Nik Software has launched an Android version of its Snapseed mobile editing software. Both the Android version and the updated v1.5 for iOS will be free (the iOS version formerly cost $ 4.99). The now Google-owned company has added direct Google+ uploading options to both. Read more about the changes to the app over at Connect.
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With the recent release of the awesome Nikon D800, why does one ever need to get a D4? In this video, we take a look at both cameras to see which one might be the right one for you. Nikon D4 pricing reference: www.digitalrev.com Nikon D800 pricing reference: www.digitalrev.com
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Chase welcomes #1 New York TIme bestselling author Tim Ferriss to The Garage.
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Supreme Sunday : Charlotte Beaudry
Image by Marc Wathieu
Supreme Sunday : Charlotte Beaudry’s "Get drunk" last day and party.
3pm
"Angry young wo/men" and "Punk, sex, and violence in feminist art" : lectures by Petra Van Brabandt and Tom Viaene (full abstracts here : www.wiels.org/site2/event.php?event_id=511&lng=en)
Petra Van Brabandt is doctor in philosophy (University of Antwerp). She works on David Hume’s socio-moral philosophy and feminist philosophy. She also writes on pornographic art ("Why do porn movies suck?" with Jesse Prinz, in Maes & Levinson, Art and Pornography, OUP, 2011). She focuses on women artists (film, literature, visual arts) and their difficult relationship to the representation of the female body and sexuality.
Tom Viaene works for GYNAIKA (http://www.gynaika.be/) and writes for rekto:verso (www.rektoverso.be), mostly over music, art criticism and philosophy.
4.30pm
Discussion and guided visit of the exhibition of Charlotte Beaudry with the artist and Aline Bouvy, Claude, Delphine Deguislage, Virginie Devillez, Céline Gillain, Aurélie Gravas, Claudia Radulescu, Anne-Claire Schmitz with whom Charlotte Beaudry works on various projects and who have accompanied the artist in the process which led to Get Drunk.
6pm
Drink & DJ set with Celine Gillain + presentation of the lp recently published by the collective Solid Bank. Solid Bank is an artist collective composed of Charlotte Beaudry, Aline Bouvy, Claude, Delphine Deguislage, Virginie Devillez, Céline Gillain, Aurélie Gravas and Claudia Radulescu. Recorded at short notice, this album is only available in vinyl and presents the results of a session of improvised sound experimentation. Described by the group as "figurative music", the content of this album consists of 10 tracks ranging from noisy performance to post-punk songs. (Solid Bank: "Solid Bank", 300 copies, After Lucy, 2011).
More info :
www.wiels.org/site2/event.php?event_id=508
www.charlottebeaudry.net/
cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels & High School # 9, Los Angeles, CA
Image by Xavier de Jauréguiberry
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11/10/2009 : Los Angeles, CA, Grand Ave: cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Rafael Moneo, 2002) & High School # 9 for the Visual and Performing Arts (Coop Himmelb(l)au, 2008)
A Guest Post By: John Davenport
Let’s be honest whether it is coming up with portrait posing ideas, photographing the stars, or avoiding danger in the field we all have a common goal here – gain more knowledge and put it to use in our photography – but there comes a time when we must be our own teachers.
We must venture out away from the tutorials, the guidebooks and those YouTube videos to simply do something for ourselves, without fear, and without guidance. Just with the knowledge that we already have in our heads. My friend, that is what this question is all about.
If I had not tried something different, something out of my comfort zone, I wouldn’t have been able to capture this photograph. I was attempting to create an HDR composite, but I wanted to see if I could create one with me in the frame. I’d never done this, I hadn’t even attempted it, so I just set my camera up to capture the brackets, put it on a timer, and walked into where I thought would be a good place to stand. However, while the camera was still taking the shots, I left the scene before the shutter had closed for the final time, and thus – a ghostly figure.
Another example is this photograph of the night sky. It actually consists of four separate landscape orientated images stitched together to create a vertical panorama with a fisheye like effect to boot. I talk in a bit more detail about how I created this vertical panoramic image on my own site, but if you’re listening to the message of this post, you probably shouldn’t have clicked on that link 
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Tutorials and guides make life easy. Follow the steps and you’ve got a great photograph, but is it original?
