Most Popular Photography Tips, Photography Tricks, Photography Hacks

Most Popular Photography Tips, Tricks, and Hacks.... "Here's a look back at our most popular photography tips, tricks, and hacks we shared with you over the last 12 months." (Lifehacker)

It's about time: Andrea Wallace and photography

Aspen Times
At the outset of her career in photography, Andrea Wallace took a job with a newspaper ... I didn't feel I was good at it, not spending a lot of time with the photos.

Photographer of the Year - Portrait photography tips

Cambridge News (blog)
I know photography is popular around the world, whether it's a simple snap to ... on a normal DSLR full frame camera, the best focal length lens is 105/180mm.S

Cambridge News (blog)

Secrets to wildlife photographyThe Maitland Mercury
The nature photographer has to approach each of those subjects with precision. ... their methods and this article merely represents my approach to photography.

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Paul Kwilecki, Photographer, Decatur County, Georgia

Paul Kwilecki's Photos of Decatur County, Ga. - NYTimes.com: " . . .Mr. Kwilecki’s wife wasn’t alone in her puzzlement. Many people in the community did not understand his work or his interest in photographing some of the town’s poorest residents, Susan Kwilecki said, and he grew increasingly frustrated at being misunderstood. But that only pushed him harder to pursue his work. “I am frequently asked by people who have not seen my work why I spend my life documenting one simple place like Decatur County, Georgia,” he wrote. “People confuse simple with small; they’re not the same thing.". . ."

Photography Phone Call: Are Snapshots Dead?

NPR (blog)
I cannot begin to fathom the number of snapshots that have been produced between the first Kodak camera (circa 1888) and now. Let alone how anyone could ...

NPR (blog)

Capturing the world through photography, video and multimedia

Los Angeles Times
The festival offers art exhibitions, theatrical and circus performances, and concerts by nearly 300 musical acts. PHOTOGRAPH BY: Balazs Mohai / EPA.

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photography, creative juices

On photography: Keeping the creative juices flowing
Los Angeles Times
People often ask what inspires me and my photography, in particular, when I am going to shoot a portrait. Besides the easy answer of my family and the work of my friends and co-workers, I try to keep up with a variety of photographers and see if there...

Food photography 101: Using utensils and tools as props
Los Angeles Times
This is part of a series of posts on food photography, sharing some of the tips and tricks we use here at The Times. We received a number of great questions from readers, which we will answer in upcoming posts. One of the more frequent questions I ...

Guardian Camera Club: Giovanni Marini's portfolio
The Guardian
It's made in beautiful light, the face and gesture are expressive, and the composition is interesting enough to hold the attention. So, these photos (although all made on a 50mm lens), are certainly varied enough, it's 'Magnus' and 'Jeppe' that really ...

Art Museum features color photos in 20th century
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It will explore the historical developments from 1907 to 1981 that led to color photography becoming the norm in popular culture and fine art. It will feature nearly 200 objects, including framed photographs, publications, slide shows and film clips ...

From Photography to Film: Stanley Kubrick Enters the Ring
TIME
As childhood friend Alexander Singer tells the story, Kubrick immediately ran to his home darkroom, which his father had built to encourage the scholastic underachiever's budding interest inphotography, printed the picture and made a sale that same ...

Photos: Hurricane Sandy slams Northeast Ohio
Examiner.com
With the damage so widespread to the greater Cleveland area and people having ways to get their photos out to the world even without power thanks to smartphones and wi-fi equipped cameras, pictures of the destruction have been pouring into local media ...
Examiner.com

Going Rogue: Adding Flair to Photography with Lighting Tools
Forbes
If you're looking to get serious about strobe photography, ExpoImaging's Rogue lighting kits (beginning $99.95) are a great place to start. Though the kits ... Otherwise, the weight is likely to create a clumsy on-camera setup, with flimsier flashes ...
Forbes

Media Space: getting photography shows down to a science
The Guardian
The first major exhibition is Revelations: Experiments in Photography, which will explore the relationship between science, photography and art. It will include work by William Henry Fox Talbot, Joris Jansen, Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Sarah...

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41MP Lumia 1020 camera, computational photography

Nokia bets on photography to boost sales with 41MP Lumia 1020
Apple Insider
The 1020 has a suite of photography options meant to complement its oversized sensor. Chief among these is the Nokia Pro Cam mode, which allows users to make changes to the camera's white balance, ISO, and exposure. In order to ensure that users can ...

Computational photography: the snap is only the start
BBC News
For now, high dynamic range (HDR) imaging offers a ready-to-use taste of computational photography. It uses computer power to combine photos taken at different exposures to create a single picture whose light areas are not too bright and dim ones not ...

