Cameras

How To Find The Perfect Portrait Lighting Using A Marble

This is a really great portrait photography trick that requires no special equipment: use a black marble to see how the light hits on the eyes of the person you want to photograph:


February 11, 2011
Geek Out

What Did Our Earliest Presidents Really Look Like?

Before photoshop, there was painting. If you were commissioned to do art, you weren’t about to paint an ugly portrait of the guy. So chins were lifted, skin was cleared, etc. and it gets sorta hard to tell what people really looked like. Until now.


January 31, 2011
Cameras

Shooting Challenge: Portrait, Gallery

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Our first shooting challenge got off to a cracking start. Here are some of your best portrait shots taken this past week.


January 25, 2011
Cameras

Shooting Challenge: Portraits

Gizmodo AU

Everyone’s got at least one digital camera these days. But how well do you use it? Welcome to The Gizmodo Shooting Challenge, where Giz readers get to pit their photographic skills against each other for the admiration of their editors on a dedicated theme each week. This week’s challenge? Portraits.


January 20, 2009

Metal ‘Portraits’ Make an Optical Illusion Out of Your Face

Sculptor Brian Cox has made a hobby out of turning people’s faces into a real-life, stainless steel Rubin vase illusions. Novelty gifts, as a whole, now have a new standard for, well, novelty.


January 15, 2009
Cameras

The First Official Presidential Portrait Taken With a Digital Camera

This picture of Barack Obama is the first official presidential portrait ever taken by a digital camera. The details are in the EXIF data.