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Photography Weekly: Edition Twenty EightPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
“What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.”

―
Karl Lagerfeld
This week I spied an awesome topic in *Fuzzypiggy's journal and knew instantly that it was what I would talk about for edition twenty eight. "Underground train system bosses are set to ban all photos under new proposals that have angered photographers.." You can read the full article for yourself here but I would love to get some discussion going amongst us all as to whether or not the proposed ban would effect you. I'm personally quite pleased that the latest articles report a U-turn in the proposals so it doesn't look

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“Photoshop is just like makeup. When it’s done well it looks great, and when it’s overdone you look like a crazy asshole.”
Photoshop. You either love it, hate it or don't know because you can't afford it. As well as there being some fantastic tutorials out there to help you learn how to get the most from your work - I recently discovered Photoshop Actions. There are plenty here on deviantART to help you enhance your work in the most intriguing of ways. I had an experiment this week and found that the results were just amazing. Browse PS Actions yourself here on deviantART and see what you can find. The actions are fairly straightforward to use. You just download it and then install it into your actions pane on Photoshop. Most of them have a mini tutorial attached t

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"Surrealism is embedded in the everyday, in the daily experience." - Katharine Conley

This week the general theme of the article is Infrared Photography. You may know it well for its vision into a dream like world where the trees appear to be fluffy candyfloss and the grass is blue or Orange...Infrared is not as far away from achievable as you might think. This week some wonderful Deviants have shared their infrared views and art to try and help us understand the technique a little better. I rather thought it was time that the infrared community on deviantART had a bit more recognition too!
Contest!

Check out #Trees-With-character who are holding the Sky is the Limit Contest and think about

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"Why are YOU reading this?"
-This- little bit of space right up here at the top of the weekly Photography Article is usually filled with a newsworthy topic, or a question. And it nearly always gets ignored!! So many of you look at this article, favourite it and comment on it - but what are you looking at it for? Are you gazing at the images? The news? The links? You're certainly not looking at the paragraph right up here that can sometimes be the juiciest bit of the whole article!! As a reader, you're important. Without your input and without positive stats, this article would dwindle - so it's here for you. Tell me what you want to see...

More Images

More discussion

Bi-weekly instead of weekly

Something else
Many of you will know of Gimp - and many likely use the editing program which has been considered a freee condensed version of Photoshop. Well G

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A photograph is memory in the raw. - Carrie Latet

I recently spent some time (okay maybe hours!) exploring a photographic exhibition on the Isle of Wight - England. I had known that the exhibition existed for some years, but had never really ventured over there. It was held in the home and studio of a celebrated Victorian Photography - Julia Margaret Cameron. However it did include a nice variety of works - photographs from Dorothy Bohm who put together the book A world observed and a collection of shots taken at the famed 1970s Isle of Wight Pop Festival. It included images of Jimi Hendrix who performed at the festival just three weeks before his death. The images collated and exhibited were fascinating. But what really struck me was how far we had come in terms of camera equipment.

This was donated to the Margaret Cameron Trust by Graham Ovenden and was subsequent

Photography Weekly: Edition FifteenPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
― Margaret Atwood
In the UK Spring is most definitely here. And with it comes a plethora of Photo-graphical opportunities. Whilst there are the flowers, trees and in particular blossoms coming into bloom there are also the youngsters. Baby Animals! Birds beginning to nest and in general it seems - an influx of human babies too! There is no shortage of opportunities to take a photo at this time of year here and there are some useful tips to get you out and about making the most of the season...
Use sunrises and sunsets - the lightest part of the day at lunchtime and the dusky evenings to capture spring landscapes at their best. Utilize the foggy mornings with sun streaming through too! Avoid white light - at this time of year it's incredibly harsh and doesn't do much to enhance your photos. And also k

