Anything and Everything that is cool, hot, fresh and classic.
ClearlyClosed is a rather uniquely focused website the “captures storefronts in everyday neighborhoods that leave their ‘open’ sign on long after they’re closed”.
Since it’s a user-driven, collaborative and ongoing community photography project, you’re encouraged to submit your own photos that show buildings around you that are clearly closed, and there are even tips and guidelines for doing so if this is something you’d like to document too.
[Via: Neatorama]
Denis Darzacq’s photography is fantastic (and almost unbelievable) when you consider the fact that “there is nothing false in these scenes. These moments really occurred. There is no fiction, no retouching or special effects”.
Instead, he uses athletic and gymnastic young folks as well as good timing to make it look like his subjects are about to smack the ground face first.
In Denis’ own words, “at the moment of the leap, chance and gravity also intervened”.
[Via: Kottke]
Considering last week’s Iranian missile story, I though that Henry Hadlow’s Tell A Lie project was rather fitting:
He also ads that he wanted to “flip this lie on its head and use a camera to mimic common Photoshop effects”.
Along those same lines, I thought that Fubiz’s Google Images idea was another fantastic way to take a photo with a digital spin that gives it a simple yet fun effect:
Jowling (AKA the Slap n’ Flap) is a photography technique where the subject completely relaxes their facial muscles and then shakes their head side to side as fast as they can.
The end result is a funny/silly picture that gives anyone’s face cartoon like proportions, and is perfect for capturing those candid moments.
Just something to keep in mind during your next family portraits…
[Via: Digital Photography School]
This weekend, grab your camera (or your friend’s camera), set the timer, and toss it in the air for a new style of photography called Camera Tossing.
The results are often a beautiful art piece that is less about documenting a moment, and more about creating an emotional picture that is filled with color and motion.
Check out COLOURlover’s article on Camera Tossing for a brief history of the technique, and some fantastic examples that should give you more than enough inspiration to get going.
[COLOURlovers - The Colorful Art Of Camera Tossing]
[Photo Via: Daddy0h]
A TOTO HET toilet can save up to 24,655 gallons of water per year, but how do you show that visually so that you can truly grasp what a number like that means?
That’s the question that SKAGGS faced for their latest photo shoot, and the answer involved “2 months of planning, 1 trip from El Paso to Dallas and back, 1,000 - 5 gallon water bottles, 3 trucks, 2 tractors, 1 buggy and a whole lot of man (and woman) power”.
Click the links for a rather interesting behind the scenes.
[SKAGGS - Water, Water Everywhere!]
[Flickr - Totology Photo Shoot]
[Via: NOTCOT]
Time-lapse photography can make anything exponentially more exciting, so it should come as no surprise that the seemingly boring subject of a parking lot takes on a life of its own when you can watch 24 hours flash by in just over a minute.
Called Cars and People, it was shot using a Canon Digital Rebel XT SLR camera with 15-second intervals between shots at the parking lot on Bay and Edward in Toronto.
Enjoy:
[Via: Jalopnik]
How do you define “The World’s Most Extreme Photography Equipment”?
According to Crestock, most extreme includes large lenses (1700 mm), huge megapixel counts (160), and giant photographs (313 square meters).
Check out the list for a look at the limits.
Armed with a camera, a face, and the information that is currently floating around the Photo-Blogo-Sphere, you will soon be shooting portraits like never before.
Hot on the heels of The Art of Portrait Photography, Epic Edits Weblog has put together a list of 16 Inspirational Portrait Photography Techniques.
With texture, exposure, lighting, posing, reflections, shadows, focus, movement, colors and emotion all covered, it’s a how-to that will have you capturing images like never before.
[Epic Edits - 16 Inspirational Portrait Photography Techniques]
[Photo Via: sam_samantha]
Holger Pooten’s photography is simply stunning.
It’s difficult to describe, so just click the link and see for yourself.
[(NSFW) Holger Pooten Photography]
[Via: Gizmodo]
