10 Photographers You Should Ignore
Editor’s note: This is a piece by photographers Bryan Formhals and Blake Andrews on how famous photographers’ styles are copied over and over again. Please do not read or comment if you take things too seriously. The other day while reading the Internet I came across “The 10 Most Harmful Novels for Aspiring Writers.” I...
Ellen DeGeneres Directs Portrait Sessions at JCPenny via Hidden Camera
Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres recently sent one of her staff members named Amy to a JCPenny to pose as a studio portrait photographer. As clients came in, Ellen watched the scene through a hidden camera and gave Amy exact instructions for what to say and do through a hidden earpiece. The resulting interactions between...
Deer Strolls by Oblivious Photographer
Being able to concentrate is a great quality to have as a photographer, but make sure it doesn’t make you tunnel vision and cause you to miss shots. Photographer Hans Kruse was photographing deer in a park outside Copenhagen, Denmark, when he spotted this wildlife photographer miss out on a close-up of a huge stag...
Street Photography on the Sidewalks of Hong Kong by Eric Kim and Kai Wong
Street photographer Eric Kim and DigitalRev host Kai Wong recently got together to do some street photography on the streets of Hong Kong. Kim and Wong have personalities that go well together (and look like brothers), making for some pretty humorous ...
Guy Photoshops Celebs Into His Annual Holiday Party Photos
Every year, graphic designer Everett Hiller and his wife throw a party during the holiday season. Afterwards, Hiller Photoshops the photographs captured at the gathering before sending them out to friends and family. He doesn’t just fix white balance and removed red eye, but instead sneakily Photoshops various celebrities into the shots. Hiller finds source...
Training a Newbie in One Week to Fake It as a Pro Photographer
Kai Wong over at DigitalRev recently conducted this interesting experiment in which they spent a week training a newbie photographer — an IT guy without any background — to go up head-to-head in a studio environment against an actual photographer. The goal was to see whether they could fake it well enough so that one...
Basketball Fan’s Secret Weapon is a Giant Photo of His Own Face
An Alabama basketball fan named Jack Blankenship has been attracting quite a bit of media attention for his creative method of distracting opposing players when they shoot free throws: Blankenship printed out a giant photograph of himself making a strange face and waves it around while making the same face. His antics quickly caught the...
Meme: What Photographers Actually Do
Photo meme alert: here’s a series of humorous images that have been spreading across the Internet like wildfire. They show the differences between what various groups of people think about what photographers do.
(via Fstoppers)
Portraits of Dogs Jumping Underwater
Pet photographer Seth Casteel of LittleFriendsPhoto captures hilarious underwater portraits of dogs as they jump into a swimming pool to fetch balls and toys.
You can find more of these photographs over on Facebook.
(via Beautiful/Decay)
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How to Increase the Performance of Your Canon Kit Lens
This is your standard kit lens that comes with most entry-level DSLRs from Canon. It does an okay job for most things, but here’s how to make it better. Here’s a list of things you’ll need: Step 1: Use masking tape to cover up the lens around the silver ring: Step 2: Paint the silver...