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"Take Only Photographs, Leave Only Footprints." - Urban Explorers Creed
Sometimes it's easy to forget the things around us that were once iconic and useful. In everyday life that could include a multitude of household objects, bits and bobs, clothes, gadgets - all sorts. But in Photography - a specific aspect of Photography - people close doors and board up buildings sometimes with little or no notice. They erect a fence around that old asylum and ship everything out or they install security guards at the boundaries of an army camp. Those places get forgotten and one day there will be nobody left that will remember them. That's where Urban Exploration comes in.
I'm not telling you to go out and scale the wall of your nearest derelict hospital in the name of photography. It takes a certain kind of person (and agility!) to do that anyway, but there are many depths to U

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"No place is boring, if you’ve had a good night’s sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.”
~ Robert Adams ~
Two editions of What Digital Camera appeared today and I'm pretty glad they did because I flicked through and immediately landed on a link for a free online Photography magazine. You can open it up yourself Right Here and I haven't tested but I believe it works in all countries. The reason I'm sharing it is because they have a nifty forum where you can share your own photography with the chance of them picking it to publish either in the online magazine or the 'real' shop versions. What have you got to lose right?
On This Poll Over 180 deviants voted to answer Would you Suggest yourself for a Daily Deviation? many also commented. I was amazed - re

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"If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera"
- Lewis Hine
This week I happened across a Photographer who shoots the economy - currently in the UK. If you ever wondered what Economy looks like - and what the recession looks like - in the Photographic sense then wonder no more. Simon Robert's has it captured. What really struck me though, aside from the complete normality and sometimes mundane life that made the photographs, was the comments on the Article that I read about Simon. The BBC Wrote about him yesterday and nearly all the comments were from people advocating boredom. The Irony is that Simon Robert's had, in full colour, photographed our lives. And the general consensus was that it was dull and unimaginative. How very English we are.
Copyright Simon Robert's

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“Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.” - Duane Michals
Still Life is the theme of this weeks article given that it's Still Life Week over at #projecteducate! I'm living and breathing still life works right now, and actually it's quite nice. I've discovered some fantastic talent on deviantART, conducted some awesome interviews and started up a group with the wonderful *claremanson If you want a sneak peek head over to #Still-Life-Stills But really the whole definition and ideal of Still Life has eluded me for quite some time and was something I deliberately avoided because I didn't believe in it. If you take an image, you have stilled life. By rights this means that everything out there is Still Life photography. Even when you're capturing movement, you're stilling it for just a few seconds. So why then, do we hav

Photography Weekly: Edition NineteenPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
“Creative slump - the Photographers equivalent of drought."
Every so often (and for many of us it feels like everyday sometimes!) we fall into a creative slump. It's not a place that the bubbliest most inspiring of people can rise us from. It's a horrible place, where you feel like you'll never be able to recoup that creativity again. But then something changes and you climb back out, you keep drawing, or fractal-ing or taking photographs and you're happy again.
It's funny how when we're creatively over flowing and positively genius's we rarely look back and remember the time when we couldn't envisage being artistic ever again. But equally when we're down and grasping at straws to try and pull ourselves out - we forget the achievements we've made, the times we succeeded. Perhaps it's time to remember both feelings - one extreme to another - maybe that will provide the little lift or equally the littl

Photography Weekly: Edition Twenty SixPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
"Make your lives extraordinary”

― John Keating
Lilly McElroy throws herself at men in the name of Photography. That is quite literally, what she does. And when I stumbled across the article this week I was tickled to read more into her project and the profoundness behind it all. Lilly initially started out on Craigslist, trying to find men to throw herself at but unfortunately she didn't get much response. In the end she went public, approaching men in pubs and clubs to try and recreate that social situation where so many throw themselves at strangers with such ease (and often with not much grace).
Check out her full gallery of works Here.
Copyright Lilly Mcelroy
Lilly pursues a range of socially

