We’ve come to the end of another week here at dpreview, and as our thoughts drift to weekend shooting opportunities, it’s time to take things a little less seriously. Aaron Johnson’s comic strip ‘What the Duck’ is just the thing, taking a gently satirical look through the lens of a photographically inclined waterfowl. You can find it published here (and in our newsletter) every week; we hope you enjoy it, and your weekend.
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Last couple of weeks have been all about nature and the outdoors. Another part of nature is the animal kingdom. So this week’s photography challenge is to get out and photograph some pets. If you don’t have any borrow your friend’s or neighbours.
Photographing animals presents a unique set of challenges. You have a moving, possibly unwilling subject to deal with – as well as potentially tricky exposure to try and get detail in fur or feathers. Just the right light is essential, as is a delicate hand at working with your furry (or feathered, or scaled) friends.
Let’s see how creative you can get. Here’s a few ideas to get you started:
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By Rafael Acorsi
By Paulo Brandao
By Tambako The Jaguar
By Charlie Stinchcomb
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Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them.
Need help? How about some articles on pet photography like these:
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A new Kickstarter project is aiming to make digital images more accessible to those without social media accounts. Famatic is a digital picture frame that connects to Facebook and Instagram – or you can email pictures as well. The idea is to place Famatic on your parents’ or grandparents’ mantelpiece and send them images of their grandkids and family events straight to the frame. Learn more
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A good photography backpack is capable of stowing essential elements like a full-size camera body, small family of lenses, laptop, tripod, and all necessary accessories. A truly great backpack can carry all of that while being carry-on friendly and providing a high level of comfort and adjustability. The minds at ThinkTank strove to bring that full package with the StreetWalker HardDrive photo backpack. But does it provide enough bang to justify its $ 229.75 price tag? Find out in our review
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We’ve been focused on nature and landscape for a while on dPS so it’s time to shift gears and move over to the fauna, specifically – pets. If you have any pets you no doubt have endless photos of them. I have tons of photos of my cats on my iPhone. But let’s take it up a notch and see some really outstanding pet photos and see how it’s done. I might even motivate myself to get out the “real” camera and take some photos of my girls.
Waiting to be Rescued by Darcy Evans on 500px
Suspense… by Elke Vogelsang on 500px
Oops~! by kimera jam on 500px
Winter water fun by Elke Vogelsang on 500px
Are you delicious …? by Seiji Mamiya on 500px
Black Lab by Oszkár Dániel Gáti on 500px
5 of a Kind by Darcy Evans on 500px
*Batman* by Regine Heuser on 500px
Eugene by Darcy Evans on 500px
Look by Pavel Shapovalov on 500px
Twins by Jake Olson Studios on 500px
Can you help me? by Tomasz Grabowiecki on 500px
Another Life by Jake Olson Studios on 500px
On the run by Josh Norem on 500px
Nice by Cheglakov Eugene on 500px
fish dance by visarute angkatavanich on 500px
The Cutie by Angi Wallace on 500px
It’s been one of those mornings… by Andrew Walmsley on 500px
Pals by Michiyo Clark on 500px
I caught the disk! by Sergey Golotvin on 500px
HedgeHog by Bryan Yong on 500px
Pencil Vs Camera – 58 by Ben Heine on 500px
Ferret by Mark Johnson on 500px
African Gray by cherylorraine smith on 500px
fairytale 2 by Cecylia ??szczak on 500px
The Kiss by Lipovan Cristian on 500px
We Don’t Need Cups (or Bowls) by Kevin Duffy on 500px
me and my cow by Teuku Jody Zulkarnaen on 500px
Kisses at sundown by Simone Hertel on 500px
Good Friends by ?????????? ????? on 500px
A Still Time by Seiji Mamiya on 500px
cat pillow-dog blanket by Szilvia Pap-Kutasi on 500px
Shiny whiskers by Zoran Milutinovic on 500px
wet cat 
by Alina Esther on 500px
Jalak Lenteng by Amir Rodof on 500px
un petit bain ça fait du bien by Thierry Vialard on 500px
Evil duo by Matt Mcintyre on 500px
Southern comfort by Winston Kletter on 500px
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More than 50 years after the satellites that captured the first high-res images of the moon plunged to the surface and were destroyed, a Wired article tells the story of a group of people that found the tapes after they ended up in storage in California. Re-engineering the old drives capable of reading the tapes, they’ve recovered these historically significant images. Learn more
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Photo editing has never been so easy as it is these days. The web offers you tons of Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions to add some cool effects to your images by pressing just one button! Lightroom presets are a fantastic tool that can help to automate your workflow and to add creativity to your photo library, no matter if Continue Reading
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Color photography has been around in one form or another for a very long time, but has only been the norm for around forty years. Their relative rarity makes the discovery of older color images perennially fascinating. After all, early color offers us a view of the past in the colors and tones of our own experience and memories. Which brings us to a box that editor Barnaby Britton found recently in his Grandmother’s attic. See photos and read more of the story
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Splitting at the seams like sections of sun-baked desert, this expansive park opens to the sky between a network of gaps and provides shade for people and plant life below. A sunken oasis designed by Thomas Heatherwick Studios, this massive Al Fayah Park will span over 1.3 million square feet and feature play and picnic areas, performance spaces and festival venues, vegetable gardens and native flowers amid rivers and other water features.