It takes courage to be able to do this style of learning and even more so to share your photographs with the world. You have to accept the fact that you’re going to make mistakes, you’re going to feel like you’ve wasted some time, and you’re going to have people tell you that you’ve done it all wrong, but to that I say all this is part of a good learning process.
Apply this no-holds-bars-experimentation-attitude to all aspects of photography and yes, maybe even to life as well.
Whether you’re using Instagram or Photoshop to edit your photographs asking, what happens if I do this?, is key to creating something different. Sure there’s a lot more to experiment with in the latter, but if you’re always using the same filter and the same blur effect in Instagram are you really learning anything?
Is it more important to get out in the field and forget the books once you’ve got the basic knowledge or should you stay up-to-date with all the knowledge that’s being shared on the web every-single-day and miss the possible shot of a lifetime?
John Davenport is an enthusiastic amateur photographer and blogger who shares daily photos on his site Phogropathy. You can also find him on Facebook and Twitter.
Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips.
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In this video, we look at two full frame DSLRs with essentially the same sensor inside: the Sony a99 and Nikon D600. But which one is the better choice? Price Reference Sony SLT-A99: www.digitalrev.com Nikon D600: www.digitalrev.com
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Last year, we showed you how to one-up those mall elves in the holiday photo game.
This year, we’ll show you how to spin circles around them. Pretty soon those guys are going to be asking *you* for photo tips (and who knows, maybe Santa will hire you as his new photog).
We’re sharing a slew of photo ideas that your family will actually have fun doing! Even the most stoic of teens will crack a smile.
From creative backgrounds to great group photos that take less than 5 minutes to all the holiday lights fun you can imagine, you’re bound to find an idea that’s both creative and a blast.
Those mall elves might have speedy printers, but you have JoJo on your side.
10 Fun & Original Holiday Photo Ideas
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Because it’s one of the best ways to wow your friends and family with your photo wizadry!
Seriously, though, maybe it’s the way a repeated image mimics the look of snowfall or the way you feel after you eat 10 frosted snowman cookies, but there’s something beautiful, ethereal even, about a multiple exposure.
Some tips: pick a simple subject, like your shiniest ornament, a hand-picked pine cone, a Holly branch or yourself!
Place your subject against a background that’s free of clutter. Check our ideas for fun holiday backgrounds down at #5 (Tinsel! Wrapping paper! Origami snowflakes!) ’cause those work great, too.
To get the same effect as in this photo by Valerie Chiang, you can nab a toy kaleidoscope and hold it in front of your lens. If you’re shooting with an iPhone, the Holga iPhone Lens has a kaleidoscopic filter that’ll do the job.
You can also shoot a multiple exposure photo by snapping the same subject, but moving your camera so that the subject is in a different part of the frame each time you shoot. You can pick however many times you want them to appear.
Get some tips at our Double Exposure Guide or try the (the TIM Holga, which lets you shoot double exposures.
You can also layer your photos in Photoshop or use an app like ImageBlender!
Since you prefer your snow on the ground or in a sno-cone as opposed to all over you, we found a just as magical snow alternative: COTTON BALLS.
You can make a whimsical snowfall like so:
Confetti or glitter are both another great snow alternative. Here’s a fantab example from Haley Sheffield.
You can even get fancy and turn it into a GIF! Here’s a guide to making a GIF in Photoshop or GIMP. Also, check out our guide to 5 Rad Ways to Play with GIFs.
For phoneographers, try apps like Cinemagram and GIF Shop for iOS or GifBoom for Android.
The best part about this idea is that it takes less than 5 minutes!
Grab your family, huddle together as tight as you can (AWWW), and shoot your reflection. You might try shooting from an angle to get your camera out of the shot or simply ‘shop it out.
Now, you’re a Christmas-edition of I Dream of Jeannie, and your cuzzos will be totally impressed!
The photo to the right was shot by Jonathan Arnold on film! Canyoubelieveit? The only Photoshopping he ended up doing was removing the camera from the image. Not bad, eh?
