Project Educate: Capturing MotionGetting shots of the world in motion is often considered quite a tricky art. However the times when I've managed that interesting motion capture have been pure fluke! But to set up with the intention of capturing motion especially where transport is concerned takes a little time and some helpful tips.

The most obvious and often forgotten technique that everybody knows but doesn't always put into practice is to position ahead of your targets intentioned path. Don't try and follow the moving object, predict a bit and get ready to capture it moving into frame. Otherwise you have the potential to be there..forever.

With regards to motorboats and people skiing or stunt cars, it's best to aim to shoot the action rather than the build up. Focus on getting that opportune moment!

It's vital when shooting action that you capture the motion for the final product. Setting sports mode on your camera will give you the chance to captu

Pimps and Whoas - December 7, 2011Pimps
Official dA News

Odyssey Into 2012

Sta.sh Updates Released! More to Come

The Traditional Through a Cracked Prism

deviantART Holiday Headquarters 2011

The Cutting Edge Prints Week 49

dA Logo T-Shirt Design Challenge Winners!

Project Educate: Transport Photography WeekTransport Week Round-Up
Transport Photography is a hard nut to break sometimes. Most people either are into it seriously or they just capture the odd motion shot of transport here and there without really planning. Either way is fine of course - hopefully the past week has offered a little insight into the types of things that can be found in the Transportation Gallery and a few handy hints and tips here and there.

Vintage Cars

Photographing Cars

Trams!

Stock Photography and Transport

Photography Weekly: Edition SevenPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
We skipped a week! Did you notice? With the New Year and a lack of juicy news to give you I felt it was a good idea to leave a week out and come back with lots more bits and bobs in January. So here we are. 2012 - Happy New Year! The community volunteers have put together their Daily Deviation roundups for December so you can navigate them easily - check them out Here!
Spotlight Group
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#WhoNeedsColour
The group are running a self portraiture contest which you can read more about HERE
Be sure to check the contest out and enter your work - there are some fabulous prizes.
Some Entries so far...

Spotlight Artist
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Project Educate: Unusual Transport!

Project Educate: Capturing BoatsDon't be misled by the title - you're not going to start embarking on Pirate based adventures! Whilst Photographing Transport can be fairly straight forward, like any genre of Photography there are tips and tricks out there to get the best results.
Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows...

Pick a sunny day! If you want to capture the postcard shot of colourful boats lined up, reflecting in the water while a bright blue sky frames them from behind you'll have to head out on a sunny day when there's not much of a breeze in the air so the water's still. Make sure you use a polarising filter to saturate the colours and enhance the sky. They can be fairly cheap. For UK based people Warehouse Express is a fantastic online shopping experience

But Where's The Sea?
If you get to the harbour and find the tide is out don't think you need to head for fish and chips while the water trickles back in. Instead, photograph the boats which are now st

Project Educate: Bicycle Feature

Photography Squares: 8# Winter Wintersong
-Sarah McLachlan-

It's late and morning's in no hurry
But sleep won't set me free
I lie awake and try to recall
How your body felt beside me
When silence gets too hard to handle
And the night too long.

And this is how I see you
In the snow on Christmas morning
Love and happiness surround you
As you throw your arms up to the sky
I keep this moment by and by...

Oh I miss you now, my love
Merry Christmas, merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas, my love

Sense of joy fills the air
And I daydream and I stare
Up at the tree and I see
Your star up there.

And this is how I see you
In the snow on Christmas morning
Love and happiness surround you
As you throw your arms up to the sky
I keep this moment by and by

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Photography Discovered 5Welcome to the fourth edition of Photography Discovered! This series was inspired by $Moonbeam13's Discovered journal series. The following deviants were found using nothing but the Discovery Tool.
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Please show the artists some love and

the article if you liked it!
Previous Editions
Week One; Week Two;

CR Newsletter - November + December 2011
Table of Contents
1. Reflections
2. Volunteer Openings
3. Share Your Opinions
4. Community Projects
5. Official Contests
6 Project Educate 2011/2012
7. News from the Chats and Forums
8. News from the Galleries
1. Reflections
It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a year can fly by. I've made it a practice over the years to sit back and reflect on the year, what went well, what didn't and where I'd like to see the new year go. A year can bring a lot of lessons and without reflection it's hard to ensure that you've taken away everything important from it. I apply this personally and to deviantART and it's that time again

A couple of fun highlights:

I got to sit next to Felicia Day and help conduct our interview with her at SXSW. I'm a pretty big fan so this was very cool. Our presence at SXSW was also a v

Community Relations News - January + February 2012>
Table of Contents
1. Daily Deviations
2. Bi-weekly Critique Nights
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History
9. News from the Galleries
1. Daily Deviations
Recently, I announced changes to Daily Deviations in this journal and I'm happy to say that the response has been favorable. To review, we have made the following changes:
a> The "3-month rule" is now the "6-month rule" meaning an artist cannot receive another DD if they have had one in the last 6 months.
b> Daily Deviation selectors are limited to a maximum of one selection per day. This has been put in place to focus on quality vs quantity.
The hard-coding of these new guidelines is now in place (special thanks to $ZombieCoder for that

).
These changes are part of an ongoing initiative to better our Dai

Project Educate: Stock Photography of Transport! Transport Photography Stock
The Stock and Resources Gallery has some fantastic Transport Photography Photographs which are well worth checking out to see if the photo-manipulators amongst you can utilize them!

