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We take it for granted that galleries are the gatekeepers to the art market, but is that still the case? A new service sets out to challenge all that, advocating a DIY approach
How do you make a living out of photography? Declining budgets in editorial and stock have seen many image-makers heading for fine art, selling editioned prints in a bid to recoup their costs and, hopefully, make a healthy profit. But it’s a market still dominated by the galleries, which bring the photographer kudos, collectors and advice, in exchange for a roughly 50 percent cut of the...
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The man they call Glasweegee expounds on his photographs of Blackpool stag and hen nights, Shoreditch wildlife, and the streets of his native Glasgow.
The first picture in Dougie Wallace’s Blackpool series was of a man – “pissing himself laughing and bollock-naked” – securely wrapped to a lamp post by a few hundred meters of clingflim. “He should know better,” one of the lad’s mates said to Dougie as he framed the shot. “He’s been married three times before.” “Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit...
MIT researchers have created a new algorithm that, in a broad range of cases, can automatically remove reflections from digital photos. On the left is the original photo taken through a window, with the photographer’s reflection clearly visible. On the right, the reflection has been separated from the photo. Courtesy of the researchers Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have developed a method for eliminating glass reflections in photos via digital processing. It is hoped that with further development the idea could see its way into...
Toronto-based Town 30 has launched the Emissary Series camera bag on Kickstarter, where it is seeking funding for production. The Emissary camera bag is tailored specifically to photographers’ needs. This includes attachable pockets, a removable laptop compartment, a locking mechanism inspired by film-advance levers, a lens cap mount, and more. In addition, the bag is being offered in two iterations able to accommodate different types of gear. The camera bag is being offered in two initial models: the Burzin, and the Cumbysis, both available in green, black, and...
Understanding how your sensor responds can open up creative options that aren’t otherwise obvious. For instance, this high dynamic range scene was achieved using a single exposure, thanks to the camera’s excellent noise characteristics. In the first part of this article, we discussed the fact that a lot of the noise in a lot of your images doesn’t come from your camera at all: it is you being able to see the randomness of the light that you’ve captured and it is almost solely dependent on how much light you were able to capture. The second source...
Lily Robotics has unveiled Lily Camera, a self-flying drone designed to autonomously track and record its owner. Once it’s thrown into the air it begins automatically following and recording its target, which is anyone in possession of the accompanying GPS tracking device. Its camera captures 1080/60p HD video and 12MP stills, and the device itself is waterproof to 1 meter underwater. A companion app offers some control over Lily’s in-flight behavior and shot composition, but the drone flies itself without input from a pilot on the ground. Its non-removable...
![Faking the Look of Super Slow Motion by Animating Still Photos]()
Here’s a 1-minute video titled “Revolution,” created by Dubai-based photographer Sherif Mokbel “to support all the free people fighting for their liberation and right to live.” Mokbel also created the work as a technical exercise in how to turn still photos shot with a DSLR into pseudo super-slow-motion footage. Mokbel started out by shooting a series of still photographs with his Canon 5D Mark III (you can find the entire “Revolution” photo gallery here): Then came the digital work in Photoshop, After Effects, and Final Cut Pro X. He masked out all of the animated pieces of the...
![Lily is the World’s First Throw-and-Shoot Camera]()
Lily is a new robotic camera drone that aims to shake up not only the drone industry, but the camera industry as a whole. It’s the world’s first “throw-and-shoot camera” that lets anyone capture cinematic aerial photos and videos without needing to do any piloting. The evolution of cameras, according to Lily Using the Lily involves keeping a tracking device on the subject you’d like Lily to follow, throwing the Lily high into the air, and then going about your activity while Lily flies and shoots all by itself. Lily will use GPS and computer vision to follow you at up to 25mph and...
![How Smartphones Have Changed Photography, In Three Numbers]()
Truth Facts posted this simple tongue-in-cheek infographic showing how smartphone cameras have impacted the way people take and view photos. It’s a then-and-now comparison of three simple measures: pictures taken, pictures developed, and pictures looked at. Instead of snapping and cherishing a precious handful of photos, people are now amassing troves of digital images that they may never lay eyes on ever again. (via Truth Facts via Gizmodo) Source Article from...
![Facebook Rep Claims Uploaded Photos Become the Company’s Property]()
Here’s something that may raise quite a few eyebrows among photographers who use Facebook: a representative of the social network has apparently said in an email that photos uploaded to Facebook become the company’s property. To backtrack a bit, this whole thing started when photographer Corey Ann wrote a scathing piece through her Photo Stealers website about photographers she claimed had stolen many of the photos they were sharing online. The accused photographers then reported Ann’s content to Facebook, and Facebook removed the Photo Stealers page with its 13,000 followers. Since...
![The Story Behind a Viral Great White Shark Photo]()
This photograph of an underwater camera being held up to a great white shark has been making the rounds on the Web over the past week. It was captured by a group of filmmakers who were shooting off the coast of South Australia. Filmmaker Dave Riggs and his crew were filming for an upcoming episode of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week (which kicks off on July 5th, 2015) when they came across “one of the most remarkable animals I’ve ever seen,” Riggs says. Crew member Luke Thom managed to capture a great shot of the curious 13.5-foot female shark coming up to the boat for a “sniff”: This...
Studio lighting is one of the most versatile tool sets available to you as a photographer. Apart from 24 hour access to a quality light source, there is a vast quantity of modifiers, accessories, and techniques that allow you to design and shape the light exactly as you need to fulfil your creative vision. However, all of this choice that is available to you can often result in confusion and indecision. The sheer amount of stuff available can also lead you to believe you need more than you already have. Fortunately, in the case of lighting, less is often really more. In this tutorial I am...
When I first started to experiment with controlling the light, I couldn’t afford to splash out on studio gear just to experiment, so I improvised with what I could find around the house, or acquire for only a few dollars. Some improvisations were, let’s just say, less successful than others. But some did produce good results. Some DIY studio lighting I still use, even though I now have a studio setup. Let’s start with an easy and free lighting method, because free is my favourite price! Use a table lamp This shot was taken with a table lamp. Most of us have some sort of lamp around the...
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Terrorism destroyed Italian politics throughout the 1970s, just as Hollywood discovered the Cinecittà studios, making Rome the glamour capital of the world. The paparazzi were on hand to capture it all – often blending one with another.
It was early on the morning of 16 March 1978. Italy’s former Prime Minister, was sitting in the back of a blue Fiat, his driver inching through the labyrinthine streets of rush-hour Rome. Moro was heading to the Italian Parliament, where he was due to chair a vote for a new government that might, for the first time, make the...
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When did you first become aware of your body? The Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki’s new series – still, austere portraits of children – asks us when, how and why children start to analyse and critique their own bodies.
Have you ever studied a picture of your mother or father when they were children, unaware of their future, oblivious to the presence of you. They are at once so familiar, yet so unknowable; so clearly the person you so intimately love, and then at a remove, happy and free in a context devoid of you. Photography is an existential...
The Nikon 300mm F4E PF ED VR is an extremely light-weight, compact telephoto lens wells suited for use on both FX and DX Nikon bodies. It is 30% shorter and 1.5 lbs / 0.68kg lighter than its predecessor, thanks to the use of a Phase Fresnel design. Also, unlike its predecessor, it offers Vibration Reduction to help steady shots. We tried it on a variety of Nikon cameras including the D810, D750, D7200 and D5500. Even on the smaller DX bodies, the 300mm f/4E doesn’t feel too bulky. Take a look at how it performs in the real world. See our Nikon 300mm F4E PF ED VR...
An exhibition of photographs taken by Captain Linnaeus Tripe during a tour of India and Burma is on show in The Metropolitan Museum in New York, and will then move to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The collection of 60 images made on paper negatives displays historic places, buildings, geology and the infrastructure of parts of the two countries. In some cases, they were the first photographs ever to be taken of these sites. The exhibition, ‘Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860’, covers eight years of Tripe’s...
![This Canon DSLR Rig Shoots 3D Light Field Photos You Can Move Around In]()
A Los Angeles-based cloud graphics company called OTOY has announced the world’s first spherical light field capture that creates a navigable scene in virtual reality. By capturing light field data with a special Canon and GoPro camera rig, the company created the beginnings of immersive photos you can move around in. The rig featured two Canon DSLRs with ultra-wide angle lenses and a GoPro action camera. OTOY swings the cameras around in 360 degrees, capturing footage of the scene that light field data can be calculated from. The scene and light field information is then used to...
![Kipon’s EF to MFT Adapter Has Impressive AF Speed]()
Last month, Kipon announced the world’s first autofocus-capable adapter for using Canon EF lenses on Micro Four Thirds cameras. If you’ve been thinking about picking one up, here’s some good news for you: the autofocusing speed appears to be quite fast. Japanese Kipon distributor SHOTENKOBO has released the 2-minute video above that shows some tests of the adapter using a Canon 70-200mm f/4L IS lens on a Panasonic GX7. “This is the first time an adapter has done AF this quickly,” writes EOSHD. “As we know, it often takes 5 seconds to lock on with the E-mount to EF lens adapters on...
![New Algorithm Can Automatically Remove Window Reflections from Photos]()
Photographers often use products such as the Lens Skirt when shooting through windows in order to reduce or remove reflections. Thanks to advances in computer algorithms, those physical tricks may soon find themselves alongside suitable software solutions. Scientists at MIT have created an algorithm that can automatically remove reflections from photos that were taken through windows.MIT News reports that the software is able to analyze an image and distinguish between reflected light and transmitted light. The trick is that reflections in windows are often seen as a pair of...
![7 Things I Learned From Shooting One Portrait a Day for a Whole Year]()
Essentially conceived as a New Year’s resolution, I gave myself the challenge of producing one portrait every single day during 2013. I’ve had a passion for portraiture for some time, and I figured that at the very least, I would create some portraits that I am proud of by attempting this challenge. There were only a few rules for this project with the main rule — which I never broke — being that I must go out every single day and create a portrait. I never shot several on one day and stockpiled images — each portrait was made on that particular day. I had no idea in the days leading...
![Wedding Photographer Delivers Album on the Day Of as a Crazy Surprise]()
Wedding photographer James Day tells us that he recently pulled off the “craziest stunt” of his career thus far: delivering the final wedding album to the newlywed couple at the end of their wedding day. The bride, Jane, is the identical twin sister of Day’s wife, and the groom, Michael, is himself a successful wedding photographer in Australia. “I knew I had to do something absolutely insane for [them],” Day writes on his blog. “I just had to go all out […] This is without doubt the biggest stunt I’ve ever pulled off. I did what everyone else told me would be impossible. I knew with...
Long exposure imagery is an interesting and highly satisfying technique of creating images. It requires you to use the manual mode or sometimes shutter priority mode to control your shutter speed. Shutter priority mode is marked on Nikon camera with ‘S’ and on Canon systems with ‘Tv’. They mean the exact same thing. When you switch to shutter priority mode you can select the shutter speed while the camera selects the appropriate aperture. Obviously if you need a bit more flexibility, you should use the manual mode, where both shutter speed and aperture value are in your control. That helps...