Film Photography Technique Tips for the Digital Photographer
PetaPixel
The traditional solution to photography in light too low to shoot with a wide aperture alone is to use flash. Done with skill, this can work out very well. To my eye, on-camera flash comes out better than with digital flash photography. I do like the ...

Android Photography eBook Free on Google Play
The Droid Guy
Travel photographer Colby Brown has come up with a new eBook to help Android users capture better pictures with the camera on their device. ... great help. So go ahead and click that download link below to learn and master the art of Android photography.

Kids Photography Tips: How to Take Fun, Natural Photos of Your Children
Wetpaint
The best natural photos of children aren't posed or forced. Luckily, most kids aren't too preoccupied by how they look in pictures (there's always the rare exception!), and some aren't even aware of thecamera itself. Definitely don't make the mistake ...

From Photography to Film: Stanley Kubrick Enters the Ring
TIME
As childhood friend Alexander Singer tells the story, Kubrick immediately ran to his home darkroom, which his father had built to encourage the scholastic underachiever's budding interest inphotography, printed the picture and made a sale that same ...

Photos: Hurricane Sandy slams Northeast Ohio
Examiner.com
With the damage so widespread to the greater Cleveland area and people having ways to get their photos out to the world even without power thanks to smartphones and wi-fi equipped cameras, pictures of the destruction have been pouring into local media ...
Examiner.com

Going Rogue: Adding Flair to Photography with Lighting Tools
Forbes
If you're looking to get serious about strobe photography, ExpoImaging's Rogue lighting kits (beginning $99.95) are a great place to start. Though the kits ... Otherwise, the weight is likely to create a clumsy on-camera setup, with flimsier flashes ...
Forbes

Media Space: getting photography shows down to a science
The Guardian
The first major exhibition is Revelations: Experiments in Photography, which will explore the relationship between science, photography and art. It will include work by William Henry Fox Talbot, Joris Jansen, Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Sarah...

The power of photography: time, mortality and memory
The Guardian
I tell myself I've never owned a camera, but that doesn't square with a memory of being given one as a birthday present in my teens, and of a losing struggle with light, shade, aperture, distance, angle, focus. Cameras were more ... Mum grew up in New ...

Photography - share your most precious photo
The Guardian
We asked writers and artists to tell us about what photography means to them, now we'd like you show us what it means to you. Share with us your most precious photograph with a line to tell what or who we are looking at and why the image is so special ...

The changing face of mobile photography
CNET
It used to be the case that a camera module on a phone was a curious anomaly rather than the rule, but now you would be hard pressed to find a mobile device without a lens on it somewhere. To demonstrate just how much mobile photography has permeated ...

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Banksy, Graffiti, Photography

Bringing Banksy's Graffiti to Life Through Photography
Slate Magazine (blog)
Bringing Banksy's Graffiti to Life Through Photography. By Daphnee Denis ... The London-born photographer decided that it would be the title of the photo series he was working on, a studio re-enactment of Banksy's most iconic stencil work. Stern is a...

The 10 Best photography books
The Independent
To mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Italian photographer Luigi Ghirri, Mack has produced a second edition of the first book he self-published in 1978, with an essay by curator Francesco Zanot. 6. More Than Human. £32, waterstones.com ...

Norman Jean Roy Thinks Digital Ruined Fashion Photography
New York Magazine
There seems to be a connection between portrait photography and psychology because photographers need to be perceptive with their subject's body language, mood, and eye contact. I'm aphotographer as ... Then, isn't the camera a photographer's shield?

British Landscapes Photography: National Parks Week ...

Anglotopia.net
This week is National Parks Week and for someone like myself who spends so much time photographing the Parks it is great to see photography being ...

Capturing the world through photography, video and multimedia

Los Angeles Times
“reFramed” is a feature showcasing fine art photography and vision-forward ... It is curated by Los Angeles Times staff photographer Barbara Davidson. ... More photos All of this followed Brazilian surfer Alejo Muniz winning at the Vans U.S. ...

Contemporary Cuban Photography: Architecture and the City

Cuban Art News
The photographer “undresses” the city to enter a dialogue about diverse realities, ... visual parable, were among the principal directions of the new photography...

Photography exhibit to debut

Santa Maria Times
The Lee-Volker Cox photography exhibit of Greenland and the Arctic Circle will debut at the Santa Maria Public Library in August as part of a monthlong display ...

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Google photo tools, human creativity, photography

Google photo tools no match for human creativity (review) - Inside Bay Area: "Meanwhile, Google will create new images and animation from your existing ones using a set of tools it terms Auto Awesome. I indeed found it awesome that Google combined five successive shots of a young girl on a swing into a video. Likewise, it animated five shots of a pet snake eating a mouse. Google stitched together three shots of a beach in Krabi, Thailand, into a panoramic image of the entire beach."

