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Photographer Raj Khepar set out to highlight the excessive use of post production on beauty photographs by editing beauty portraits to the level where they show no facial features.
The results of his Synthetic Beauty series are quite eerie and disturbing.
I asked Raj about his inspiration for the project:
For our American friends the 4th of July poses a great opportunity to go out and have lots of fun with fireworks.
And there is only one thing better than playing with fireworks, and that is photographing them. Here are some great tutorials to incorporate fireworks of all kinds into your photography.
Click, click, bang, swoosh. Here is an unconventional use for gear – use it to make music.
Photographer Benjamin Von Wong along with composer Andrew Kesler and a small army of Nikonians used a small heap of Nikon gear found at Nikon Professional Services Canada to create some sweet music.
The idea was to use each camera’s unique shutter sound along with some of the beeps and blips coming from other gear to compose a short clip.
This amazing video was not on a regular screen, but on warm breath on a cold night (just in time for Projection Month)
Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth of Wriggles & Robins created an amazing video clip for Travis’s Moving video clip.
This of course requires two separate layers of creativity, one for the animation itself and one for the video clip.
Photography is light. Light hits the subject, travels through a lens and hits a sensor or a piece of film, creating an image. Everything else is just there to assist.
However, light can definitely go the reverse way, with the laws of physics enabling a complete reversed path. Light coming from somewhere near the sensor plate, going through a lens and arriving at a screen or a wall re-building an image.
Come to think about it this is almost magical, yet this is how cinema came to be, and how some of our sweetest memories were created.
The entire negative archives of Jacques Lowe – JFK presidential photographer – were stored in a fireproof vault in a bank in the World Trade Center. Lowe’s photos span from Kennedy’s 1958 U.S. Senate re-election campaign through his early years in the White House
Those negatives were lost on 9/11. It was a trove of about 40,000 individual negatives.
Luckily, Lowe stored about 1,500 contact sheets and prints in his NYC studio and D.C’s Newseum was able to restore about 70 of the photos.
We are familiar with Groupon or other group purchase services from the buying side. Those services offer you a pretty cheap coupon to get an item, or a service for about half the price or sometime even less provided that enough buyers hope on the deal.
[If you have never bought a Smartphone case from them raise your hand. No hands? good, you know what group purchases are. let’s continue..]
But how do those deals looks from the service providers side? Specifically from a photographer’s point of view. Photographer JP Danko of blurMEDIA photography was recently approached by a group purchase service to offer a full session coupon for $29.
Destin of Smarter Every Day has been long posting slo-mo footage of things exploding, firing, burning and breaking.
His latest installment is a slo-mo taken with a Phantom Miro320S that shows a detailed cycle of an AK firing a bullet and loading a new one into the chamber.
One of the speculation on the move Adobe made to the creative cloud is that it was done to address piracy. This is not surprising considering that Photoshop is probably the most pirated software ever.
Adobe CC was only released yesterday. Yet, a quick search on any of the big “sharing” sites reveals a Photoshop CC torrent, at least for windows. I guess this is not as surprising as it may seem considering the licensing software used by the new CC applications. Each application is installed with an offline copy, and connects to the authorization server upon installation and then every 30 days.
It would be pretty interesting to see how/if Adobe fights this piracy.
FIY, DIYP is against piracy pretty strongly, it just pisses everybody off.
[via fstoppers]
Just how complex is a digital camera? Pretty complex. Engineering students Matthew Farrell, Michelle Pang, Michael Tom of Engineering 128 class from University of California give a pretty good answer to this question.
The team modeled a Canon 10D mounted with a 24-85mm lens, then did an exploded view on it and re-assembled it in a beautiful video. While the (4 years old) video does not say if they used any blue prints from Canon, the comments suggests that they did the entire modeling on their own. Pretty impressive for a 1XX class. (much impressive than exploding a banana anyways)
[UC Berkeley E128 Final Project – Canon 10D DSLR v2 via Android-the-Andrew]
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
Alex Baker is a portrait and lifestyle driven photographer based in Valencia, Spain. She works on a range of projects from commercial to fine art and has had work featured in publications such as The Daily Mail, Conde Nast Traveller and El Mundo, and has exhibited work across Europe
Dave Williams is an accomplished travel photographer, writer, and best-selling author from the UK. He is also a photography educator and published Aurora expert. Dave has traveled extensively in recent years, capturing stunning images from around the world in a modified van. His work has been featured in various publications and he has worked with notable brands such as Skoda, EE, Boeing, Huawei, Microsoft, BMW, Conde Nast, Electronic Arts, Discovery, BBC, The Guardian, ESPN, NBC, and many others.
John Aldred is a photographer with over 20 years of experience in the portrait and commercial worlds. He is based in Scotland and has been an early adopter - and occasional beta tester - of almost every digital imaging technology in that time. As well as his creative visual work, John uses 3D printing, electronics and programming to create his own photography and filmmaking tools and consults for a number of brands across the industry.
Dunja Djudjic is a multi-talented artist based in Novi Sad, Serbia. With 15 years of experience as a photographer, she specializes in capturing the beauty of nature, travel, and fine art. In addition to her photography, Dunja also expresses her creativity through writing, embroidery, and jewelry making.
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