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Photographer/ Video- For x2 Dance Crew

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Looking For a Good Photographer To Do My Actor Headshots

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How Do Real Estate Photographers Deal With Rescheduling?

7 Uncommon Tips for Winter Sunrise Photos Near Water

7 Uncommon Tips for Winter Sunrise Photos Near Water A Post By: Iain Stanley There are few things in photography that people love more than dreamy sunrise shots full of bold oranges, big suns, washing waters, and burnt horizons. The dawn of a new day is a spiritually significant event as our past misdeeds of yesterday are forgotten under the promise of fresh beginnings. Sunrise also affords us some of the best light to work with in photography. However, if you live near the coast and you plan to get up early to take some sunrise shots that involve you being in or around rocks on the water’s edge, there are some key things you must remember,...

10 Common Photography Mistakes and How to Overcome Them

10 Common Photography Mistakes and How to Overcome Them A Post By: Prathap DK You’ve got your DSLR and you are excited to test it out. You might have gone out for the first few days or perhaps weeks and then all of a sudden the excitement wears out. Why? Because you don’t seem to get what you want out of your mighty DSLR, right? You may have spent countless hours in your college, office, or at home in search of a best DSLR that can take the best photographs you want. All your efforts have gone in vein and you have a frustrating backlog of your actual work. Next time you feel such frustration about your photography remember this quote: “You will...

NPPA and World Press plan ethics symposium following contest disqualifications

NPPA and World Press plan ethics symposium following contest disqualifications World Press Photo Second Prize Contemporary Issues Category, Singles. Photo by Ronghui Chen, China, City Express The National Press Photographers Association and World Press Photo plan to hold a symposium later in 2015 to talk about ethics in photography, following news that 20% of the photos entered in the World Press Photo contest were disqualified after reaching the penultimate round, due to digital manipulations of some sort being discovered. Meanwhile, the NPPA has called on the photographers disqualified from the contest to release their photos to the public. The...

Lytro plans to shed jobs as it shifts focus to video

Lytro plans to shed jobs as it shifts focus to video Lytro CEO Jason Rosenthal has announced that the company has raised an additional $50M in funding, but plans to use it to make a strategic shift into video and virtual reality, while shedding some jobs. Although the exact number of layoffs has yet to be decided, website re/code is reporting that between 25-50 of Lytro’s 130-strong workforce may be made redundant as the company seeks to hire new employees with video and virtual reality experience.  Describing light-field as ‘the perfect solution’ for capturing imagery intended for use in virtual reality...

Jeb Bush’s Wedding Photos Were Shot and Ruined by His Younger Brother Marvin

Jeb Bush’s Wedding Photos Were Shot and Ruined by His Younger Brother Marvin The picture above is the only photo Jeb Bush has of his wedding 41 years ago. Here’s why: Bush made the mistake of allowing his younger brother Marvin to be his official wedding photographer. Marvin, who was still in high school at the time, made the tragic mistake of rerolling already-exposed film. Jeb shared the photo and story yesterday on his Facebook account to say happy anniversary to his wife. TIME reporter Zeke Miller found more details about what happened in the book My Father, My President: A Personal Account of the Life of George H. W. Bush. Here’s what Marvin has to say...

A Photo of the Starry Night Sky From Inside a Tent

A Photo of the Starry Night Sky From Inside a Tent Photographer Mark Gee shot this photograph of the night sky while camping in the great outdoors in New Zealand. It’s a view of what his camera was able to see while looking up through Gee’s tiny tent with the outer flysheet removed. You can find more of his gorgeous night sky shots in his 500px account. Source Article from...

Google and Reddit Tighten Their Policies Regarding Explicit Photos

Google and Reddit Tighten Their Policies Regarding Explicit Photos Two Internet heavyweights took big measures today to put restrictions on the sexually explicit photos and videos being shared through their services. Google is banning public adult content entirely on its Blogger platform, while Reddit is now requiring that all explicit photos be posted with the consent of their subjects. What Google is Doing Google has published a page detailing its new “Adult content policy on Blogger.” Starting on March 23rd, bloggers using the platform will not be allowed to share photos and videos that “are sexually explicit or show graphic nudity.” If you’re a...

Multiple Camera Drones Were Lost for This Imagery of a Volcano’s Insides

Multiple Camera Drones Were Lost for This Imagery of a Volcano’s Insides Explorer Sam Cossman recently employed the help of multiple drones to capture photos and footage of the Marum Crater in an active volcano on the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu. He ended up losing multiple drones in the process, but he left the island with spectacular images that will help provide a better understanding of the volcano and the life that exists around it. Here’s a video that National Geographic published today, which provides a look at how the camera drones were used to capture the crater, one of only seven permanent lava lakes in the world: Cossman says he used the...

UK Puts Export Ban on Rare 1800s Photo Album in an Attempt to Keep It in the Nation

UK Puts Export Ban on Rare 1800s Photo Album in an Attempt to Keep It in the Nation The British government is scrambling to keep a rare photo album from the 19th century from being sold to a foreigner and exported from the nation. It announced today that it has placed a temporary export ban on the book, which contains seventy photographs by Swedish photography pioneer Oscar Gustave Rejlander. Rejlander pioneered the art of combination printing, or combining multiple negatives to create one photograph. He settled in England in the 1840s and became known as a “father of art photography”. “The Rejlander album is a truly remarkable compilation of images by one of the...

Background Artists Wanted For TV & Film

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Major Promotion in VIC

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Major Promotion in NSW

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Swimwear Look Book

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Quick & Simple Portraits

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DOP & Editor Required for Powerful Short to Be Submitted to Festivals

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Need Lighting technician for music video

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Film Crew Required for Four-Day Exterior Shoot (Late March)

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Watch & Win StarNow Credits – Last Chance to Enter!

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Photographer Needed for Test Shoots

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Photographer Required For Electronic/Rock Band Promotional Shoot

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Sydney Wedding 2nd Shooter

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How Do Real Estate Photographers Handle Window Blinds?

February Video Contest Will Be Combined With March Video Contest

Get Complete Control Of Your Camera with Our Brand New Course

Get Complete Control Of Your Camera with Our Brand New Course A Post By: Darren Rowse Today I’m very excited to announce the launch of our first Digital Photography School Course – Photo Nuts and Bolts. The Photo Nuts Journey Early in 2010 dPS launched a brand new eBook – Photo Nuts and Bolts. Written by Neil Creek it was all about understanding your camera so you can get creative control over it. It went on to become one of our most popular eBooks ever and each year since we’ve added new eBooks to the series including Photo Nuts and Shots (Tools and Techniques for Creative Photography), Photo Nuts and Post (a Guide to Post-Processing) and Photo Nuts...

How to Take Better Action Photos

How to Take Better Action Photos A Post By: Michael Coppola There are many sports photographers. We generally hear about those who specialize in a specific genre of sports photography like motorsport, tennis, golf, or surfing. If you are just starting out and want to gain some experience and build a portfolio, what can you do to take better action shots? What separates a true sports photographer from an amateur? A sports photographer will get the shot they want as they see it, of the action they need to report on, every time. Their ability to pick the correct exposure, composition, focus, and amount of blur in the...

Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush to add Dimension to a Landscape Photo

Using the Lightroom Adjustment Brush to add Dimension to a Landscape Photo A Post By: Scott Wyden Kivowitz Lightroom has the power to completely transform your landscape photograph into something far more powerful, something that hits home with viewers, and something that pops off the screen. By default digital cameras create flatter image files than what you see with your eye. Your eye has the ability to see dimensions like no camera can really capture. Although many try. What is Dimension? The definition of dimension is: an aspect or feature of a situation, problem, or thing. When utilizing the word dimension in your photograph, think of the features of specific...

Sony Xperia Z3 camera review

Sony Xperia Z3 camera review Connect smartphone reviews are written with the needs of photographers in mind. We focus on camera features, performance and image quality. Introduction The Sony Xperia Z3 is the successor to the Xperia Z2 but – given Sony’s very fast 6(ish) month product innovation cycle this is no surprise – is in terms of both camera specification and design more of an evolutionary update rather than a major overhaul.  The Z3’s 5.2-inch 1080p Sony Triluminous display is the same size and resolution as its predecessor but now comes with X-Reality technology that automatically...

Tamron SP 15-30mm F2.8 Di VC USD real-world sample gallery posted

Tamron SP 15-30mm F2.8 Di VC USD real-world sample gallery posted After handling a prototype at Photokina, we brought a final shipping sample of Tamron’s new 15-30mm wideangle zoom back from CP+. The stabilized ultra-wideangle lens covers a full-frame sensor, offers a unique double lens hood design for added strength and boasts a very competitive $1200 price tag. We’re impressed so far – check out our samples gallery! See our Tamron 15-30mm F2.8 real-world samples gallery Source Article from...

Konost full-frame digital rangefinder in the pipeline for 2016

Konost full-frame digital rangefinder in the pipeline for 2016 An American startup is promising to bring a full-frame digital rangefinder camera to market for early 2016. The Konost FF will be a 20MP metal bodied M-mount camera equipped with a 4″ LCD. The company has said that the rangefinder system will operate not with mirrors and prisms, as most rangefinders do, but with twin imaging sensors that overlay their images to produce the same dual image effect in the viewfinder. While details are limited at the moment, Konost has stated it will use the Belgian CMV20000 sensor from CMOSIS, which offers 5120×3840 pixel (~20MP)...

Historic prints from the beginning of photography to go on auction in London

These are more important as visual documentation of a time and place. It’s not always about how pretty it looks, or how well they composed/exposed the image. Sometimes(all to infrequently, if you ask me) it’s about content. Artistic photography is a luxury afforded by our familiarity with the concept, and the ease with which we can now create photographs. The first photographers were not artists, they were anthropologists, historians, scientists… Their photos furthered their work, they weren’t the work itself. Source Article from...

ARRI announces the ALEXA Mini, a lightweight carbon fiber cinema camera with 4K output

ARRI announces the ALEXA Mini, a lightweight carbon fiber cinema camera with 4K output We don’t normally write about thirty-thousand-dollar cinema cameras, but the ARRI ALEXA Mini (announced this morning) caught our eye. This digital motion picture camera packs a whole lot of firepower into a super compact, carbon-fiber body. The specs also foreshadow what we might expect in future consumer-level cameras, in terms of video capabilities. At its core is a Super 35mm format ARRI ALEV III CMOS sensor with Bayer pattern color filter array. ARRI claims it is capable of 14+ stops of sensitivity when shooting at an exposure index of 160-3200 (EI is...

Annie Leibovitz Discusses Her Life, Work and Passion on an Exhibition Tour

Annie Leibovitz Discusses Her Life, Work and Passion on an Exhibition Tour Back in 2008, the team over at Advancing Your Photography were invited to an exclusive gallery tour of Annie Leibovitz’s best photographs — an event led by Leibovitz herself. Those in attendance were treated to the photographer sharing about her life and work, and the intersection of those two worlds. Luckily for the rest of us, they brought along some cameras and recorded what Leibovitz had to share. They just finished publishing the videos as a three-part series: The exhibition was titled “Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer’s Life, 1990–2005” and was held at the Brooklyn Museum. (via...

This is How the Home Shopping Network Tried to Sell the Canon Rebel T3i Back in 2012

Here’s a humorous video showing how the Home Shopping Network tried to sell a Canon Rebel T3i package on TV back in 2012. They do get some facts about the camera and photography right, but other statements they make may cause you to chuckle (or shake your head in disbelief). Here are some of the amazing quotes found in the video: “It is [Canon’s] flagship.” “What you have going to work for you in this particular camera is going to be the ‘Canon trinity’: it’s about the sensor, it’s about the lens, and it’s about the processor.” “You don’t have to be a professional to have...

NPPA Calls on Photographers Disqualified from WPP to Share Their ‘Shopped Photos

NPPA Calls on Photographers Disqualified from WPP to Share Their ‘Shopped Photos The world of photojournalism took a hit earlier this month when it was revealed that 20% of the finalists in the prestigious World Press Photo competition had been disqualified due to unethical edits. The National Press Photographers Association released a statement this past weekend calling for the disqualified photographers to share the edits that eliminated them from competition. The disqualified photographers were informed in a confidential email by WPP that their images had been deemed ineligible. As a result of this confidentiality, the WPP isn’t giving examples of the edits...

Lightroom Iron Chef: 29 Submitted Photos Processed Live In Front of a Crowd

Photographer Stu Maschwitz of Prolost recently paid a visit to the Bay Area Lightroom User Group and tried something he’s always wanted to do: Lightroom Iron Chef. He took 29 audience-submitted photographs and post-processed them in Lightroom in front of a live audience of more than 100 people, all while providing a running commentary of what he’s doing and why. The whole thing was recorded in the 1.5-hour video above. Here’s how our friend Jeffrey Friedl describes it: There are some amazing transformations, but whether a particular result is or isn’t your cup of tea is not the point....

Shooting Self-Portraits Under the Northern Lights

Shooting Self-Portraits Under the Northern Lights If you’ve always dreamed of taking pictures of the northern lights, the video above will give you a small taste of what it’s like. Swedish astrophotographer Göran Strand captured the behind-the-scenes footage recently when he drove out into the wilderness in the dead of night to chase auroras. In addition to time-lapse clips of his journey, the video also shows real time footage of Strand standing under the green shimmering lights hovering overhead. Strand says that on this particular night, he left home at around midnight and arrived home at 4:30am. Here are some of the keepers he...

Fraser Island Corporate Dinner

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Motion Graphic Editor

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FINAL DAYS APPLY NOW: Brand New Show Casting – ‘This Is Your Life Change’

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ONGOING CASUAL EDITOR REQUIRED for Wedding Videos

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Set Designer/ Prop Designers Needed for Various Educational Videos

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Sound Recordist Required for One Day Shoot

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Writer’s Favorite Wildlife Lens – Tamron 150-600mm

Writer’s Favorite Wildlife Lens – Tamron 150-600mm A Post By: Bruce Wunderlich Writer Bruce Wunderlich with Tamron 150-600mm on his Nikon D7100 in Le Claire, Iowa. Photo by: J. Todd Poling One of my favorite subjects to photograph is wildlife. In the past, great wildlife images were very difficult for me to shoot because my close presence usually meant disturbing the wild creature I had my eye on. I began looking for a longer lens with plenty of reach that wasn’t going to break my piggy bank. So, after much patient and thorough research, I purchased the Tamron 150-600mm SP F/5-6.3 Di VC USD zoom lens for my Nikon D7100. The reach of this...

