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Photographer Turns Her 14SQM Studio Into Fantastic Worlds (Not Photoshopped)

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Korean artist and photographer artist Jee Young Lee lives in Seoulwhere she uses a small 3.6×4.1×2.4 meter studio.

Jee Young converts her studio into fantastic worlds in a malicious process that takes weeks for each setup. Each process ends up with a wonderfully surreal world. Young Lee then takes a photo of the world as the final step of the artistic process. Amazingly, the photos are not manipulated by photoshop.

Jee Young Lee calls the series Stage of Mind and it will be presented in early 2014 at Opiom gallery.[Read More…]

Photo Used For 5Th Grade Social Experiment Goes Viral Showing How Viral Facebook Photos Can Get

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Some photos start as a naive upload to twitter or facebook, and end up in a viral flood that can drown the person who uploaded it.

Julie Anne Culp, a school teacher from Tennessee, wanted to educate her 5th grade students about the dangers and lack of control that photos over the internet have.

As a social experiment she uploaded a picture to her profile showing her holding a sign saying: ‘I’m talking to my 5th grade students about internet safety and how quickly a photo can be seen by lots of people. If you are reading this, please click ‘LIKE’. Thanks!’[Read More…]

Freelancers: Work For Free – The Reward Will Be Greater Than You Can Imagine

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We have shared quite a few articles on working for free. And usually we are not big advocates of that. Today we would like to share a different opinion by Dann Petty who shares how working for free landed him a contract with NatGeo. While Dann is a design/UI/UX expert, I think this approach may be relevant for photographers as well.

I recently wrote a post about how to make your clients love you, which reminded me of the one key things that kick started my career and landed me the type of work I was looking for. It will for yours, as well. I am talking about working for free.

Before you laugh, slam the computer, and tweet that I’m the dumbest person in the world, let me tell you a few stories about how I got where I am today.[Read More…]

2D Or Not 2D Challenges Our Perception Of Three Dimensional Photos

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Usually when we look at a photo we have a pretty strong intuition if it is a two dimensional illustration or a three dimensional object reduced to a two dimensional photo.

2D Or Not 2D Challenges How We Perceive Three Dimensional Photos

This is definitely not the case with the 2D Or Not 2D series from photographer Alexander Khokhlov and make up artist Valeriya Kutsan.

In a series of portraits they mimicked various sketching techniques on living models and photographed the results. You could probably swear that some of those are sketches or Photoshop manipulation. But no, they are real live portraits.[Read More…]

Epic Rant: Stop Photographing Snow Covered Patios! Response Shows Patios Are Still Loved

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The world is full of rants so you should be very careful about the ones you choose to listen to. Colorado’s 9NEWS at 6 p.m news co-anchor Kyle Clark was fed up with the huge amounts of snow photos his desk was getting.

This drove him to an epic two minutes of an epic rant about snow covered patio shots.

While he shows some empathy with the shooters he want the viewers to make a better effort of capturing winter:[Read More…]

Photos of Neatly Arranged Color-Coded Candies [NSFK]

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Austin-based photographer, Emily Blincoe, enjoys working with color. In fact, her work with color is borderline OCD.

While she has done other color coding work before like flowers, sodas and personals, this sugar crazed collection caught our attention. In a series of photo controlled with one color, Emily organizes a neat display of treats.[Read More…]

Are You Giving Each Shoot The Best It Can Get? (Like £3,000,000 Of Cars)

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We usually share Benjamin Von Wong‘s work because it is plain awesome. But sometimes, like today, we are not sharing his work for awesomeness (though, awesome it is) but for the inspirational message he delivers.

Ben goes through a story of a high end shoot that the gods decided should not happen. The opportunity rose 4 days ahead of the shoot with the day in question already taken for something else; location fell through 2 days before the shoot; pyrotechnician cancelled on the day of the shoot, and on the actual shoot temperatures were dead freezing.

Nevertheless, Ben came up with a series of awesome photographs. I asked Ben what roll inspiration played in all of this and he had quite a surprising answer:[Read More…]

The Box – How To Build, Light & Shoot A Photography Set On A Budget

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Like most projects, this one started with a very small and vague idea. I thought it would be cool to build a set that would be kinda like its own ecosystem: something very moody/foresty/damp.

First idea was to make it rain in a random household room. While I was brainstorming and getting into the details, I found it would be too much of a hassle to redirect all the water out of the studio. So instead of a room, maybe something smaller would work? It would have to be big enough for someone to stand in it, but small enough so that you could see that there is actually a box inside a room. Then have it be very moody.[Read More…]

The Leica Freedom Train: A Legacy Beyond Photography

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One of my favorite neighbors sends me photography-related emails every so often. She’ll send me a link for an upcoming museum exhibit or gallery show. Sometimes she’ll forward an article about a local photo contest. I look forward to her emails, partially because I appreciate her taking an interest in what I do, but also because it’s interesting to me to see what sort of photography stories and events are resonating with non-photographers. I received one her emails this past week and I was floored– shocked, actually, that I’d never heard the story of the Leica Freedom Train. It’s one of those rare stories that brings together so many aspects of my life, including my passions for photography and history, as well as some very deep connections to my family heritage.

While the actual numbers are lost to history, what has become known as the Leica Freedom Train was a rescue effort by Ernst Leitz II and his daughter Elsie Kuehn-Leitz to get hundreds of German Jews out of the country, starting within months of Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in 1933.

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