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Natural Light Portraits: Photography Challenge

by NS_Photography
Apr 27th 2012 - 0 comments

To celebrate the launch of our brand new Natural Light eBook this week your photographic challenge is to take and share a portrait – lit only with natural light. Feel free to take any approach to this challenge that you want. You might like to shoot a portrait of a friend, a child, an older [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Natural Light Portraits: Photography Challenge[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/35/07/463507.jpeg[/IMG]

Google Glasses Make TV Appearance, Snaps Photo of Charlie Rose

by NS_Photography
Apr 27th 2012 - 0 comments

Google’s Project Glass has been all the rage since the company released their mock-ups and video of the project at the beginning of the month, and for good reason — the idea is out-of-this-world cool. But from the start we’ve known that Project Glass was only in the beginning stages, the glasses were an idea that [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/34/95/463495.jpeg[/IMG]

Eye-Popping Dance Video Created with a Giant 59-Foot-Tall Kaleidoscope

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Apr 27th 2012 - 0 comments

What do you get when you cross a camera, dancers, and a gigantic 59-foot-tall kaleidoscope? “The Power of X”. This amazing dance video was created for TEDxSummit conference that was recently held in Qatar, and was created without any computer trickery. Everything you see in the video is what the camera captured through the kaleidoscope [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/34/82/463482.gif[/IMG]

Jim Marshall Estate Sues Thierry Guetta and Google Over Copyright Infringement

by NS_Photography
Apr 27th 2012 - 0 comments

If you’ve been following us for a while you may remember the Hope poster lawsuit we reported on in January of 2010. The case pitted artist Shepard Fairey against the AP and Mannie Garcia over a photograph Garcia had taken of President Obama. Fairey, who ultimately lost the case when he admitted to having destroyed and [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/34/58/463458.jpeg[/IMG]

Butterfingered Photographers Being Sued for $300,000 by Art Collector

by NS_Photography
Apr 27th 2012 - 0 comments

Here’s a good example of why photographers should think about carrying liability insurance: Art + Auction magazine is being sued for $300,000 by art collector Corice Amran after its photographers accidentally knocked over a 2,600-year-old Nigerian Nok statue. The magazine was photographing the terracotta statue — the oldest known figurative sculpture south of the Sahara [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/34/17/463417.jpeg[/IMG]

Astronaut Soichi Noguchi Tweets Amazing Photographs From Space

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Apr 27th 2012 - 0 comments

While those of us here on Earth are Tweeting our brunch pictures and the occasional trite shot of a vacation sunset, astronaut Soichi Noguchi (follow him at @Astro_Soichi) has been Tweeting amazing photos of his extraterrestrial spacewalk adventures, northern lights from outside the atmosphere, and other ephemera back from freaking SPACE to us mere mortals [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/34/13/463413.jpeg[/IMG]

Still Life Photographs of Various Foods Crammed into Bottles

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Apr 27th 2012 - 0 comments

For his project titled Maet (“Full”), photographer Per Johansen shot still life images of various foods packed tightly into plastic bottles. His aim is to draw attention to the issues of gluttony, greed, and consumerism. Maet by Per Johansen (via It’s Nice That) Image credits: Photographs by Per Johansen and used with permission[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/33/81/463381.jpeg[/IMG]

How to Use a 10-stop ND Filter to Take Long Exposure Sunset Images

by NS_Photography
Apr 27th 2012 - 1 comments

The following tutorial was submitted in our forum by Chris Gin. I used my B+W 10-stop the other day to do some long exposures at sunset and thought I’d write up the steps I took to get the shot. Firstly for those of you who aren’t familiar with this type of filter, it’s basically a [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. How to Use a 10-stop ND Filter to Take Long Exposure Sunset Images[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/33/35/463335.jpeg[/IMG]