Unbelievably Bad Real Estate Photos

How to Make an Architecture Space Look and Feel Natural in a Photo

How to Make an Architecture Space Look and Feel Natural in a Photo A Post By: Natalia Robert The New Age of Architectural Photography Gone are days of interior photos looking like furniture showrooms. So, too, are the days of exterior photos being full of uplighting accents and HDR effects. Today, architectural photography is all about lifestyle. The appeal of luxury has shifted away from the material luxury and flashy spaces of high society to an intangible luxury that transpires during quiet moments with loved ones. It’s more about quality of life than quality of goods. When shooting interiors, your goal as photographer is to create a space that makes the...

ARRI announces the ALEXA Mini 4K UHD, a lightweight carbon fiber cinema camera

ARRI announces the ALEXA Mini 4K UHD, a lightweight carbon fiber cinema camera We don’t normally write about thirty-thousand-dollar cinema camera, but the ARRI ALEXA Mini (announced this morning) caught our eye. This digital motion picture camera packs a whole lot of firepower into a super compact, carbon-fiber body. The specs also foreshadow what me might expect in future consumer-level cameras, in terms of video capabilities. At its core is a Super 35mm format ARRI ALEV III CMOS sensor with Bayer pattern color filter array. ARRI claims it is capable of 14+ stops of sensitivity when shooting at an exposure index of 160-3200 (EI is...

CreativeLive kicks off Photoshop Week 2015

CreativeLive kicks off Photoshop Week 2015 Starting today, the folks at CreativeLive are hosting a week of educational programs designed to help photographers and designers get the most out of Adobe Photoshop. Classes range from tips for beginners to more specialized sessions in landscape, architecture and portrait photography, to name a few. All classes are streaming live for free over the next six days, and will be available for purchase after the event. Visit CreativeLive’s website to see a complete list of scheduled courses and plan your week. Press release: Live from the Internet, It’s Photoshop Week...

Panasonic introduces Lumix G 30mm macro and new 42.5mm portrait prime

Panasonic introduces Lumix G 30mm macro and new 42.5mm portrait prime Panasonic has announced two new additions to its Micro Four Thirds lens lineup, a 30mm F2.8 macro and 42.5mm F1.7 portrait lens. The company had previously hinted that the 30mm was in the works, and as promised offers the new lens offers Mega O.I.S optical stabilization along with 240 fps drive AF. The 42.5mm F1.7 isn’t quite as fast (or presumably as expensive) as the existing Leica Nocticron 42.5mm F1.2. It does offer Power O.I.S. stabilization and is also compatible with 240 fps drive AF. It will be offered in black and silver versions. Each lens will cost...

Close Encounters: Will Burrard-Lucas’ wildlife photography

Impressive work. However, I wasn’t impressed by the motion sensor he talks about in the video at his WWW site. There are vastly superior ways to automatically trigger a camera from live view data — especially using Canons that can run ML inside. For cameras like the Sony A7S, which don’t allow user-written code to run in the camera, you can still do scripted control using wifi remote control with a laptop examining the camera’s live view. For a camera trap, I’d definitely use Canon PowerShots running a CHDK script for intelligent control using motion detection....

America’s First Female Photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, With Her Cameras

America’s First Female Photojournalist, Jessie Tarbox Beals, With Her Cameras Here’s a photograph of Jessie Tarbox Beals, America’s first female photojournalist, with her camera on a street a century ago. While most female photographers of her time shot photos from the peace and safety of photo studios, Beals ventured into the world of photojournalism and made a name for herself through her tenacity, self-promotion, and freelance news photos. The portrait above is a slightly cropped version of this photo from the collections of the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute: Here are some more historical photographs showing Beals with her various cameras: A...

What It’s Like to Shoot Backstage At the Oscars

Tonight, USA TODAY staff photographer Robert Hanashiro (the founder of SportsShooter) will be covering the Academy Awards with his camera for the 26th time, and for the 10th time he’ll have rare backstage access. Only 4 news organizations were given this level of access, allowing them to capture moments that TV cameras can’t. In the 3-minute video above, Hanashiro shares a little about what it’s like to work as one of the chosen backstage photographers. To commemorate his 26th year of covering the awards, Hanashiro shared some of his favorite backstage images on his Instagram account...

A 324-Key Keyboard Dedicated to Lightroom Editing

A 324-Key Keyboard Dedicated to Lightroom Editing It was around this time last year that we shared a new product called SHORTCUT-S, a 319-key keyboard designed specifically for editing photos in Photoshop. Creatives soon began asking the company to branch out into other popular programs, and today the company is doing just that. SHORTCUT-S tells us that it will soon be launching dedicated keyboards for 13 other programs, one of which is Adobe Lightroom. The special Lightroom keyboard is a giant slate that measures 15.3×11.7 inches and a quarter of an inch thick. It connects to your computer via USB and is compatible with any existing...

Garry Winogrand Talks to University Students About Photography in 1977

Garry Winogrand was one of the most notable and prolific American street photographers of the 20th century. He is known for capturing a vast record of what American life was like during the decades following World War II; in addition to his published works, thousands of his undeveloped and unseen rolls of film were discovered when he passed away in 1984. In 1977, Winogrand was invited to speak to Rice Students about photography. Over the course of two hours, the photographer answered all kinds of questions and discussed a wide range of topics regarding photography, his work, and his...

A Printer That Can Cook a Photo of Your Face Into a Pancake

A Printer That Can Cook a Photo of Your Face Into a Pancake Remember that Taiwanese machine that can print a photo of your face onto the foam of a latte? Here’s something along the same lines that’s just as quirky: there’s a new printer that can cook a photo of your face into a pancake. Created by the Bristol, UK-based design company Kinneir Dufort, the machine doesn’t just burn some kind of design into the surface of a cooked pancake — it actually cooks the photo in by carefully applying different layers of batter to the cooking surface at different times. This method causes different portions of the pancake to cook to different colors,...

URGENT Shoots Wednesday – MALE 30 year olds for Alcohol Brand SHOOT

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Got Steampunk Clothing and Want to Be Photographed in it?

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Two Promotional Models Required for Corporate Golf Day

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Bikini and Formal Dress Shooting on the Beach & Studio

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Casual Editor / Camera Operator Required

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Filmmakers /Videographer To Shoot A Wedding – $400 – $700 Single Day Pay

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Stage Manager for Brand New Production

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Staff Needed For a Big Event in June

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Looking For Photographer

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Congratulations Jason Roehner – February PFRE Photographer Of The Month

POLL: What do you wish you understood better when you started photography?

A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt Let’s get a discussion going on what you wish you understood better when you first got in to photography. Please fill in the poll below, you can check off up to three choices, and add your comments below. If it’s not listed check off “other” and add a comment. What was your biggest obstacle? What did you struggle most to understand? Source Article from...

Tips for Setting up a File Management System

Tips for Setting up a File Management System A Post By: Monica Day As much as we love the art of photography, the organization of it is just as important. Yes, organization. It’s important that you have a system in place to access your photos when you need them. A few key things to consider are: date, genre, occasion, and subject. You also want to be careful of the locations that you are storing your images. Save location This is an example of a way to organize your photos. This is an external drive with various years. There is also a folder for miscellaneous photos and a folder for personal photos. Your system may not have as many...

Close Encounters: Will Burrard-Lucas’ wildlife photography

Impressive work. However, I wasn’t impressed by the motion sensor he talks about in the video at his WWW site. There are vastly superior ways to automatically trigger a camera from live view data — especially using Canons that can run ML inside. For cameras like the Sony A7S, which don’t allow user-written code to run in the camera, you can still do scripted control using wifi remote control with a laptop examining the camera’s live view. For a camera trap, I’d definitely use Canon PowerShots running a CHDK script for intelligent control using motion detection....

