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Great, people might soon reply to your Instagram Stories with voice messages

Mar 28, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
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I was really happy about Instagram’s recent Story likes – no more DMs with emojis, just a little heart when I open the Story views. However, it looks like Instagram Story replies are about to become worse than they used to be.

Reverse engineer and mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi recently discovered that Instagram might add voice messages as Story replies. So, instead of people reacting to your Stories with a simple emoji (or, God forbid, a message), they might soon be able to record audio messages for you.

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I imagined what an “Organ Trade Market” might look like and made a photo of it

Jul 21, 2019 by Juhamatti Vahdersalo 6 Comments
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A surgeon at a meat market. An absolutely ridiculous and simple idea, so it had to be done for real! I am very lucky to have so many great friends with massive storages of strange stuff that they are willing to lend. I remembered that one of my friends had a stretcher so I only needed meat counter with innards and a couple of models.

As I was talking about this project to another friend of mine, he then figured out how to get models, meat counter and innards at once. One call and all was set, photoshoot next week. What a great feeling to have these kinds of contacts and people around me!

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What is missing from photography

Aug 8, 2018 by A.B Watson 3 Comments
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It has been bugging me for a while now, there is just something that is missing from photography. From my personal work to the majority of photographers out there. I’m talking about the photos on your feeds, be it personal to commercial. It has been bugging me and I finally found out what it is, what is missing from photography, is stories.

A disclaimer, I’m not talking about photojournalism, or anything relating to the Pulitzer Prize. Those are photos with real stories that are important and need to be shared and told to the world. The photography I’m talking about is the personal, the creative, the artistic, the majority, the mainstream.

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Welcome to Marwen is a movie telling a touching story of a miniature figurine photographer

Jul 19, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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This December, Universal Pictures is releasing an unusual, original movie inspired by photography. Welcome to Marwen is announced as “the most original movie of the year,” and it tells a true story about a man who found courage and restored his broken spirit through photographing miniature scenes.

Staring in Welcome to Marwen is Steve Carell, who was nominated for Oscar in 2014 as a lead male actor in Foxcatcher. Robert Zemeckis is the director, and you may know him for Forrest Gump, Flight and Cast Away.

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Instagram now lets you share other people’s posts in Stories

May 18, 2018 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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After the testing period, now it’s official: Instagram now lets you share other people’s posts. Although it was speculated that Instagram would let you share posts to your profile, it is not the case after all. If you like what someone else posts and want to spread the word, you can only repost it to your Story.

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Photographer captures illegal mammoth tusk hunting in a striking photo series

Jun 16, 2017 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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Sometimes, photos tell incredible stories you find hard to believe. A Radio Free Europe photographer Amos Chapple tells a story that’s exactly like this.

He traveled with men who illegally mine for tusks of the long-extinct woolly mammoth. In Siberia, a vast and isolated region of Russia, these men go on real treasure hunts. Between hard work, fear of getting caught, hordes of mosquitoes and desperate drinking, they struggle to find the treasure and make money, but also to survive. And a talented photographer captured it all in a series of amazing images.

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These are three essential components for telling story in a single photo

Apr 5, 2017 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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You know what they say: a picture is worth a thousand words. But telling a story with a single image is not an easy task. As you know, there are many essential components of a good photo, both regarding technical quality and the story it tells. Photographers Chase Jarvis and Joe McNally teamed up to discuss storytelling in photography.

In this video, they have focused on telling a story in a single image. It’s certainly not an easy thing to do, but there are three components you should include before and during the shoot to achieve it. It takes a bit of preparation, thinking and practice, but it’s well worth it.

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Learn how to tell a story in your work with this free “Pixar in a Box” series of shorts

Feb 16, 2017 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Telling a story with our work can often be one of the most challenging things we face as creatives. But it’s also one of the most important. Whether it’s a drawing, a photograph or a film, having your work tell a story gives it meaning. It speaks to the viewer in a way that they can relate to it. According to Pixar, we are all story tellers. Every single one of us. Even if we don’t all know how to tap into it.

In this six part series, from Khan Academy Labs, directors, animators and other Pixar wizards talk to us about storytelling. How we naturally tell stories in the real world without even realising it. And how to look at some of our favourite movies and works to figure out what the story is and why it works. And, oh yes, there are activities!

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On “Trame” – A photograph can be more than the sum of its included parts

Nov 21, 2016 by Andrew Molitor 2 Comments
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I feel that there’s a word missing from our vocabulary, and this essay is the culmination of an effort to find such a word, to define it usefully, and to work through some of what it might mean.

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Don’t be a Photographer, be a Storyteller

Nov 17, 2016 by Allan Higa 4 Comments
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Here’s a few reasons why having a story to tell is far better than when it isn’t.

1. Billy Goat curse set down upon the beloved Chicago Cubs. With that, MLB didn’t have to put a cent towards marketing this World Series.

2. Kyle Busch, making the ultimate comeback after a broken leg, goes for his first championship while Jeff Gordon, the face of NASCAR alongside Dale Earnhardt Jr., races his last race (or so we thought). 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship needed no marketing, everyone wanted to see if Jeff Gordon could walk off in his last race with one more championship.

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