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The Most Important Single Tip for Selling Your Photography Over the Internet

by NS_Photography
Jun 2nd 2012 - 0 comments

Raise your hand if you are a photographer and you would not like to sell your photography over the web. I?m assuming that not many of you are raising your hands right now. A lot of photographers try to sell their work through their websites but nothing happens.  Maybe they have one or two purchases [...]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 Most Important Single Tip for Selling Your Photography Over the Internet[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/94/36/479436.jpeg[/IMG]

What Photos of the Night Sky Will Look Like Over the Next 7 Billion Years

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 2 comments

NASA astronomers announced today that they are certain that our galaxy is on an unavoidable collision course with the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest spiral galaxy to us. Don’t worry though, it won’t be happening for another 3.5 billion years or so. What’s interesting is that the collision will drastically change what our night sky looks [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/93/07/479307.jpeg[/IMG]

The Market Value of the IKEA Cardboard Digital Camera? About $100

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

There was a collective groan from hipster photographers around the world last month after it was revealed that IKEA had no plans to start selling its KNÄPPA cardboard camera to the general public. If you were one of the lucky few who got your hands on one of the cameras, you’ll be happy to know [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/92/89/479289.jpeg[/IMG]

Work: Weekly Photography Challenge

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

This week your challenge is to take a photo and then share it on the theme of WORK. Work is something most of us do in one form or another – whether that be paid work, work raising a family, work at school, work in the garden?. or somewhere else. Today we’re asking you to [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Work: Weekly Photography Challenge[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/92/67/479267.jpeg[/IMG]

Adults Looking Back on School Portraits From Their Days of Youth

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

School Portrait is a project by documentary filmmaker and communications student Greg Ward, who asked a number of adults to show and share about their old school portraits. Ward writes, Most people are embarrassed or find it funny to look back on their old school portraits. The photos where taken at a time when life [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/92/52/479252.gif[/IMG]

BBC Mistakenly Runs Dated Iraq Photo to Illustrate the Syrian Massacre

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Check your facts, check your sources, and then check your facts a few more times for good measure; that should be the mantra of journalists and journalism organizations worldwide. Sadly, the BBC dropped the ball in that arena recently when they used a 9-year-old photo of Iraq to illustrate a story about a recent massacre [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/92/40/479240.jpeg[/IMG]

Be Committed to Your Vision

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Commitment to your vision is important. Just ask my friend Mike Horn. I mentioned in my post yesterday (about imagination inspired by travel photos) that I was scurrying around getting ready for a trip with Mike. I’m running to the airport right now – and needless to say my imagination is also running with the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/92/24/479224.jpeg[/IMG]

Ever Wonder What This Symbol on Your Camera Means?

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Take a look at your camera, and there’s a good chance it’ll have this symbol — a small circle bisected by a long line that looks like a hieroglyph of Saturn. If you’ve never known what it’s meant for, today’s your lucky day: it’s called a “film plane mark” (or “focal plane mark”, depending on [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/91/95/479195.jpeg[/IMG]

Twig is a USB Cable that Doubles as a Tabletop Tripod

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s an interesting product idea by Oregon-based designer Jason Hilbourne that combines a charging cable and a mini-tripod into an easy-to-use, pocket-sized device. His project, dubbed Twig, is specific to the iPhone and has already gotten quite a bit of attention. With 56 days to go the Twig has already secured $64,000 in funding — [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/91/80/479180.jpeg[/IMG]

Art Students Become Human Cameras by Eating 35mm Film

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Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Kingston University photography students Luke Evans and Josh Lake wanted to do something unusual for their final major project, so they decided to turn themselves into human cameras by eating 35mm film squares and letting their bodies do the rest. After eating and pooping out the film in the dark, they used fixer on the [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/91/59/479159.jpeg[/IMG]

