Product Photography How Tos

Tabletop Studio has a comprehensive guide to product photography. Topics include, flowers, coins and jewelry as well as many others.

greyscalegorilla, which happens to be an amazing photo blog, has been posting only portraits for the last couple of weeks. They're incredible, as are most of his pictures.

Buy Not From Shopping Search Engines

DSLRBlog explains to us why we shouldn't buy photography gear from online shopping search engines. To summarize, he mentions the "If it's too good to be true" rule as well as discusses how some of the scammy online stores work. He then offers three tips for buying camera gear, which I think are pretty good.

1. Buy from brick and mortar stores. You can test (usually), hold and get a feel for what you're actually buying.
2. Talk to others who you trust for recommendations about buying through online stores.
3. Credit cards offer you a bit of protection, so pay with them if at all possible.

These tips are great in the realm of photography, but I think these are generally good rules to follow.

Art Department

Posts have been short lately and I apologize, but here's one more which features a ton of amazing photos from recognizable photographers. Art Department's photo section will no doubt seem familiar once you get into it. In fact, I bet you'll right away recognize Steven McCurry's link image.

Comeeko is a site that allows you to create comic strips from your photos. Looking through the gallery, it becomes widely apparent that people on the internet have too much time on their hands.

The Face of Tomorrow

What is the face of London, New York, Paris? What does a Londoner, a New Yorker, a Parisian look like?

The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalization on identity.

A short guide on photo composition.

"I gave a homeless kid a camera" is a forum post of a collection of images a homeless kid took in CA, after being given a camera and some film.

Blinks and Buttons

Blinks & Buttons is a set of two projects investigating the camera as a networked object. One of the projects, `Buttons' contains a camera like device, that records a moment in time with someone elses picture. Buttons does this by searching for public photos that were taken at the same instant as the device's shutter release, thus making a virtual exposure. Buttons only records the image it finds, not the image you are seeing in person.

The installation Blinks which contains a prism which refracts the ray of time running through a photo into all the moments that were captured simultaneously in different places.

Camera Compare

DPReview Side-by-Side: "It's like diff(1) for cameras." Ok, UNIX nerdism aside, DPReview.com has a really cool comparison tool that I just found. Select one of the many camera models that they have stats for, and then select a bunch more to compare stats with. I've seen other tools like this in the past for various other items, but with DPReview's reputation and insanely large library of reviews, this one is probably the best camera comparison tool available. I'm not currently in the market for a camera, but when I was buying a small point and shoot for my mom, this would have been great.

Arcade Exposures

This is what happens when you take long exposures of old 80s arcade games.

Landscape Photography UK, has a beautiful gallery of Landscape Photographs from different parts of the UK. Aside from purchasing prints, the site also provides a guide to photographing Anglesey, North Wales, which comes at a good time since I am possibly planning a trip to the UK. Not sure i'll get there though.

Printable Lens Hoods

Lens hoods are a good way to get rid of nonimageforming light, which can cause glare in your photos. Lenshoods.co.uk has a ton of Google ads scattered throughout, and if you can navigate without clicking an ad, you can download some free templates for creating lens hoods for many different lenses.

Monoface, aside from being a bit scary is really awesome.

alspix has an excellent tutorial on creating a pinhole camera out of a matchbox.

Photub Problems

Photub is experiencing some weird problems at the moment. If you receive an error message, just hit refresh. You'll probably see what your looking for. I apologize for the inconvenience, and will sort out this issue as soon as I can.

Voting has finished for this years Photography of the Year on Photography Corner. Congratulations to the winners!

SimCam, a virtual camera for basic exposure understanding.