I have to admit, I did not know about keywords in Lightroom, or their powerful uses, until a couple of years ago. During one of Julieanne Kost’s tutorials, I heard the terms and saw it being used in a very practical sense – a way to add specific descriptors to images in a catalog. I was intrigued and the more I researched them, the more I realized what an amazing and awesome tool was available right at my finger tips. Descriptive and Specific Keywords assigned to an image in Lightroom In the simplest sense, Keywords in Lightroom are a way to describe key elements about a photograph. Just as...
Olympus has just announced a pair of wide-angle ‘Pro’ Micro Four Thirds lenses, and over the past few days we’ve been able to do a little shooting with them. The M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm F2.8 and 8mm F1.8 Fisheye bring some new options to the table for Micro Four Thirds shooters, being faster than existing Panasonic lenses of the same focal lengths. We’ve put together a couple of preliminary sample galleries – take a look. See our M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm F2.8 Pro real-world sample gallery See our M.Zuiko Digital ED 8mm F1.8 Fisheye Pro...
Olympus has announced two additions to its Micro Four Thirds ‘Pro’ lens series, the M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm F2.8 and 8mm F1.8 Fisheye Pro (14-28mm and 16mm equivalent focal lengths, respectively). Covering the same ranges as Olympus’ 7-14mm F4 and 8mm F3.5 Four Thirds lenses from the mid-2000s, these new lenses offer faster maximum apertures. The 7-14mm F2.8 features weather sealing to protect the lens from moisture and dust and matches the existing Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm for coverage, but at F2.8 it’s a full stop brighter than its F4...
Olympus has announced it will produce a limited number of Titanium OM-D E-M5 II units. The company hasn’t provided many other details, only that the camera will be available in June like the wide-angle Pro lenses also announced today. The limited edition E-M5 II will offer all of the same features and specs of its standard siblings, with its top and bottom plates swapped out for dark metallic versions that match those of the OM-3/Ti from 1994. Olympus wasn’t able to confirm for us how many Titanium units will be available in the US, but it looks as if 7,000...
![Portraits of Exotic Birds Recovering at Sanctuaries]()
While I’ve never been a bird owner nor have I ever been attracted to owning a bird, this new series, Earthbound by photographer Oliver Regueiro affected me in a profound way. I’ve been close to animal rights issues for a number of years (mostly with dogs and cats), but cruelty to any animal is a crime and needs more light shed on it. Whether it be from neglectful owners who are no longer or not willing to take care of their birds or even worse yet, the illegal smuggling of exotic birds (see the horrifying news segment below), it’s a problem that is only getting worse and will only be...
![Guy Given Second Trip with Family After Sad Vacation Photos Go Viral]()
Some months ago, 34-year-old telecom worker Kevin Blandford of Louisville, Kentucky, won a free vacation to Puerto Rico from his job. His daughter was too young to make the trip at the time, so she and his wife stayed home. Blandford decided to document the entire trip with a series of sad-faced portraits showing that he wasn’t having a single second of fun without his family. Those photos went viral after he shared them online, racking up millions of views. They were so popular, in fact, that the hotel in Puerto Rico and an ad agency noticed and decided to pay for a second identical...
Whether photography is your bread and butter, or something that you’ve started out doing casually with machinations of eventually picking up a few paid gigs, you’ll want to acquaint yourself with a sexy little document we lawyers like to call, the Client Service Agreement (or CSA, for short). By Lucas CSAs are, as their name suggests, agreements that you, as a photographer, make with anyone who wants to pay you for your photography. Again, we’re not just talking to the professionals here. We’re also talking to those of you with your entry-level DSLRs shooting your friends’ weddings or...
Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: you’ve fallen in love with Speedlight flash photography, but you gripe at having to lug around lots of odds and ends for your remote triggers, not to mention boxes of backup AA batteries. Isn’t it time for flashes to catch up with DSLRs and be powered by rechargeable batteries, and have more discrete wireless triggers? It turns out that these features DO exist, but not with Speedlights made by major camera manufacturers. Announced by Adorama earlier this year, the Flashpoint Zoom Li-on TTL Flash is a new and affordable system that has the key feature...
New firmware has been announced for the Fujifilm X-T1 compact system camera that promises to overhaul its autofocusing performance and ‘introduces a new AF system’ to this X-series flagship body. Firmware version 4.00 will be available in late June, and seems to take significant steps towards solving issues with moving subjects and focusing in low contrast conditions. The firmware adds Zone and Wide/Tracking modes that allow users to select a group of AF points in a 3×3, 5×3 or 5×5 pattern, to help ensure moving subjects are kept in continuous...
Canon has announced its EF 50mm F1.8 STM lens, which uses a stepper motor for quieter and more responsive autofocus compared to its ‘Mark II’ predecessor. It also features a 7-blade circular aperture and minimum focus distance of 35cm – both improvements over the Mark II. This compact fifty is just 39mm long and weighs 160g, has a metal mount, and supports an optional integrated hood as well as 49mm filters. The lens will be available later in May at a price of $129.99. Press Release: Canon launches the EF 50mm f/1.8 STM – for popping portraits and...
![A Moonrise Photo That Combines Day and Night]()
This photo may look like a Photoshopped image that blends a sunrise with a nighttime shot, but it’s actually a single exposure of a moonrise. Photographer Jeremy Somerville tells PetaPixel that made the photo last night while photographing the Milky Way from a beach. The moon started rising, and he decided to take some shots of the moonrise with the same camera settings he was using to properly expose the stars (15-30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600, he says). After liking what he saw in a test shot, Somerville started his 10 second camera timer, sprinted into the scene, and ended up...
![Photographers: Every Email Could Be the Start or End of a Client Relationship]()
This is a short article that’s a reminder that every interaction you have is part of a relationship with someone — potentially a client. Recently I was looking for a food photographer for a web client. I wanted a local shooter and found one practically next door to the studio. Unfortunately, his online gallery showed text jargon instead of photos. I tried a different browser, but still no luck. I sent a screen capture to the photographer — after all, if it were my site I would want to know. Here’s his entire response: “I don’t have a problem on any of my browsers.” That works well if...
![TAAB is a Universal Lens Tab That Puts Manual Focus Control At Your Fingertip]()
Some lenses have tabs on their focus rings that allow photographers to precisely control focus with a push or pull of their finger. For those that don’t, TAAB is here to help. It’s a universal tab that can be used on most lenses, giving photographers greater manual focus control than simple focus rings. The patent-pending TAAB is built out of ultra tough neoprene and grips your focus ring tightly without any screws, glue, or zip ties. It’s like a tight wrist band that slides onto your lens. There are three different sizes: the Mini for rangefinder and mirrorless camera lenses, the...
Do you love to photograph flowers? Flowers are the most beautiful things to photograph. They have texture, color and come in wonderful shapes. To create unique flower photography: Use a 50mm or a telephoto lens. Photograph with backlighting to enhance the transparency of the petals. Choose camera angle carefully – photograph from below to obtain unusual shapes, photograph at eye-level to create a realistic look. Get closer – try making an abstract Look for great backgrounds – declutter the is using bokeh and a shallow depth of field. Quality and color of light – photograph under diffused...
Creating a film noir look with a displacement map in Photoshop. What is a Displacement Map? If you are new to Photoshop, the mere mention of displacement maps can be daunting. The purpose of this article is to give you an introduction to them; guide you in easy-to-follow steps on how to generate simple grayscale displacement maps from an existing image, and show you how to effectively implement them using the Displace Filter in Photoshop. A displacement map is a grayscale version of the same image that you are working on, saved as a Photoshop (.PSD) file. This displacement map is then used...
![Canon Issues Product Advisory for T6 White-Spotted Sensor Problem]()
A week ago, it came to light that some Canon T6s and T6si DSLRs were shipping with a strange defect: a large number of tiny white spots can be seen across the surface of the camera sensor, and the spots show up as dark dots in photos taken in certain conditions. Today Canon has released an official product advisory confirming that this problem exists and promising free repairs for affected customers. In certain cameras, “white spots may exist on the optical layer which may result in the appearance of dark circular patterns on the captured image under certain shooting conditions,”...
![Face Recognition Reveals Hidden Connections in 97K Pictures of Strangers]()
The Grocery Store Project is an unusual and ambitious effort by Danish photographer Simon Hoegsberg. After spending 159 afternoons over 20 months shooting 97,000 photos of strangers near a supermarket in Copenhagen, Hoegsberg set out to find brief and hidden connections by analyzing the images. The photos were shot outside this Fotex supermarket. He first loaded the photographs into Picasa and used the software’s facial recognition feature to find the same individuals across multiple photos. Picasa was able to identify 11,000 distinct people in the shots. Hoegsberg then narrowed the...
![Yes, Airlines Can Legally Ban Photography, And Some Are Doing Just That]()
If you’re ever asked by an airline to stop taking pictures on their private property — on their plane, for example — you might want to obey their instructions and put your camera away. They’re legally allowed to ban photography.The Washington Post reports that some airlines have internal policies that allow employees to stop passengers from snapping photos, even if there are no published rules stating so. One of the airlines, American Airlines, says its ban is to protect passengers and employees. Other airlines say that personal shots are okay, but photos of other things (crew,...
![Bending the Light: A New Documentary About Lens Makers and Photos Takers]()
Bending the Light is a new documentary film by renowned filmmaker Michael Apted about the journey of glass from the artisans who have dedicated their lives to crafting the perfect lens to the photographers who spend their careers chasing after the perfect shot. Above is a 3-minute trailer that will give you a taste of what the movie is about. The movie offers a look at both the equipment and the artistic side of photography. There’s “never-before-seen footage from inside a premier Japanese lens factory [Canon’s factory in Utsunomiya, Japan], intimate interviews with lens engineers,...
![Getty Images Portraits Show How Four Famous Faces Have Aged Over 20 Years]()
This year, Getty Images celebrated 20 years as one of the preeminent photo databases in the world. To celebrate its birthday, the company has launched a new set of ads showing how four famous individuals have aged over the past 20 years, as seen through photos found in the Getty archives. The people are: former president Bill Clinton, tennis player Serena Williams, Prince William of England, and actress Scarlett Johansson. You can click each image to see them in their original sizes: Bill Clinton Serena Williams Prince William Scarlett Johansson The ads were put together by Sao...
Today I rounded up some images of some special places. Some architectural wonders, many full of history – all special to the people who visit them. This is various places of worship. By Neil Howard That could mean a number of different types of buildings and places including: Small home town churches Basilicas Mosques Synagogues Temples Wats Even cemeteries Weekly Photography Challenge – Places of Worship In my quest for example images I found a lot of HDR images of interiors – many that were quite a bit over done, at least for my tastes. I even found some of my own images dating back to...
A while ago I shared a collection of architectural images, now let’s get a little more specific. Churches and places of worship are often well design, finely crafted, masterpieces of architecture. Let’s take a look at some great, ethereal images of churches, mosques, and other places of religious practice: Cathedral by Andrew Vasiliev on 500px Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica (Ottawa) Vertorama by Roland Shainidze on 500px Tamway Orléans by Nicolas Wecandoit on 500px St. Peter Basilic (Vatican, Rome) by Domingo Leiva on 500px Lights by Mauro Tandoi on 500px Cologne Cathedral by Aaron Choi on...