The Fine Art Photography Market's Most Bankable Stars: "Every few months, it seems, a fine art photograph is sold at auction for an astronomical price and then takes its place among the world’s most expensive photos. The price tags are large, but pale in comparison to the hundreds of millions of dollar shelled out for the world’s priciest paintings. . ."

Art in the digital age : the entertainer: “It’s just photo manipulation.” “The software does all the real work.” “Anyone can do it.” These are common misconceptions about digital art as a creative medium. That’s what digital art isn’t, but what exactly is it? In the very basic sense, it’s pixels, layers and rasterization — art created using the computer. But like any art form, it’s much more complicated than that. One of the most common misconceptions is that digital art isn’t really art. Corvallis artist Patricia Smith, whose work can be seen downtown at Cloud & Kelly’s Public House and Block 15, creates entirely in digital, which she said isn’t always embraced by other artists. “A couple of older, more established artists in the community came up to me and asked me, ‘What would you call yourself?’” she said. “And I said, ‘Well, I’m an artist.’ The people just kind of stood there and thought about the answer, and said, ‘Well that’s interesting.’ They don’t think that what I do or what my friends do is art.” Smith explained that there are four schools of digital artists: Artists who work in digital and traditional simultaneously, artists dedicated solely to digital, artists who started in digital and are returning to traditional mediums, and those — like Smith — who began with traditional and switched to digital. . . .

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Seduced By Art, Photography Past and Present

Seduced By Art: Photography Past and Present – review | Art and design | The Observer: "For Seduced By Art is an enthralling show, beautifully selected to express the numerous ways in which painting has inspired or affected the evolution of photography. It has work by contemporary art photographers such as Nan Goldin and Thomas Struth, but most of the pictures are 19th century, and not the least of its pleasures is the intermingling of paintings by Goya and Degas, say, with photographs by Fox Talbot and Nadar."

Louis Draper, Plucked From Obscurity - NYTimes.com: " . . . But over the last 25 years, a new generation of historians and curators have worked to pluck from obscurity photographers who were marginalized because of color, gender, geography or class. Those efforts were often thwarted by the loss of photographers’ papers and prints. Luckily, Mr. Draper had preserved an archive, and in recent years, his work has risen in visibility and esteem. . . ."

New Mind-Warping Animated GIF Art from Paolo Čeric | Colossal: "Digital artist Paolo Čeric (previously) continues to crank out some of the most elegant and bizarre gifs I’ve seen lately. The Croatian artist relies on software like Cinema 4D, After Effects, and a programing language called Processing, as well as a wild imagination to strange forms that wobble and twist with energy. See more recent animations on his Tumblr."

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Whitney Benefactor Saw Photography's Value

This Whitney Benefactor Saw Photography's Value - WSJ.com: "When Sondra Gilman bought three photographs by Eugène Atget for $750 in the 1980s, her family was flabbergasted. And when she suggested, repeatedly, to the Whitney Museum of American Art that they should collect photography, they told her it "isn't an art." Until 1990, that is, when the museum asked for her help in establishing a photography department."

Photography's art history laid bare in UK show | Reuters: "Photography's artistic roots are laid bare in a new show which brings historical paintings, early photographs and contemporary pictures together in a new show at Britain's National Gallery."

Photography: is it art? | Art and design | The Guardian: "But over the past few decades the question has been heard with ever decreasing frequency. When Andreas Gursky's photograph of a grey river Rhine under an equally colourless sky sold for a world record price of £2.7 million last year, the debate was effectively over. As if to give its own patrician signal of approval, the National Gallery is now holding its first major exhibition of photography, Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present."

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Photography, Paris, an alternative view

Photography: an alternative view of Paris – in pictures | Art and ...

Photography: an alternative view of Paris – in pictures ... For Engström, 20 years spent camera in hand was less a hobby, more a compulsion: "I felt a need to do ...www.theguardian.com/.../photography-sketch-of-paris-engstro... 

Person of Interest: Pittsburgh photographer Ed Panar

Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Ed Panar's job is to wander around Pittsburgh with a camera, looking for the beauty ... Home," an exhibition at UnSmoke Systems Art Space in Braddock opening Saturday. You can see his photos, which have been displayed internationally, ... What can you discover about Pittsburgh throughphotography that you would not ...

Peace, Love & Art

The Advocate
... Love & Art at the Peacebaker was a night of local photography, art, cocktails and treats by ...The night featured work by photographer Frank L Aymami III, artist ...