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“If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on.”
― Charles M. Schulz
I lacked the inspiration for any words for the article today, so I googled Photography under News and came up with something pretty amazing. Photography, it says, can be an ideal tool to give a voice to those who need it most, people on the margins of society, or who have little access to mass modes of outside communication. Photo-journalism goes some way to documenting those who can't document themselves, but how different would it be if they could do it? What would they photograph if they were stood behind the view finder looking forwards at their own lives? And equally - what would we photograph about ourselves?
PhotoVoice is a charity that was formed about ten years ago and is now well known for its commitment to training and developing the knowledge of those members of communities who are l

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"A photograph says that you were so important, I stopped everything else to come and preserve you."
This week Horacio Coppola died. Many will not know the name, but in the Photography world he was pretty awesome. He died age 105, and was famous for taking Black and White photographs of Buenos Aires in the 1930s. But he also photographed normality. Some of his works included egg and twine - quite simply an egg and a piece of twine. Others featured a typewriter, but ultimately he shot normality, the everyday things that people overlooked. He's said to be one of very few photographers who manage to capture the romance, vitality and squalor of a great city. So a legend has died, but somewhere another will rise up through the ranks. Who inspires you? Which historical Artists have provoked you to reach the place where you are now? Or who you aspire to be?
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"“The eye should learn to listen before it looks.”

―
Robert Frank
I'm quite late hopping on the discussion wagon with this one since `fritsvandersloot tells me the article has been trending for some time now. However I was eternally grateful to him for pointing me in its general direction - because what a topic!McDonalds show behind the photo-graphical scenes because a customer in Canada asked why the food looks so different in real life. If you watch the video included in the article, it's actually very insightful. And what a team they have JUST to photograph a burger. What the video does show is that everything in the photo, every ingredient you see, is exactly the sam

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Photography Weekly: Edition Twenty

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"It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one. - Robert Capa"

The Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos were announced this week and with it a debate was sparked about how best to display the controversial winners. The winning shot is Photo-journalism at it's best - and indeed humanity at its worst. The image depicts a young Afghan girl standing in the midst of the after effects of a bomb explosion. She is covered in blood, and around her lay bodies. Whilst the publication of graphic images has been a tough and much debated topic for some time - the very taking of such photos has sparked cynicism and unrest between many. Photo-journalists much of the time take their lives into their own hands when they document the horrors of this world and probably feel quite patriotic when they get the opportunity to shoot the rather more ordinary but amazing events that go on. What are your thoughts on the matter? Should War be documented publicly? Should images such as Massoud Hossaini's Afghan Explosion be shared? Discuss your opinions in the comments to this article!

Community Relations News

The biggest news this week is that the wonderful ^anmari has taken over Architecture Photography! That means that she is now taking all your DD suggestions for Architecture rather than `fritsvandersloot Why not check out her page, drop her some congratulations and a suggestion or two?!

Official deviantART contests has been updated so you can see what's going on around the site and what you can enter!

#SolutionsSanctuary are holding a fantastic chat this Sunday for all to attend with many members of the CR team attending to do questions and answers. Check out You are invited! for more info!

Spotlight Deviant *PawelMatys

*PawelMatys has been on deviantART for over two years now and has a charmingly beautiful gallery exploring the depths of Animals, Plants and Nature Photography. Thanks to `miontre for suggesting this weeks spotlight deviant!

Spotlight Group #Breathtaking-photos

Founded just two months ago this group run by `dragonfly-oli is doing fantastically. It's well worth stopping by and submitting the best of your work for consideration in the galleries!

#ArtHistoryProject

The Art History Project has been going some time now headed up by some wonderful members of the volunteer team. It's worth checking out the blog How to get Involved to find out how you can get involved with some articles for the group!

You can also join the group as a member to benefit from the articles that will come your way about Art History!

Deviants to Check Out This Week

~du-jamais-vu

*aoao2

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*JaimeIbarra

Project Educate - Street Photography Week

Street Photography for Experts
Street Photography Week
Street The Origins: Defining Street
Street Photography for Dummies

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Around the World

A new addition to our weekly articles - I have the pleasure of announcing that a Deviant is about to launch their very first exhibition.

