They call it the gentleman’s sport but if photographer Nicolai Howalt has shown anything with his portrait photo project, “141 boxers” it’s that this sport is anything but gentle. Well that and some of these guys need to learn to keep their hands up.
See Photoshop Senior Product Manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes as he runs us through some of PS6′s new advanced features in their Content-Aware technology. Is it just me or did Photoshop make it sickeningly easy to recompose shots, doing away with the need for any of those pesky composition and distracting element considerations, while shooting. Damn!
There is definitely no shortage of models out there but if you feel there is or you can’t get them to risk their lives for your art then maybe it’s time you made your own. It may not be what American street installation artist Mark Jenkins had in mind but hey, it’s a cool idea none the less. Mark’s work is actually aimed at making people take notice of their surrounding environment and fellow man/woman rather than their smartphones. He creates life-like sculptures from packaging tape and even clothes some to “to camouflage the art as reality”. See pics of Mark’s striking installations and a video on how he makes his models in the full post.
It’s hard to get Lee (see 5:44) to be anything less than southern gentlemanly but I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the amount of times I’ve heard him curse under his breath as some New Yorker casually strolled in front of his lens. So Lee, this one is for you. Scalado has created an aptly named, photo-taking system that allows you to selectively remove people in a photo by isolating those pesky, inconsiderate, moving objects from that of the static background, with a touch. What am I talking about? You can see what I mean in the video. “Remove” will be available for Android and iOS in the near future but picture being able to perform this action from the screen on the back of your DSLR. Take that New York tourist!
I know I know, this post is a bit of a throw back but not everyone surfs the web as much as you do and I don’t want anyone to miss anything good. Besides, even though London-based artist/photographer Slinkachu’s ‘Little People Project’ started way back in 2006, it’s the project that keeps on growing, even if the models don’t. So check out more than 50 pics in the full post.
Don’t let me ever hear you say, “Man there just isn’t anything worth shooting anymore. It’s all been done before.” Cause if you do I’ll point you to artist Brock Davis and say, “If dude can make a shoot with nothing but creativity, imagination and cauliflower you have no excuses.” Brock recreates three famous explosions: The Hindenburg disaster, the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, and the Challenger disaster.
Sharon Vaknin, Associate Editor over at Cnet.com, runs us through 4 clever yet simple iPhone feature that many of you may not know about. If you want to know how to use your headphones as a remote shutter trigger, how to easily crop shots in camera, how to apply the rule of 3rds or how to lock your focus and exposure, then watch this quick video.
French photographer Thomas Czarnecki‘s series, ‘From Enchantment to Down’, has been called twisted by some but for me there’s more scintillating than a sinister dark fable. Thomas’s work depicts alternate endings for some of Disney’s most noted heroines to portray, what he calls, ‘the naive universe and the innocence of the fairy tales’ with ‘much darker reality that is as much part of our common culture’.
Nikon Rumors is reporting a delay in the shipping of Nikon’s D4 and are citing firmware issues as the cause. So if you’ve been eagerly awaiting your February 16th pre-order, sucks to be you. But hey, what’s an extra month’s wait for one of the best cameras ever? The delay seems to be global, so don’t expect yours to ship until March 15th. That just means more time to save your pennies. Pre-order yours now.
I’m not a big fan of memes. Let’s be honest, they’re pretty much junk food for your brain. But with the recent slew of “sh!t ___ say” memes kicking around I actually couldn’t resist checking out the ones related to us in the photo industry. I mean, seriously, if I hear “That’s a nice camera. You must be a good photographer,” one more time I may have to slay someone. See if any of this sounds familiar to you.
You’ll never look at your breakfast the same way again, thanks to Anna Franz’s 1st place winning entry of Nikon’s 2011 Small World in Motion Competition. Unlike the second place and third place winners that use widefield fluorescence microscopy and darkfield thechniques, Anna’s work is done using a straight up reflected light source. See all three videos here.
Photographer Markus Reugels displays hero like resolve and creativity when it comes to his ongoing series titled, Refractions. Managing to capture amazingly clear liquid art images that almost seem supernatural one can only imagine how much time and patience he has to put into each shot. No wait, you don’t have to imagine because you can see for yourself in the full post.
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Kai over at DigitalRev TV has put together another one of his trade mark, tongue in cheek tutorial videos. This time he gives us the DOs and DON’Ts of street photography. Even though it’s intended to be humors, you can actually find some good tid bits, buried in there. The video even comes with it’s own handy little companion post: “5 Tips for Street Photography Beginners”.
If I say Chase, you likely know who I mean. If I say Joe, you likely know who I mean. But what if I say Khuong?
Khuong Nguyen is a designer / photographer from France who you may already know. But for those of you who don’t and would like to shoot unique, surreal and cleaver campaigns, I offer you these 30 examples of Khuong’s work.
