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FLORA PHOTOGRAPHICA: MASTERPIECES OF FLOWER PHOTOGRAPHY FROM 1835 TO THE PRESENT
Flora Photographica is a bouquet, a striking and extravagantly designed album of images that celebrate the beauty and pathos of flowers in all their forms. In these pages flowers speak to us with a greater intensity and more subtle modulation than in nature itself. For [...]

Robert Mapplethorpe (November 4, 1946 – March 9, 1989) was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and naked men. The frank, homosexual eroticism of some of the work of his middle period triggered a more general controversy about the public funding of artworks.

Robert Mapplethorpe is [...]

Balancing Point from DANNY BROWN on Vimeo.

From Roger Fenton’s prints of the Crimea to mobile-phone images of Baghdad, every era of war photography has been marked by new technology. But what has always mattered more than technical brilliance, argues Geoff Dyer, is getting close enough to the epicenter of history.
Geoff Dyer’s text is about Robert Capa’s photography. He debates the authenticity [...]

During the Photo Tour in October I came across many mushrooms. These elements of nature ( I can’t call them either plants nor animals), have beautiful shapes and sometimes amazing colors. Most of the time I came across groups of mushrooms hidden in the death leaves.

How you “see” your subject will portray the way it [...]

With a three or more megapixel digital camera or a good scanner, affordable image-editing software, and a photo-realistic printer, you have all the tools you need to create absolutely stunning images. But understanding all your options and getting the best possible results can be daunting. What features should you look for in a digital camera? [...]

For this week I picked a theme and searched for photos regarding “Friendship”.
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Sometimes I wonder if wedding photography is so competitive that practitioners are always trying to get any edge they can so that they are always willing to buy new books on wedding photography. Or maybe it’s that the field looks so lucrative to outsiders that they are willing to buy wedding photography books to try [...]

The Photoshop function that I tend to use more and more often is Highlight / Shadow Adjustment.
You can find the “Highlight / Shadow” effect in the Image -> Adjustments menu.
This function is divided in two sections.
One section is dedicated to Highlight – here you reveal details on the sky (for example), darken the overexposed areas.
Another [...]

Today I came across Harold Lloyd. It is a frosty late autumn day and he’s photography suddenly makes me shiver. No, I’m not talking about that Harold Lloyd (1893-1971), the American movie actor who turned to nude photography. I’m talking about Harold from Flikr, the “bokehddict“.
This photo is called “My name is Harold and I [...]