Getty Images has announced a new grant offered in collaboration with Instagram. There are a total of three grants available, each for $10,000 USD, and will be awarded to photographers using Instagram to document underrepresented communities. Recipients will also be given a mentorship opportunity with Getty Images’ photographers. The trio of grants will lend financial support to photographers using Instagram to share their projects and tell visual stories. To be considered for the grant, interested Instagram users must submit an application on Getty’s website. Judges will...
The size of the Micro Four Thirds system might surprise many DSLR owners, and many Micro Four Thirds camera owners too for that matter, as it has been growing at a pretty steady pace for the last six years. Between the ‘big names’ Olympus and Panasonic, and third-party contributors like Sigma, Tamron, Samyang, Voigtländer, Tokina and Kowa, there are now about 55 dedicated lenses available for Micro Four Thirds cameras. This exceeds by many times the size of the systems available to other compact system cameras, and in fact beats all in the DSLR market other...
Defects between the layers of glass covering the sensor of a Canon EOS Rebel T6s/760D. Photo by Lensrentals.com, 2015 Canon USA has released a product advisory regarding the sensor defects on its Rebel T6i/T6s (750D/760D) that we reported on last week. The company states that on certain cameras ‘white spots may exist on the optical layer which may result in the appearance of dark circular patterns on the captured image under certain shooting conditions’. These cameras will be repaired free of charge (though the start date is TBD) and models that have already...
![A Conversation with Photographer Rick Smolan]()
If you have an hour to spare, here’s a fantastic interview you should listen to. It’s a Talks at Google event featuring renowned photographer Rick Smolan, who has shot for TIME, LIFE, and National Geographic. He’s also one of the bestselling coffee table photo book photographers of all time. Smolan starts out the interview with the story of how he got into photography in the first place. He says he was simply an enthusiast photographer when his friend bet him $25 that he could get hired by LIFE magazine. Smolan accepted the challenge, and took a train from Pennsylvania to New York...
![You Can Now Bulk Download from Flickr: Your Photos Really Do Belong to You]()
Today Flickr launched a number of new improvements to their service. In my mind, the most significant change is that Flickr is introducing the ability for you to bulk download your photos from their site. I’ve been critical of Flickr in the past over the inability to easily get your photos back out of the service. While not a silo, Flickr’s never made it exactly easy to get your photos back after you upload them. You’ve always been able to download your photos on a photo by photo basis, but for someone with a ton of photos, downloading each and every one individually isn’t very...
![How to Take a Photo Showing Both of Your Hands]()
How do you go about shooting a quick photograph if you need to include both of your hands in the frame? One guy had a solution that turned into a classic sequence of photographs. This happened four years ago after someone on Reddit asked people to share photos of their tattoos. A user named Saend decided to share the body art on his wrists. “Please don’t ask me how I managed to take this picture…” said Saend. “I want a picture of you managing to take that picture,” someone replied. “Here you go my good sir,” said Saend. This only sparked more mystery. “Wait a minute… if your camera is...
![A Sunset on Mars Captured by the Curiosity Rover]()
NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars recently captured this surprisingly artistic photograph of a Martian sunset. Mountains in the horizon are seen as silhouettes in a shot that looks like it could have been shot somewhere here on Earth, except in this case, the camera was one that’s around 140 million miles away from us. You can find the full-resolution version of the image here. Here’s a different Martian sunset photo that was shot by a different rover back in 2005. (via NASA via Laughing Squid) Source Article from...
I recently started coaching my eldest son’s flag football team. Being a Mom, as opposed to a Dad, this was a rare situation. As the league’s only “Lady Coach”, I was not taken very seriously by anyone, including myself. I stepped up because no other parent volunteered, but once everyone saw that a woman was going to be coaching these young boys to fifth grade flag football success, Dads came out of the woodwork. Some to kindly assist me because ten 11 year old boys is a lot no matter who you are; yet others insisted on their services, because what could I possibly know about football and a...
Recently an internal survey in my blog revealed that photographing birds in flight is the most sought after topic. It didn’t come as a surprise though, because that’s the specialty of birds. They defy gravity and rise up into the sky. How wonderful it is! Here I have listed 10 surefire tips that will help you to make better photographs of birds in flight. The more you practice, the better your photographs will turn out. 1. Learn Flight Behaviour of the Birds Birds normally have the predictable flight behaviour. It requires observation. The more you observe them more you understand about...
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Our new magazine is dedicated to a dynamic new renaissance in photography – the contemporary photobook
The latest issue of British Journal of Photography is a celebration of the contemporary photobook, the primary art form for contemporary photographers. We believe book-making, and the conceptualisation of books, has become the medium on which artists are now judged. There’s been an explosion of small publishers, and book-making rather than the simple creation of photography prints is now the dynamic area of modern photography. As independent publishers Aron...
Image © Frederic Cirou, courtesy Getty images
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Getty Images and Instagram target photographers outside mainstream media with a series of new development grants
Getty Images and Instagram today launched three new grants, worth $10,000 each, to support photographers using the online photography platform “to document stories from underrepresented communities around the world”. Three winners – judged on a demonstrable body of documentary work on their Instagram account – will be selected by the...
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Norwegian photographer Marie Sjøvold’s profoundly personal series explores her biology and identity after giving birth to her first child
At the Nordic Lights Festival in Kristiansund, Marie Sjøvold exhibited her new series, Midnight Milk, a personal exploration of her own pregnancy – how becoming a mother for the first time, and witnessing the slow death of her grandmother to Alzheimer’s, fundamentally changed the contours of her life. “The stage for motherhood is set long before a child is born,”...
Image sharing service Flickr has released a major update to its mobile app for iOS devices. In the new design images are displayed in a similar way to Apple’s own Photos app, with your images grouped by capture date. You can easily edit them using a range of tools including levels, digital exposure compensation, saturation and contrast. The new version of the app also emphasizes the auto upload feature, trying to convert Flickr from an image-based social network into everybody’s go-to photo app and directly competing with services like Dropbox or Google Plus Photos. When...
The Lee Filters SW150 Mk ll filter holder system for especially wideangle lenses is now shipping, and Lee has announced pricing for the folder itself, the adapter rings and the 150x150mm and 150x170mm filters. The system is designed to allow filters to be held in front of the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED wideangle zoom without vignetting and uses a light seal to prevent reflections on the filter’s rear surface – which can be especially problematic during long exposures with ND filters. The system also has adapter rings for Samyang’s 14mm f/2.8 ED...
The D750’s hot shoe (bottom) compared to the D700 (top). Photo by Phottix Phottix, a lighting equipment maker, is reporting an issue where its Odin TTL triggers may not work properly with the Nikon D750. According to a recent blog post the company claims that the D750’s hot shoe design differs slightly from that of other Nikon DSLRs, which causes the pins of the Odin trigger to line up incorrectly. As a quick fix for Odin users, Phottix suggests wedging a sliver of cardboard at the front of the hot shoe to keep the trigger aligned.
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Metz mecablitz 26 AF-1$129 / £90 www.metz.de The Metz mecablitz 26 AF-1 is a compact flash gun that’s small compared to standard hotshoe flash units, but still a good deal larger than those that come in the box with most mirrorless cameras. Metz’s aim in the mecablitz 26 AF-1 has been to find an effective balance between miniaturization and usefulness to suit users of small cameras, whether DSLR, mirrorless or advanced compact – many of which lack an on-board flash. The built-in electronic flash made its debut just over fifty years ago on...
![Photos of the Colossal Duga-3 Radar System Built by the Soviet Union]()
Duga-3 is a radar system set up by the Soviet Union in the 1970s as part of the nation’s anti-ballistic missile early warning system. Although official operations were ended in 1989, the gigantic antenna of the original Duga-3 still dominates the countryside near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Photographer Peter Franc recently traveled to Ukraine to see and photograph the radio transmitter. The towers are incredible feats of engineering: the big ones measure 479 feet tall and spans a length of 2,460 feet (nearly half a mile). “Access to it has only been granted as of a few months ago,” Franc...
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“Makeup Transit Authority” is an ongoing portrait series by Brooklyn-based artist Lydia Cambron, who finds defaced advertisements in the New York City subway system and then recreates them in new photos. Cambron is both the photographer and the model for the project. After using cosmetics and various handmade props — things like tape and paper — to recreate the look of each face, she sets a 10-second timer on her camera and poses for each shot. You can follow along with “Makeup Transit Authority” over on Cambron’s website. (via BuzzFeed via Laughing Squid) Image credits: Photographs...
![DJI Raises $75 Million in Funding and Is Now Valued at $10 Billion]()
The world’s largest drone maker is quickly becoming one of China’s most powerful homegrown companies. DJI announced today that it has raised another $75 million in venture capital funding, and recent talks with investors have reportedly pegged the value of the company at a whopping $10 billion.The Verge reports that this latest infusion of cash comes from Accel Partners, a Silicon Valley firm that’s well known for its early investments in companies such as Facebook and Dropbox. DJI says it’s on track to double sales this year and generate around $1 billion in revenue from drone sales...
![This Restaurant Made Special Plates for Smartphone Food Photos]()
If you can’t help but snap a smartphone photo before eating a meal, there’s a restaurant in Israel that has a new concept designed just for you. The Tel Aviv restaurant Catit and Carmel Winery have teamed up for a new project called Foodography. It’s a new meal experience that features newly designed plates that help you shoot quality food photos with your smartphone. The team first brainstormed how they could create dishware that aids in smartphone food photos. One of the plates they created is called The Limbo. It features a smartphone slot on one end and large curve on the other...
![Here are Full-Res Sample Shots From the Canon 5DS and Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art]()
Want to pixel peep at full-resolution photos from the world’s highest-resolution full frame DSLR? Here’s a set of photographs that will satisfy that desire. The folks over at Reviewed.com got their hands on a beta unit of the Canon 5DS straight from Canon. They then slapped the highly acclaimed Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art lens on it and went out to capture some test shots. Here are 5 of the sample photos they made. Click each one to see it in all its original 50.6 megapixel (8688×5792) glory: Canon says that this camera unit was a pre-production beta unit for testers to try out, and that the...
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May 7, 2015 Nikon Corporation (Kazuo Ushida, President) signs a strategic collaboration agreement (Facility Support and License Agreement) with Lonza (Richard Ridinger, CEO, Basel, Switzerland), the world’s largest manufacturer of cells for regenerative medicine therapeutics, to establish a new company, wholly-owned by Nikon, dedicated to regenerative medicine contract manufacturing. The agreement includes access to Lonza’s quality and operating systems, facility design and on-going consulting services for the establishment of the contract manufacturing facility in Japan. “Contract...
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By Jacques de Vos
Underwater photographers love showing the viewer what they think would produce a “wow” response, which usually means photographing interesting animal subjects, either big or small. Interestingly enough, it is actually possible to make a similar impression with scenes lacking a tangible subject. By shifting focus from a single subject to the surrounding underwater environment, we can still wow our viewers.
