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Classical or contemporary; architectural photography can be as challenging as it is rewarding. Here are some pointers to help you get started?
Ice Skating at Rockefeller Center - by Stuck in Customs
1. Be sensitive to the direction of light as this can increase contrast, shadows, textures and...
Here’s an oldie but goodie: back in September 2009, photographer Chris Weeks released this documentary about street photography titled Documenting the Human Condition. It’s preachy at times and at times feels like a stealthy Leica advertisement, but should be interesting to you if you’re at all...
A month after announcing massive losses of $2.9 billion, Sony is taking evasive action to rediscover itself and right its ship. The company announced a new corporate strategy today, devised by its new CEO Kazuo Hirai. Called “One Sony”, the initiative identifies digital imaging as one of the...
TrekPak is a new padded camera bag insert that does away with the annoyances of velcro by introducing a new pin system for adjusting dividers:
They’re starting with inserts for Pelican camera bags, but are planning to release generic inserts and inserts designed for other bags as well. The...
What would you do if you were given the task of creating a self-portrait within 20 minutes in front of an auditorium packed with people? That was the challenge given to photographers David Hobby, Martin Prihoda, and Gregory Heisler earlier this month at Gulf Photo Plus 2012 in Dubai. The video...
According to the UN, one third of the world’s food goes to waste — mostly in industrialized nations — while 925 million people around the world are threatened by starvation. To draw attention to this startling fact, Vienna-based photographer Klaus Pichler has been working for the past nine...
Sony is reportedly focusing on autofocus as one of the main battlegrounds it’ll wage war on in the DSLR market. According to sonyalpharumors, the company is working on a new A99 SLT camera that’s already being tested by photographers in the wild, and one of the main selling points of the camera...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, we’ve all heard of the 365 day projects – where a photographer takes a photo of something in their life every day for a year. (You might also have been living under a rock if you missed my new “Emerging Talent” series announcement…). With 365 projects –...
Here’s a video in which renowned portrait photographer Nadav Kander discusses his approach to photography and portraiture. One thing that’s interesting about Kander’s method is that he tries not to connect with his subjects prior to photographing them:
He does, however, make it a point to get...
Photographer Tim Chao created this beautiful photo of a dark figure standing over the Chicago skyline by shooting a double exposure. It’s titled “Metamorphosis”, was shot with a Nikon FM on Kodak TX 400, and is part of a double exposure project titled “Worlds Within“.
(via Photojojo)
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For her project titled Mirrors, Swedish photographer Ilar Gunilla Persson photographed various landscapes with giant mirrors placed in them. The mirrors give the scenes an surreal and artificial look, but all the shots were captured on film.
Mirrors [Ilar Gunilla Persson]
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This photo is what you get when you point a massive 4.1 meter telescope (VISTA in Chile) at an unremarkable patch of night sky and capture six thousand separate exposures that provide an effective “shutter speed” of 55 hours. It’s an image that contains more than 200,000 individual galaxies...
A Guest Post by Kaspars Grinvalds from Posing App.
If you ever run out of ideas, get stuck in creativity or simply need some guidance when shooting female subjects, you may use following posing samples as a ?posing cheat sheet?. Many pro photographers use such a technique when preparing for and...
A Guest Post by Michael Adams
Your mom says you have talent. Your friends think you?re amazing. Your photos get lots of likes.
You even had a show at the local coffee shop although you didn?t sell one 5×7.
At some point, you wonder if you have what it takes. Do you have enough talent? Do you...
Rock Photographer is a new iPhone game that can be described as “Guitar Hero for photography” or “Pokemon Snap for adults”. Each level in the game presents real footage of “bands” in action, and the player’s job is to use their iPhone as a camera:
The app was created as a collaboration between...
Brand Spirit is a new photo project by NYC-based branding strategist Andrew Miller, who writes,
See if you can identify each of the objects despite their lack of branding.
Brand Spirit (via Photojojo)
Image credits: Photographs by Andrew Miller
Did you know that your morning cup of coffee can help you predict rain? It’s a trick used by backpackers that can come in handy you’re shooting outdoors without Internet: pour a cup of coffee and carefully watch the bubbles. If they quickly move to the edge of the cup, you can expect clear skies...
Here’s a stunning super slow motion video that shows Marina Kanno and Giacomo Bevilaqua of Staatsballett Berlin performing several jumps. The footage was captured at 1000 frames per second.
Want to see how your eyes stack up against other photographers when it comes to seeing colors? Try your hand at Color, a simple browser-based color matching game that tests you in how quickly you can match colors. It starts with simple matching, but soon moves onto more difficult challenges...
Can’t wait to use Instagram on your Android smartphone? The company has put up a new “coming soon” page for the impending Android app launch, and submitting your email address will provide you with a notification the moment the app becomes available to the public.
Instagram for Android (via TNW)