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Business Cards that Mimic the Look of an Old Zenith Viewfinder

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

Greek silkscreen printer Manolis Angelakis was recently tasked with designing a new set of business cards for close friend and photographer Alexandra Stamopoulou. Given her profession, he decided to create a stylish card that emulates the viewfinder of an old Zenith camera. The simple but effective design was silkscreened onto sheets of transparent vinyl. Image [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/86/36/428636.jpeg[/IMG]

Ridiculous Mockumentary on Imaginary Photographer Clayton Sotos

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

Tech companies often like to create mini-documentaries featuring creatives who use their products — last year both Intel and Brother made videos about fashion photographer Scott Schuman (The Sartorialist). Well, it appears that some creatives are trying to troll Dell by spreading this ridiculous short video that explores the work of “renowned photographer Clayton Sotos“. [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/86/05/428605.gif[/IMG]

Literally The Best Photos In The World

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

This month, World Press Photo announced the winners of their prestigious annual contest…as usual, the images are astounding. Photojournalism’s Best for 2012. Here’s a few some of my favorites from the bunch on the tabs above. Even though some of these images are heartbreaking, there is inspiration in them, call to action, awareness. They’re depicting [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/85/84/428584.jpeg[/IMG]

Beautiful Mosaics of Trees Photographed Across Time

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

Photographer Noel Myles has been working for the past 15 years on “still films” of trees across the countryside of eastern England. He originally created platinum/palladium prints of the trees around the year 2000, and then photographed the trees a decade later using color film. He then combined pieces from the different photos into single [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/85/62/428562.jpeg[/IMG]

CineSquid: A Suction Cup Tripod System Fit for Spiderman

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

Last year MIT grad Justin Jensen raised nearly half a million bucks through Kickstarter to launch CineSkates, a camera slider system that adds wheels to GorillaPod Focus tripods. Now Jensen and his startup Cinetics are back again with a new product called CineSquid, which provides a strong suction cup mount system rather than wheels. This [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/85/42/428542.jpeg[/IMG]

Shoot Sharper Handheld Photos by Using Marksmanship Techniques

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

If you’ve ever tried shooting in a dark location without using flash or a tripod, you probably know how difficult it can be to remove camera shake from your photos. Alex Jansen — a photography enthusiast who’s an officer in the US Army — has written up an awesome tutorial on how you can apply [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/85/16/428516.jpeg[/IMG]

The Impact of Less

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

A Guest post by Nick Fleming. Photography is about choices and decisions. Make the right ones up to the moment the shutter button is pressed and a successful composition will result.  This sounds simple enough but we all know how frustratingly elusive this can be. The key to good photography is consistently choosing the right [...]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 Impact of Less[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/84/94/428494.jpeg[/IMG]

Hovering Swarms of Random Objects

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

Photographer Thomas Jackson has an ongoing project titled Emergent Behavior that consists of surreal photographs of swarms of various things (e.g. leaves, plastic cups, ping pong balls) in various locations. The images aren’t computer generated, but are rather composite images combining a number of photographs — probably similar to the “flock of phones” tutorial that [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/84/74/428474.jpeg[/IMG]

Want to be a Child Photographer but Don?t have Kids?

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Feb 22nd 2012 - 0 comments

I just had an excellent question over on my Facebook page. One reader asked, “How easy, or not, is it to get into child photography? I don’t have children, none of my friends have children but I have a growing interest in investigating the child photography side of things.” Well one thing’s for sure – [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Want to be a Child Photographer but Don’t have Kids?[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/83/98/428398.jpeg[/IMG]

Insane Photo of a Keel Walk Stunt

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

This amazing photograph of sailor Alex Thomson walking on the keel of an 8-ton yacht was created with courage rather than Photoshop. It was an ad for fashion house HUGO BOSS, which has sponsored Alex Thomson Racing since 2003. The conditions for the shot had to be just right, and the skipper had to carefully [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/80/35/428035.jpeg[/IMG]