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Photography is all about capturing the subject beautifully in the available light. Sometimes as the photographer you have more than optimum light (e.g., bright sunlight, halogens, etc.) to work with while some other times you have to work in suboptimal or low-light conditions. If you are not a pro photographer then it is always a great challenge, and sometimes it’s a nightmare, to capture great shots in low-light conditions. Exposure info: f/1.8, 1/50th at ISO 3200 In order to face the challenges that low-light conditions come with, I will be sharing five techniques that you can use to...
Nestled quietly on the back of most cameras is a button that is often ignored or misunderstood, particularly by those who have recently upgraded to a DSLR or Mirrorless camera. It’s the Exposure Lock button, and it can be a tremendous asset to photographers who are looking for ways to get more control over their cameras and ultimately their photography in general. Using the exposure lock button helped me get the correct exposure on this picture of two students studying for final exams. To understand what this button does it’s helpful to know a bit about how your camera calculates the...
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We’ve extended our deadline for five days. But how can you win the prize? Our judges tell us what they are looking for
The deadline for the BJP Breakthrough award has been extended. You now have until 11 May to submit your work! We’ve designed this award to connect the next generation of photographers with the established photography industry. Four winners will have their work exhibited in East London, published by the BJP, and will also receive a state of the art Olympus E-M10 camera. For full details go to our dedicated BJP Breakthrough website. But what are...
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A spiritual experience at the Trinità dei Monti, a church by Rome’s Spanish Steps, came to define Nils Thune’s photography career
“I was driving in my car, searching for something to photograph, when I saw his home at the end of a gravel pat,” says Norwegian photographer Nils Thune. “It looks similar to my farm, which my parents lived in before me and was built in 1845. I thought no one lived there, it looked deserted. The key was in the door. I knocked and Ola was sitting in the kitchen.” Thune is speaking about how Ola Haugen began, a book that...
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By reappropriating a state of the art surveillance system, Jules Spinatsch discovered a way to capture the rich and powerful as they look at each other, and are desperate to be seen
The Vienna State Opera House has a state-of-the-art camera surveillance system. In 2009, for the Vienna Opera Ball, they ceded control of that system to Jules Spinatsch. By repurposing a photographic network designed primarily for security purposes, the Swiss photographer created “a portrait of high society, of the ruling class enjoying itself, in a way unseen anywhere else,” he says. On...
The Samsung Galaxy S5 and Note 4 both used Samsung’s ISOCELL in-house image sensors. When the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge were launched earlier this year there was no talk of the ISOCELL technology anymore and it was believed the 16MP 1/2.6 CMOS chip in the new models was provided by Sony. However, over the past few days rumors have emerged that in some units Samsung sensors are used instead of the Sony variant. According to a report by SamMobile this rumor has now been confirmed by Samsung. A spokesperson for the company said that there are “several different vendors”...
![Court: Motorola Must Pay Fujifilm $10M for Infringing on B&W Conversion Patent]()
Motorola Mobility has been ordered by a court ruling to fork over $10.2 million to Fujifilm for violating one of the Japanese company’s camera patents in its mobile phones.Reuters reports that Fujifilm originally sued Motorola in 2012, demanding $40 million and accusing the company of using four patented technologies without permission. Three of them had to do with the phone’s camera and one had to do with data transmission. On Monday, a jury found that three of the patents were invalid. The only one that Motorola was found guilty of infringing was a patent that had to do with...
![Photographer Wants to End Discrimination Against High-End Camera Gear]()
Photographer Jason Lanier is on a mission to end “discrimination against photographers.” He just posted the video above showing two encounters he recently had with law enforcement while doing a photo shoot in San Francisco. In both cases, the officials noticed his “nice” camera and high-end equipment and questioned him to see if he was shooting commercially without a proper permit (which can cost hundreds of dollars). During the second stop, a park ranger notices Lanier photographing a model with off-camera lighting equipment set up. “Generally when we start setting up more than just...
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Scientists around the world create massive and elaborate facilities for carrying out groundbreaking research. Photographer Enrico Sacchetti is a guy who specializes in capturing them on camera. He’s a “science, technology, and industrial” photographer based out of Rome and London, and his images have appeared in many of the world’s top science and technology magazines. Sacchetti just returned from Puerto Rico, where he photographed the William Gordon Radio Telescope at the Arecibo Observatory. At a whopping 1,000 feet from one side to the other, it’s the world’s largest single dish,...
![Nikon D750 Hot Shoe Reportedly Causing Problems by Being Slightly Too Long]()
The Nikon D750 has a hot shoe that’s different than the hot shoes on previous Nikon DSLRs, and the minor difference is causing major problems for some photographers. At least, that’s what the flash and accessory maker Phottix is claiming. After receiving reports that its TTL Trigger for Nikon DSLRs doesn’t work correctly on the Nikon D750, Phottix tasked its engineers with finding out what was going on. After “much research and testing,” the team finally discovered that the camera’s hot shoe dimensions are ever so slightly longer than those on other Nikon DSLRs. The tiny bit of extra...
One of my favourite portrait techniques is to isolate the model by using a short telephoto lens and a wide aperture. The idea is to throw the background out of focus and keep the subject sharp, so there is a clear distinction between the two. This creates beautiful bokeh and the illusion of depth. Another way to isolate the model is to place them in the light, against a dark background that is in the shade. The opening photo (above) used this technique. I asked the model to pose in a doorway, and she is separated from the background because there’s no light illuminating the interior of the...
If your photos aren’t turning out the way you expect them to, new gear is not necessarily the answer. In fact, chances are you are making one of these seven common mistakes. Don’t be discouraged though; just as a musician needs time to refine their skills, so does a photographer. Once you recognize where the problem lies, it’s easy to make adjustments and achieve better results the next time out. 1) Shooting at the Wrong Time of Day Harsh afternoon sunlight can wreak havoc on a landscape photo. With bright highlights and dark shadows, the contrast makes for especially difficult exposures....
Over the last few years here at dPS, we’ve run very some very popular competitions with our partners to give away some of their great photographic products to lucky dPS readers. We are lucky enough to be able to do it again this week. For this contest, Tamron is giving away a Macro All-In-One Zoom Lens Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro This prize is designed to help every level of photographer create BETTER pictures. Tamron is the world’s most awarded photographic lens line. Here’s what you, our dPS reader, could win: Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro – Retail Value $629For canon, Nikon or...
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Family photographs, archive press shots and Nazi soldiers are all included in Thomas Mailaender’s funny, thoughtful Solo Chaud exhibition, on show in London now
“Thomas Mailaender’s forum and sphere of operations is less the art world than the rowdier public domain where events can easily run out of control,” writes Ian Jeffrey, the respected photography critic. That rowdy sense of anarchy and fun is clearly on show in the French artist’s current exhibition at Roman Road, which is punningly titled Solo Chaud. With liberal use of sheets of white plastic,...
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Gitmo on Sale looks at how American military power perceives itself by way of Guantánamo Bay’s gift shop
After 12 years working as a lawyer, Debi Cornwall began to explore life in, and the legacy of, the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. As well as being a controversial military enclave on the soil of a sovereign state, the base’s prison (often shortened to GTMO, or Gitmo, by American soldiers stationed there) continues to hold more than a hundred men detained for many years as part of the US government’s War on Terror. The latest segment of Cornwall’s...
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Jacob Aue Sobol selected the Japanese photographer Taro Karibe as a winner of Tokyo’s Magnum Photos Workshop, for a series on the utopia and dystopia of Japan’s capital
“I gave Taro the prize because he was honest,” says the Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol of the Japanese photographer Taro Karibe. “Working as a salary man, but longing so much to explore the core of his existence. Karibe came top in a Tokyo workshop with Sobol, run by the Magnum Photos agency for his image exploration of Tokyo, both a “utopia, where any desire can be satisfied, and a...
Even though digital photography has been around for quite some time now, most of us still have a few boxes and albums of prints from the pre-digital era lying around. Digitizing them can be expensive if you use a professional service to get it done, or very time-consuming if you decide to go DIY using a flatbed scanner. QromaScan wants to solve this dilemma, at least for those users who don’t require drum scanner quality, by utilizing your smartphone camera and a foldable lightbox. We’ve seen smartphone scanning solutions before but QromaScan takes things a step further by...
Westcott has announced the imminent arrival of the second incarnation of its Ice Light LED lighting wand. Ice Light 2 promises to be 50% brighter than the previous model and comes equipped with Bluetooth for remote control as well as an interchangeable, rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The light has a color temperature of 5500K, Color Rendering Index of 96 and a beam angle of 72.6 degrees. The wand is the same size and shape as the first Ice Light, so original accessories are still compatible, but the company has redesigned the handle to include an on/off slider switch...
CyPhy Works, a company helmed by iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner, has introduced a camera drone with a few unique features. Called the CyPhy LVL 1, its six-rotor design promotes better stability over common quadcopters. The drone’s camera is integrated, as well, allowing videos to be recorded without a gimbal or other components that might creep into footage. The company is seeking funding on Kickstarter. Unlike the DJI Inspire 1 and similar competing models, CyPhy’s LVL 1 features six rotors, rather than four. This makes it possible for the drone to change...
This is the Voigtländer VM 40mm f/2.8 Heliar. We’ll just call it the 40 Heliar for short. It’s taking things in a different direction from modern lenses you will typically find us shooting galleries for. There’s no plastic or composite materials in here, just metal and glass. There’s no silent wave motor, or image stabilization (hence the Sony Alpha a7 II we have it mounted on). There are no in-camera lens corrections, or profiles, or focus confirmation chips, or even f-stop clicks. It is collapsible, and comes with lovely metal caps and shades. ...
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Today is the day that many people recognize as Star Wars Day (“May the fourth be with you”). To celebrate the occasion, members of the costuming group in Canada known as the 501st Legion: Capital City Garrison decided to volunteer some time for a special photo shoot to help get homeless animals adopted. A number of the group’s members posed with bunnies, guinea pigs, dogs, and cats found at the Ottawa Humane Society shelter for a series of strange and heartwarming photos. You can find out more about these animals on the Ottawa Humane Society website. A full gallery of these portraits...
![QromaScan: Digitize and Organize Prints Using Your Smartphone and Voice]()
QromaScan is a new photo scanning solution that’s the world’s first to pair smartphone scanning with voice commands for easy digitizing and tagging. It’s simple option for people who want to scan their collection of physical prints without having to spend time and money on high-end scanning solutions or services. The system consists of two parts: a compact lightbox and a digital smartphone app. When it’s not in use, the easy to store QromaScan lightbox can be folded up into the size of a hardcover book. When you’re ready to scan, the box can be opened and set up in just a matter of...
![This Shoulder-Mounted Rig is for Shooting Photos of Airplanes]()
Photographer Jim Winters of Miami, Florida, created this crazy-looking DIY shoulder-mounted “triple axis” rig for taking pictures of planes at airshows. He calls his invention the TRIAXEZ. Winters says his back used to hurt after photographing airplanes for hours at a time, but the improved weight distribution of his system has largely eliminated the pain and fatigue. The rig may look heavy, but it’s actually made of aluminum and weighs only 4 pounds. A 12 volt battery in the back serves as both the power source — it keeps the camera juiced for days — and the counterweight for his...
