TCF Ep. 445 - Gary Nicholls

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Gary Nicholls was born in Essex, England. He studied Design Technology and Technical drawing to B.ed level, and during that time he also took art classes where he learned that he had a natural eye, and could “see” something finished.Two turning points, since buying his first DSLR led him to the Imaginarium concept. The first was when he subscribed to Adobe Photoshop, realizing that his drawing skills would be of huge benefit.The second turning point came in September 2012 when he bought tickets for the Lincoln Steampunk Festival at the Asylum. It was the moment when he knew he had found his niche.The idea of “The Imaginarium” was born from that meeting. Not since Hogarth with Rakes Progress has a story been told in fine art images. What started as a 20-image short story has grown into a 450 image trilogy with 150 genuine Steampunks involved, taking storytelling to a whole new level. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This is E-BodyNX, and this is The Candid Frame.
0:14.0	Because of the ever-present camera phone, it's often said that now everyone is a photographer.
0:24.2	But just because it's easier for anyone to take a well-exposed and relatively sharp photograph doesn't mean that they are doing anything more
0:31.2	than pressing a button just knowing how to work a microwave doesn't qualify you as a cook
0:36.9	the art of making photographs is rooted in the Just knowing how to work a microwave doesn't qualify you as a cook.
0:45.1	The art of making photographs is rooted in the mind of a photographer who's made any number of choices well before he or she has even raised the camera to their eye. It's easy to forget that though
0:52.2	it takes the slightest pressure to take a picture, the heavy
0:56.3	lifting involves those moments before and after the capturing of the photograph.
1:03.5	Few photographers know that as well as Gary Nichols, whose personal project, the Imaginarium,
1:10.3	involves intensive and exhaustive preparation and countless hours compositing images.
1:17.8	Rooted in his passion for steampunk, he creates more than just singular images of people in elaborate costumes and complex props.
1:27.6	He imbues these images with a story as detailed and as rich as anything found in a novel.
1:34.9	So when I then do a photo shoot, we sit down and I talk about their character.
1:39.4	I tell them who they are.
1:40.8	Now, what you've got to remember is that stingpunks in general are very used to
1:45.8	be in photograph because every event you go to, that's what people do all the time. But they're
1:53.1	posing. I don't do that. I get them to act out the scene and I take multiple shots of them when they're actually playing
2:03.7	the part acting the full scene out that I give them in my mind they develop that character
2:09.9	we have a sometimes we we even have a sort of conference about well actually would that
2:17.0	character really do that you know
2:19.3	because they start to get into it and then they for that short period of time that is a
2:26.4	photo shoot they will be that person for that day in their head so to get the 150 images for the first book, I ended up taking
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