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How To Take The Classic Mirror Profile Picture Without The Camera In It It’s hard for clients to understand why photographers charge so much for photos. So if you find yourself in the same situation as Ian Spanier — who was hired for a shoot with no money for an assistant — you too can build this impressive-looking backpack studio flash rig.
Welcome to The Gizmodo Shooting Challenge, where Giz readers get to pit their photographic skills against each other for the admiration of their editors — and for the next month — the chance to win a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook! This week’s entries close Tuesday morning!
It seems like England’s Olympic athletes aren’t the only ones interested in setting world records this year. Photographer Clare Newton has just been awarded a Guinness World Record for the world’s longest photo that measures over a kilometre in length.
Light painting is one of those magical photography techniques that never gets old. Fancy effects! And even… dresses? Mmhmm. Atton Conrad, an advertising and art photographer, used light painting to dress his models and make them look gorgeous.
There certainly is no shortage on photography apps lately. The lion’s share of them are Instagram clones, allowing you to alter your pics with sepia-toned and vintage-style filters. FreezePaint, however, offers something completely different with an app that lets you capture and duplicate different parts of your image.
Web startups are made out of two things: people and code. The people make the code, and the code makes the people rich. Code is like a poem; it has to follow certain structural requirements, and yet out of that structure can come art. But code is art that does something. It is the assembly of something brand new from nothing but an idea.
Chances are you’ve got a digital camera of some sort in your pocket or bag, but you’ve never given too much thought to how it really works. Pictures go on computer, not film. Right, well, here’s a simple and straightforward explanation of how that happens.
You’ve been there, I’ve been there — telling someone to smile and pressing that camera shutter down only to realise a few seconds later that your cam was in video mode. Director and editor Dean Fleischer-Camp decided to exploit that premise to some hilarious ends.