Creating a Conceptual Wedding Photo of a Sideways World in a Bar

Creating a Conceptual Wedding Photo of a Sideways World in a Bar In my work, the concept and the pre-visualization of the images are the key issues. It’s all about fresh ideas and trying to achieve something that has never been seen when trying to create original pieces of art. Sometimes I just know that a project will evolve into something original even before I even start shooting the pictures. This time it was this couple (Vesa & Elina), who gave me freedom to do a wedding photo that would be something original and different. Well, I definitely tried to push myself to create something new and different and I think I did. The soon to be...

A Benedict Cumberbatch Photo Shoot for Vanity Fair

A Benedict Cumberbatch Photo Shoot for Vanity Fair Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing how photographer Jason Bell recently photographed actor Benedict Cumberbatch for a special issue of Vanity Fair. After observing that “this British invasion of Hollywood has gotten so out of hand,” Bell (who was born in London) came up with the idea of doing an all-British edition of Vanity Fair‘s annual Hollywood portfolio, which will arrive on March 2015. Cumberbatch is one of the stars featured in the series. His photo shoot took place at Wimbledon Common, a large open space in south-west London. Bell had Cumberbatch pose for a number of...

Mind-Bending Optical Illusions Created With Photo Manipulation

Mind-Bending Optical Illusions Created With Photo Manipulation Erik Johansson is a Swedish photographer and retoucher based in Berlin who is well known on the Internet for his amazing surreal photo manipulations that show everyday scenes with major twists. A number of his works are optical illusions created by manipulating and combining images in creative ways. The image above is one of Johansson’s more recent works. It’s titled “The Architect” and shows a man searching for inspiration in an impossible house. Here are some of Johansson’s other pieces — both personal and commissioned — that contain mind-bending optical illusions created with...

Photo Websites Being Sued Over a Patent for Online Photo Contests

Photo Websites Being Sued Over a Patent for Online Photo Contests Should you be able to patent the idea of online photo contests? Regardless of your opinion on the matter, someone has, and that patent is now being used to sue a number of small photo websites. A man named Michael Garofalo filed a patent in 2007 titled “Method of Sharing Multi-Media Content Among Users in a Global Computer Network.” The document describes a system of sharing “multi-media content” among users and organizing the content into a “competitive format.” Garofalo was awarded the patent in 2012. Ars Technica reports that Garofalo, who runs a small video contest website called...

A Practical Guide to Creating Superresolution Photos with Photoshop

A Practical Guide to Creating Superresolution Photos with Photoshop We’ve seen it in plenty of thriller/crime solver TV shows and movies: upon reviewing some grainy and very low-resolution surveillance footage, someone inevitably asks the technician, “can you zoom in on that and enhance it?” Then, with the quick press of a few masterfully placed keystrokes and bleepy computer sounds, the image is suddenly enhanced with vastly increased resolution and a key plot device is revealed. We all know that you can’t pull pixels out of thin air and most “zoom-enhance” sequences on TV and movies get it downright wrong: But there actually is a practical means of...

Three Models Required For Staged Photographic Art Project

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Glamour Models Required

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Men and Women needed for KMS Styling Show

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Crew Needed for Web Series Wise Bull

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Experienced General Crew/Production Assistant

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Production Crew Required For Semi-Pro Production Of "Noises Off"

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Photographer and Model Wanted

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Who’s Getting in Line for the New Canon EOS 5DS or 5DS-R Cameras?

Who’s Getting in Line for the New Canon EOS 5DS or 5DS-R Cameras? A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt It’s that time again. Canon has announced their newest in the 5D line-up – the 5DS and the 5DS R. At a whopping 50.6 megapixels and starting prices rumoured around $3699 and $3899 respectively – are you taking the plunge? People were all gaga over the EOS 7D MarkII and headed out in droves to pre-order one for themselves. I know several people personally who picked one up – either as an upgrade or as a backup to their full frame body. So the question is – who is this camera designed for? Clearly it’s for the professional photographer who needs maximum sharpness...

The Top 5 Sales Mistakes Costing You Money Right Now

The Top 5 Sales Mistakes Costing You Money Right Now A Post By: Mark Tioxon What would you do if you could book more clients and earn more money with your photography? If you’re like me then you’d probably just blow it all on that new lens you’ve been thinking of buying for the past few months. You likely have a few clients every now and then, but for some reason they’re either not booking you and going with someone else, not buying your prints, or they’re just doing a disappearing act never to be heard from again after your first meeting. The truth is that you’re probably making one or several of the sales mistakes listed below and it’s...

International Garden Photographer of the Year 2015 winners announced

For quite some time, I’ve had this uncomfortable feeling that, at 10GBP for a 4-photos block entry, unlimited entries at additional 10GBP for each of those block of 4 and a not very logical multiplication of “categories”, IGPOTY exuded a somewhat diddle scent. The puzzlement provoked by the choice of #2 and #8 as winners of anything related to photography has, in my view, added a definite flowery decay stench to that uneasy feeling. Source Article from...

Smartphone Astrophotography: How I Capture the Moon and Planets with My Phone

Smartphone Astrophotography: How I Capture the Moon and Planets with My Phone I’m often asked how I am able to take high-quality images of the solar system using my iPhone. In short, the quality of today’s smartphone cameras makes it possible to take very respectable images of the Moon and planets through a telescope with your phone – but it takes some work. While the end results may not match those taken with webcam or DSLR equipment, smartphone astrophotography can be a good starting point for budding astrophotographers. It can also be a useful alternative for experienced astronomers who wish to capture an image quickly with little equipment. What You Need 1)...

This Light Projection Technology Brings Static Photos to Life with Realistic Movements

This Light Projection Technology Brings Static Photos to Life with Realistic Movements Light projectors have been used in recent years for crazy 3D projections on buildings and other large surfaces. A Japanese company is using a similar concept to bring static 2D photos to life.Fareastgizmos reports that NTT Japan has developed a new light projection technique called HenGenTou, which roughly translates to “deformation lamps.” By carefully creating a grayscale motion pattern and projecting that pattern onto photographs (and other static objects), the technology can create the illusion of movement. Here’s a demo showing some interesting examples and applications: As you...

Bevy Collects All Your Family’s Photos In One Device That Can Be Enjoyed From Anywhere

Bevy Collects All Your Family’s Photos In One Device That Can Be Enjoyed From Anywhere Family photographs used to be collected in things like photo albums and shoeboxes, but these days digital photographs are scattered across all kinds of devices and services. Bevy is a new device and service that wants to help you and your family cut through the clutter to organize and enjoy the photos you care about. The Bevy comes in the form of a 1TB boxy device that wants a spot in your entertainment center, just like Canon’s Connect Center. Additional storage can be added by connecting USB drives into the back. You can easily get your photos and videos onto Bevy through a special...

‘Dudeoir’ Photography Trend Puts Men In the Frame for Seductive Shots

‘Dudeoir’ Photography Trend Puts Men In the Frame for Seductive Shots Boudoir photography, derived from the French word for “sulky,” traditionally involves a woman posing for a suggestive series of tasteful photos in various states of undress. Over the past few years, however, a new trend has emerged. Called “dudeoir” photography, these shots involve men jumping into the frame to pose for sexy shots. CBS Miami and CBS New York put the spotlight on this trend this past month, highlighting it as a “new rage in romance.” More and more men are choosing to have intimate photos taken of them as a gift to their significant others on special occasions (e.g....

