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Smoking is good for you!

January 23rd, 2007

Abstract photography is nothing new, and people constantly come up with new — or re-invent old — versions of photography techniques. One of the ones that is going like wild-fire (excuse the pun) around the interwebs at the moment is the art of photographing coloured smoke.
The trend started with the highly talented Graham Jefferey, […]

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Time for some Frame Storming!

January 20th, 2007

Just after we run our ‘photography with rules’ article, Popular Photography magazine comes along and beats us to it with an even better idea, by declaring January 21st as ‘international shooting-all-the-time’ day!
The concept? Take a photo at least every 5 mintutes for 15 hours of the day. But surely, that is complete and […]

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Dogma photography

January 17th, 2007

As a kinda-sorta follow-up from my most recent critique, where several of the commenters mentioned that they felt that their photography got better when they imposed rules on themselves, I started thinking: Which other constraints can you put on photography?
First of all — why? Well, in a machoistic kind of way, making rules about the […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and plugin by Elliott Back

Think of photos as paintings

January 15th, 2007

There’s a lot to be said for how the accessibility of affordable digital cameras has improved the level of photography overall, and I’m strongly in favour of the idea that digital photography is a good thing.
The downside of digital photography is that we are seeing a whole generation of people who never saw a […]

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Original post by Haje Jan Kamps and software by Elliott Back