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Portrait Tip: Don?t Fill the Frame

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May 4th 2012 - 2 comments

“Fill the Frame with your subject!” I still remember my high school photography teacher instructing our class with this rule. He drummed it into us week after week and his words have echoed in my ears ever since – 20-something years – almost every time I raise my camera to take a portrait. The rule [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Portrait Tip: Don’t Fill the Frame[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/72/51/467251.jpeg[/IMG]

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Image Sensor Implants Used as Makeshift Eyes for the Blind

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

Image sensors and the advent of digital imaging have been met with differing reactions from the photographical community. But what a team of doctors at the Oxford Eye Hospital have managed to do with the technology is 100% digital, and 100% amazing. Clinical trial leaders Robert MacLaren and Tim Jackson have helped two blind men [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/70/52/467052.jpeg[/IMG]

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New Electron Microscope Captures Real-Time 3D Photographs

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

A team of researchers at the Japan Science and Technology Agency have recently taken 3D imaging to another level. A much smaller level. What they’ve managed to do is develop an electron microscope that can show 3-dimensional photos of their tiny subjects in real-time. In the past, getting a 3D photo from an electron microscope [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/70/39/467039.jpeg[/IMG]

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BlackRapid?s New LensBling Caps: Tag Each Lens With Its Focal Length

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

BlackRapid‘s new series of rear lens caps, dubbed “LensBling,” offer an interesting way to organize and identify your lenses in a hurry. The ideal moment doesn’t wait for you to find the right lens, and so the precious moments you could save when trying to distinguish your 85mm from your 105mm could mean the difference [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/70/25/467025.jpeg[/IMG]

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Trippy Example of Hitchcock Zoom Shot on a Beach

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

“Dolly zoom” is a technique that was popularized by Alfred Hitchcock in his film Vertigo, after which it was commonly referred to as “Hitchcock zoom” and the “vertigo effect”. The basic idea is to photograph (or film) a subject while moving towards or away from it, and at the same time changing the focal length [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/70/11/467011.jpeg[/IMG]

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Twitter Tried to Acquire Camera+ After Missing Out On Instagram

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

After narrowly missing the opportunity to acquire Instagram, it seems that Twitter was eager to try again; this time with one of the most popular paid camera apps, Camera+. Apparently, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey actually met with Tap Tap Tap — the makers of Camera+ — to discuss an acquisition shortly after news of Facebook’s [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/69/92/466992.jpeg[/IMG]

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GigaPain: The World?s Largest Photo of Shelves

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

By and large, as a professional of whatever description, clients hire you based on experience and expertise, grace under pressure, problem-solving skills, and your finely-tuned ability to transcend the limitations of the assignment and distill the essence of an idea into its most purely realized form. Okay so that?s what they tell you in college, [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/69/66/466966.jpeg[/IMG]

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First Slow-Motion Phantom Miro M120 Video Doesn?t Disappoint

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

Cinematographer Jim Geduldick was lucky enough to be the first to test out Vision Research’s new Phantom Miro M120 high-speed camera in the real world, and — luckily for the rest of us — is kind enough to share the results. Falling on the smaller, more rugged side of the Phantom line, the M120 is [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/69/57/466957.gif[/IMG]

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Cars in Clouds: Photos of Burnouts

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

At first glance, some of Simon Davidson‘s photographs look like Harry Potter stills showing flying cars floating in the clouds. They’re actually a glimpse into the burnout subculture that’s growing in Australia. These are competitions in which drivers try to create as much smoke as they can by spinning their tires in place. Burnouts by [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/69/26/466926.jpeg[/IMG]

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Sunwayfoto Leveling Base Review

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

Another awesome video review from the team that brought you The Nice Clip Want to make your tripod a million times more useful? This is the DYH-66X levelling base from Sunwayfoto. It provides +/- 16° of tilt, is fluid dampened, and has a scratch-resistant, anodised black finish. Sure, it?s built really nice. But even nicer [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Sunwayfoto Leveling Base Review[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/69/19/466919.gif[/IMG]

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BlackBerry 10 Timeline Comes Courtesy of Scalado

