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RSS feed[Video] An Almost-Vintage Walk Down Memory Lane For The 80s Kids
Posted by Mike Kelley on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
Antonio Vicentini recently created this 8-bit gallery of cameras spanning pretty much everything from antique large format cameras through modern DSLRs. It’s a cute, semi-retro, nostalgia-inducing piece for anyone who grew up in the 80s or early 90s. What I find most interesting is how many cameras I was able to recognize; though I’m not [...]
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[Video] An Almost-Vintage Walk Down Memory Lane For The 80s Kids
Posted by Mike Kelley on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
Antonio Vicentini recently created this 8-bit gallery of cameras spanning pretty much everything from antique large format cameras through modern DSLRs. It’s a cute, semi-retro, nostalgia-inducing piece for anyone who grew up in the 80s or early 90s. What I find most interesting is how many cameras I was able to recognize; though I’m not [...]
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[Photos] Timing Is Everything: Animal Photography
Posted by Corey Melton on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
Animal photography requires a great deal of time, patience, and let’s just say it … it takes a bit of luck. This post has some of the best examples of perfectly timed animal photos which seem like pure luck. Most of these shots are so incredible that if you blinked you would have missed it! [...]
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[Contest] The Winner Of A Nikon D800 Or Canon 5D Mark III Is
Posted by Patrick Hall on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
A few weeks ago Fstoppers teamed up with SLR Lounge for a contest giveaway. The contest wasn’t just any contest though; we wanted to give one of our lucky readers either a brand new Canon 5D Mark III or Nikon D800 camera of their choosing. All the entries were in by April 30th, and yesterday [...]
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[Photos] Lauren Marsolier’s Recomposed Landscapes
Posted by Corey Melton on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
Lauren Marsolier uses all kinds of elements in pictures to assemble and reconstruct non-existent but yet familiar landscapes. There is much to be said and to be appreciated of pure composition. Lauren’s photographs leave me with such a feeling of peace and calm through her balance of color, leading lines, geometry, texture and light. Simply [...]
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[Pics] April’s Best Facebook Group Photos
Posted by Jaron Schneider on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
It’s that time again… who impressed us with the best images uploaded to our Fstoppers Facebook Group? We select the most compelling, best lit, or most jaw dropping images every month, and honor them with a coveted badge of their achievement. Did your photo garner the praise of your peers? Maybe it flew under the [...]
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Featured Member Photos – May 1st, 2012
Posted by Photo-John on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
This round of Featured Member Photos includes images from Italy, Ireland, Virginia and Yosemite National Park in California. We’ve got a flower / fly macro, a nice bird portrait, a moody black-and-white landscape (isn’t there always a moody B&W landscape?) and a really ugly (great) photo of a soccer / football goalie getting kicked in the face. Click on the thumbnails below to see larger [...]
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The Best Fstoppers’ Posts From April 2012
Your “Likes”, “Tweets”, comments and clicks all help us know which are our best posts of the month. And because we don’t want anyone to miss any of Fstoppers’ goodness we put “The Best of” in a monthly newsletter for you. So, if you think you may have missed anything this last month, check out [...]
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[BTSV] Mission Impossible, Filming a Mile and a Half High
Posted by David Strauss on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
If you’re curious how Tom Cruise and a film crew got their shots on the Dubai Tower, here’s a little sampling of their set up. I suppose since it’s his trademark, if someone’s going to run down the side of the tallest building in the world, it might as well be Tom Cruise.
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Think Tank Photo Announces 4-Wheeled Rolling Camera Bag – Airport 4-Sight
Posted by Photo-John on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
To help protect the shoulders and backs of traveling pro photographers, Think Tank Photo will be making a new 4-wheeled camera bag called the Airport 4-Sight. According to Think Tank, the Airport 4-Sight will be the first 4-wheeled rolling camera bag on the market. On smooth surfaces it can be rolled on all four wheels and even turned sideways, making it possible to roll it down the aisle in [...]
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[Video] Glidecam With a Little Mix of Music
Posted by David Strauss on May 1, 2012 · 0 Comment
Many of you may know the name Devin Graham, the cinematographer who filmed the giant rope swing in Utah featured a couple months ago. Devin has a signature style using a glidecam in most of his videos. Though he incorporated it in several shots in the rope swing project, some of his projects seem to be [...]
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[Video] Burned Out On Photography? This Will Make You Smile
Posted by Nicholas Gore on April 30, 2012 · 0 Comment
I feel like everyone gets burned out on photography, or anything that they do for that matter, after a certain period of time and you just need something to pick you back up, this very cute video might just do that. Check out more from director Nick Scott HERE.
