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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...
read moreAmerica’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...
read moreWhat 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...
read moreA 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...
read moreGarry 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...
read moreA 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...
read moreURGENT Shoots Wednesday – MALE 30 year olds for Alcohol Brand SHOOT
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read moreGot Steampunk Clothing and Want to Be Photographed in it?
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read moreTwo Promotional Models Required for Corporate Golf Day
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read moreBikini and Formal Dress Shooting on the Beach & Studio
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read moreCasual Editor / Camera Operator Required
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read moreFilmmakers /Videographer To Shoot A Wedding – $400 – $700 Single Day Pay
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read moreStage Manager for Brand New Production
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read moreStaff Needed For a Big Event in June
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read moreLooking For Photographer
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read morePOLL: 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...
read moreTips 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...
read moreClose 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...
read moreCreating 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...
read moreA 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...
read moreMind-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...
read morePhoto 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...
read moreA 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...
read moreThree Models Required For Staged Photographic Art Project
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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.