Flickr About to Receive Major Makeover

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

Flickr is reportedly set to push out a number of major design updates across the photo-sharing service’s website. Adrianne Jeffries of Betabeat recently met up with Flickr senior product manager Markus Spiering, who gave her a sneak peek at a number of extensive changes to the interface that will be rolling out at the end [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/80/11/428011.jpeg[/IMG]

Fully-Functional Twin-Lens Reflex Camera Created Using LEGO Bricks

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

After seeing the LEGO large format camera we featured last year, Norway-based photographer Carl-Frederic Salicath set out to create his own LEGO camera. Rather than go with large format, he decided to build a more complicated Rolleiflex-style twin-lens reflex camera that uses 120 film. Aside from LEGOs, he also used some matte ground glass, a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/79/44/427944.jpeg[/IMG]

Magical Photographs of a Flying Baby

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

Photographer Rachel Hulin has a cute project titled The Flying Series that consists of photos of her infant son Henry flying. Hulin tells TIME, Speaking to some of the unusual body positions of her flying offspring, Hulin said, ?I never throw him, and I never move him into a place in the frame that he [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/78/96/427896.jpeg[/IMG]

A Simple Explanation of How ISO Works in Digital Photography

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

If you’re a fan of learning things through Khan Academy, then you might enjoy learning about how ISO works in this similar-styled tutorial by Dylan Bennett. Bennett might not have Salman Khan’s soothing voice, but he does his best to break down the magic of digital camera sensors into easy to understand ideas. For a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/78/54/427854.gif[/IMG]

Fujifilm X10 Review

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

Described as an ‘enthusiast camera’, this one took me quite by surprise. With a new camera for review I normally take it out of its box, tap a few buttons, power up, then delve deeper. So where was the ‘on’ button? Ain’t none. You get the thing to come alive by manually rolling the lens [...]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 X10 Review[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/78/19/427819.jpeg[/IMG]

Canon Patent Details 18-45mm Kit Lens for Mirrorless Camera

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

Looks like Canon has some serious plans to jump into the mirrorless camera market. The company’s G1X camera announced last month has a sensor large enough to compete with existing mirrorless cameras, but lacks an interchangeable lens system. A new patent filed by the company, however, reveals a new 18-45mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens for an [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/78/02/427802.png[/IMG]

Maddie the Coonhound Balancing on Things Across the US

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

Atlanta-based photographer Theron Humphrey is currently on a year-long trip through each of America’s 50 states, and is using a unique photo project idea to document it: he has his coonhound named Maddie — his travelling companion — balance on various things in the different places they visit. The photoblog has the tagline “a super [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/77/66/427766.jpeg[/IMG]

My Still-Life Photography Adventure

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

Everyone has photographed still life images at one time or another.  It’s usually one of those everyday images that catches our eye such as the sun shining through colored glass bottles on a window sill, fresh flowers in a vase or a stack of old books on an antique table. Photographers are attracted to beautiful, [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. My Still-Life Photography Adventure[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/76/91/427691.jpeg[/IMG]

Less than 24 Hours Left to Save 33% on our New Post Processing Guide

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Feb 21st 2012 - 0 comments

One month ago we launched our brand new volume in our ‘Photo Nuts’ library of eBooks with Photo Nuts and Post: a Guide to Post Processing. The month since launch has been an exciting time for the team at dPS HQ. Not only have their been some very kind reviews written about the eBook – [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Less than 24 Hours Left to Save 33% on our New Post Processing Guide[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/75/59/427559.jpeg[/IMG]

Creative Ideas for Playing with Custom Bokeh Shapes

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Feb 20th 2012 - 0 comments

For Valentine’s Day this year, Samsung created this short film that features custom bokeh shapes shot with Samsung NX gear. They come up with some pretty creative ideas for various shapes: pop a balloon filled with glitter to create a firework look, or shoot out of a car window at night to capture spaceships flying [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/42/72/96/427296.gif[/IMG]