This is Why Photographers Should Stay Off the Track at a Horse Race

This is Why Photographers Should Stay Off the Track at a Horse Race During a horse race, the track itself probably isn’t the place you should be wandering in order to snap the perfect action shot. Even if racers do tend to stay toward the inside of the track, things don’t always go as expected. A photographer in Finland learned this lesson the hard way this past week. While photographing a harness race in Helsinki on Wednesday, photographer Pekka Salonen decided to step into the outer regions of the track to photograph the conclusion as the horses crossed the finish line. Unfortunately for him, not all of the racers were racing on the inside, and he...

Female Glamour Models Wanted

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Models Required For My New Website

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Glamour Style Shoot

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Female Model Wanted for Stock Video Shoot – Melbourne

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Male Model Required For Couples/ Wedding Shoot This Sunday 22nd

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DOP, 1AD And Other Film Crew Wanted For Festival-Bound Short

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Video Editor For Bikini TV

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Cinematographer And Film Editor Wanted For TV Pilot

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Costume designer for sci-fi uniforms

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Production Designer Needed For A Short To Be Submitted To TROPFEST 2015

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Photographer And Videographer

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25 Years Of Photoshop – Thanks Adobe and Thomas and John Knoll!

Weekly Photography Challenge – Wide Opened

Weekly Photography Challenge – Wide Opened A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt This week’s challenge is all about using a large aperture, shooting wide opened. You can see some examples of this technique using shallow depth of field here. Aperture is one side of the exposure triangle and understanding it, and truly mastering it is so important to taking your photography to the next level. This is your chance to practice. By Evan Leeson Even if you do not have a lens that has f/1.4 or even f/2.8 you can still achieve a shallow depth of field. It also has to do with distance to subject, and focal length. So throw on a long lens and use the...

30 Alluring Images with Shallow DOF

30 Alluring Images with Shallow DOF A Post By: Darlene Hildebrandt This week we’re going back to the basics and looking at some images that utilize a large aperture to create a narrow or shallow DOF (Depth of Field). Often called bokeh, large apertures can create that magical look of out of focus blobs (highly technical term). Here are a few images demonstrating these things to inspire you. The Path by Joe Azure on 500px Can You Smell the Cinnamon? by C Rankin on 500px Slither by Justin Lo on 500px some hooks by Sak Rum on 500px Strength by Nadav Yacobi on 500px Shades of Orange by Ursula Abresch on 500px Green, green grass of...

FAA proposes regulations for commercial drone usage

FAA proposes regulations for commercial drone usage The FAA’s plan to regulate drone usage has been a long running cause of concern among enthusiasts and those hoping to use UAVs for commercial purposes. Thus far speculation has pegged the budding regulations as unnecessarily restrictive, but the new officially revealed FAA proposal shows those concerns to largely be unfounded.  The proposed regulations largely cover common sense aspects of drone operation, such as requiring the operator to avoid flying over people and to determine how risky it would be to fly a drone in any given location if it is assumed the drone...

Olympus OM-D E-M5 II First Impressions Review updated with shooting experience

I plan to upgrade and trade in my E-M5 for the E-M5ii. The larger viewfinder, one stop better IBIS and the wireless “tethering” are worthwhile upgrades for me. I had considered the E-M1, but I wanted to keep the camera small as that is my main reason for choosing M43 over other formats. Also, the new video frame rates makes it much more useful for me since I live in the non-US/non-Japan part of the world and thereby have 50 Hz artificial lighting. As well as the other improvements for the casual videographer. I also like the look of the new physical user interface, and some of...

Memory Card from Stolen Camera Returned After Photographer Makes Public Appeal

Memory Card from Stolen Camera Returned After Photographer Makes Public Appeal Earlier this month, we reported that a North Carolina-based photographer Faith Massey had gotten her camera bag stolen from her car. Inside was a memory card that contained irreplaceable photos of the last moments of a baby’s life, which Massey captured through the charity organization Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. There’s a happy update to the story: the memory card has been returned, and all the precious lost photos have been recovered. After the theft, Massey went public with her story in an effort to get the photos back for the grieving parents they had been captured for. Her appeal...

Apple Patent Shows Periscope-style Camera Module with Mirror Stabilization

Apple Patent Shows Periscope-style Camera Module with Mirror Stabilization A recent patent filing by Apple suggests that the company is working on a new periscope-style camera module design that offers better optical stabilization with the use of mirrors.AppleInsider first reported on the patent, titled “Mirror Tilt Actuation” and published this week by the USPTO. Apple’s existing camera modules have a relatively small footprint inside the iPhone and iPad, but this latest patent shows a camera that takes up much more space do to its system of lenses and mirrors. The diagrams and descriptions speak of a stabilization system that is more practical for phones...

IFTTT Launches the Do Camera App for Shooting and Sharing Photos with ‘Recipes’

IFTTT Launches the Do Camera App for Shooting and Sharing Photos with ‘Recipes’ The web service IFTTT (short for “If This Then That”) has launched a new camera app called Do Camera. It’s a simple little program that lets you personalize how your camera works and what happens to your photos after they’re snapped. Everything in the app is centered around the idea of “Recipes,” or features that connect the cameras to hundreds of external services such as social networks, cloud storage, communication, popular websites, and more. You can add 3 Recipes to your camera at a time and swipe between them to quickly change how your camera handles photos after they’re...

A Laser Can Turn Off Streetlights That Interfere With Your Astrophotography

A Laser Can Turn Off Streetlights That Interfere With Your Astrophotography Streetlights polluting your shots of the starry night sky? A strategically placed laser might be just what you need. Destin Sandlin of the YouTube channel SmarterEveryDay recently paid a visit to the house of NASA astronaut (and photographer) Don Pettit, who showed Sandlin a trick that he uses to temporarily disable an annoying streetlight just down the street. You can see this “life hack” in action at 1:04 in the video above. We’re not sure about the legality of this trick in places around the US and the world, but here’s the gist of it: you can turn off certain streetlights by...

Redoing My Home Office Space for the New Wedding Photography Season

Redoing My Home Office Space for the New Wedding Photography Season My name is Eric Brushett, and I’m a full time wedding photographer based in Hamden, Connecticut. I recently redid my home office space for the 2015 wedding season. Here’s a look at the process and the final result. I didn’t take any photos before we put in the windows and painted, but here is the space with the old linoleum: It took 3 days of scraping to remove the old flooring. We finally got it down to the original flooring. I thought maybe I could sand these down and refinish, but I already ordered the new floors. The new flooring arrived, and we installed it. We used checker...

Universal Studios Singapore – Australian Auditions

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L’Oréal Professionnel – Hair Colour Models Wanted – Tasmania

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Two Promo Models

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Crew needed for Action Short Film

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Costumer Designer and Production Designer: sci-fi drama short film

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Camera Operators to Interview for a Paid Freelance Position

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Experienced Camera Person Required for Feature Film

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AUDITIONS: The London Palladium Production The Sound Of Music

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Photographers Required for Private Events

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Looking for Wedding Photographers

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The Photographers Ephemeris Updated to 3.0

10 Ways to Improve Your Travel Photography

10 Ways to Improve Your Travel Photography A Post By: Gavin Hardcastle Get the most out of your travel photography and capture the moment with these 10 simple tips. Most of these tips are pretty basic and some of them are useful for traveling in general. 1 – Focus on faces Sounds obvious I know, but whether it’s wildlife or people, it’s often best to focus your lens on the face of of your most important subject. We are naturally drawn to eyes, so that’s where you’ll usually want to focus. 2 – Shoot fast Photographing people in fascinating cultural situations requires a totally different mindset to shooting landscapes. Forget your...