Complete Visual Dictionary Created Using Photos from Google Image Search

by NS_Photography
Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

General consensus seems to be that a picture is worth a thousand words, in which case Ben West and Felix Heyes‘ unique take on the dictionary, complete with 21,000 entries, metaphorically contains closer to 21,000,000 words worth of content. That’s because their dictionary doesn’t hold a single word, only the first Google image search result [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/91/27/479127.jpeg[/IMG]

Popular Drinks Photographed Under a Microscope

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Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Fingerprints of Drinkable Culture is a photo series by photographer William LeGoullon that explores what popular beverages look like under a microscope. He writes, In this series, I treat the world?s top five most consumed man-made beverages like scientific specimens, allowing each liquid sample to dry before photographing them using a microscope. The resulting images [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/91/02/479102.jpeg[/IMG]

Photography in the Moonlight

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Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

A Guest Post by Phil Hart – author of the Shooting Stars eBook (use the code DPSTARS for a 20% discount). Even a casual play with your camera at night will reveal its remarkable ability to see much more than your eyes can, and in full colour too. All it takes is exposures up to [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Photography in the Moonlight[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/90/89/479089.jpeg[/IMG]

Camera Snobbery: A Slice of Amateur Photography Culture

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Jun 1st 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a funny short clip from the HBO TV show Veep in which two photography enthusiasts discuss their Canon cameras. And… one of them is a camera snob. Does the guy remind you of anyone you know? (Hopefully not yourself).[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/90/79/479079.gif[/IMG]

Pentax Rumored to be Working on a 360-Degree Camera

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May 31st 2012 - 0 comments

According to Photo Rumors, in addition to working on several rugged advancements to their camera line, Pentax is also planning to add a 360-degree camera to their repertoire. This is a camera that would be capable of creating 360-degree panoramas with the push of a button. The idea isn’t entirely new — Tamaggo demoed their [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/88/94/478894.jpeg[/IMG]

Photo Editing App Snapseed is Apple?s Free App of the Week

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May 31st 2012 - 0 comments

Looking for a solid photo editing app for your iPhone or iPad? Snapseed, an acclaimed photo editing app for iOS, has been selected as Apple’s free app of the week. Apple kicked off the program last week, so this is only the second app to be featured. It ordinarily costs $5. Snapseed [iTunes App Store][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/88/66/478866.jpeg[/IMG]

New ?De-Animation? Technique Makes Creating Cinemagraphs a Snap

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May 31st 2012 - 0 comments

Creating cinemagraphs — still photos in which one or another section is moves repetitively — can be a pretty tricky process, but a new technique developed by Adobe researcher Aseem Agarwala and his UC Berkley colleagues may make it quite a bit easier. Their technique involves “de-animating” a video by “drawing” two sets of “strokes” [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/88/50/478850.gif[/IMG]

NASA Spacesuit Testing Leads To Accidentally Artsy Photos

by NS_Photography
May 31st 2012 - 0 comments

More than most government agencies, NASA is actually pretty enthusiastic about photography (by comparison, we probably won’t be seeing CIA photography archives come to light any time soon). When NASA had a problem that needed solving they liked to look towards their cameras, and that’s exactly what they did when they needed to test and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/88/23/478823.jpeg[/IMG]

Travel Photography Inspiration Project: Cambodia

by NS_Photography
May 31st 2012 - 0 comments

When I say Cambodia, what comes to mind? Angkor Wat? Monks? While we will be feature photos of that nature in this post, there is more to the country to be explored. The coast, the people the quiet moments of religion. Follow along with these DPS readers who submitted their images for another view of [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Travel Photography Inspiration Project: Cambodia[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/87/94/478794.jpeg[/IMG]

Photographing the Imagination ? or is it? Imagining the Photograph?

by NS_Photography
May 31st 2012 - 0 comments

Albert Einstein said “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Coming from a guy who had some serious knowledge that is a powerful statement. One of the things that [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/47/87/78/478778.png[/IMG]