Manhattan Beach resident hosts TV series that captures essence of professional picture-taking – Daily Breeze

This Manhattan Seashore man will will allow you to decide the perfect spots for a photograph shoot.

“Photowalks with Jefferson Graham” debuted final month on Tubi, a free tv streaming service that takes viewers to probably the most Instagram-worthy spots world wide — and the way to get higher photographs as soon as there.

However Graham will even supply an in-person photograph tour subsequent week.

Graham will host a free, socially distanced photograph stroll at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 3, on the Manhattan Seashore Pier, a follow-up of types to an identical one he held there in 2019.

His present, in the meantime, is geared towards the smartphone crowd, Graham stated, as a result of he doesn’t need individuals to have to purchase tools to take nice photographs.

Take, for instance, the Manhattan Seashore Pier. Standing on the left facet lets you seize the solar and the pier collectively, Graham stated, however that’s not attainable on the best facet.

Graham bought his begin in televised photo-taking recommendation in 2018, when he made a video documenting his journey pictures in Osaka, Japan. He confirmed it to a pal, who advised him that journey movies are incomplete with out photograph ideas.

The Manhattan Seashore resident then began posting movies on YouTube displaying individuals the way to get one of the best photos of iconic Los Angeles locales, such because the Hollywood Stroll of Fame. Ultimately, he introduced the work to a producer who advised Graham he might be able to get him a half-hour TV spot.

Graham additionally used to put in writing about smartphone photograph ideas as a 36-year tech columnist for USA At the moment, and has photographed South Bay weddings, bar mitzvahs and people because the Nineteen Nineties. After leaving the information outlet earlier this 12 months, Graham discovered a method to marry the 2 professions.

Now, he’s traveled to Oregon, Hawaii and Portugal for episodes, Graham stated; on these stops, he has additionally interviewed native photographers about their very own picture-taking ideas.

“Lots of people say, ‘I want my photos seemed nearly as good as these postcards,’” Graham stated. “I wish to dissect the playing cards and inform individuals the way to get these photographs.”

His location-scouting course of consists of asking individuals who dwell and work in a specific metropolis the place to go for one of the best sundown and dawn, Graham stated, then placing the movies all collectively.

“Once I get right into a city, the very first thing I do is go to vacationer areas (and) have a look at brochures, postcards and magazines,” Graham stated. “I can inform from there what (the locals) establish as one of the best spots.”

Graham shoots each body of the present himself, he stated, after which produces and edits the movie in his Manhattan Seashore storage.

Watch “Photowalks with Jefferson Graham” on Tubi: https://tubitv.com/series/300006532/photowalks-with-jefferson-graham. Register to attend the April 3 photograph stroll on Eventbrite.