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10 Photographers You Should Ignore

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Editor’s note: This is a piece by photographers Bryan Formhals and Blake Andrews on how famous photographers’ styles are copied over and over again. Please do not read or comment if you take things too seriously. The other day while reading the Internet I came across ?The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers.? I [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/84/42/448442.jpeg[/IMG]

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A MUST SEE: The Lumineers on chasejarvis LIVE ? this Tuesday April 3rd

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Unless you’re new here, you know how much love I have for music AND what an important role I think it plays in not just our creative professions, but in our culture at large. So I view it as my privilege duty to share with you good music when I can. To that end, you [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/84/08/448408.jpeg[/IMG]

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Photographs of Airplanes Hovering Over the Heads of Sunbathers

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Maho Beach outside of Princess Juliana International Airport in Sint Maarten is famous for the fact that landing airplanes fly overhead at minimal altitude. It’s one of the only places in the world where airplanes can be viewed in their flightpath just outside the end of the runway, and therefore is very popular with tourists [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/83/80/448380.jpeg[/IMG]

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Canon Patent Describes a New 2.8x Teleconverter

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

There may soon be a new member of the Canon Extender EF lens family. A recently published patent filed by Canon describes a new 2.8x teleconverter. A 400 f/2.8L IS II would become a 1120mm f/8 lens with the teleconverter attached, though Canon will have to restore f/8 autofocus to its top-of-the-line cameras before that [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/83/62/448362.jpeg[/IMG]

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 Review

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

When I first heard about this little number I was sceptical: Why? Whaffor? What’s doing? Then, when I actually held the magnesium alloy bodied, mirrorless interchangeable lens camera in my sweaty palms at a spiffy harbourside press preview, the penny finally dropped. It comes at a time when some camera companies are doing major rethinks [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Fujifilm X-Pro1 Review[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/83/38/448338.jpeg[/IMG]

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Portraits of Afghan Villagers with Polaroid Pictures of Themselves

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

After reading an article about the Wakhan Corridor in the New York Times, French photographers Fabrice Nadjari and Cedric Houin decided to visit the remote region in Afghanistan, walking for 24 days through a 140 mile stretch. Their project, titled “Traces of Time”, involved capturing instant photos of the villagers they met: When [Nadjari and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/83/05/448305.jpeg[/IMG]

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Apollon: Concept Cameras that Connect Together for Social Photography

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Apollon is a concept camera designed by product designer Gordon Tiemstra for his industrial design university project. The big concept is that the camera can be physically combined with your friends’ cameras, allowing them to snap photographs together to create things like panoramas and 3D photographs. The images captured by any camera in the cluster [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/82/84/448284.jpeg[/IMG]

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Collapsible Hanging Bookshelf Made with Recycled 35mm Film Strips

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

VU35 is a new brand by Lucas Desimone and Matias Resich that offers products created from wood and recycled 35mm film — a plastic material that’s difficult to dispose of. Their first product is a minimalistic collapsible bookshelf called Filmantes, which uses strips of film to connect three wooden shelves. The bookshelves can be purchased [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/82/66/448266.jpeg[/IMG]

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How Many Lenses Do You Own? [POLL]

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Mar 29th 2012 - 0 comments

It is time for another reader Poll – this one comes out of a conversation yesterday with a reader who sheepishly admitted to having 13 lenses for his DSLR. In fact he had spent around $1000 on his camera body but had lenses with a combined value of over $15,000! So I thought it might [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. How Many Lenses Do You Own? [POLL][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/82/18/448218.gif[/IMG]

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How to Make a Fluorescent Lighting Setup for Less Than $200

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a tutorial by photographer Joe Edelman that teaches how you can build a studio lighting setup with fluorescent lights for under $200. You can find a detailed parts list over in the description of the video on YouTube. Once you’ve built the rig, you can move onto this next tutorial in which Edelman shows [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/80/40/448040.jpeg[/IMG]

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Vintage Cameras Upcycled Into iPhone Charging Docks

