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The Benefits Of Adjustment Tool White Balance In Lightroom 4

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Mar 1st 2012 - 0 comments

While the official version of Lightroom 4 is not out yet, I feel comfortable pointing out one change that is sure to make it in the final product; the ability to change white balance while using the Gradient Filter or Adjustment Brush.  I have been waiting for this feature for a while to help balance [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. The Benefits Of Adjustment Tool White Balance In Lightroom 4[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/33/08/433308.jpeg[/IMG]

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Trippy Footage from a Digital Camera Mounted to an Electric Drill

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Just in case you’ve always been wondering what it would look like to record footage with a camera attached to a spinning electric drill, French product designer Oscar Lhermitte did just that. The resulting footage is quite trippy, and would be a pretty unique way of capturing abstract photographs — as long as you don’t [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/29/59/432959.gif[/IMG]

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Utah the Latest State with Bill to Make Photographing Animals a Crime

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

This looks like a screenshot of a satirical article by The Onion, but it’s actually an actual story over on the Salt Lake Tribune. Turns out Utah is the latest state to introduce Florida-esque legislation that would make it a crime to photograph or videotape agricultural operations without permission from owners. Like in Florida, the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/29/39/432939.jpeg[/IMG]

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Overlay an Inverted Layer Onto a Photo to Brighten Underexposed Areas

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Adam Dachis over at Lifehacker offers a simple method for correcting underexposed photo with any image editor that supports layers, inversion, and Overlay blending mode. Simply invert a duplicate of the photo, set the blending mode of the inverted layer to Overlay, and then adjust the opacity of the layer to suit your taste. While [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/28/39/432839.gif[/IMG]

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Present Moment Photography

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

A Guest post by Jason Lowry from www.blackandwhiteonly.com. I have a horrible habit of wasting so much of my present moment time constantly thinking about everything and everyone!  If you are like me, it can be so difficult to focus on what I?m doing right now at this exact moment (just caught myself thinking about [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Present Moment Photography[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/28/01/432801.jpeg[/IMG]

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Man Captures iPhone Photo of Mayan Pyramid Firing Beam Into the Sky

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

When Los Angeles resident Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his family in 2009, he used his iPhone to snap some photos of a pyramid called El Castillo. After snagging a lightning strike in the third shot, Siliezar was surprised to see that he had also captured what appeared to [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/27/91/432791.jpeg[/IMG]

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Polaroid Instant App Brings Instagram-Style Filters to Your Mac

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Instant is a newly launched Mac application that brings an Instagram-esque, Polaroid-faking app to your desktop. It allows you to turn any digital photograph into a Polaroid picture look-alike, and offers 28 different filters for giving your images vintage looks (8 of which are designed to look like Polaroid films). You can even add classic [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/27/62/432762.jpeg[/IMG]

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Should We Be Worried About the Spread of App-Doctored News Photos?

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

CNN published an opinion piece yesterday by photojournalist Nick Stern, who has some pretty harsh things to say about the spread of Instagram-style “fake images” in the news: The app photographer hasn’t spent years learning his or her trade, imagining the scene, waiting for the light to fall just right, swapping lenses and switching angles. [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/27/14/432714.jpeg[/IMG]

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How to Take Incredible High-Speed Photos of Muzzle Flashes

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s an interesting video tutorial by Destin of Smarter Every Day that shows how you can capture amazing photos of guns being fired and their muzzle flashes. Here’s the “basic” idea: he uses a piezoelectric transducer to convert acoustical energy into an electrical pulse, which he sends through a pulse generator. The pulse from the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/26/81/432681.jpeg[/IMG]

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Edit and Create on the Go with Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad

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Feb 29th 2012 - 0 comments

On Monday, Adobe launched its Photoshop Touch application for the iPad. This long sought after app runs on the iPad 2, and not on the iPad 1, and it requires that you have iOS 5 installed. The app costs $9.99 which is at the high end of the price range for photo-editing apps in general [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Edit and Create on the Go with Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/25/80/432580.jpeg[/IMG]

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How to Take Gorgeous Photos of Your Kids: 29% Off Today Only

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Today is 29 February (at least it is here in Australia as this post goes live) and we’re celebrating the ‘leap year’ with 29% off our super popular Kids Photography eBook – Click! One of the team here at dPS HQ – Shayne Tilley our marketing guy – celebrates his birthday today. He only gets [...]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 to Take Gorgeous Photos of Your Kids: 29% Off Today Only[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/22/46/432246.jpeg[/IMG]

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Street Photography on the Sidewalks of Hong Kong by Eric Kim and Kai Wong

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Street photographer Eric Kim and DigitalRev host Kai Wong recently got together to do some street photography on the streets of Hong Kong. Kim and Wong have personalities that go well together (and look like brothers), making for some pretty humorous photographic entertainment.[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/22/20/432220.gif[/IMG]

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New York Times Launches Tumblr for Historic Photo Archive

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

The New York Times has launched a new Tumblr site called “The Lively Morgue” to breath new life into items in the newspaper’s photo archive (nicknamed “The Morgue”). Each week they’ll be sharing several historical photographs found in massive collection. Just how massive, you might ask? We don?t know. Our best guess is five million [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/21/85/432185.jpeg[/IMG]

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Strange Scenes Spotted by Google Street View Cameras

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Named after the fact that Google Street View cars shoot with 9 separate cameras, Canadian artist Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes of Google Street View website is an ongoing project that publishes strange scenes photographed by Google’s automated cameras. Rafman writes, This infinitely rich mine of material afforded my practice the extraordinary opportunity to explore, interpret, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/21/60/432160.jpeg[/IMG]

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Entire Olympus Board Resigns After New President and Chairman Picked

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Former Olympus CEO Michael Woodford has gotten his wish: the entire Olympus board resigned this week in the aftermath of the company’s epic financial scandal and stock tumble. They did, however, pick a new president and chairman before handing in their letters of resignation. Hiroyuki Sasa from the company’s medical equipment marketing division was picked [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/21/27/432127.jpeg[/IMG]

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Beautiful Tilt-Shift Time-Lapse of the Biggest Carnival in the World

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

The annual Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is considered to be the largest carnival in the world, with a whopping two million people roaming the streets. Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli decided to turn their cameras on the city and the carnival last year, creating this stunning tilt-shift time-lapse video that makes the city [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/20/84/432084.gif[/IMG]

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Visual Voodoo: People as Street Art

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Street artist Mark Jenkins challenges people with his unique sculptures of humans in interesting or compromising situations. Made from packing tape and then dressed in pants and shirts, wigs and jewelry, these “dummy” arrest the passerbys with surprise and delight. Click through the gallery above to see some prime examples of Mark Jenkins’ work. Photos [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/20/74/432074.jpeg[/IMG]

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Tricks for Avoiding the Police When Shooting in Public Locations

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

David Hobby has written up a great post over at Strobist on how he avoids shoot-ruining confrontations with police officers when shooting in public locations (we shared an example of a confrontation yesterday). His tricks include calling the police ahead of time and leaving notes on the doors of houses nearby: Before I shoot (a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/20/39/432039.jpeg[/IMG]

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Flickr Disables Pinterest Pinning for Copyrighted Photos

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Feb 28th 2012 - 0 comments

One of the new darlings of the Internet world is Pinterest, a photo-sharing social network that has exploded in the past year to become one of the world’s most popular websites. In recent days, however, there has been concern over the fact that copyrighted images can be so easily reproduced and reused on Pinterest without [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/43/20/27/432027.jpeg[/IMG]