Photo Sharing & Inspiration
The best April Fools’ Day pranks in photography
April Fools’ Day has finally arrived! In 2013, a lot of cool things have happened on April 1, from Google shutting down YouTube to Canon releasing a DSLR camera for left-handed photographers. Additionally, Instagram is available on Windows Phone 8, while Leica and Zeiss are working on the camera in Apple’s next-gen iPhone.
MCP Editing and Photography Challenges: Highlights from this Week.
This week’s editing challenge photo features a darling cutie captured by Jennifer Moses. Here is the original shot: Several of members of the group have shared great edits. Here are a few of the many favorites: Edited by Amber Bullock Owens with MCP Fusion Edited by Amy MagnetGirl Edited by Carrie Smith Flanagan Edited by Irene…
How To Edit Wildlife Photos Quickly With Photoshop Actions
How To Edit Wildlife Photos Quickly With Photoshop Actions Background and Gear In the past year, I have discovered a photography LOVE: photographing wildlife. When I traveled to Australia and then Alaska in 2012, I discovered my love for taking pictures of whales, kangaroos, and bears. Show me any creature roaming around in the woods…
North Korea used Photoshop to make its hovercraft fleet bigger
North Korea is making serious efforts, in order to be taken seriously by the United States and South Korea. However, the Asian country is making some key mistakes which decrease its credibility. The latest in a long line of blunders consists of photoshopping an image of its hovercraft fleet, to make it appear bigger in numbers.
Viral photo of a skateboarder ollieing over subway tracks
An image of a skateboarder jumping over the subway tracks in New York City has went viral. The dangerous stunt has been performed at the 145th Street station and it has been immortalized by photographer Allen Ying. Although many have deemed the photo as “fake”, it is very real and available in the latest 43 Magazine issue.
Rare photos of the view from the top of Egypt’s Great Pyramid
Three Russian photographers pulled a stunt like no other by climbing up to the top of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The youngsters were foolish, but brave enough to pursue their dream of capturing rare photos of the view from the top of the biggest pyramid in Egypt, and they dully delivered, as the images are breathtaking.
Lost Canon PowerShot camera found after six years and 6,000-mile trip
All’s well that ends well! An American woman lost her camera during a scuba diving trip in Hawaii. However, her camera has been found in Taiwan after six years. The Canon PowerShot traveled more than six thousand miles before being found by a China Airlines employee and the company managed to find the camera’s owner.
MCP Photography and Editing Challenge: Highlights from this Week
This week’s photography challenge is all about getting in shape; no spandex, push-ups or gym time required. As a matter of fact, the goal is not symmetry or perfect form, but interesting angles and shapes. This week the MCP Shoot Me Group challenge is to practice manipulating shapes; finding new ways to group things,…
Photographer Alexander Morris builds DIY Instagram photo booth
A photographer took matter into his own hands and built a photo booth from scratch. The source of inspiration for the Do-It-Yourself booth has been the Instagram logo. However, the equipment behind the project is a lot more powerful that the mobile devices being employed by Instagram photo-editing users.
Nat Geo photographer Instagrams foot shot from Burj Khalifa rooftop
National Geographic photographer, Joe McNally, uploaded a foot shot on Instagram. Usually, this is neither a big deal, nor very artistic. However, this time it is different as the foot shot has been captured on the rooftop of the world’s tallest building, called Burj Khalifa. The building sits on top of the Dubai skyline, measuring 829.8 meters.
Intel-made infographic reveals what happens in an internet minute
Billions of people now have access to the internet. It does not matter whether they are connected through a computer, smartphone, or tablet. What matters is that about 640,000 GB of data is transferred in a single minute over the internet. The information comes from Intel, whose engineers have compiled an interesting infographic.
MCP Photo and Editing Challenges: Highlights from this Week
Better late than never, this week the MCP Facebook group offered up another chance to exercise your creative editing skills with this stunning nature photo shot by Sue Zellers: The MCP photo challenges give you a chance to edit other photographer’s images, share them for critique, and see how others edit the same photographs. Participating allows…
Menswear Dog helps you keep up with the latest fashion trends
A lot of people enjoy buying clothes for their pets. They even like to take photos of their sharp-dressed photos. However, a couple living in New York City has taken this act to a whole new level with the help of their dog. The New Yorkers dress their Shina Inu in stylish men clothes and post the results on the “Menswear Dog” Tumblr blog.
Photographer wants to create a map of beautiful women while traveling
A Japanese photographer has started a quest to compile a map of beautiful women. Kei Akatsu is looking to fulfill his dream with the help of a Kickstarter-like funding platform. The photographer wants to raise money in order to travel around the world and to take photos of pretty girls, then to create a map everyone to see and use.
MCP Editing and Photography Challenges: Highlights from This Week
This week the MCP Shoot Me Group is breaking all the rules; rules of photography that is. The photography challenge this week is to pick a rule of photography (e.g. the rule of thirds, rules of focus, rules of lighting, etc) and break it. Each photographer was challenged to take one photo…
The 120 Pinhole Project is a DIY 120 medium format film camera
More than 37,000 projects have been funded through the Kickstarter project. Many of them are related to photography and one more could become a dream come true for a photographer. It is called “The 120 Pinhole Project” and it consists of a very cheap do-it-yourself 120 medium format film camera.
MCP Editing and Photography Challenges: Highlights from this Week
This week the MCP Facebook Group issued another fun editing challenge. This week’s image, shot by Abigail Hardy, is a full of boyish charm and wonder. Here is the original image: The photo challenges give you a chance to flex your creative muscles to edit other photographer’s images, share them for critique, and see how others…
MCP Editing and Photography Challenges: Shallow Depth of Field
Photography is all about perspective; telling a story from behind the lens. Small adjustments to aperture and shutter speed can make a huge impact on the feeling your image conveys. This week the we challenged you to explore depth of field through aperature and shutter speed changes. One subject, two photos equals two very different…
MCP Editing and Photography Challenge: Highlights from this Week
On Monday, the MCP Shoot Me Group issued Photo Edit Challenge #3. This week the challenge was to edit this lovely, ethereal still life taken by David Lester – BackRoad Photography. Several members of the group have shared creative edits. Here are a few of the many favorites: Submitted by Sue Zellers Submitted by Sonia-Glasser-Sutton Submitted…
Wait Watchers, or “Would you look at that!”
37-year-old Memphis based photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero, exploits the idea of fat-shaming, by studying people’s reactions to her body image, in a photographic collection suggestively entitled “Wait Watchers”. The project is a series of self-portraits shot in public, that capture unpleasant stares from strangers passing by.
Lens pepper mill grinder brings good taste to your meals, not your photos
Nuop Inc. makes both cooking and photography enthusiasts smile, with an appliance that will make them have a blast in the kitchen, or at the dinner party: the camera lens pepper mill grinder looks like a traditional camera lens, but what it actually does is grinding peppercorns with style.
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