Upload Your Photos to Multiple Social Media Websites with Expojure

Upload Your Photos to Multiple Social Media Websites with Expojure A Post By: Andrew S. Gibson How many social media websites do you upload photos to regularly? I have five – a Facebook page, my personal Facebook profile, Google+, Flickr and 500px. Some people have more. For photographers who want to get their work out there, this seems like a must. Yet it’s time consuming and, truth be told, an inefficient way of working. If this is you, then you’ll be interested in new photo sharing website, Expojure. A startup based in Mumbai, it lets you upload the photos you want to share to a central Expojure account, arrange them in Collections, add keywords, titles,...

New samples from the Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM Art lens

New samples from the Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM Art lens Sigma 24mm F1.4 DG HSM Art lens samples gallery We were recently lucky enough to visit Sigma’s factory in Aizu, Japan, where Sigma allowed us to shoot with a pre-production sample of the recently-announced 24mm F1.4 DG HSM Art lens. The wintry landscape of the Fukushima prefecture was a nice contrast to the CP+ convention center where we last gathered some samples with this lens, and our recent samples are more representative of lens performance on a native mount body (Canon 6D).  All shots in the gallery are converted from Raw, with default sharpening and noise...

Into the woods: a video overview of the Olympus OM-D E-M5 II

Richard, let me know when you are in So Cal, we can climb Harding Truck Trail and you’ll get a 360 panorama view of Southern California which includes Catalina, San Diego, LA, San Bernardino/Riverside Mountains. It’s a 16 mile climb from 1K to 5,400K. Bring a light camera :). Besides the view, you’ll get a major endorphin rush from all that climbing that in over 25 years of cycling, I’ve seen unrivaled. Its hard (hence Harding…) but, so worth it. Nice spot on the EM5 II, Oly have really worked that camera out :). Carl Source Article from...

Sony branches off audio and video business but remains committed to sensor development

Heya DFP, TBH if I were looking to jump into a ML system to call home right now, I would either go with Samsung or MFT. The advantage of MFT is that aside from having the most mature ML lens line, in order for the mount to completely fail, both Panasonic and Olympus must both bow out. Samsung on the other hand seem to be doing everything right, from TVs to phones to cameras. They are innovative and keep surprising people, I don’t think they are a risky bet even if they are less known in cameras. The only other option is to start looking at all in one bodies, such as LX/RX, that way you...

Nikon J5 May Be the First Nikon Camera to Offer 4K, Expected with the D7200 Soon

Nikon J5 May Be the First Nikon Camera to Offer 4K, Expected with the D7200 Soon Canon just had a torrent of new product announcements earlier this month, and now it looks like Nikon will follow suit with some big announcements of its own. There’s new word that Nikon will soon be announcing a new DSLR and a new mirrorless camera, the latter of which may be the first Nikon camera to offer 4K video recording. Nikon J5 Nikon Rumors reports that it’s hearing rumors of 4K video recording capabilities in the upcoming Nikon 1 J5 mirrorless camera. If this is true, the J5 will become the first Nikon camera that offers this feature. The arrival of 4K in the Nikon 1...

OWL is the World’s First Drop-In Filter Adapter That Lets You Swap Filters in a Flash

OWL is the World’s First Drop-In Filter Adapter That Lets You Swap Filters in a Flash For telephoto lenses with huge front elements, screw-on filters aren’t very practical or economical. Thus, for certain lenses, companies like Canon and Nikon offer drop-in filters that slide into a slot close to the rear element. There’s a new product that hopes to use this same style of filter for smaller camera-and-lens combos. Called OWL, it’s the first drop-in filter adapter. Created by a Hong Kong startup called DEO, the product is an adapter for mounting Canon and Nikon DSLR lenses to Sony E and Micro Four Thirds mount cameras. The side of the adapter features a slot that...

A Photo Booth with a 240MPH Leaf Blower Pointed At People’s Faces

A Photo Booth with a 240MPH Leaf Blower Pointed At People’s Faces My name is Martin Szabo and I am commercial and portrait photographer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. I was recently doing volunteer work for a charity event in Vancouver and wanted to bring little twist and fun to the party. I ended up creating a photo booth to shoot portraits of people while their faces were being blasted by 240 mph wind coming from a leaf blower. The whole idea was to capture unexpected reactions and showcase the subject’s individuality and personality in an unexpected moment. The project turned out to be a huge hit and since then I’ve been having lots of fun...

xkcd Comic Pokes Fun at Seeing the Golden Ratio in Random Photographs

xkcd Comic Pokes Fun at Seeing the Golden Ratio in Random Photographs xkcd‘s latest comic, titled “Flowcharts,” is a tongue-in-cheek take on the concept of the golden ratio (or golden spiral) in photography. It’s a flow chart in which one of the steps reads: “Do you like when people find the golden spiral in random images?” If you choose “yes” from there, you’re taken on a golden ratio journey that magically fits the design of the chart. Here’s how explain xkcd explains this: The title text and the faint image of a golden spiral parody the fact that the golden spiral is superimposed on nearly everything. The golden spiral is a spiral that has the growth...

Book Review: ‘The Decisive Moment’ by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Book Review: ‘The Decisive Moment’ by Henri Cartier-Bresson Wow… Where do I even begin? I would say that “The Decisive Moment” by Henri Cartier-Bresson is one of the most beautiful photo books I have ever handled, and it is a book that brings me extreme joy and happiness (you can see all the photos from the book for free over at Magnum Photos). Sure I have seen many of these photos by Cartier-Bresson before, but to see them in a physical manifestation is a different experience. Not only that, but the original version of “The Decisive Moment” is nearly impossible to get (second-hand copies before the reprint were around $1,000+). However, with...

Script Writer for Mini Film

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1st AD Required for Short Student Film: Synchronicity

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Assistant Director/Cinematographer

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Lighting Person For Thriller/ Horror Feature Film

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Experienced First Assistant Director Wanted for Short Film

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Professional Photographer With Studio ASAP

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Experienced and Creative Fashion Photographer Needed

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x4 Photographers Wanted for Bournemouth

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Paid Internship E-commerce Product Photographer

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Amateur Camerman (video) Required For a Short Video

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Lessons from the Masters: Robert Capa and Jerry Uelsmann

Lessons from the Masters: Robert Capa and Jerry Uelsmann A Post By: Adam Welch Before you or I ever picked up a camera, our photographic forefathers( and mothers) were out shooting, learning, and blazing new trails for us to follow. I’ve always taken great comfort in that fact. Knowing that we are part of a long line of picture takers and image makers should lend us a sense of pride. Through sheer will and determination they worked through hard times, failure, and sometimes controversy in order to give us an incredible head start for becoming better photographers. Ironically, many of these giants of photography, like most other people of great...

