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Forced Perspective Tourist Photo Trolling (Viral Video)

Forced Perspective Tourist Photo Trolling (Viral Video)

Apparently, trolling isn’t just for strangers on the internet anymore. Trolls are now taking their game to one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks, the Leaning Tower of Pisa. After seeing the mass of tourists posing for photographs at the monument, all attempting to “keep the tower from falling” for a forced perspective photograph (see photos below) a group of friends decided to have a little fun with their photography as well.

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Nokia 808 Pureview: How the 41 Megapixel Camera was Made

Nokia 808 Pureview: How the 41 Megapixel Camera was Made

When the iPhone 4 was released, consumers lined up in front of Apple stores to get their hands on the smartphone that packed a relatively unrivaled 8MP camera capable of shooting HD video. Since then, the iPhone has become almost synonymous with the term camera phone, as it has even spawned it’s own genre of photography, iPhoneography. However, with the release of the Nokia 808 Pureview, smartphone manufacturer, Nokia, hopes to take control of the market.

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Professional Portrait Photography Lighting Perspectives

Professional Portrait Photography Lighting Perspectives

Lighting is a complicated subject that takes most photographers a lifetime to fully master. It’s easy it to get stuck in rut using the same old lighting patterns time and time again. Just ask Joel Grimes, a commercial photographer who learned the Rembrandt technique and stuck with it for nearly 20 years. When working on a testimonial […]

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Off-Camera Lighting in Photography

Off-Camera Lighting in Photography

If you’re just breaking into the world of lighting, you may want to devote a couple hours to Erik Valind’s recent seminar on controlling off-camera lighting. While the course is aimed at beginners, there are still tips scattered throughout the video that even a seasoned pro might find useful. Valind used a model to shoot live […]

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Tripods and Monopods Guide

Tripods and Monopods Guide

If you have already spent a little fortune with your latest digital camera, you might ignore the need for a tripod to complete your entire photographic experience. Fine! BUT while you make a move from good to great pictures taking, best camera tripod or monopod will avoid series of blurred images and are becoming useful add-on that all photo enthusiasts should have. The choice of your tripod or monopod is to be taken seriously because they generally last longer than your camera itself. As vibration is the best enemy of every single photographer, we would like to help you.

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Documenting a Day in Venice with Time-lapse Photography

Documenting a Day in Venice with Time-lapse Photography

Venice is a photographer’s paradise, a city of so many beautiful scenes, that it is hard not to find a great shot. However, what if you wish to avoid the cliche shots and shoot something very different? That is what photographer Joerg Niggli did when he created this stunning timelapse film of Venice from sunrise […]

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Flashed Face Distortion Effect

Flashed Face Distortion Effect

Accidents don’t have to necessarily be a bad thing. Such is the case when University of Queensland undergrad Sean Murphy accidentally discovered what has come to be known as flashed face distortion. The phenomena occurs when two side-by-side head shots are perfectly aligned at the eyes and the viewer focuses on negative space between the two images. […]

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Incredible Ad Campaign for Getty Images

Incredible Ad Campaign for Getty Images

Getty Images is home to millions of images available for use as stock photography. When Sophie Schoenburg and Marcus Kotlhar set out to create a short video clip for the stock photo agency to use for advertising, they decided to sift through a good percentage of those images one-by-one. A long six months later and […]

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The Man in the Pink Tutu

The Man in the Pink Tutu

In 2003, Linda Carey was diagnosed with breast cancer. To help her during the battle, her husband, Bob Carey, took on a unique photography project that helped inject a dose of humor into an otherwise dismal situation. Wanting to do more than pin a pink ribbon to his lapel, Bob instead made it a point […]

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How to Photograph Flying Birds of Prey in a Studio

How to Photograph Flying Birds of Prey in a Studio

When the Cascades Raptor Center in Oregon wanted to update images of their raptors, they turned to photographer Jon Meyers. Rather than shoot the birds at the center, they chose to use his studio, where they could control the lighting and look of the photographs in this very interesting session: A lot of planning and […]

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