~yanjin's first exhibition launches in May in Brussels. Whilst you might not be able to attend it - it's always worth supporting and passing on the news to someone else if you can. The exhibition looks to be wonderful so congratulations ~yanjin!

General Photography

What's Hot Issue Three is out over at #Through-a-Lens and is well worth having a glance over. It explores a mixture of the hottest artists on deviantART this week and a collection of photographers found via the discover tool!

Abstract & Surreal

Community Volunteer `DpressedSoul

Are you interested in volunteering within a group? #Abstract-and-Surreal are looking for moderators in the group! Check out the blog for more information on how to apply!

We've unfortunately had to say goodbye to `ArtByCher at the group which is sad - but we're looking to bring on some new faces to try and live up to her awesomeness!

Don't forget to check out `DpressedSoul's latest feature Can Someone please show me the way.

Street Photography

Community Volunteer `StamatisGR

The Street Community is having a CONTEST !!!
The "So you think you can street" Photography Contest is well worth checking out!!!

Check out the latest #projecteducate article Street Shooters Share their Tips!
"3: Shoot. A lot. Be inside the action, to feel what´s going on with small focal lenght, or step back to realize a worthy context, but never be afraid to press the shutter. Never. You´re doing nothing wrong."

Urban & Rural

Community Volunteer `fritsvandersloot

`fritsvandersloot brought this fantastic Feature to my attention this week which has been put together by ~Alabastra

Architecture

Community Volunteer ^anmari

As mentioned at the start of the journal ^anmari has stepped up to take care of Architecture Photography on the CR Team. You can check out her introductory blog Here!

Photo-Journalism

Community Volunteer `xbastex

Since today's article focuses a fair bit on Photo-journalism I thought it would be extra nice to share some deviants articles written on the topic. Recently *Andaelentari wrote the When I'm Gone article exploring some excellent PJ Artists.

Don't forget to check out #Street-PJ which collates Photojournalism and Street Photography from around the world.

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There's a brand new edition of Reccomended Artists out from ~bastex

Artistic Nude & Fetish

Community Volunteer ^Nyx-Valentine

The YOUR Fetish Contest Winners have been announced. Congratulations to the winners!

Featured Tutorial

The High ISO Low Noise Tutorial is useful for all photographers who struggle with the dreaded noise problem in their shots. Thank you ~Diangos for the tutorial!

Tip of the Week

This weeks technique comes from ~killythirsk who wrote an article a while ago about Lightpainting
"Lightpainting is a technique in photography by using low shutter speed and a moving light source. The light source is moved by a person or a device so you can acquire an artistic result."

There's also a fantastic ebook promoted in the article (sadly not free) but take a look if you're interested in light painting and night photography - Here!

Weekly Features to keep an eye on!

There's so much going on around the community especially for Volunteers that sometimes the awesome news can be missed out. I hope to share any weekly or monthly features that are ongoing here so that you can browse them at your leisure. If you know of something that needs to be listed let me know!

Features from *RosleinRot

Deep in Thought by `miontre

Project Comment from ^3wyl

Project Pork Chop from ^Astralseed

Wonderful Wednesday from `JamminJo

Make a differencefrom ^3wyl

Under 1,000 views - Transportation from *L0NE-W0lf

Weekly Theme: Red!

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The Community Volunteer Team - Photography

The Community Volunteer Team - Photography

General Photography: ^Kaz-D

Architecture: ^anmari

Abstract and Surreal: `DpressedSoul

Animals, Plants and Nature: `trevg and `shuttermonkey

Urban and Rural: `fritsvandersloot

Artistic Nude and Fetish: ^Nyx-Valentine

Conceptual: `DemonMathiel

Fashion & General Photography: ^Pixel-Spotlight

Horror & Macabre & Cosplay: ^pullingcandy

Macro: `hellfirediva

Pinup and Glamour: ^DistortedSmile

Photo-journalism `xbastex

Street: `StamatisGR

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