Author: Udi Tirosh

hotographer shops out ex-gang members tattoos, resutls bring them to tears

Udi Tirosh

Photographer Steven Burton started an ambitious project, photoshopping out the tattoos from 27 ex-gang members. He did this to  understand the effects tattoos have on people escaping the gangs, how they are judged by society and ultimately how they judge themselves. While the photoshop aspects of removing tattoos are quite fascinating (over two years and 400 photoshop […]

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Photographer travles 20,000 miles by thumb, foot, van, and train. This is how his camera ended up

Udi Tirosh

One of the biggest selling points for more professional cameras is their rigidity. Mag-alloy body vs. Plastics; better weather sealing, and all and all better constructions, but photographer Mike Quain from Arkansas shows that you can pull it off with an entry level Nikon D3300 and a cheap 35mm f/1.8 lens. Mike (A.K.A The Nikon Kidd) did quite a […]

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Photographer painted 20 models like skeletons to tell a story of love, just in time for Halloween

Udi Tirosh

Collaborations are hard, and the difficulty bar gets higher the more people involved. However, pulling a big collaborative effort done well, can produce massive results. Photographer Rob Woodcox (see his story here) collaborated with over 20 friends and three top creatives to cope up with the skeleton queene story. Each photo of the Skeleton Queen story […]

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The Flashpoint StreakLight 360 has the funniest instructions ever. Including “You might DIE” referance

Udi Tirosh

The Flashpoint StreakLight 360 is known by many names. Godox, for example,  sells it as the Witstro AD360II. But there is a solid reason to buy that strobe under the Flashpoint brand, and that is that it has the best instruction set ever made for a strobe. (Thanks Chris-Burger for sending those over) Forget about Chinese machine-translated texts, this […]

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Three Photoshop tricks for a scary Halloween

Udi Tirosh

If you are a retoucher, there is no question about your favorite holiday. Let me guess… Halloween 🙂 Stefan over at the Raw Exchange just shared three quick photoshop tricks to help bring normal photos into scary Halloween composites. (Only instead of a normal photo, stefan is using probably the scariest clown I’ve seen in my […]

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Quick tip: repurpose an old LCD screen as a polarizer filter

Udi Tirosh

Polarizing filters are great, they enhance skies, remove reflections and reduce glare from photos. On the other hand they are usually big and not something you’d haul around for a smartphone. Here is a quick little hack courtesy of the Koldunov Brothers that builds a small and portable polarizer filter for your smart phone. It turns out that […]

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This Leica tin box begs for your desktop clutter

Udi Tirosh

You know that film cameras are perfect for storing memories. Now, this Leica M3 tin replica box will store, well, other stuff. This little tin box is made after the iconic Leica M3 and resembles the camera in size and looks (size-wise that means 138mm x 71mm x 77mm). Only instead of having optics and mechanics, it […]

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This Leica tin box begs for your desktop clutter

Udi Tirosh

You know that film cameras are perfect for storing memories. Now, this Leica M3 tin replica box will store, well, other stuff. This little tin box is made after the iconic Leica M3 and resembles the camera in size and looks (size-wise that means 138mm x 71mm x 77mm). Only instead of having optics and mechanics, it […]

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As part of dominating world commerceת Amazon starts selling prints too

Udi Tirosh

It seems that amazon is everywhere. After conquering books, retail, TV, having a go with groceries, Amazon is now going for another market – prints. In a post to Amazon’s blog, the retail giant shares that they will offer 4×6 prints for $0.09, photo books starting at $19.99 and double sided cards for $0.75. With […]

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