Taos exhibit shines light on rare Beatles photos

Santa Fe New Mexican.com
11, 1964 image provided by the David Anthony Fine Art gallery in Taos, ... taken by photographerMike Mitchell during the Beatles' first live U.S. concert at ... the Beatles are the centerpiece of a monthlong photography exhibition at the gallery.

Has digital photography killed the photo album? - CBS News Video
Digital photography has had a huge impact on how people store and display pictures, and thanks to... Smart TV camera hack creates a window into your home ...www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50152248n

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Block Island, photography, Robin Langsdorf

Robin Langsdorf photography at Spring Street

Block Island Times
Courtesy of: Robin Langsdorf Photography Photographer Robin Langsdorf combines ... but the content of the photos on display in her latest show is also celebrating something ... in Nepal and India, I realized I wanted to tell stories with my camera. I developed my skills inphotography and combined storytelling with art.”.

Block Island Times

Photos: 13th Annual Art and Soul Festival in Oakland

San Jose Mercury News media center
The City of Oakland celebrates its 13th Annual Art and Soul Festival in downtown on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013. Oakland singer Mara Hruby and many other ...

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War, Photography, Images

War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath

Dexigner
War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath explores the experience of war and strikes a universal human chord with an unprecedented ...

Dexigner

Autographer's automatic photography is seductive - but what about ...

The Guardian
Photographer and social technology user Christian Payne first used the ...I set my camera to medium frequency (ie. to not take the photos too often) and turned ...

The Guardian

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Early cinematographers, still photographers

Early cinematographers, still photographers get their due

Los Angeles Times
In his richly illustrated "Still: American Silent Motion Picture Photography," David ... B. DeMille as co-cinematographer and still photographer for 1923's "The Ten ...

Matheson Hammock photography exhibit opens

Miami's Community Newspapers
The Hauser family had followed Smith's trajectory as a fine art photographer with an ... be found at daybreak circumnavigating the pool's perimeter, camera in hand. ... Smith, an Iowa native, developed his affinity for fine art photography while ...

Tobias Hutzler Photography – Fubiz™

Solene
Considered a visionary by many media, the German-born photographer Tobias Hutzler presents his new series of photographs ... Tobias Hutzler Photography.Fubiz™ 

Probing question: Are smartphones changing photography? - Phys
Is the prevalence of smartphones changing the way we take photos? ... students in Photography200—an introductory course—don't own a camera when ... that's most important, explains Parizek, citing famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. ... be affecting the art of photography, but they do make taking photos much easier.Phys.org - latest science and technology news stories 

5 Tips for Staying Infatuated With Photography
And sometimes my relationship with photography even harder. ... Not the kind where you take yourcamera with you for beach sunsets and ... and wildlife rehabilitation centers are always thrilled when a photographer is ... It's not fancy art. ... But I'm more about capturing nature than people and I have never taken photos for ...

Man On Earth Photography – Fubiz™
Man On Earth Photography. “Man On Earth” is the name of this beautiful series of shots given by the English photographer Rupert Vandervell seeking to ....

'Cover to Cover': Photos capture superhero fantasies

San Francisco Chronicle
So he took photos of more friends in superhero guise and shared them on Facebook. ... digitalphotography at Diablo Valley College and as part of S.F. Art Institute's ... two or three shots of each collaborator with his 4-by-5 camera, due to costs, ... Hellu's DIY icons share a type of complicit intimacy with the photographer, and ...

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Low-light photography with the Nokia Lumia 925

Low-light photography with the Nokia Lumia 925

CNET Australia
Nothing much has changed now she's covering all things photography related for CNET. ...animated GIF images, the 925 also comes with the Smart Camera app. This lets you snap a sequence of photos, either selecting the best shot or ...

Photography: Gay Images of America

SouthFloridaGayNews.com
Photography: Gay Images of America ... Each Image of America is a 128-paperback, full of black and white photos along with accompanying text and a Foreword ...

Photography exhibit 

El Dorado Springs Sun
Photography exhibit featured at. Posted July ... Noppadol Paothong is a nature photographer and has focused on documenting rare and endangered species.

Photos courtesy Adam Ottavi and Bunnell Street Art Center

Anchorage Press
Fellow Fairbanks resident Mike Knoche built the 16 by 20 camera out of poplar wood, ...Photographer Dennis Whitener supplied the lens, and bam—they had a 19th century ... But in a beginning photography class, identity is easily hidden.

Photography Now Allowed Inside Glensheen

WDIO-TV
Glensheen Marketing Director Lucie Amundsen says that photography had ... Amundsen also says that flash photography was believed to damage artifacts.

Photography: Dubai, Hipa widens global reach

ANSAmed
(ANSAmed) - Dubai, July 26 - The Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award (HIPA) is set to broaden its international ...

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