How to Tell Better Visual Stories with Travel Photography

How to Tell Better Visual Stories with Travel Photography A Post By: Oded Wagenstein Take a look at your favorite travel magazine, and you will notice a pattern in the images. Understanding how to turn a bunch of images into a story – creating series is crucial to any travel photographer. In this article, we will get familiar with two kinds of very important visual concepts in the travel photography world: the establishing shot (above) and the detail shot (below). It doesn’t matter if you wish to do travel photography professionally, or if you just want to come back home with better pictures from your next trip. Understanding these visual concepts...

Adobe celebrates 25 years of Photoshop

Adobe celebrates 25 years of Photoshop Photoshop turns 25 today, and Adobe is marking the occasion with a look back at the software’s humble roots, along with a chance for users under the age of 25 to take control of the company’s Instagram handle for two weeks. Short of supplying its subscribers with complimentary birthday cake, the company has put together some entertaining graphics comparing Photoshop’s icons, toolbars and splash screens of yesteryear for a short trip down the digital memory lane. The splash screens used by Adobe over the past 25 years. Recognize those icons? That’s...

Marumi introduces fixed and variable neutral density filters, including ND100,000 for solar shooting

Marumi introduces fixed and variable neutral density filters, including ND100,000 for solar shooting Japanese filter brand Marumi has introduced a collection of neutral density filters for its DHG (Digital High Grade) range. All circular screw-in types, the new models include fixed density strengths of ND 8, 16, 32 and 64 as well as a variable ND filter with a range of ND 2.5-500. The new fixed models will be available in sizes for 37mm-82mm threaded lenses, while the variable filter will be offered in only two options: 58mm or 77mm. The company has also announced a ND 100,000 filter for shooting solar eclipses. This model cuts light by 16.5 stops, so will also be...

Astropad turns iPad into drawing tablet for Mac

I love reading the idiotic comments here “the ipad sucks, i cant wait for the ipad defender army to come here to attack us because they are such a**holes & we are not despite us attacking anyone who owns an iPad. Yes I own an iPad, the iPad 2, I am NOT going to buy a new tablet every year.And YES the iPad is inferior to a Wacom tablet that costs thousands of dollars, but to be honest? When you want to do quick work for example to take away the background or do spot removal or brush a bit?It is good enough since Lightroom does not rely on “how much pressure are you...

Print Your Photos or Risk Losing Them to the Digital Dark Age, Internet Pioneer Warns

Print Your Photos or Risk Losing Them to the Digital Dark Age, Internet Pioneer Warns Want to make sure a photograph survives your lifetime? Print it out. That’s the warning Internet pioneer Vint Cerf gave at a talk recently, saying that vast amounts of digital information may soon be lost in a new digital “dark age.” In historiography, the “dark ages” refer to a period of time in Europe in which relatively few historical records survived, causing that section of history to be hidden from the view of modern historians. At a recent American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Jose, Cerf — one of the “fathers of the Internet” — warned that a...

Murmurings of What’s to Come in Sigma’s Art Line of Lenses: 85mm, 135mm, and 24-70mm

Murmurings of What’s to Come in Sigma’s Art Line of Lenses: 85mm, 135mm, and 24-70mm A week ago, Sigma unveiled its new 24mm f/1.4, the latest lens in its highly-regarded Art line of lenses. Now, the rumor mill is churning again as photographers look forward to which focal length Sigma will cover next. Here’s what the Art lens lineup currently looks like, along with the price tags currently found on each item: Of these six current lenses, it’s a recent trifecta of primes that has been getting the most attention. Here’s what the 24mm f/1.4, 35mm f/1.4, and 50mm f/1.4 look like next to each other: So what’s next? Canon Rumors is hearing that Sigma is working on both a...

Fauxtography: A New Comedy Web Series About the Struggles of This Instagram Era

Fauxtography: A New Comedy Web Series About the Struggles of This Instagram Era Need a new show to watch? Fauxtography is a new comedic web series that’s geared toward people who love photography. It’s about the life of a young photographer who’s struggling to figure out his work and personal life in the midst of the ongoing Instagram revolution. Here’s the short description of the show: Fauxtography is a comedic web series that follows Jeff, a 20-something year old photographer struggling to find his way in the Instagram Era – where anyone with two thumbs and a phone is now a “professional.” Jeff also finds himself navigating the single life after breaking up...

Understanding Depth of Field: How Aperture Affects DOF, Visualized

Understanding Depth of Field: How Aperture Affects DOF, Visualized The key to mastering photography is not to follow the rules but to understand them. Understanding the photographic principles that define photography is a barrier that must be broken to truly unlock your full potential as a photographer. The problems that plague beginners are the same problems faced by the pros, that is controlling your image with the exposure triangle; shutter speed, aperture, and ISO. This article will focus on understanding depth of field (DOF). In a Nutshell Simply put “depth of field” is the area of your image that is in focus. Dissecting the phrase a bit we can...

How to Protect Your Camera Gear from a Robber

Renowned Magnum and National Geographic photographer David Alan Harvey offers this sweet 40-second tip on how you can protect the theft of your camera gear. It’s pretty simple: you just need to be wise about how you wear your camera bag and knowledgable in the art of judo. (via David Alan Harvey via ISO 1200) Source Article from...

Promotional Staff Required in Bathurst

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Review: slingShot DSLR Remote Control App

Review: slingShot DSLR Remote Control App A Post By: Suzi Pratt One of the great advantages of smartphone technology is the way that it makes photography more convenient. I’m not just talking about using the camera that came with your phone. There are now smartphone apps coming out that allow you to connect with, and even control, your DSLR camera. One of these apps is the brand new slingShot DSLR Remote Control, which just came to the Google Play Android market on January 25, 2015. Using this app makes it possible to adjust the settings on your camera, see what the camera sees in live view, and view the resulting image after it’s...

6 Eye-Catching Photos and How They Can Help You Improve Your Photography

6 Eye-Catching Photos and How They Can Help You Improve Your Photography A Post By: Lauren Lim Each photographer has their own way of approaching a scene, choosing which settings on their camera will best reflect their vision, and then crafting the final image. You get to make this series of decisions each time you take a photo, and it’s a highly personal experience. But you can still learn a lot by going behind the scenes of a photo, and hearing how the photographer made their own decisions. Whether you pick up a new tip for creating an interesting effect, a new way of looking at a scene, or simply the inspiration to go and shoot, it’s both informative, and a...

Real-world test: the Sony a6000 goes surfing with Chris Burkard

There is actually very little between DSLR’s and mirrorless cameras, especially when you switch to live view mode on a DSLR. Mirrorless tends to be packing way more smarts into their devices, and on sensor auto focussing, across the whole frame, is surely where we’re headed. I can’t see a reason why this couldn’t be added to a DSLR for the best of both worlds, for those who want to remain in DSLR land. Clearly any notions of ‘it’s lighter and smaller’ is irrelevant when you go and slap a big lens on the front of it, and they often don’t have...

Fujifilm XF 16-55mm F2.8 R LM real-world samples gallery posted

Lens tests require staying at/near base ISO, so 1/30 was the best I could do, and even that was with a bit of negative EC. It was one of only a couple times that I saw genuinely good light for a portrait, without just taking a default one because I had to check off the box. Also, the subject isn’t very fond of having his photograph taken, I had to convince him for this one. I do see why it’s problematic, but I also see that the shot in question is still usable. It may not be an ideal shot to check for maximum sharpness, but it does still give a good representation of how it...