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Mar 28th 2012 - 1 comments

Etsy seller Roberto Altieri creates unique iPhone/iPod charging docks out of old — and hopefully defunct — Pentax and Minolta SLR cameras from the 1960s and 1970s.[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/80/10/448010.jpeg[/IMG]

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Nikon D800 Resolution Compared to the Canon 5D Mark III

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Last week camera testing service DxOMark announced that the Nikon D800 had earned the highest sensor quality score ever awarded. Roger Cicala of LensRentals wanted to see for himself how much of an advantage the D800′s 36.3MP sensor had over its competition, so he did some sensor resolution tests on the camera, comparing it to [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/79/71/447971.jpeg[/IMG]

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Prototype Camera Lets You Shoot Photos by Framing Scenes with Your Fingers

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Last November we featured a concept camera called Air that is worn on your fingers and snaps photographs when you frame scenes with your fingers. That concept may soon become a reality. Researchers at IAMAS in Japan have developed a tiny camera called Ubi-Camera that captures photos as you position your fingers in the shape [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/79/18/447918.gif[/IMG]

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A Beautiful Composite Photo Showing the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

This past Sunday, Jupiter and Venus put on a show by lining up with our moon (a conjunction). Rick Ellis of Toronto, Canada managed to create the awesome photo of the event seen above by capturing 31 separate frames. Each photo was taken 5 minute apart and had an exposure time of 5 seconds. One [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/78/83/447883.jpeg[/IMG]

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Man Who Was Arrested for Filming Police with Phone Settles for $170,000

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

After being arrested on October 1, 2007 for using his cell phone to film officers making an arrest, Boston lawyer Simon Glik sued the city for violating his civil rights. Late last year the court denied a motion to have the case dismissed, and just yesterday it was announced that the City of Boston had [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/78/25/447825.jpeg[/IMG]

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Aerial Interior Photo of a Building Created by Stitching Hundreds of Photos

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Architectural photographer Brett Beyer was recently commissioned by Cornell University to make a photograph of the interior of its recently completed Milstein Hall. The request wasn’t for a standard interior photo, but for an aerial shot of the 25,000-square-foot studio space that looked as if you were looking down at it with the roof removed [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/77/94/447794.jpeg[/IMG]

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Rewatch of Guy Kawasaki On ChaseJarvis LIVE

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Whether you caught the LIVE show or missed it, I recommend pressing play on the #cjLIVE rewatch video above. You’ll see why it was one of the most popular shows we’ve run. More than just funny and talented, Kawasaki is a fountain of knowledge on lofty topics like branding, marketing, and vision–down to really specific, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/77/90/447790.png[/IMG]

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Beyond Snapshots: How to Take That Fancy DSLR Camera Off ?Auto? and Photograph Your Life like a Pro

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Here at dPS we have a wonderful array of talented writers, bloggers and photographers involved in creating our blog and eBooks. One of this team – Rachel Devine, author of our Kids Photography eBook – Click! – has just released her brand new book (a real? paper book) that I’m sure many of our readers [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Beyond Snapshots: How to Take That Fancy DSLR Camera Off “Auto” and Photograph Your Life like a Pro[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/77/82/447782.png[/IMG]

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Carry Your Camera in Two Dimensions with the Cheese! Handbag

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

JumpFromPaper is a new line of unique handbags that uses thick outlines and bright colors to look like they popped right out of a cartoon. They look like they’re completely flat and 2D, but they actually have room for things like cameras, laptops, and your everyday accessories. The bag seen here is called “Cheese!” and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/77/51/447751.jpeg[/IMG]

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Post-Apocalyptic Photographs of Major Cities Around the World

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Mar 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Silent World is a project by Paris-based artists Lucie & Simon that shows post-apocalyptic views of famous locations around the world. All but one or two of the people in each location are removed from the scene. Rather than use multiple exposures and compositing the images to remove moving objects (e.g. people and cars), they [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/44/77/15/447715.jpeg[/IMG]