Freak your friends and family out by swapping heads!
They’ll squint until they finally figure out what’s going on. It’s the best!
There are a couple of ways to swap heads. The peeps over at ManBabies specifically swap babies’ heads with dads’ heads. Weird? Yes. LOLMAZING? Yes.
All it takes is a little cut and paste action in Photoshop, GIMP, or any other photo editor. The more precise you are, the more realistic the photo, and the more you’ll trick your friends and family … which is essentially the goal.
You can also simply swap faces, which is what the apps FaceJuggler for iOS and Face Swap for Android do. They detect the faces in a photo, and then switch everyone’s faces onto different bodies.
The result? THIS. Horrifying, hilarious, and endless fun.
You’re so resourceful, you could think of a million and one ways to reinterpret household stuff into rad photo backgrounds. Here’s a list to get you started:
Poking fun at yourself wins because that’s exactly what your family and friends love to do!
Beth’s faux portrait studio Christmas photos bring that ’70s/’80s vibe in the best way possible.
We asked her for tips on how she put this photo together, and she told us she feathered the edges of the photos in Photoshop and combined the two to make one.
Another fantastic resource for studio portrait inspiration: We Have Lasers!!!!
This is a goodie for those of you who don’t have a lot of time to craft a background or pick up extra gear.
Think about using what’s available to you. More likely than not there’s a Christmas tree lot near you with the given that it’s December.
Dress your family up, and wander through the trees for colorful family photos. That’s what Rachel Devine did last year!
Other ideas for locations:
We’d be fools to not take advantage of all the lights that pop up around the holidays!
A classic way to do so is to play with bokeh. Bokeh’s the blurred background you get when you have a shallow depth of field. This looks especially cool when you have lots of tiny lights in your background!
To get the best bokeh possible, aim for a large aperture (which means a low aperture number, like between f/1.4 and f/5.6). A portrait or telephoto lens works best – anything 50mm and up.
Just have your subject stand close to the lens and far away from the background, and BAM, bokeh will be in full effect.
Even cooler, you can make custom-shaped bokeh filters, like Amanda did above. That means the lights in your background can be different shapes — hearts, stars, words, whatevs! If you’re into that idea, you’ll want to check out our DIY Bokeh Kit.
Holiday lights instantly change your photos in these two ways:
These two photos (the first by Haley Sheffield) are a couple of ideas for shooting holiday lights both in the daylight and in the dark because, hey, you can do both.
Brad Heaton shot this one inside in a dark room with what looks like some flash on the right to illuminate his subject.
Things get magical around the holidays. So magical, that a baby floating next to a Christmas tree isn’t so far-fetched.
Paul Wallace caught this photo of his kiddo putting a topper on the tree!
Here’s an excellent guide to levitation photos. It may or may not have something to do with digital editing, which means your baby or other floating person will be safe and sound. (No actual levitation required!)
Photo credits: 1. Valerie Chiang (Tumblr), 3. Jonathan Arnold, 4. James S. on ManBabies, 5. Leslie Kerrigan, 6. Beth on Flickr, 7. Rachel Devine, 8. Kevin & Amanda & Our Nifty Notebook, 9. Haley Sheffield & Brad Heaton, 10. Paul Wallace
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Another 15 Minute Photo Challenge. This time I’m visiting Highley Manor in West Sussex. A walk around the outside of the manor yealds some interesting photo opportunities. For more details visit Web www.gavtrain.com Blog http Facebook www.facebook.com
“Marathon” By Miller Brother Films My brother and I were looking to shoot some Austin city time lapses for a Go-Green film I am working on this month for a client. We planned to do a shoot at Austin’s Livestrong marathon. Little did we know we would be spending the whole morning there shooting.This is the “same day” edit montage of that day.(well today) Enjoy! Shot on location at 2012 Livestrong Austin Marathon Austin, Texas DSLR Cinematographer/ Canon 7D Timelapse Photographer -Jordan Miller Nikon D300 Timelapse Photographer -Ryan Miller Additional Cameras: Canon 60D, GoPro HD Hero2 Music: “The Intro” by The xx
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