An Inside Look at Kodak and Some Fun Stuff

Live Photoshop Prank

Erik Johansson and his Photoshop prank have been the talk of the town over the past week.  Johansson composited actual persons into apparent advertisements live while they waited at a bus stop, and put the results before their eyes!  Johansson blogged about it on 7th June after which Photo Websites like Imaging Resource ran stories about it.

The prank may seem like intrusion but such a viewpoint...

Tutorials: The Golden Hour and Fireworks

Here are two dandy tutorials: one shows you how to simulate the 'Golden Hour' and the other one's a tutorial on a special type of Night Photography – fireworks.

Mimicking the Golden Hour

David Hobby on Strobist was miffed at some clouds for obscuring the sun one evening when he wanted to take portraits of a pair of pretty flautists posing against the woods.  So he 'faked' the 'Golden Hour'! ...

Richard Bernabe’s Masterful Composition and Lighting

Composition and Lighting are perhaps the two essentials of Outdoor Photography.  Richard Bernabe has not only authored an e-book on each of these subjects, many of his photographs reveal mastery over both, composition and light, such as his image of rocks, sea and cliff that has lateral symmetry on the horizon with even the sky and clouds being fairly laterally symmetric which is wonderfully balanced by an assymetric sub-horizon.

 A...

Christy Lee Rogers’s Underwater Fine Art Photography

Yesterday's post on our BPro sister site featured three news items and galleries about Underwater Photography.  We're continuing that theme today but with an extreme twist.  The images we're looking at are not regulation underwater photos, i.e. there are no pin-sharp depictions of marine life here.  Instead, Christy Lee Rogers uses water-based refraction, diffusion and distortion to artistic advantage to create what is accurately termed 'Underwater Fine Art...

Cameras, *Cameras*, CAMERAS!

It's a 'fast news' day (a fast f/1.4 day) on the camera front with three new cameras reviewed in the past 24 hours as Sony makes the right kind of 'noise' with the world's teeny-est APS-C mirrorless – with a matching teeny-weeny price.

Cutting Edge from Pentax

First up, though, is Pentax's double play from a few months back, the K-5 II and K-5 IIS, successors to the K-5.  These get a...

Light Painting Hat-trick

Today we have a double feature from PetaPixel on Light Painting – in fact, one of the features is itself a double feature as it exhibits the distinctly different creations of Joanna Jaskólska and Zach Ancell.  The second gallery exhibits the still different, dreamy, fantasy-like images of

.

These are purely galleries, not how-tos.  If...

Tutorials: Far Out and *Also* ‘Far Out’ . . .

We take in two tutorials at the 'long' and 'short'...

Idiot, Dreamer, or Rousseau with a Camera?

"It’s not enough anymore that photographers show us exotic places. . . . A good photographer is a storyteller, a reliable filter of his seen and felt reality."  That is the approach of Kai Löffelbein who photographed a series on Hong Kong's 'Cage People' – those who live in cage compartments in a cramped room.

A sampling of Löffelbein's fascinating work, World of Wire, appears alongwith an interview on...

America from A Few Different ‘Angles’

Today's post is all about America.  Three photographers, and several different angles into ’50s Chicago, last century's Fort Worth, and today's twilit backlanes of rural America are on offer.

Wayne F. Miller, R.I.P.

Wayne F. Miller was a Photography giant for both the United States and Magnum for over four decades.  Last week he passed away at a ripe old 94.  The Washington Post ran a tribute cum obit by Matt...