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[Film] New and Improved Instant Film Made by Former Polaroid Employees
Ten of Polaroid’s former employees have created a new and improved instant film for your Polaroid cameras. It is part of The Impossible Project. Back in 2008, they purchased one of the last Polaroid factories in an effort to keep the art form alive. Two years later, they released their first films into the world. [...]
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[Video] Grab Your DSLR And Take Part In This Interactive Film
Posted by Mike Wilkinson on April 30, 2012 · 0 Comment
When I first saw the link to this interactive short “Darkroom”, I was expecting some sort of YouTube style Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, where I’d have to click on links to new videos. Much to my surprise though, it was nothing of the sort. In this unique video by Vimeo User FIAP, you will want to grab your [...]
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[Deals] Sandisk Strikes Again! 16GB Memory Cards For Less Than $20!
Posted by Patrick Hall on April 30, 2012 · 0 Comment
Hopefully this post isn’t as exciting to you because you already took advantage of the HUGE Sandisk 32GB sale we posted last week. But if you missed it or for some reason thought 32GB was overkill, Sandisk 16GB Memory Cards are on Sale today only. Even if you don’t need more memory for your DSLR [...]
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[BTS] Building A Car Composite
Posted by Nicholas Gore on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
This is a very cool video from the guys over at Aesonica, they’re shooting an Audi A4 with only a single light and a whole lot of post work. Just goes to show that you don’t need a ton of money to make a great shot of a car. Well, you’ll need plenty for an [...]
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[Pics] It Was The Last Flight Of Space Shuttle Discovery And I Was There
Posted by Noam Galai on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
On Friday I had the pleasure to see and photograph Space Shuttle Discovery flying for the last time, and not just flying, but over one of the greatest cities in the world – New York City. Usually things like this used to be announced on the day of the event, leaving no time for preparations, [...]
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[Behind The Scenes] Fashion Photographer Melissa Rodwell’s Kurv Magazine Shoot
Posted by Patrick Hall on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
Fashion photographer Melissa Rodwell has become a good friend of ours over the years. The New York based photographer lives and breathes fashion photography, and as you can see with her images it really shows. The self proclaimed “photographer who does not own a digital camera” teamed up with Kurv magazine to produce some very [...]
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[Photos] Fun, Fresh Twist On The Same Old Wedding Pics
Posted by Corey Melton on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
It’s always a challenge finding new ways to shoot engagement and wedding portraits when it has been done SO many times. Here are some shots that break the mold and have ventured out of box. If you have some creative ways that you do your portraits and want to share them with the Fstoppers community, [...]
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[Pics] Combining The Microsoft Kinect And Infrared Photography To Produce Stunning Results
Posted by Pratik Naik on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
With technology continually advancing, it increases what we can do with photography. In this series by photographer Audrey Penven, she uses her infrared camera to capture the light that the Kinect puts out. Keep in mind, that these dots of light cannot be seen by an unaided eye, which is why the infrared camera is [...]
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[News] Career Advice From A Professional Retoucher.
Posted by Nick Leadlay on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
The majority of photographers I know have a love/hate relationship with post production and retouching. In fact, for most of them, it’s more of the latter. As a fashion photographer/retoucher myself I find I’m often in the minority as I personally enjoy both. Quite often I enjoy retouching more than shooting even. There are of [...]
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[News] You Break It, You Bought It
Posted by Corey Melton on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
Below is a selection from a New York Post article that I read earlier this week. At first I laughed at the reality of a photographer being so careless around an ancient piece of art. The laughing stopped pretty quickly though once i thought “What if I had done this and had a lawsuit hanging [...]
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Dave Hill Shoots The Ford Fusion Ad Campaign
Posted by Nicholas Gore on April 29, 2012 · 0 Comment
This is a very cool video from Dave Hill as he shoots the composite images for Ford Fusion ad Campaign. This is a definitely a complex shoot and it’s great to get a behind the scenes look at the way Dave works. Check out more of his work HERE.
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[Video] Wingsuit Flying: The Reason That GoPros Were Created
Posted by Mike Kelley on April 28, 2012 · 0 Comment
Halvor Angvik and Jeff Nebelkopf created this video with the help of Red Bull and JokkeSommer. The fact that Red Bull sponsored it should tell you all that you need to know: It’s absolutely incredible. I’ve seen some crazy wingsuit stunts before, but this has been captured impeccably with the use of multiple camera angles [...]
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[Video] An Alfred Stieglitz Documentary – The Eloquent Eye
Here’s an in-depth look at the life and work of legendary photographer Alfred Stieglitz. It’s part of the PBS American Masters series, and you can watch it here in it’s entirety. Stieglitz was a pioneer not only photography but modern American art as a whole. He was born in Hoboken, lived his life in New [...]
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