![R3 Monobath Developer Lets You Process Your Film with One Chemical Bath]()
In March 2014, we reported that inventor Bob Crowley and his startup New55 were working on producing a new line of 4×5 instant film. That Kickstarter campaign turned out to be a smashing success. As the company continues to work on its instant film aspirations, its has released a new product that many photographers may find useful. It’s a new monobath developer called R3 that lets you develop, stop, and fix black-and-white photographic film with a single bath. It’s the “the most convenient black and white developer we know,” writes New55. “It can be used in the field, in the darkroom,...
![How NOT to Take a Picture with Mike Tyson]()
In our age of selfies and instant photo sharing, some people appear to be losing touch with acceptable behavior in their pursuit of viral Internet fame. At the boxing match between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao this past weekend, one attendee was caught on camera getting a little too close to Mike Tyson while trying to pose for a picture with him. Tyson was not pleased. You can generally take a picture of someone without their permission if there’s no reasonable expectation of privacy, but you should still ask them if you’d like to take a picture with them with your arm around...
The Hub – a new direction in photography print sales
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We take it for granted that galleries are the gatekeepers to the art market, but is that still the case? A new service sets out to challenge all that, advocating a DIY approach
How do you make a living out of photography? Declining budgets in editorial and stock have seen many image-makers heading for fine art, selling editioned prints in a bid to recoup their costs and, hopefully, make a healthy profit. But it’s a market still dominated by the galleries, which bring the photographer kudos, collectors and advice, in exchange for a roughly 50 percent cut of the...
Dougie Wallace and his urban gutter stars
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The man they call Glasweegee expounds on his photographs of Blackpool stag and hen nights, Shoreditch wildlife, and the streets of his native Glasgow.
The first picture in Dougie Wallace’s Blackpool series was of a man – “pissing himself laughing and bollock-naked” – securely wrapped to a lamp post by a few hundred meters of clingflim. “He should know better,” one of the lad’s mates said to Dougie as he framed the shot. “He’s been married three times before.” “Even when photographers are most concerned with mirroring reality, they are still haunted by tacit...
MIT algorithm aims to eradicate reflections from photos taken through windows
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MIT researchers have created a new algorithm that, in a broad range of cases, can automatically remove reflections from digital photos. On the left is the original photo taken through a window, with the photographer’s reflection clearly visible. On the right, the reflection has been separated from the photo. Courtesy of the researchers Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim to have developed a method for eliminating glass reflections in photos via digital processing. It is hoped that with further development the idea could see its way into...
Town 30 Emissary camera bag features lens cap mount and customizable pockets
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Toronto-based Town 30 has launched the Emissary Series camera bag on Kickstarter, where it is seeking funding for production. The Emissary camera bag is tailored specifically to photographers’ needs. This includes attachable pockets, a removable laptop compartment, a locking mechanism inspired by film-advance levers, a lens cap mount, and more. In addition, the bag is being offered in two iterations able to accommodate different types of gear. The camera bag is being offered in two initial models: the Burzin, and the Cumbysis, both available in green, black, and...
Sources of noise part two: Electronic Noise
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Understanding how your sensor responds can open up creative options that aren’t otherwise obvious. For instance, this high dynamic range scene was achieved using a single exposure, thanks to the camera’s excellent noise characteristics. In the first part of this article, we discussed the fact that a lot of the noise in a lot of your images doesn’t come from your camera at all: it is you being able to see the randomness of the light that you’ve captured and it is almost solely dependent on how much light you were able to capture. The second source...
Canon EOS 5DS R real world sample gallery posted
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Thanks for sharing this with us. Personally, I am not terribly excited with the IQ when looking at the files at their highest resolution (and I am no pixel peeper). Bear in mind though that I just looked at the jpg. I just don’t think those samples do justice for a 50 MP sensor. I might download the raw files later on, will probably make a difference. Based on what I can get with my 6D (I can get very sharp result), I suspect the sharpness should be better by a fair margin with the 5Dsr. Maybe it might have been best to test the camera with Canon L glasses such as the 70-200 mm f/2.8...
Lily Camera flies itself and follows its owner
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Lily Robotics has unveiled Lily Camera, a self-flying drone designed to autonomously track and record its owner. Once it’s thrown into the air it begins automatically following and recording its target, which is anyone in possession of the accompanying GPS tracking device. Its camera captures 1080/60p HD video and 12MP stills, and the device itself is waterproof to 1 meter underwater. A companion app offers some control over Lily’s in-flight behavior and shot composition, but the drone flies itself without input from a pilot on the ground. Its non-removable...
Faking the Look of Super Slow Motion by Animating Still Photos
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Lily is the World’s First Throw-and-Shoot Camera
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How Smartphones Have Changed Photography, In Three Numbers
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Facebook Rep Claims Uploaded Photos Become the Company’s Property
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The Story Behind a Viral Great White Shark Photo
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MALE & FEMALE 18-22 yrs with very short, dark hair or bald head – MTV SHOW
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ITV Studios is bringing a new Quiz Show to Australian Television!
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Anglo-Australian Featured Extras Required for Shoot in Tamworth, NSW
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WANTED: Bright Bubbly 17-30 year old FACE PAINTERS/BALLOON ANIMAL TWISTERS
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First Assistant Director
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Designer’s Look Book Shoot
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Photographer for Hair Show in July
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What To Do When You Show Up For A Shoot And The Property Is A Mess?
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5 Easy Studio Setups With One Light
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Studio lighting is one of the most versatile tool sets available to you as a photographer. Apart from 24 hour access to a quality light source, there is a vast quantity of modifiers, accessories, and techniques that allow you to design and shape the light exactly as you need to fulfil your creative vision. However, all of this choice that is available to you can often result in confusion and indecision. The sheer amount of stuff available can also lead you to believe you need more than you already have. Fortunately, in the case of lighting, less is often really more. In this tutorial I am...
Creating Effective DIY Studio Lighting With Household Items
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When I first started to experiment with controlling the light, I couldn’t afford to splash out on studio gear just to experiment, so I improvised with what I could find around the house, or acquire for only a few dollars. Some improvisations were, let’s just say, less successful than others. But some did produce good results. Some DIY studio lighting I still use, even though I now have a studio setup. Let’s start with an easy and free lighting method, because free is my favourite price! Use a table lamp This shot was taken with a table lamp. Most of us have some sort of lamp around the...
Love and Lead – how paparazzi dealt truth and fiction in terror-stricken Rome
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Terrorism destroyed Italian politics throughout the 1970s, just as Hollywood discovered the Cinecittà studios, making Rome the glamour capital of the world. The paparazzi were on hand to capture it all – often blending one with another.
It was early on the morning of 16 March 1978. Italy’s former Prime Minister, was sitting in the back of a blue Fiat, his driver inching through the labyrinthine streets of rush-hour Rome. Moro was heading to the Italian Parliament, where he was due to chair a vote for a new government that might, for the first time, make the...
VIDEO: Exploring Nelli Palomäki’s portraits of childhood
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When did you first become aware of your body? The Finnish photographer Nelli Palomäki’s new series – still, austere portraits of children – asks us when, how and why children start to analyse and critique their own bodies.
Have you ever studied a picture of your mother or father when they were children, unaware of their future, oblivious to the presence of you. They are at once so familiar, yet so unknowable; so clearly the person you so intimately love, and then at a remove, happy and free in a context devoid of you. Photography is an existential...
Nikon 300mm F4E PF ED VR real world samples gallery posted
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The Nikon 300mm F4E PF ED VR is an extremely light-weight, compact telephoto lens wells suited for use on both FX and DX Nikon bodies. It is 30% shorter and 1.5 lbs / 0.68kg lighter than its predecessor, thanks to the use of a Phase Fresnel design. Also, unlike its predecessor, it offers Vibration Reduction to help steady shots. We tried it on a variety of Nikon cameras including the D810, D750, D7200 and D5500. Even on the smaller DX bodies, the 300mm f/4E doesn’t feel too bulky. Take a look at how it performs in the real world. See our Nikon 300mm F4E PF ED VR...
Linnaeus Tripe photographs of 1850s Burma and India on show in New York and London
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An exhibition of photographs taken by Captain Linnaeus Tripe during a tour of India and Burma is on show in The Metropolitan Museum in New York, and will then move to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. The collection of 60 images made on paper negatives displays historic places, buildings, geology and the infrastructure of parts of the two countries. In some cases, they were the first photographs ever to be taken of these sites. The exhibition, ‘Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860’, covers eight years of Tripe’s...
This Canon DSLR Rig Shoots 3D Light Field Photos You Can Move Around In
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Kipon’s EF to MFT Adapter Has Impressive AF Speed
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New Algorithm Can Automatically Remove Window Reflections from Photos
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7 Things I Learned From Shooting One Portrait a Day for a Whole Year
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Wedding Photographer Delivers Album on the Day Of as a Crazy Surprise
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Female Required for Honda Jazz Online Content
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Promotional Job in Richmond, Adelaide – Several Dates
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Urgent – Girl Model Needed for Workshop Shoot this Weekend
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Blonde and Pale Female Model for Studio Photography Workshops (Gold Coast)
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Ladies Required for Product Promotion Photoshoots
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Lighting gaffer needed for metal music video this friday!
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Water/Surf DOP To Shoot Surfing For Online Content – Honda Jazz
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Make-up Artist & Stylist Required For Honda Jazz Online Content
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Camera Crew Required for Short Film
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Cameraman/ Assistant Required for Asian Mini Series
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Photographer Needed for Head Shots – Three Wardrobe Changes
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Chance of a Lifetime for Single & Adventurous Guy!
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Unpaid, Creative Photographer Looking to Build Their Portfolio
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5 Reasons You Should Learn Long Exposure Photography
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Long exposure imagery is an interesting and highly satisfying technique of creating images. It requires you to use the manual mode or sometimes shutter priority mode to control your shutter speed. Shutter priority mode is marked on Nikon camera with ‘S’ and on Canon systems with ‘Tv’. They mean the exact same thing. When you switch to shutter priority mode you can select the shutter speed while the camera selects the appropriate aperture. Obviously if you need a bit more flexibility, you should use the manual mode, where both shutter speed and aperture value are in your control. That helps...
Image Sharpening For Real Estate Photography
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The Power of Keywording in Lightroom
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I have to admit, I did not know about keywords in Lightroom, or their powerful uses, until a couple of years ago. During one of Julieanne Kost’s tutorials, I heard the terms and saw it being used in a very practical sense – a way to add specific descriptors to images in a catalog. I was intrigued and the more I researched them, the more I realized what an amazing and awesome tool was available right at my finger tips. Descriptive and Specific Keywords assigned to an image in Lightroom In the simplest sense, Keywords in Lightroom are a way to describe key elements about a photograph. Just as...
