Episode 31: Carlos Baez
Carlos Baez is a 23-year veteran in the industry who built his career doing fashion and fine art photography. He’s recently added high end wedding photography to his repertoire, routinely earning $15-$25K for his wedding work. He now speaks nationally and is one of the “professors” at PhotographyMentor.com. He’s had the opportunity to learn from some photography greats, including acclaimed fine art photographer Helmut Newton. In fact, get Carlos talking about the greats in the industry, and you’ll quickly get a taste of that passion in his Latin blood. Carlos is very passionate about photographers getting back to their roots and learning about the forefathers of the industry, as wells as knowing and understanding the basic concepts of the craft (things like zone systems, 120 backs, light meters, and f-stops). In this episode, we learn some photography history, about Carlos’ “mission” to empower women, and his passion about family. After this episode, you won’t look at photography the same.
Next week, we have 2-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist turned wedding and portrait photographer Greg Gibson.
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There’s nothing worst than a purist. Mr. Baez seems to revere all things traditional (photographers, film, darkrooms) while scoffing at modern improvements to those processed.
Photoshop IS the darkroom of the digital age. Its simply a more recent mechanism to accomplish the same goal: emotive photographs.
Just because film is traditional and more inconvenient doesnt make it inherently more respectible.
You can travel via horse-drawn carriage or you can travel via automobile - as long as you get there. But for god’s sake lets not romanticize the more difficult way of doing things. That’s just regressive thinking.
Noah Stephens said this on March 13th, 2009 at 8:27 am