Use This Lightroom ‘Secret Slider’ Trick for Extreme Shadow Recovery

Use This Lightroom ‘Secret Slider’ Trick for Extreme Shadow Recovery Retoucher Matt Kloskowski offers this quick and easy Lightroom tip for your mental library: if you ever find yourself with a drastically underexposed photograph, you can use a “secret shadow slider” in Lightroom to try and recover an extreme amount of detail. Kloskowski writes that Lightroom 5 did away with the “Fill Light” slider that previously existed and replaced it with a less powerful “Shadow” slider. If you want to use extreme recovery of the old slider, there’s a way to do that. Simply choose the older 2010 process under Settings->Process or in the Process dropdown of the...

GuruShots is a Sleek Online Photo Contest with Real-Time Challenges

GuruShots is a Sleek Online Photo Contest with Real-Time Challenges GuruShots is a newly launched service that turns photography into a game with a real-time online photo competition system. Photographers compete against one another to win contests, increase in level, and earn valuable prizes. The investor-backed startup offers a sleek website that lets you interact with contests live. Users can submit photos, vote on images, comment on other photographers’ work, and track their ranking progress. Photos submitted to contests are voted on by the community and by the award-winning photographers — called “Gurus” — who host the challenges. These...

This ‘Flow Motion’ Time-Lapse of Dubai is Insane

This ‘Flow Motion’ Time-Lapse of Dubai is Insane Time-lapse photographer Rob Whitworth has taken the idea of hyperlapses to the next level with his latest video, “Dubai Flow Motion” (shown above). It offers a tour of Dubai through the lens of Whitworth’s camera as it does seemingly impossible zooms through various perspectives, from the ground, into an airplane, to the top of the tallest building in the world, and then down to the bottom through the floors. “I think I might be the first person to hyperlapse vertically down through a building, and the world’s tallest at that,” Whitworth tells us. Many of the hyperlapses were indeed...

30 Powerful Reuters Photos from the Past 30 Years

30 Powerful Reuters Photos from the Past 30 Years It was 30 years ago that Reuters launched its Pictures service that plays a key role in distributing powerful photojournalism to publications around the world. To celebrate this anniversary, the agency has selected a collection of photographs that represent “key images” from its massive archives — photographs that have changed the way we see the world. Here are 30 powerful Reuters photos from the past 30 years, along with their captions, capture dates, and photographers’ names (Warning: There is some graphic content in the images): Frantic Kurdish refugees struggle for a loaf of bread...

FAA Unveils Its Rules for Commercial Drone Usage

FAA Unveils Its Rules for Commercial Drone Usage The FAA has confirmed a leak that emerged this past weekend by officially unveiling its proposed set of rules governing commercial drone flights. The guidelines are more lax than many people feared, and they represent a huge step toward the legalization of commercial drone flights — including for aerial photography purposes. In a press release published yesterday, the FAA says the new regulations, drafted for the commercial usage of drones weighing less than 55 pounds, will “facilitate integration of small UAS [Unmanned Aircraft Systems] into [the] U.S. aviation system.” The FAA is...

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How to Recover Lost Files from a Memory Card

How to Recover Lost Files from a Memory Card A Post By: Suzi Pratt Whether you’re a novice or veteran photographer, chances are you’ve experienced a moment of dread when you thought all of your precious photos were lost forever. Maybe you damaged a SD or CF card, or accidentally formatted a card before offloading your images. As long as your memory card can still be plugged in to, and recognized by your computer, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to salvage your photos, even if you did an accidental deletion. Sometimes you can achieve this all by yourself, and recover your lost files. There are many programs and apps that can help...

The Importance of Scouting for Landscape Photographers

The Importance of Scouting for Landscape Photographers A Post By: James Brandon What Lies Beneath | West Side Road, Death Valley National Park As I start writing this post, I’m sitting by my gate at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport. I loathe Vegas, but that’s beside the point. I managed to avoid the strip this time and will be home soon. I just wrapped up an incredible week leading a workshop in Death Valley National Park with my good buddy Brian Matiash and nine awesome students. This was my fifth trip to the park, and I’m starting to feel like I know the place like the back of my hand (even though there are still a several places I’d...

Russian gay rights story wins World Press Photo contest for Danish photographer

@ogl, the heart is a muscular structure that has evolved for the purpose of pumping blood around the vascular system. It is neither a measurement nor sensing device. The brain, of course plays a vital role in material analysis so you are definitely on to something there. I haven’t found the New Testament very useful in terms of answering pretty much anything new in the world over the last two thousand years. I couldn’t, for example, find the part numbers for the windshield wiper blades for my Subaru in it anywhere. It also fails to either mention explicitly or even vaguely...

Ten Hasselblad cameras up for grabs in 2016 Masters competition

Ten Hasselblad cameras up for grabs in 2016 Masters competition Portrait ©Dmitry Ageev, Hasselblad Masters 2014. Swedish medium format camera manufacturer Hasselblad has launched its 2016 Hasselblad Masters competition, and will be giving away a total of ten cameras as prizes to winners. Open to ‘active professionals’ using film or digital cameras that have at least 16MP, the competition features 10 categories including a new street/urban section that seems angled at more positive images of city life. A category called Project//21 is open to all photographers under the age of 21. Entrants are asked to upload three images...

Opinion: Canon EOS 750D and 760D

Opinion: Canon EOS 750D and 760D There is no doubt at all in my mind that Canon’s move from 700D to 750/760D is a good one, and that the increase in pixel-count and processing power will have a very positive effect on the desirability of this class of EOS DSLR. I’ve long thought Canon’s 18-million-pixel sensors something of half-way house – neither high nor low in resolution – and that they sit in a peculiar position in the market. Not that a sensor’s relationship to other brands and bodies is always forefront of mind in the likely customer of the upper end of Canon’s entry class. Neither...

On point: Steve Vaccariello’s dance photography

I personally am not a hater of his images, but to behave like one is “above” photoshop, when the images are obviously processed to quite some degree, in order to make you an artist rather than just lazy, then that is annoying. Im a working pro, and rarely need photoshop as such, but I sometimes tweak the hell out of images in ACR etc. It just should not be part of a headline to the article. “Here are some photos of dancers” would be more accurate. Source Article from...

Unretouched Portrait of Cindy Crawford Sparks New Discussion About Photoshop and Beauty

Unretouched Portrait of Cindy Crawford Sparks New Discussion About Photoshop and Beauty An unretouched photograph of Cindy Crawford has leaked onto the Web, causing a fresh new wave of discussion and debate about Photoshop and what women’s bodies really look like. It appears the image was first posted on Twitter by British TV anchor Charlene White. In the tweet, White writes, “Cindy Crawford’s April spread in Marie Claire features 100% non-retouched photos. Take a bow Ms. C.” Here’s the photo: The image shows the 48-year-old supermodel posing for a magazine photo shoot. Although White claims that the photo will appear in an upcoming issue of Marie Claire, the magazine...

Seagull Skytrails: Using Post-Processing to Reveal the Flight Paths of Birds

Seagull Skytrails: Using Post-Processing to Reveal the Flight Paths of Birds Videographer Paul Parker created the experimental video above, titled “Seagull Skytrails,” which reveals the flight path of birds with clever post-processing. Parker first captured an hour of footage through his window and combined the different birds found in the video into a single 2.5-minute clip. He then used the echo effect in After Effects to show each bird numerous times along its flight path, revealing the helix patterns and curves that emerge. Here’s a similar experiment Parker did in 2014 with an hour of birds cloned and condensed into one minute: (via Colossal) Image...

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