Kodak Trying To Get Its Name Removed From Kodak Theatre
Kodak Theatre, the famous theater on Hollywood Boulevard that hosts the Academy Awards, may soon have a different name. As part of its recent bankruptcy filing, Kodak is now trying to get out of the 20-year, $75-million-dollar naming rights contract it signed back in 2000. The theatre’s about page states, The naming of Kodak Theatre,...
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L.L.Bean recently decided to celebrate its 100-year anniversary by having this classic 1933 catalog cover recreated as a photograph by commercial photographer Randal Ford. It’s amazing how faithfully Ford and his team was able to recreate the illustration — some of the vintage clothing had to be purchased off eBay! Here’s a closer look at...
Artist Reveals Hidden Images Found in Everyday Photos
Dutch illustrator Tineke Meirink likes to take a closer look at photographs and then draw whatever her playful imagination reveals to her. Her website stop:watch is a collection of these “what it is” and “what I see” comparison...
Newspaper Photographer Suspended for Splicing Bird Photos
The Sacramento Bee has suspended award-winning staff photographer Bryan Patrick after it was discovered that he had Photoshopped two photographs of an egret eating a frog into a single photo. The newspaper, which is the 5th largest in California and the 25th largest in the US, says that the manipulation was done to make the...
Did You Know: Sepia Toning is Named After the Common Cuttlefish
Here’s your interesting photo fact of the day: did you know that sepia toning (when B&W photos are given that distinctive warm tone) is named after the Common Cuttlefish? The scientific name of the species is Sepia officinalis, and the ink produced by the fish was used for sepia toning when the technique first emerged...
Shoot Weddings in Comfort (and Style) with These Dress Pant Sweatpants
Are you a photographer who needs to dress nicely but loves to dress comfortably? Now you can have both! Check out these new Dress Pant Sweatpants by Betabrand: they look just like a pair of fine charcoal wool trousers, but they’re actually a super comfortable pair of sweatpants. You can snag yourself a pair for...
New Leaked Photos of the Retro Olympus OM-D Camera
New photos have emerged showing the retro OM-styled EM-5 camera that Olympus is planning to unleash on the photo world. It’s the first camera in a new OM-D line, and offers a beautiful old school SLR aesthetic. The image above, which looks like some kind of ad, reads, A new digital SLR era is about...
Portraits of People in Two Different Times
AgeMaps is a project by photographer Bobby Neel Adams in which he does “photo surgery” on portraits to show two different moments in a person’s life in the same image. For each subject, Adams takes a childhood photo and a current photo, prints them at the same proportions, tears them in half, and glues the...
Digg Founder Kevin Rose Interviews Instagram Founder Kevin Systrom
For those of you who are interested in the business and technology side of things, here’s an interesting 45-minute interview in which Digg founder Kevin Rose chats with Instagram founder Kevin Systrom: They chat about Systrom’s growing up with computers, his time spent at Stanford, and landing an internship at a startup destined to be...
Get 4.5GB of Extra Storage for Free on Dropbox by Uploading Photos
Do you use a free Dropbox account for storing and backing up your files? If so, get this: the company is currently offering up to 4.5GB of extra free space for anyone willing to help it test out the software’s new auto photo import feature. Your first photo import will land you 500MB of extra...
Why You Should Check All Your Layers Before Saving For Web
Here’s a Photoshop protip: before saving a final version of a photo for publishing on the web, make sure all the layers you want in the image are actually visible. Apparently some Photoshopper working for JCrew got careless with his layers, which led to the above catalog photo showing a model with transparent hair (in...
“Your Photos Look Better Processed in Lightroom 4. Period.”
Photoshop guru Scott Kelby has high praise for the overhauled Develop Module that’s coming in Lightroom 4. In a recent post titled “Why I Think Lightroom 4 is Going To Sell Like Crazy“, he writes, Your photos look better processed in Lightroom 4. Period. [...] The improvements in Lightroom’s Development module are so significant, and...
