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How to Create a Surreal Double Exposure Portrait Using Photoshop

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a tutorial by photographer Stephen Davies on how you can create a pseudo double exposure photograph using a couple simple steps in Photoshop. Step 1: Open It Up Open up your background image in Photoshop. Step 2: Overlay the Portrait Open up your portrait and overlay your it on your background image. Step 3: [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/98/30/489830.jpeg[/IMG]

Photogs Boycotting Concerts After Band Asks to Pay Only £1 for All Photo Rights

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Music photographers in the UK have organized a boycott of indie band The Stone Roses reunion concerts (to be held this weekend) over a contract that they say is unfairly strict with their image rights. All press and music photographers are familiar with the typical restrictions that come with photographing an event or band, but [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/98/18/489818.jpeg[/IMG]

The 10 Most Popular DSLRs Among dPS Readers

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Every few months we take some time to analyse the cameras that dPS readers are buying over on Amazon. What follows is the most popular DSLRs purchased in the last 3 months on Amazon*. 1. Canon EOS Rebel T3i 2. Nikon D5100Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. The 10 Most Popular DSLRs Among dPS Readers[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/98/01/489801.jpeg[/IMG]

Fujifilm Reveals X-Pro1 Lens Roadmap, to Introduce Zoom Lenses This Fall

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

If you’re the owner of a Fujifilm X-Pro1 and you’ve been yearning for a little bit of zoom capability out of your lenses, then it looks like relief isn’t far off. A couple of days ago Fujifilm announced the lens roadmap for the X-Pro1 (seen above), which shows that we’ll be seeing a few new [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/97/86/489786.jpeg[/IMG]

Foap App: Selling Your iPhoneography Sans Filters and Frames

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Who says you can’t make money selling photos taken on your iPhone? Certainly not the creators of a new app dubbed Foap, which allows you to do just that. The app is pretty easy to use: just download it for free off the iTunes store, upload your best pics, tag them so they’re easier to [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/97/76/489776.jpeg[/IMG]

Powerful Wildfire Photos from Colorado

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Summer-time wildfires are a fact of life in the dry climates of the Rocky Mountain state. However, the conditions in Colorado this summer have brought record breaking wildfires. There are currently three major fires burning at once. The High Park, Waldo Canyon and Flagstaff fires have consumed, by some estimates, over 100,000 acres and close [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/97/64/489764.png[/IMG]

?No Photos This Good Have Ever Come from a Camera This Small?

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Remember the mysterious camera NYTimes columnist David Pogue was gushing over earlier this month? Turns out it’s the Sony RX100. In his review of the camera published yesterday, Pogue starts off by calling it, “best pocket camera ever made”: It will be sold out everywhere. I?ll skip to the punch line: No photos this good [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/97/51/489751.jpeg[/IMG]

Achievement Unlocked: LevelUp Turns Learning Photoshop into a Game

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Video game developers have learned over the years that socially-shared achievements are a great way to encourage beginners to learn new tasks. Taking a page from their book, Adobe has a neat new game called LevelUp that encourages Photoshop learning using the same tricks. Available for CS5 and above, the extension encourages exploration and assigns [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/97/24/489724.jpeg[/IMG]

Photo Stealers: A Website Dedicated To Exposing Photography Theft

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

It’s a shame that the digital age brought with it such widespread copyright infringement and, sometimes, downright theft, but it’s a reality we have to live with. Fortunately, there’s a new website up on Tumblr that is looking to help expose the people who are taking credit for other’s work, and in the process help [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/96/95/489695.jpeg[/IMG]

Sergey Brin?s Live Demo of Google Glass

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s the live demo of Google’s Project Glass that was given by co-founder Sergey Brin yesterday at the company’s I/O conference in San Francisco. As we reported, they had five skydivers beam footage of their jump live into the conference center through a Google+ hangout. If you think cameras are connected to the Internet now, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/96/83/489683.gif[/IMG]

Canon 7D to Get Major Upgrade with Upcoming v2 Firmware

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Earlier this month we reported on rumors of a significant Canon EOS 7D firmware update that was possibly in the works, and today that update became official. Not surprisingly, the rumors seem to have been spot on, as firmware v2 for the 7D brings many of the highly-anticipated and frequently-requested features that users of Canon’s [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/96/40/489640.jpeg[/IMG]

Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Weddings

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Jun 28th 2012 - 0 comments

Previously in this posing guide series we took a look to posing women, posing men, posing children, posing couples and posing groups of people. In this article let’s address a popular photographic event – wedding. I would like to state from the very beginning, that weddings in general are a major commercial industry to many [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Photographing Weddings[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/96/11/489611.jpeg[/IMG]

Google Glass Demoed at I/O, Preorders Pegged at $1,500

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

Google demoed its much-hyped Project Glass at its I/O conference today, showing how the sleek camera-equipped “goggles” could one day allow point-of-view photos and videos to be beamed directly to others through the Internet. Four skydivers wearing the glasses beamed footage of their dive live through Google+ to the attendees in the SF conference center [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/94/58/489458.gif[/IMG]

5 Killer Canon Lenses for Recording Video with Your DSLR

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

Thinking about recording video with your Canon DSLR? stillmotion put together this short video with 5 lens recommendations based on their video production experiences over the years. One recommendation is the 24-105mm f/4 IS “kit” lens that comes bundled with higher-end Canon DSLRs. This lens allows you to have image stabilization at the wide end [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/94/46/489446.gif[/IMG]

TV ?Psychics? Found to Actually Be Stock Photo Models

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

After seeing hashtags for a TV show featuring a “Psychic Wayne” all over Twitter, Irish student Alan Rice decided to see what all the fuss was about. Of course, within a few minutes he had already decided that the show was, in his words, tripe. But after watching a little while longer he noticed something [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/94/12/489412.jpeg[/IMG]

Clients From Hell: A Collection of Client Horror Stories

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

We’ve all been there. Anybody who has ever done any work in the creative industry has had to deal with clients who have no understanding of basic business practices, or photography, or a little thing called payment. The above video was put together by the website Clients From Hell, where creatives can go and upload [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/94/03/489403.gif[/IMG]

Incredibly Simple 2-Step Program for Better Photos

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

See more from Bill Pevlor at Pops Digital Photography I?ll be the first to concede, I am not a great photographer. The eternal optimist in me likes to think all things are possible. The pragmatist in me realizes I have a long way to go on my personal journey to photographic greatness. It may be [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Incredibly Simple 2-Step Program for Better Photos[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/93/95/489395.jpeg[/IMG]

Casio Camera App Uses Light To Send Secret Messages

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

The camera in your smartphone is good for a lot of things, and we’re not just talking about Instagram and causing the sad yet inevitable demise of the point-and-shoot; now it can also be used to send and receive secret messages using light. A new Casio camera app called Picapicamera encodes messages or graphics using [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/93/74/489374.gif[/IMG]

Casio Camera App Uses Light To Transmit Secret Messages

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

The camera in your smartphone is good for a lot of things, and we’re not just talking about Instagram and causing the sad yet inevitable demise of the point-and-shoot; now it can also be used to send and receive secret messages using light. A new Casio camera app called Picapicamera encodes messages or graphics using [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/93/43/489343.gif[/IMG]

Newspaper Photographer Snapping One Portrait Every Day In His City

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Jun 27th 2012 - 0 comments

Everyday People is a photo project for Oklahoma newspaper Tulsa World by photographer John Clanton. The goal is to meet one new person in the community every day of the year, create a portrait of them, and display the image along with a short blurb about who they are. Clanton writes, Looking at the 2012 [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/48/93/33/489333.jpeg[/IMG]