Photoshoot and Beyond
One of the last things you want to see while paddleboarding is a shark. The absolute last thing you want to see while paddle boarding is a shark leap out of the water and knock you off your board. But that’s exactly what happened to paddleboarder Maximo Trinidad. Thankfully, for us, the entire event was […]
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One of the last things you want to see while paddleboarding is a shark. The absolute last thing you want to see while paddle boarding is a shark leap out of the water and knock you off your board. But that’s exactly what happened to paddleboarder Maximo Trinidad. Thankfully, for us, the entire event was […]
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Selfies are just a part of our culture today, whether stills or video, but they have been known to land people in hot water a time or two. Sometimes the consequences are simply a little embarrassment, sometimes very severe (and rightly so). In what seems more suited to ridicule on America’s Dumbest Criminals, California resident Wayne Allen Huntsman […]
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We’ve covered the “evils of Photoshop” as it pertains to human subjects a number of times, but the use of some photography and Photoshop techniques in travel photography are starting to cause concerns to grow that tourists will become disappointed upon arriving at their destination. Social Media’s constant pressure for “Shares” and “Likes” is only fuelling this […]
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Great news for any Strobists and practical lighting photographers in the crowd. We have teamed up with Midwest Photo Exchange to do a lighting kit giveaway (strobe, trigger and modifier) which will give you a great heads up if you are starting out, or be a great addition to your kit if you are already practicing […]
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As our data creation and acquisition requirements soar, so must the technology to store it all, and a team of computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of Washington have seem to have made a bit of a breakthrough. In a paper presented in April at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming […]
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Earlier today, the Los Angeles police department saw an incredibly unusual police chases. But, as strange as the chase itself was, it was the ending that was the icing on the incredibly dangerous and all too unusual high speed pursuit. Two men in a con…
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), an advertising watchdog in the UK, yesterday presented a ruling upholding a complaint about a Gucci advert from December last year which describes the model as appearing “unhealthily thin” and “gaunt”. The complaint about advert labelled by the ASA as “irresponsible” mentions two models. One model sat down on a couch and the […]
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British Diver and Olympic Bronze Medalist Tom Daley ran a brief competition on his Twitter feed recently. The brief was simple. Modify a photograph with the winner being chosen to become the new banner for his Twitter profile. With 2.6 million followers, Tom had no shortage of entries, and the competition was soon hijacked by Photoshop pranksters, as was inevitable. […]
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Fujifilm might have killed off the last of its peel-apart film. But not all hope is lost. Yesterday, New55, a company that currently specializes in creating 4×5 positive-negative instant film, posted a video to Facebook that shows it has the capability to make peel-apart color film similar to Fujifilm’s FP–100c. In the video, New55 founder […]
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