Video: Vincent Laforet’s “Twisted Metal” trailer

Yesterday at E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Sony announced it was releasing a new, extra-intense installment of “Twisted Metal,” its car-combat videogame series for PlayStation. (If you’re unfamiliar with the gaming world, trust the blogosphere—it was a big deal.) The surprise announcement was accompanied by a trailer for the game shot by [...]

Video: Vincent Laforet’s Volkswagen spec ad

Canon recently asked Vincent to collaborate with them on a shoot to show off what the Canon 1D Mark IV, one of its new HDDSLR cameras, can do, so he chose to do a spec ad with a silver VW Bug. “It was shot over two days in downtown Los Angeles with a Canon behind-the-scenes [...]

Photo gallery: The Joys of Summer

. Technically, summer doesn’t begin here in the Northern Hemisphere until June 21, but with Memorial Day behind us and the heat all around us, it sure feels like summer right now. And what better way to celebrate the season that most represents fun—and to procrastinate the first day back at work after a long [...]

Is there hope for the annual-reports market?

Technology may have opened up new possibilities for photographers, but it’s also decimated a number of previously reliable markets. Printed annual reports, for instance, have taken a hit because more and more companies are opting for PDFs and thus are much less interested in spending money on original photography. Kind of makes you wonder: Is [...]

Vincent Laforet: “House” finale shot with Mark II was “stunning”

. While photographers feverishly discuss the pros and cons of shooting motion work with digital SLRs, at least one TV network has leaped into the fray in a very bold way. The season finale of the hit FOX series House—which aired this past Monday—was shot using, of all things, the Canon 5D Mark II. . [...]

It happened last week…featuring Nino Muñoz, Nadav Kander, Kwaku Alston, Roxanne Lowit, Vincent Laforet, and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders

. Last week was a vacation week for me but a bustling time for Stockland Martel’s photographers. Herewith, some highlights: . . The Huffington Post created a gallery of the entire military-themed Gisele Bundchen fashion story that Nino Muñoz shot for Vogue and invited readers to “let us know which is Gisele’s fiercest moment.” . [...]

Vincent Laforet: “People gravitate toward quality. They gravitate toward good ideas and good execution, not glitz.”

Zack Seckler over at The F STOP has posted a long interview he did with Vincent Laforet that covers everything from the story behind these two aerial photos… . . …to his beginnings as a photographer—how he went from shooting weddings and bat mitzvahs to covering sports for a wire service to landing a staff [...]

A Photo Editor interviews Vincent Laforet about evolving from newspaper photog to commercial director

. Rob Haggart at APE has posted a big interview he did with Vincent that touches on how the Pulitzer Prize–winning shooter reinvented himself, his decision to relocate from New York to L.A., the difference between cinema lighting and photography lighting, shooting DSLR video, and lots more. “It’s been a very interesting few years,” Vincent [...]

Vincent Laforet’s “Cabbie” drives video contest

. . Some of you have seen this already, but just in case: As PDN’s Dan Havlik has reported, Vincent’s short film Cabbie launched his “Behind the Still” video contest last week. The “7-chapter communal story contest is sponsored by Canon and Vimeo. “Canon gave Laforet a still image of a cab and then asked [...]

Our (highly subjective and by no means complete) look back at 2009

… PDNPulse featured James Worrell’s slideshow on a typical day in his life, which Dan Havlik sardonically introduces thusly: “Yes, it all begins at 6:30 am on a dreary morning in New Jersey but gets brighter as it goes along. He is, after all, working, which these days is an accomplishment in itself.” … RESOLVE [...]