China Update
Have, as always, received a warm and gracious welcome from everyone I’ve met here in Beijing. The organizers of this project have put together a wonderful week for the photogs. In the field, ups and downs, as always. Yesterday I climbed many, many hundreds of steps to get to this Buddha, carved into a hillside...
Yes, Nicholas Cage is a Vampire
I know, I spend way too much time on the internet—hey, somebody has to do it so you don't have to—but sometimes I run across something that really makes me laugh. The story here is that an Ebay seller apparently...
Do You Suck at Photoshop?
By the way, even though I've been using Photoshop since about 1994, I still kind of suck at it. Well, that's not quite true: I have better-than-average judgment, just worse-than-average skills. What I really enjoy is "messing about" with it,...
Giant Words Added to Photos Without Photoshop
The giant “GRIT” seen in this photograph wasn’t added in post-processing. The secret? Blue painters tape. Artist Stephen Doyle created the installation for a series of photographs that appeared in a recent New York Times Magazine article titled What if the Secret to Success is Failure? Here’s a behind-the-scenes video showing how the “wordwork” was...
Photographing Native Mongolians Who Had Never Seen a Photo of Themselves
Teenage photographers Vanessa Hollander and Wilson Philippe embarked on a ten-day motorcycle trip across Mongolia this past summer on a mission to give instant photo portraits to Native Mongolians who had never seen a photo before. They also made the above video documenting the reactions of a few of their subjects: each person photographed really...
FCPUG Glasgow meeting in Glasgow this Thursday
Venue : Thistle Glasgow, Cambridge Street, G2 3HN Agenda 6.30pm – Doors open, network & enjoy a drink 7 – 8pm Editing with Final Cut Pro X – the truth, what it is good for, how it works, how to integrate FCPX into your current wor...
Would Photography Greats Still be Great in Our Time?
Have you ever wondered whether hall of fame athletes from decades ago would still find success if the played their sports today? How about the same question, but applied to photographers? Would the historical greats of photography be brilliant across all ages, or were they simply pioneers and ahead of the curve in their generation?...
Alien Skin Software Announces Blow Up 3 Photo Enlargement Plug-In for Photoshop
Image quality is even sharper. User interface is now just as simple as Photoshop's resize command. Lightroom is supported. Runs faster. RALEIGH, N. C., Sept. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Alien Skin Software today announced Blow Up 3, the new version of ...
Controversial List of Influential Cameras
Jason Schneider, former longtime editor of Popular Photography magazine and well known as a camera collector, has written an intriguing list of "The 14 Most Influential Cameras of All Time" at Adorama's site. As you can see from a glance...
Google Voice – an Amazing Tool For Virtual Photographers
We’re in the middle of a big transition here at Virtual. This past weekend we moved from a very large home, into a smaller condo one third of the size. Downsizing is our new “buzzword” and we’re doing everything we can to simplify our lives. Part of it is a new direction we are heading...
Is This Nikon’s New Mirrorless Camera?
Over the weekend, Japanese blog ktf__design published this image of what appears to be the new mirrorless camera Nikon will reportedly announce on Wednesday. If it’s just some fan-made mockup, they did a great job — the mount and sensor section looks identical almost identical to the photo that leaked back in July. (via ktf__design...