London Olympics? Photo Policies Not as Strict as They Sound

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

Amateur Photographer sparked some controversy amongst photographers this past Tuesday after it pointed out a section in the London Olympics’ ticketholder policies that states: Images, video and sound recordings of the Games taken by a Ticket Holder cannot be used for any purpose other than for private and domestic purposes and a Ticket Holder may [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/31/72/463172.jpeg[/IMG]

Nikon D600: New Rumored Specs and an Alleged Strap Photo

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

Yesterday we reported on a rumor that Nikon is gearing up to launch an affordable entry-level full frame DSLR called the D600. Details were scarce, but now there’s murmurings of detailed specs: Nikon Rumors writes that the camera may has a 24 megapixel sensor and a $1500 price tag — the cheapest of any full [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/31/46/463146.jpeg[/IMG]

Exploding Photographers, Disappearing Clothes, And the Development of Film

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

It?s been a while since I wrote a history article and two or three people seemed to like them. I?ve pretty much covered the development of early cameras and lenses so it?s time to consider the way we recorded those images so other people could see them. No, I?m not talking about Facebook. I?m talking [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/31/01/463101.jpeg[/IMG]

Shutterfly Stock Jumps As No Competing Bid for Kodak Gallery is Made

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

Early last month we reported that Shutterfly had agreed to buy Kodak Gallery for a meager $23.8 million. The process, done by way of a “stalking horse bid,” meant that another company was allowed to make a competing bid for the gallery by April 20th. Well, April 20th has come and gone and it seems [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/30/91/463091.jpeg[/IMG]

Photos Recreating Scenes From Movies

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

Allen Fuqua loves traveling and watching movies. To combine those two loves, he visits locations around the world were scenes in various films were shot, and reshoots them for what he calls “movie mimicking“. How many of these movies do you recognize? To see more of these images, check out Fuqua’s website, Movie Mimic. Each [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/30/65/463065.jpeg[/IMG]

Stunning Time-Lapse Portrait of Portland Created with 300,000+ Photos

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

This inspiring time-lapse video of Portland, Oregon was created by Uncage the Soul over the course of 51 days in March and April for the TEDx Portland conference. They captured 308,829 separate photographs at 50 different locations in and around the city. Each second in the video took an average of 3.8 hours of work [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/30/39/463039.gif[/IMG]

Flickr Rolls Out New HTML5 Uploader and Size Limits in War Against Rising 500px

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

Since late last year the photo sharing site 500px — which even then was “growing like a weed” — has continued to expand, grow, add features, and otherwise challenge Flickr for online photography dominance. But Flickr hasn’t taken it lying down. In the past this involved a redesign to make the site more visually appealing [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/30/09/463009.jpeg[/IMG]

How Large Format Cameras Are Made

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

This “How It’s Made” segment provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the manufacturing process for modern Walker Titan SF 4×5 large format cameras. (via NSOP)[IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/30/00/463000.gif[/IMG]

Photograph the Left Side of People?s Faces to Capture More Emotion

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

Everybody has had pictures taken that they can hardly stand to look at. Even professional portraits that eliminate blemishes and show you in attractive poses sometimes look strained, or emotionless. Well, a recent study published in Experimental Brain Research seems to say that the remedy could be as easy as turning the other cheek. It turns [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/29/70/462970.jpeg[/IMG]

EyeRing is an MIT ?Point and Shoot? Camera for the Visually Impaired

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

MIT’s Media Lab is no stranger to innovation; from super-high-speed cameras to cameras that can see around walls, they always seem to be on the cutting edge of imaging innovation. Their newest project, the EyeRing, is yet another innovative idea that could some day revolutionize the way we take pictures and experience our world. The [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/29/49/462949.jpeg[/IMG]

Glimpses of World War 2 Seen Through Photos of Modern Day Europe

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Apr 26th 2012 - 0 comments

After collecting old World War 2 photographs taken in major European cities, Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov spent a year traveling around Europe to re-photograph the same scenes as they look today. He then carefully combined the old images with the new ones to create photographs that show two views of the same location captured over [...][IMG]http://images.newschoolers.com/images/17/00/46/29/14/462914.jpeg[/IMG]