Olympus 7-14mm F2.8 Pro and 8mm F1.8 Fisheye Pro real-world galleries posted
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Olympus has just announced a pair of wide-angle ‘Pro’ Micro Four Thirds lenses, and over the past few days we’ve been able to do a little shooting with them. The M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm F2.8 and 8mm F1.8 Fisheye bring some new options to the table for Micro Four Thirds shooters, being faster than existing Panasonic lenses of the same focal lengths. We’ve put together a couple of preliminary sample galleries – take a look. See our M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm F2.8 Pro real-world sample gallery See our M.Zuiko Digital ED 8mm F1.8 Fisheye Pro...
Hands-on with new Olympus PRO 8mm and 7-14mm lenses
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The new ultrawide weighs 550g. To put this in perspective, the Panasonic 7-14 f/4 is 300g and Nikon’s full-frame 14-24 f/2.8 is 1000g. I’m going to stick with the smaller, lighter and cheaper Panasonic, which is already razor sharp (although not weather-sealed like the M. Zuiko, and useable only on a Panasonic body because of purple fringing and purple flare). Still, Olympus’s three professional zooms look great. Source Article from...
Olympus expands wide angle offerings with 7-14mm F2.8 and 8mm F1.8 ‘Pro’ lenses
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Olympus has announced two additions to its Micro Four Thirds ‘Pro’ lens series, the M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm F2.8 and 8mm F1.8 Fisheye Pro (14-28mm and 16mm equivalent focal lengths, respectively). Covering the same ranges as Olympus’ 7-14mm F4 and 8mm F3.5 Four Thirds lenses from the mid-2000s, these new lenses offer faster maximum apertures. The 7-14mm F2.8 features weather sealing to protect the lens from moisture and dust and matches the existing Panasonic Lumix G Vario 7-14mm for coverage, but at F2.8 it’s a full stop brighter than its F4...
Olympus offers limited edition Titanium OM-D E-M5 II and firmware update
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Olympus has announced it will produce a limited number of Titanium OM-D E-M5 II units. The company hasn’t provided many other details, only that the camera will be available in June like the wide-angle Pro lenses also announced today. The limited edition E-M5 II will offer all of the same features and specs of its standard siblings, with its top and bottom plates swapped out for dark metallic versions that match those of the OM-3/Ti from 1994. Olympus wasn’t able to confirm for us how many Titanium units will be available in the US, but it looks as if 7,000...
Dynamic range test added to Canon EOS 5DS R First Impressions Review
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The same way Ferrari can keep producing motorcars that can’t even keep a battery charge worth a flip. You’d think by 2015 they’d have a better solution than a battery conditioner (tender). That said, this 50mp Canon is firmly in MF territory; definitely as a strong alternative to renting MF camera, back, lenses, renter’s insurance, deposits, travel, shipping time, shipping costs, etc.. This Canon can be a money saver on many fronts for many photographers. For many others, the reason to consider MF systems over a camera like the Canon, is rapidly shrinking as more...
Portraits of Exotic Birds Recovering at Sanctuaries
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A Medium Format Shooter’s Photographic Process
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Photographer Andrew Jamieson was recently asked to give a presentation at work on his medium format film photography process. Instead of sharing a slideshow, Jamieson filmed this beautiful 4-minute video that covers how he loads Tri-X film into his Hasselblad, meters and shoots his photos, develops his film, scans it into a computer, and post-processes the images in Photoshop. “I develop my own film, I do all my own retouching and I shoot with a range of digital SLRs, 35mm and medium format cameras,” Jamieson writes. “I’ve been working on a personal project over the last year which...
Guy Given Second Trip with Family After Sad Vacation Photos Go Viral
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Everything You Need to Know About Nikon AF Modes
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If you’re a Nikon shooter who wants a better grasp of how your camera’s autofocus settings work, check out this 11-minute video by Steve Perry of Backcountry Gallery. He runs through all the most critical aspects of the AF system, from the types of AF (e.g. single, dynamic, group) to how to set your custom functions to suit your system to your style of shooting. While a good amount the information is applicable to other camera brands, Perry’s information is geared toward Nikon DSLR shooters who do action/wildlife photography. Source Article from...
Models to present overseas fashion labels at an upcoming runway
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Country Girl Australia is Coming to Grafton
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Country Girl Australia is Coming to Coffs Harbour
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Hair Models for Video Tutorial Capalaba
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Country Girl Australia is Coming to Gosford
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Director/Producer/Editor/Cameraman Required for Reality Pilot.
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Urgent Make Up Artist required
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Pitch Trailer for Action-Drama Series "Traffik" – Seeking Crew
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Urgent Actors Film Crew Required
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Looking for Grandmothers ASAP
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Assistant/Second Shooter Required 24/5/15
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The Biggest Legal Mistake Photographers Make
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Whether photography is your bread and butter, or something that you’ve started out doing casually with machinations of eventually picking up a few paid gigs, you’ll want to acquaint yourself with a sexy little document we lawyers like to call, the Client Service Agreement (or CSA, for short). By Lucas CSAs are, as their name suggests, agreements that you, as a photographer, make with anyone who wants to pay you for your photography. Again, we’re not just talking to the professionals here. We’re also talking to those of you with your entry-level DSLRs shooting your friends’ weddings or...
How To Get Started As A Real Estate Photographer?
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Review: Flashpoint Zoom Li-on Flash
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Raise your hand if this sounds familiar: you’ve fallen in love with Speedlight flash photography, but you gripe at having to lug around lots of odds and ends for your remote triggers, not to mention boxes of backup AA batteries. Isn’t it time for flashes to catch up with DSLRs and be powered by rechargeable batteries, and have more discrete wireless triggers? It turns out that these features DO exist, but not with Speedlights made by major camera manufacturers. Announced by Adorama earlier this year, the Flashpoint Zoom Li-on TTL Flash is a new and affordable system that has the key feature...
Fujifilm X-T1 users to get significant boost in autofocus performance and function
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New firmware has been announced for the Fujifilm X-T1 compact system camera that promises to overhaul its autofocusing performance and ‘introduces a new AF system’ to this X-series flagship body. Firmware version 4.00 will be available in late June, and seems to take significant steps towards solving issues with moving subjects and focusing in low contrast conditions. The firmware adds Zone and Wide/Tracking modes that allow users to select a group of AF points in a 3×3, 5×3 or 5×5 pattern, to help ensure moving subjects are kept in continuous...
Canon announces EF 50mm F1.8 STM lens
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Canon has announced its EF 50mm F1.8 STM lens, which uses a stepper motor for quieter and more responsive autofocus compared to its ‘Mark II’ predecessor. It also features a 7-blade circular aperture and minimum focus distance of 35cm – both improvements over the Mark II. This compact fifty is just 39mm long and weighs 160g, has a metal mount, and supports an optional integrated hood as well as 49mm filters. The lens will be available later in May at a price of $129.99. Press Release: Canon launches the EF 50mm f/1.8 STM – for popping portraits and...
Readers’ Showcase: Sheila Murphy
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My kind of photographs. I much prefer this kind of work to so much of the mirrored water, craggy hillside, super-saturated color landscape kinds of stuff that it seems are so common on sites like this. Photo #2 is a particular standout for me… but then again, I’m a sucker for finely detailed B&W, modern architecture and diagonal lines. It’s funny, but it seems to me that the photographers who I tend to admire the most are much more likely to be using compact and mirror-less cameras much more than what seems to be the average (where DSLRs are easily the most popular)....
Underwater Photographer Plays Hide and Seek with an Octopus
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While on a dive, Hawaii-based underwater photographer Timothy Ewing set up a camera and captured this fun little video of himself playing hide-and-seek with an octopus he was trying to photograph. “Octopus are one of the more intelligent creatures in the ocean. Sometimes they are too curious for their own good,” Ewing says. “If you hide from them they will come out and look for you.” Source Article from...
A Moonrise Photo That Combines Day and Night
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Photographers: Every Email Could Be the Start or End of a Client Relationship
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TAAB is a Universal Lens Tab That Puts Manual Focus Control At Your Fingertip
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Expectation vs Reality When Buying a New Camera
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Here’s a brilliant 45-second commercial that shows what expectation versus reality is like when buying a fancy new camera. People often have lofty ideas of what their photography will be like, but most of the time reality isn’t nearly as glamorous. The ad is in Norwegian, but the message is easy for anyone to understand. Source Article from http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PetaPixel/~3/scfA6MxvGKI/
Couple Model Required For TFP Wedding photos
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Actors and Models Needed for a TFP shoot
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Model Required for B&W Silhouette Shoot
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Need TFP Female Models: Bucks/Beds/Northants-ASAP
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Miss Upcoming Model Girl UK
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Seeking Production Manager/Coordinator for TV Pilot – "Traffik"
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Film Crew and Cinematographers
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Camera Man Required to Film Dance Performance of Actor
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How to do More Unique Flower Photography
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Do you love to photograph flowers? Flowers are the most beautiful things to photograph. They have texture, color and come in wonderful shapes. To create unique flower photography: Use a 50mm or a telephoto lens. Photograph with backlighting to enhance the transparency of the petals. Choose camera angle carefully – photograph from below to obtain unusual shapes, photograph at eye-level to create a realistic look. Get closer – try making an abstract Look for great backgrounds – declutter the is using bokeh and a shallow depth of field. Quality and color of light – photograph under diffused...
Get Creative with Displacement Maps in Photoshop
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Creating a film noir look with a displacement map in Photoshop. What is a Displacement Map? If you are new to Photoshop, the mere mention of displacement maps can be daunting. The purpose of this article is to give you an introduction to them; guide you in easy-to-follow steps on how to generate simple grayscale displacement maps from an existing image, and show you how to effectively implement them using the Displace Filter in Photoshop. A displacement map is a grayscale version of the same image that you are working on, saved as a Photoshop (.PSD) file. This displacement map is then used...
Canon Issues Product Advisory for T6 White-Spotted Sensor Problem
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Face Recognition Reveals Hidden Connections in 97K Pictures of Strangers
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Yes, Airlines Can Legally Ban Photography, And Some Are Doing Just That
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Bending the Light: A New Documentary About Lens Makers and Photos Takers
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Getty Images Portraits Show How Four Famous Faces Have Aged Over 20 Years
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Female Models Wanted – Calvin Klein Inspired Shoot!
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Female Model Required for Collaborating on a Urban Woodland Photo Shoot
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Female Models Fequired For TFP Vintage Fashion Shoots
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Urgent Male Model Required
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Ten Models Wanted for Meet and Greet / Hosting for Bollywood Event
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Director / Filmmaker
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Only Seven Days Left To Submit An Entry For May Photographer Of Month
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Weekly Photography Challenge – Places of Worship
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Today I rounded up some images of some special places. Some architectural wonders, many full of history – all special to the people who visit them. This is various places of worship. By Neil Howard That could mean a number of different types of buildings and places including: Small home town churches Basilicas Mosques Synagogues Temples Wats Even cemeteries Weekly Photography Challenge – Places of Worship In my quest for example images I found a lot of HDR images of interiors – many that were quite a bit over done, at least for my tastes. I even found some of my own images dating back to...
