passing of its founder Bryan Peterson, I told my fellow p...

And now for her ECU

One of the terms that’s used in the film industry and you’ll see on movie scripts is the initials ECU, and it stands for extreme close-up. When I was a director-cameraman I would often put at least one close-up of a person on film just i...

I was in doubt, so I left it out.

Over the past five years, I found that in both my online classes with the BPSOP, and in my “Stretching Your Frame of Mind” workshop...