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

A couple of days ago the world was wowed by the up and coming BlackBerry 10′s new camera app. The app, demoed by RIM at BlackBerry World 2012, allowed you to select someone’s face and scroll through frames captured before and after you hit the shutter button. If you thought the app looked familiar, you [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/68/76/466876.jpeg[/IMG]

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Specimen Box Picture Collages Created with Photo Fragments

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

We’ve seen many a photo collage in our day, but New York artist Michael Mapes‘ Specimen Boxes are an entirely different creature. To create these unique photo compartments, he dissects various photos of his subjects into many corresponding bits and then mounts those bits on or in different materials — much like what you see [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/68/60/466860.jpeg[/IMG]

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Photographers? Liability Insurance and a $300,000 Ancient Figurine

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

Last week we reported on how photographers and a magazine are being sued for $300,000 for allegedly breaking a 2,630-year-old statue while photographing it for an assignment. While many people, including us, pointed to it as an example of why carrying liability insurance is a good idea for photographers, a more appropriate question is: does [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/68/47/466847.jpeg[/IMG]

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Artificial Beauty Through Sparse Collaged Landscapes

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

Photographer Lauren Marsolier?s Transition series consists of minimalist landscape photographs of desolate locations. The various places don’t actually exist — Marsolier creates them by combining photographs captured in different places at different times. Lauren Marsolier (via It’s Nice That) Image credits: Photographs by Lauren Marsolier and used with permission[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/68/32/466832.jpeg[/IMG]

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My Favorite CameraBag of Tricks

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May 3rd 2012 - 0 comments

Hey photo friends. Erik here with a quick recommendation for an inexpensive photo editing solution.  I?ve been playing around with the CameraBag 2desktop software for the last couple months and I?m blown away at the capabilities packed into this affordable editing tool.  If you?re new to photo editing and wanna save a few bucks, or you?re [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/68/03/466803.jpeg[/IMG]

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5 Tips for Controlling Natural Light

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May 3rd 2012 - 1 comments

A Post by Mitchell Kanashkevich – author of our brand new eBook, Natural Light: Mastering a Photographer’s Most Powerful Tool. In the post ?Are you practicing these 5 Tips for Natural Light? I discussed 5 things which I consider to be the core ideas behind working with natural light effectively. In this post it?s time [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. 5 Tips for Controlling Natural Light[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/67/38/466738.jpeg[/IMG]

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A Typical Work Day for Street Fashion Photographer Nick Fancher

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May 2nd 2012 - 0 comments

Columbus, Ohio-based photographer Nick Fancher works as the lifestyle photographer of Men’s online shopping club JackThreads, a job that has him shooting lifestyle photos for 8-12 brands every single day. The behind-the-scenes video above shows what a typical day for Fancher looks like as he hurries around to different locations in the city to photograph [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/65/80/466580.gif[/IMG]

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Use a Nail and Clothespin to Determine Placement When Hanging Photos

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May 2nd 2012 - 0 comments

Michele over at The Scrap Shoppe offers this handy trick for hanging picture frames: hammer a nail through a clothespin and use it to determine nail placement. Simply hang the picture on the clothespin nail, figure out where you want to place the frame, and then push the clothespin into the wall to make a [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/65/36/466536.jpeg[/IMG]

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Beautiful Photographs of Patterns Seen from a Helicopter

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May 2nd 2012 - 0 comments

Aerial photographer Stephan Zirwes shoots amazing images of patterns and repetition seen in landscapes while looking straight down from a helicopter. From his perspective, things like cars, shipping containers, and people blend together into abstract designs. Zirwes’ work reminds us a lot of Alex MacLean’s aerial photographs. Stephan Zirwes (via iGNANT) Image credits: Photographs by [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/65/12/466512.jpeg[/IMG]

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The Flashpipe: A Lightweight, Easy-To-Use Flash Diffuser

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May 2nd 2012 - 0 comments

Flash diffusers come in all shapes and sizes, from DIY Home Depot versions to more expensive professional grade equipment. None of these solutions seemed adequate for 30 year photography veteran Les Tirmenstein, however, and that’s why he designed the Flashpipe. The diffuser, which he is currently trying to fund on Kickstarter, consists of a simple [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/64/45/466445.jpeg[/IMG]