Ethereal Images of Places of Worship
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A while ago I shared a collection of architectural images, now let’s get a little more specific. Churches and places of worship are often well design, finely crafted, masterpieces of architecture. Let’s take a look at some great, ethereal images of churches, mosques, and other places of religious practice: Cathedral by Andrew Vasiliev on 500px Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica (Ottawa) Vertorama by Roland Shainidze on 500px Tamway Orléans by Nicolas Wecandoit on 500px St. Peter Basilic (Vatican, Rome) by Domingo Leiva on 500px Lights by Mauro Tandoi on 500px Cologne Cathedral by Aaron Choi on...
Getty Images announces Instagram Grant
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Getty Images has announced a new grant offered in collaboration with Instagram. There are a total of three grants available, each for $10,000 USD, and will be awarded to photographers using Instagram to document underrepresented communities. Recipients will also be given a mentorship opportunity with Getty Images’ photographers. The trio of grants will lend financial support to photographers using Instagram to share their projects and tell visual stories. To be considered for the grant, interested Instagram users must submit an application on Getty’s website. Judges will...
Field Test: Sigma 19mm, 30mm and 60mm F2.8 DN lenses
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The size of the Micro Four Thirds system might surprise many DSLR owners, and many Micro Four Thirds camera owners too for that matter, as it has been growing at a pretty steady pace for the last six years. Between the ‘big names’ Olympus and Panasonic, and third-party contributors like Sigma, Tamron, Samyang, Voigtländer, Tokina and Kowa, there are now about 55 dedicated lenses available for Micro Four Thirds cameras. This exceeds by many times the size of the systems available to other compact system cameras, and in fact beats all in the DSLR market other...
Pricing and availability for Tokina AT-X 24-70mm F2.8 Pro FX made public
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I see what you mean, but this is an enormously difficult lens range to build and please everyone. I think 24mm is wide enough, and a few extra mm at the wide end is a big task that would result in other compromises.Distortion, focus speed, CA, focus shift, size, weight, across frame sharpness at all focal lengths, filter size, min focus distance,vignetting, flare control, price, bokeh are all factors. This lens truly has to be a master of so many things. IF Tokina got 90% of the above done dependably well who cares about a bigger range than 24-70mm?F2.0 would undoubtedly be bigger, do you...
Canon issues product advisory for Rebel T6i/T6s
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Defects between the layers of glass covering the sensor of a Canon EOS Rebel T6s/760D. Photo by Lensrentals.com, 2015 Canon USA has released a product advisory regarding the sensor defects on its Rebel T6i/T6s (750D/760D) that we reported on last week. The company states that on certain cameras ‘white spots may exist on the optical layer which may result in the appearance of dark circular patterns on the captured image under certain shooting conditions’. These cameras will be repaired free of charge (though the start date is TBD) and models that have already...
A Conversation with Photographer Rick Smolan
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You Can Now Bulk Download from Flickr: Your Photos Really Do Belong to You
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Meet Geoffrey Berliner, a Collector Who Owns Over 1,000 Vintage Camera Lenses
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Geoffrey Berliner is the Executive Director of the Penumbra Foundation, a non-profit photo arts organization in New York City. He has also been an avid collector of historical camera lenses for 15 years. Pop Photo recently paid a visit to the basement where Berliner stores his massive collection of rare glass. In the video above, Berliner briefly talks about his passion and offers us a glimpse into his unique stash. Source Article from...
How to Take a Photo Showing Both of Your Hands
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A Sunset on Mars Captured by the Curiosity Rover
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Female Model required beginner or experienced
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Blonde PROMO Model Required – Brisbane Promo
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Promo Girls Needed
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Female & Male Model for Photo Shoot
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CASTING CALL Australian Series
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Production Manager Required For Masters Short Film
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Cameraman and Editor Needed for New Music Vlog
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Looking for Camera Operator for this Coming Sunday
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On Set Runner’s and Lighting Wanted, and Sound Guys for Short Film Hero
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Four Actors Needed in a Short Film
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Two Models, Photographer, Three H&MUA Needed for a New Designer
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How Can You Make Sure Your Real Estate Photography Clients Get The Shots They Want?
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Stop Giving Away Your Authority – You ARE a Photographer
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I recently started coaching my eldest son’s flag football team. Being a Mom, as opposed to a Dad, this was a rare situation. As the league’s only “Lady Coach”, I was not taken very seriously by anyone, including myself. I stepped up because no other parent volunteered, but once everyone saw that a woman was going to be coaching these young boys to fifth grade flag football success, Dads came out of the woodwork. Some to kindly assist me because ten 11 year old boys is a lot no matter who you are; yet others insisted on their services, because what could I possibly know about football and a...
10 Surefire Tips for Photographing Birds in Flight
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Recently an internal survey in my blog revealed that photographing birds in flight is the most sought after topic. It didn’t come as a surprise though, because that’s the specialty of birds. They defy gravity and rise up into the sky. How wonderful it is! Here I have listed 10 surefire tips that will help you to make better photographs of birds in flight. The more you practice, the better your photographs will turn out. 1. Learn Flight Behaviour of the Birds Birds normally have the predictable flight behaviour. It requires observation. The more you observe them more you understand about...
The June issue – celebrating the photobook
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Our new magazine is dedicated to a dynamic new renaissance in photography – the contemporary photobook
The latest issue of British Journal of Photography is a celebration of the contemporary photobook, the primary art form for contemporary photographers. We believe book-making, and the conceptualisation of books, has become the medium on which artists are now judged. There’s been an explosion of small publishers, and book-making rather than the simple creation of photography prints is now the dynamic area of modern photography. As independent publishers Aron...
Getty and Instagram partner on photography grants worth $10,000
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Getty Images and Instagram target photographers outside mainstream media with a series of new development grants
Getty Images and Instagram today launched three new grants, worth $10,000 each, to support photographers using the online photography platform “to document stories from underrepresented communities around the world”. Three winners – judged on a demonstrable body of documentary work on their Instagram account – will be selected by the...
VIDEO: How motherhood changes us
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Norwegian photographer Marie Sjøvold’s profoundly personal series explores her biology and identity after giving birth to her first child
At the Nordic Lights Festival in Kristiansund, Marie Sjøvold exhibited her new series, Midnight Milk, a personal exploration of her own pregnancy – how becoming a mother for the first time, and witnessing the slow death of her grandmother to Alzheimer’s, fundamentally changed the contours of her life. “The stage for motherhood is set long before a child is born,”...
Flickr for iOS update brings camera roll look and feel
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Image sharing service Flickr has released a major update to its mobile app for iOS devices. In the new design images are displayed in a similar way to Apple’s own Photos app, with your images grouped by capture date. You can easily edit them using a range of tools including levels, digital exposure compensation, saturation and contrast. The new version of the app also emphasizes the auto upload feature, trying to convert Flickr from an image-based social network into everybody’s go-to photo app and directly competing with services like Dropbox or Google Plus Photos. When...
Lee releases pricing for SW150 Mk ll filter system
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The Lee Filters SW150 Mk ll filter holder system for especially wideangle lenses is now shipping, and Lee has announced pricing for the folder itself, the adapter rings and the 150x150mm and 150x170mm filters. The system is designed to allow filters to be held in front of the Nikon AF-S Nikkor 14-24mm f/2.8G ED wideangle zoom without vignetting and uses a light seal to prevent reflections on the filter’s rear surface – which can be especially problematic during long exposures with ND filters. The system also has adapter rings for Samyang’s 14mm f/2.8 ED...
Phottix highlights compatibility issues with Nikon D750 hotshoe
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The D750’s hot shoe (bottom) compared to the D700 (top). Photo by Phottix Phottix, a lighting equipment maker, is reporting an issue where its Odin TTL triggers may not work properly with the Nikon D750. According to a recent blog post the company claims that the D750’s hot shoe design differs slightly from that of other Nikon DSLRs, which causes the pins of the Odin trigger to line up incorrectly. As a quick fix for Odin users, Phottix suggests wedging a sliver of cardboard at the front of the hot shoe to keep the trigger aligned.
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ZTE launches Nubia Z9 with 16MP, OIS and touch-sensitive frame
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As far as “touch-sensitive frame”, it could be the result of following: “ZTE claims to devote 10% of its annual revenue on research and development each year, and it could be producing patents and utility licenses at a furious pace.[18][19] ZTE has filed 48,000 patents globally, and with more than 13,000 patents granted. 90% more patents are invention-related. In two consecutive years (2011 and 2012), ZTE has been granted the largest number of patent applications globally,[20] which is the first for a Chinese company.[21]” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE BTW: As far...
Metz mecablitz 26 AF-1 Quick Review
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Metz mecablitz 26 AF-1$129 / £90 www.metz.de The Metz mecablitz 26 AF-1 is a compact flash gun that’s small compared to standard hotshoe flash units, but still a good deal larger than those that come in the box with most mirrorless cameras. Metz’s aim in the mecablitz 26 AF-1 has been to find an effective balance between miniaturization and usefulness to suit users of small cameras, whether DSLR, mirrorless or advanced compact – many of which lack an on-board flash. The built-in electronic flash made its debut just over fifty years ago on...
Photos of the Colossal Duga-3 Radar System Built by the Soviet Union
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Portrait Recreations of Vandalized Subway Ads
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DJI Raises $75 Million in Funding and Is Now Valued at $10 Billion
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This Restaurant Made Special Plates for Smartphone Food Photos
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Here are Full-Res Sample Shots From the Canon 5DS and Sigma 50mm f/1.4 Art
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Launching Regenerative Medicine Contract Manufacturing Business in Japan
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Short Haired Female For Trim and Styling
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Model Search / Casting For Various Winter Shoots
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models required for a fashion photoshoot
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Babes of Origin
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Model Required to Wear Light up Bodysuit
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Looking for a flatmate
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Sound Recordist Required
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Seeking a Director for a Short Film on Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Crew Needed for Short Film Project for Tropfest 2015
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Seeking Cinematographer for Short Film
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Aboriginal Model Management Australia – Seeking Photographers & H/MUA’s
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Promoters For Parties & Single Events
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Product Photographer Wanted For New Fashion Business
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Photographer – New Actors Headshots
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Photographer Needed For My Social Media Sites
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Underwater Seascape Photography
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How Much Should You Charge For Real Estate Agent Portraits?
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How to Shoot in Low-Light Conditions Without Using Flash
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Photography is all about capturing the subject beautifully in the available light. Sometimes as the photographer you have more than optimum light (e.g., bright sunlight, halogens, etc.) to work with while some other times you have to work in suboptimal or low-light conditions. If you are not a pro photographer then it is always a great challenge, and sometimes it’s a nightmare, to capture great shots in low-light conditions. Exposure info: f/1.8, 1/50th at ISO 3200 In order to face the challenges that low-light conditions come with, I will be sharing five techniques that you can use to...
Exposure Lock Button – What is it and How to Use it?
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Nestled quietly on the back of most cameras is a button that is often ignored or misunderstood, particularly by those who have recently upgraded to a DSLR or Mirrorless camera. It’s the Exposure Lock button, and it can be a tremendous asset to photographers who are looking for ways to get more control over their cameras and ultimately their photography in general. Using the exposure lock button helped me get the correct exposure on this picture of two students studying for final exams. To understand what this button does it’s helpful to know a bit about how your camera calculates the...
BJP Breakthrough – what are the judges looking for?