Anyone familiar with places like Black Rock City, Nevada will recognize the shape driving the design concept, but these are more than just an architect’s affectation. Beyond its naturalistic source of visual inspiration, the landscaping strategy speaks to climactic conditions in the United Arab Emirates – the sheltering dome of leaf-like decks keeps things cool below, but also helps prevent moisture loss.
From the designers: “By creating partial shade for plants, the canopy reduces the amount of water lost to evaporation, improving the park’s energy efficiency and sustainability. Whilst providing shade in the daytime, the elevated plates also become a network of unique meeting places in the cooler evening hours.”
‘This sunken oasis becomes a landscape of plants, mature trees and a cluster of public recreational spaces. The 20-metre-high shaded garden is conceived as a place for families to gather and picnic, as well as a place for learning and festivals.”
For those potential critics who still see the structure as somewhat too literal, it is worth noting the wide-ranging appeal of something so iconic to potential international tourists. Whether the shapes seem striking or trite to a given person’s tastes, part of the purpose of the design is to be recognizable and ultimately draw in visitors from around the world. One question still worth raising, though, might be its fit in the site context – will it blend into the surrounding ground or stand out in the city?
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Liebe Leser, heute haben wir keinen Artikel für Euch. Es mag überraschend sein, aber auch wir haben manchmal so ein Loch. Da geht nichts. Wir haben keine Ideen und keine fertigen Artikel von anderen Fotografen. Und bevor wir Euch irgendetwas Halbgares vorsetzen, verzichten wir lieber ganz darauf.
Jedoch möchte ich Euch heute herausfordern.
Wie steht es um Euren Konsum?
Was, wie bitte? Konsum? Was hat das mit kwerfeldein oder Fotografie zu tun?
Nun, auf den ersten Blick: Gar nichts. Auf den zweiten aber: Eine ganze Menge. Ich möchte das kurz erklären.
Wir alle sind auf dieser Webseite, weil wir die Fotografie lieben. Und das Internet.
Täglich gibt es hier frische Inspiration abzuholen, die nur noch gelesen und bewundert werden muss. Und weil es nicht nur kwerfeldein, sondern auch hunderttausend andere Webseiten gibt, kann es ja so schnell nicht langweilig werden.
So weit, so gut.
Aber: Wir können auch zu viel konsumieren. Zu Sesselhockern werden, die nur noch den metaphorischen Schnabel aufhalten und warten, bis der Wurm eingeworfen wird.
Das kann soweit gehen, dass wir vor lauter geilen Sachen im Netz vergessen, das wir selbst ebenfalls in der Lage sind, geile Sachen zu produzieren. Zu erschaffen. Selbst aktiv zu sein.
Denkt mal drüber nach. Beobachtet Euch mal. Was passiert heute, da es auf kwerfeldein „nichts“ gibt? Wo klickt Ihr jetzt hin? Was macht Ihr, um das Loch zu stopfen?
Wenn Ihr aber da dieses unendliche Verlangen nach Entertainment spürt, dann… spürt da mal hin.
Und fragt Euch, ob Ihr das wirklich wollt. Oder wie es wäre, mal wieder an den eigenen Fotoprojekten zu arbeiten. Oder gar heute noch den Gurt über die Schulter zu werfen und für eine Stunde rauszugehen. Zu fotografieren.
„Hey Martin, so verlierst Du aber Leser!“
Das mag sein. Aber ich sehe kwerfeldein nicht als etwas, bei dem es um gewinnen oder verlieren geht. Wir als Magazin haben neben der täglichen Publikation von tollen Fotos auch die Aufgabe, Euch herauszufordern.
Vergesst nicht, wer Ihr seid.
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