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Photo Shoot of Andy Samberg Portraying Several Iconic Tennis Champions

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Jul 8th 2012 - 0 comments

It wouldn’t be the weekend without a behind the scenes look at a photo shoot, and if we can also inject a little bit of humor into it, well, in that case everyone wins. This behind the scenes comes courtesy of The New York Times and an assignment they gave to legendary sports photographer Walter [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/32/35/493235.gif[/IMG]

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Canon May Eventually Replace 50mm f/1.4 With a 50mm f/1.8 IS

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Jul 8th 2012 - 0 comments

Some rumors are more far-fetched than others, and while this may be one of those it still bares mentioning. According to Canon Rumors, some preliminary talk has come down the wire that Canon might be replacing the current EF 50mm f/1.4 with a smaller form factor 50mm f/1.8 IS. The idea that Canon is working [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/32/17/493217.jpeg[/IMG]

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Stunning Photo Set Shows The Beauty of The World?s Largest Particle Accelerator

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Jul 8th 2012 - 0 comments

A few days ago the people over at CERN — the guys behind the biggest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — made what has been called “the biggest advance in knowledge about the cosmos for over 30 years,” they discovered the long-sought-after Higgs Boson. Of course particle physics doesn’t always [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/32/03/493203.jpeg[/IMG]

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Get a New Perspective By Getting High? with your Camera

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Jul 8th 2012 - 0 comments

Photo by svenwerk Regular readers of DPS will know of my love for shooting from down low to get an image that emphasizes the height of subjects. I love the way shooting from ground level creates wonderful foregrounds and puts a completely new perspective of familiar scenes. In addition to this it’s great for photographing [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Get a New Perspective By Getting High… with your Camera[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/31/83/493183.jpeg[/IMG]

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Exposed: Book Review

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Jul 7th 2012 - 0 comments

I first took photography classes at The Institute in Photographic Studies – a fabulous workshop based photography school. Some of the greatest learning times we had was when our instructors would take us through their photographic adventures. We students would watch wide eyed as our instructors told the scene and setting of each photo. Our [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Exposed: Book Review[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/30/69/493069.jpeg[/IMG]

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Art Wolfe on Photographical ?Treasures? and the Rarity of Truly Meaningful Photos

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Jul 7th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a great, short video by nature and culture photographer Art Wolfe in which he talks about his journey as a photographer, the artists from which he still sometimes draws his inspiration, and finding those photographical treasures that are all around us. Even if you just watch it for the examples of his work, the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/30/58/493058.gif[/IMG]

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Portrait Project Seeks to Document Every Human Skin Tone

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Jul 7th 2012 - 0 comments

Any sort of portrait photographer is intimately familiar with the huge variety of skin tones represented by us homo sapiens, but until now nobody had thought to document them all. That’s the mammoth task that Brazilian artist and photographer Angelica Dass has taken upon herself with her portrait project Humanae. The project consists of a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/29/90/492990.jpeg[/IMG]

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Iconify: The Modern Portfolio, Reimagined

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Jul 7th 2012 - 0 comments

One of the most important things a photographer must do is advertise and sell their services. All professionals have a good grasp on how to take great photos and edit them in post to make them look even better, but fewer have the time, expertise, or funds to put together a quality portfolio that will [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/29/74/492974.jpeg[/IMG]

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Professional Photogs Find a New Niche as Vacation Photographers

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Jul 7th 2012 - 0 comments

It’s true that many (if not most) people these days think that a smartphone plus a decent camera app equals enough equipment to create great photography. Sure, they’ll hire a professional to do their wedding, but when it comes to less momentous occasions — like that trip to the Caribbean — they tend to take [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/29/61/492961.jpeg[/IMG]

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Beyond The Rule of Thirds: Advanced Composition With David Brommer

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Jul 7th 2012 - 0 comments

In this B&H Event Space seminar, David Brommer takes you “Beyond The Rule of Thirds” by discussing many different aspects of photographic composition. The entire seminar will take about two hours to watch from start to finish, but the information Brommer covers — from positive and negative space, to theories of color and balance and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/29/46/492946.gif[/IMG]

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Focus On Chris Orwig ~ Savoring Life One Frame At A Time

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Jul 7th 2012 - 0 comments

I read a lot of photography books, but it is not through one of his books that I was first introduced to the work of Chris Orwig, it is his DVD titled People Pictures that inspired me to learn more about him. Based in Santa Barbara, California, Chris? environmental portrait work is beautiful in its simplicity. [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Focus On Chris Orwig ~ Savoring Life One Frame At A Time[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/29/29/492929.jpeg[/IMG]

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How To Shoot Liquid Flow Photographs

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

In this tutorial I will share how I shoot “liquid flow” photos — smoke-like abstracts done by dropping cream colored with food dye into a small tank of water, then rotated 180 degrees. Preparation and Materials I use a small plastic 5 liter aquarium filled to 3 cm. from the top with water. Only an [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/28/22/492822.jpeg[/IMG]

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Seventeen Makes No-Photoshop Pledge In Response to Teen?s Campaign

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

A few months ago 14-year-old Julia Bluhm caused quite a stir when she managed to collect over 80,000 total signatures in an attempt to get Seventeen Magazine to put one completely un-Photoshopped spread in each issue. Her argument was that the magazine’s readers have a sensitive body image, and constantly seeing unrealistically thin and perfect [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/27/98/492798.jpeg[/IMG]

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Using Google Glass Camera Goggles as a New Mother

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

The Google Glass team is starting a new series of videos called “Glass Sessions” that feature ordinary people using Google’s prototype camera glasses in their everyday lives. This first video shows new mom Laetitia Gayno — the wife of a Googler — using the glasses to capture precious moments with her baby and share them [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/27/84/492784.gif[/IMG]

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Photographer Joe Klamar Explains His Controversial Olympic Portraits

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

AFP photographer Joe Klamar’s portraits of US Olympic athletes have caused a firestorm of controversy in the past week, with people calling the images “insulting” due to their lighting, angles, and concepts. Klamar has responded to the controversy over on AFP. Rather than being intentionally “bad” for the purpose of making a point, they were [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/27/71/492771.jpeg[/IMG]

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Details: Weekly Photography Challenge

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

This week your photography challenge is to take and share a photo on the theme of ‘details’. The object of the challenge is to drill down a little to focus upon elements within a scene. This technique has been talked about over the last week or so by Christina in her Details in Wedding Photography [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Details: Weekly Photography Challenge[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/27/59/492759.jpeg[/IMG]

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First Photograph of an Atom?s Shadow

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

This image might look like some kind of screenshot from an old 16-bit video game, but it’s actually the first photo ever made of an atom’s shadow. Researchers at Griffith University suspended a ytterbium atom in midair, shot it with a laser beam, and then used a Fresnel lens on the other side to snap [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/27/49/492749.jpeg[/IMG]

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Some Thoughts on Digital Camera Lifespan

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

This small mountain of gear leads to two very frightening thoughts. Firstly, there?s no ending in sight; one keeps accumulating more and more equipment in order to keep pushing the edge of what?s possible both from a compositional and artistic standpoint, as well as from an image quality standpoint. You?ve either got to have a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/27/08/492708.jpeg[/IMG]

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Get To Know Your Nikon Better With Tips and Techniques from Nikon?s Digitutor

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Jul 6th 2012 - 0 comments

There’s a lot of resources out there for people who want to get to know their SLR just that much better — ranging from books to about a gazillion (that’s a technical term) YouTube tutorials — but not a lot of people seem to know about Nikon’s own Digitutor website. The Nikon Digitutor offers helpful [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/49/26/98/492698.jpeg[/IMG]