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We’ve extended our deadline for five days. But how can you win the prize? Our judges tell us what they are looking for
The deadline for the BJP Breakthrough award has been extended. You now have until 11 May to submit your work! We’ve designed this award to connect the next generation of photographers with the established photography industry. Four winners will have their work exhibited in East London, published by the BJP, and will also receive a state of the art Olympus E-M10 camera. For full details go to our dedicated BJP Breakthrough website. But what are...
Exploring the beauty of silent solitude
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A spiritual experience at the Trinità dei Monti, a church by Rome’s Spanish Steps, came to define Nils Thune’s photography career
“I was driving in my car, searching for something to photograph, when I saw his home at the end of a gravel pat,” says Norwegian photographer Nils Thune. “It looks similar to my farm, which my parents lived in before me and was built in 1845. I thought no one lived there, it looked deserted. The key was in the door. I knocked and Ola was sitting in the kitchen.” Thune is speaking about how Ola Haugen began, a book that...
A secret surveillance project of the Vienna Opera Ball
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By reappropriating a state of the art surveillance system, Jules Spinatsch discovered a way to capture the rich and powerful as they look at each other, and are desperate to be seen
The Vienna State Opera House has a state-of-the-art camera surveillance system. In 2009, for the Vienna Opera Ball, they ceded control of that system to Jules Spinatsch. By repurposing a photographic network designed primarily for security purposes, the Swiss photographer created “a portrait of high society, of the ruling class enjoying itself, in a way unseen anywhere else,” he says. On...
Samsung Galaxy S6 units found to be using different image sensors
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The Samsung Galaxy S5 and Note 4 both used Samsung’s ISOCELL in-house image sensors. When the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge were launched earlier this year there was no talk of the ISOCELL technology anymore and it was believed the 16MP 1/2.6 CMOS chip in the new models was provided by Sony. However, over the past few days rumors have emerged that in some units Samsung sensors are used instead of the Sony variant. According to a report by SamMobile this rumor has now been confirmed by Samsung. A spokesperson for the company said that there are “several different vendors”...
Canon PowerShot SX60 HS real-world sample gallery posted
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Yes, so far Canon is behind Pana and SONY for P&S such as LX7, LX100, FZ200, FZ1000, RX1x, RX10, and RX100x. G1X-2’s sensor is tooooo old, G7X’s AF is as bad as you can get. BTW, EOS-M is a joke. But, things can be changed as Canon is the #1 camera maker. I hope so. Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/7195026932/canon-powershot-sx60-hs-real-world-sample-gallery-posted
Canon EOS 5DS R added to studio test scene comparison
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Canon has replaced nearly its entire modern lens lineup over the past past 5 years. 11-24mm f/4, 16-35 f/4 IS, 24mm f/2.8 IS, 28mm f/2.8 IS, 35mm f/2 IS, 24-70 f/2.8 II, 70-200 f/2.8 II, 300mm f/2.8 II, 400mm f/2.8 II, 500mm f/4 II, 600mm f/4 II Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/2335390472/canon-eos-5ds-r-added-to-studio-test-scene-comparison
These Animations Show How CMOS and CCD Sensors Work and How They Differ
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Want to see how CMOS and CCD image sensors work and how they differ from each other? Photographer and animator Raymond Sirí created a couple of simple animations showing the basic idea of how these two sensor technologies go about capturing light, reading it, and storing the information. The animation above showing CMOS sensor tech was used in a trial against Canon, Sirí says. Here’s the animation he created showing how CCDs work: As you can see, CMOS sensors capture one row of light information at a time, which causes the “rolling shutter” effect that shows up in certain situations....
Court: Motorola Must Pay Fujifilm $10M for Infringing on B&W Conversion Patent
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Photographer Wants to End Discrimination Against High-End Camera Gear
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Photos of Giant Science Facilities That Look Straight Out of Science Fiction
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Nikon D750 Hot Shoe Reportedly Causing Problems by Being Slightly Too Long
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Ongoing Lifestyle Engagement/Wedding Shoot
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Two Models Required for Top Underwear Brand Shoot
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Promotional Staff Wanted for Mackay Homeshow 22 – 24 May 2015
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Promotional Staff Wanted for Cairns Homeshow 15 – 17 May 2015
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Fit Model Wanted
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Camera Assistants / Operators Needed
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Camera Crew Wanted for a Music Video
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Major Movie Production Casting Extras – London
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Experienced Sound Man Required to Record Sound for Educational Feature Film
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One Editor Needed to Grade 2 Minute Comedy Sketch
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Photographer and Video Operator Wanted in London!!!
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Trois Acteurs Recherches pour ‘Stock Video’ avec ReeldealHD
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The Evolution Of The Real Estate Tour – It Used To Mean 360 Virtual Tour
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How to Isolate Your Subject in Lightroom
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One of my favourite portrait techniques is to isolate the model by using a short telephoto lens and a wide aperture. The idea is to throw the background out of focus and keep the subject sharp, so there is a clear distinction between the two. This creates beautiful bokeh and the illusion of depth. Another way to isolate the model is to place them in the light, against a dark background that is in the shade. The opening photo (above) used this technique. I asked the model to pose in a doorway, and she is separated from the background because there’s no light illuminating the interior of the...
7 Landscape Photography Mistakes That Could be Ruining Your Photos
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If your photos aren’t turning out the way you expect them to, new gear is not necessarily the answer. In fact, chances are you are making one of these seven common mistakes. Don’t be discouraged though; just as a musician needs time to refine their skills, so does a photographer. Once you recognize where the problem lies, it’s easy to make adjustments and achieve better results the next time out. 1) Shooting at the Wrong Time of Day Harsh afternoon sunlight can wreak havoc on a landscape photo. With bright highlights and dark shadows, the contrast makes for especially difficult exposures....
Contest – Win a Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro All-In-One Zoom Lens
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Over the last few years here at dPS, we’ve run very some very popular competitions with our partners to give away some of their great photographic products to lucky dPS readers. We are lucky enough to be able to do it again this week. For this contest, Tamron is giving away a Macro All-In-One Zoom Lens Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro This prize is designed to help every level of photographer create BETTER pictures. Tamron is the world’s most awarded photographic lens line. Here’s what you, our dPS reader, could win: Tamron 16-300mm Di II VC PZD Macro – Retail Value $629For canon, Nikon or...
Thomas Mailaender’s weird and wonderful world
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Family photographs, archive press shots and Nazi soldiers are all included in Thomas Mailaender’s funny, thoughtful Solo Chaud exhibition, on show in London now
“Thomas Mailaender’s forum and sphere of operations is less the art world than the rowdier public domain where events can easily run out of control,” writes Ian Jeffrey, the respected photography critic. That rowdy sense of anarchy and fun is clearly on show in the French artist’s current exhibition at Roman Road, which is punningly titled Solo Chaud. With liberal use of sheets of white plastic,...
A look inside Guantanamo Bay’s giftshop
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Gitmo on Sale looks at how American military power perceives itself by way of Guantánamo Bay’s gift shop
After 12 years working as a lawyer, Debi Cornwall began to explore life in, and the legacy of, the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. As well as being a controversial military enclave on the soil of a sovereign state, the base’s prison (often shortened to GTMO, or Gitmo, by American soldiers stationed there) continues to hold more than a hundred men detained for many years as part of the US government’s War on Terror. The latest segment of Cornwall’s...
Taro Karibe: “Any desire can be satisfied in Tokyo”
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, May, 2015 |
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Jacob Aue Sobol selected the Japanese photographer Taro Karibe as a winner of Tokyo’s Magnum Photos Workshop, for a series on the utopia and dystopia of Japan’s capital
“I gave Taro the prize because he was honest,” says the Magnum photographer Jacob Aue Sobol of the Japanese photographer Taro Karibe. “Working as a salary man, but longing so much to explore the core of his existence. Karibe came top in a Tokyo workshop with Sobol, run by the Magnum Photos agency for his image exploration of Tokyo, both a “utopia, where any desire can be satisfied, and a...
QromaScan uses your smartphone to digitize prints
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, May, 2015 |
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Even though digital photography has been around for quite some time now, most of us still have a few boxes and albums of prints from the pre-digital era lying around. Digitizing them can be expensive if you use a professional service to get it done, or very time-consuming if you decide to go DIY using a flatbed scanner. QromaScan wants to solve this dilemma, at least for those users who don’t require drum scanner quality, by utilizing your smartphone camera and a foldable lightbox. We’ve seen smartphone scanning solutions before but QromaScan takes things a step further by...
Big Zoom: Nikon Coolpix P900 real-world samples
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, May, 2015 |
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To Nikon, just give us one superzoom with 1 inch sensor, f/2.8-f/4.0, 600mm EFL, EVF, RAW-capable, manual zoom and we will be all happy camper. =D Source Article from http://www.dpreview.com/articles/0844209449/big-zoom-nikon-coolpix-p900-real-world-samples
Ice Light 2 on the way with brighter LEDs and new battery system
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, May, 2015 |
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Westcott has announced the imminent arrival of the second incarnation of its Ice Light LED lighting wand. Ice Light 2 promises to be 50% brighter than the previous model and comes equipped with Bluetooth for remote control as well as an interchangeable, rechargeable lithium-ion battery. The light has a color temperature of 5500K, Color Rendering Index of 96 and a beam angle of 72.6 degrees. The wand is the same size and shape as the first Ice Light, so original accessories are still compatible, but the company has redesigned the handle to include an on/off slider switch...
CyPhy’s LVL 1 camera drone features six rotors for stability
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, May, 2015 |
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CyPhy Works, a company helmed by iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner, has introduced a camera drone with a few unique features. Called the CyPhy LVL 1, its six-rotor design promotes better stability over common quadcopters. The drone’s camera is integrated, as well, allowing videos to be recorded without a gimbal or other components that might creep into footage. The company is seeking funding on Kickstarter. Unlike the DJI Inspire 1 and similar competing models, CyPhy’s LVL 1 features six rotors, rather than four. This makes it possible for the drone to change...
And Now For Something Different: Voigtländer 40mm f/2.8 Heliar samples and impressions
Posted by Chris Roubis on 6th, May, 2015 |
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This is the Voigtländer VM 40mm f/2.8 Heliar. We’ll just call it the 40 Heliar for short. It’s taking things in a different direction from modern lenses you will typically find us shooting galleries for. There’s no plastic or composite materials in here, just metal and glass. There’s no silent wave motor, or image stabilization (hence the Sony Alpha a7 II we have it mounted on). There are no in-camera lens corrections, or profiles, or focus confirmation chips, or even f-stop clicks. It is collapsible, and comes with lovely metal caps and shades. ...
A Star Wars-Themed Photo Shoot to Find Homes for Shelter Animals
Posted by Chris Roubis on 5th, May, 2015 |
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QromaScan: Digitize and Organize Prints Using Your Smartphone and Voice
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This Shoulder-Mounted Rig is for Shooting Photos of Airplanes
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R3 Monobath Developer Lets You Process Your Film with One Chemical Bath
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How NOT to Take a Picture with Mike Tyson
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One to Two Female Models
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Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.