January 2012 Daily DeviationsThis journal encompasses all Architecture Photography and Urban & Rural Photography Daily Deviations I have picked in January 2012.
A few notes: I have not separated Architecture Photography and Urban & Rural photography, and all thumbs are big thumbs because I feel it displays the deviations much better that way.
I also apologize for not being around much - I've had an extremely hectic and rocky personal life over the past few weeks, but things are slowly returning back to normal.

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Text & Typography - Nov 2011Monthly Article, featuring each month's Daily Deviations, as well as links in and outside of deviantART.com!
In this edition you will find DDs featured by `ChewedKandi & ^pica-ae from the Text & Typography galleries on deviantART.
November 2011

Project Educate: Transport Photography Project Educate: Transport Photography
Photographing Cars

Car Photography Tip
"Park your car on clean pavement. DO NOT photograph it parked on grass, unless perhaps your car is an off-road 4x4, or if you want it to look like an abandoned vehicle. Another splendid tip: use your garden hose or take along a 5-gallon (or 20 liter) container of water to wet down the entire area where you're going to position your car; this darkens the pavement and provides a "glistening" highlight effect."

Car Photography Tips and Tr

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Project Educate: Transport Photography

This week has been Transport Photography week for Project Educate and has brought a contest that so far, has little or no entries.
Please please please get submitting before Sunday for a chance to win some amazing prizes.
You've nothing to loose! Check out This Blog for more info.
Here is a summary of the articles so far - please do check them out:

Vintage Cars

Photographing Cars

Trams!

Stock Photography and Transport

Transport Photography and Military

Artist Spotlight Dmack

Transport Daily Deviations

Planes and Trains

Bicycles

Photographing Boats

Discovering Photography

`ScENeYmE got inspired by $Moonbeam13's Discovered journal series and started to put together journals featuring Photographers found using just the Discovery Tool
You can check out her latest article Here.

On a side note - if you use the discovery tool and find someone post them here - next week we'll feature the discovered artists

Theme of the Week at #Through-a-Lens

The theme this week is Animals so head over and submit your work to the folder!

Pin Up and Glamour

^DistortedSmile has brought another feature this time looking at Lust Beauty and Envy Please check it out and don't forget to fav!

Artistic Nude

^Nyx-Valentine has done two weekly features Artistic Nudes - Unique Poses and Fetish Feature - Masks

Urban and Rural

`fritsvandersloot is Asking for your feedback in a journal that marks a few months since taking over the Urban and Rural Gallery.

#Urban-and-Rural have come to the end of their weekly themes but do not fear! Instead they are encouraging you to submit your work for a chance to be featured.

Street Photography

Friday night Street Specials v12.1 is another article brought to you by `StamatisGR

Spotlight Group

From the second you land on #ahorafotografia's page you'll be inspired and wow'd. I can almost guarantee it! Founded only five months ago the group is already popular and explores many genres of Photography. Please head over and see for yourselves!

_{Thanks to `ScENeYmE for the suggestion}

Spotlight Artist ~Fladfisk

~Fladfisk is a Photographer from Denmark who explores traditional methods to create surreal, poignant and sometimes haunting images.

Featured CV Choice

Both myself and `DpressedSoul have been amazed and astounded by this young artists work and I'm sure many other Community Volunteers will agree that her dedication and hard work suggesting and unearthing hidden gems within the photography galleries is fantastic. `dragonfly-oli is a young German photographer, dedicated to fine art. She's also doing great "Squareish Features!"

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Your Photography News

Have a weekly article you'd like to see here? Note me!

*Une-Vache has been creating colour themed entries and Make it Purple is worth checking out!
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Point of Simplicity Project

POINT OF SIMPLICITY is a free e-magazine about fine art photography, run by a tiny group of volunteers here on DA.
It features beautiful photographic works from fellow deviants and talented photographers from all over the Internet.
There have been five issues so far, each of them has its own theme.
The magazine considers photography submissions for upcoming issues,
so you are welcome to take a chance and send in your works!

_{Thanks to :devSavatey for bringing it to my attention!}

Tutorials and Thoughts

Finally, since we're so near to Christmas I decided to include a couple of Christmas related tutorials from youtube that you might find useful this season!
Photographing Stock is an excellent time lapse video from Tanya Reynolds. Not so much a tutorial but more of a festive insight! And Photo-Extremist Light Tutorials shares six excellent ways of capturing light exposures this season with Christmas trees and other festive glows!

I was recently reading some feedback quotes from Annie Leibovitz who was the Staff Photographer for Rolling Stone Magazine for Ten years. Leibovitz is said to have a way of reaching inside the soul of her subjects and bringing it out in her photographs. A traditional Photographer at heart she mentions in her writings something about how Photography is surrounded by computing, shortcuts, quick ways and replacement methods but in reality it will always be chemical. Whether that's endorsed in the methods we use such as digital darkroom or whether it's part of the reaction between Photographer and Subject. Still develop using old methods and manipulate using in camera techniques? Excellent! Keep it strong people

The Photography Team

General Photography
^Kaz-D `ScENeYmE and ^pullingcandy

Animals, Plants and Nature
`trevg and `shuttermonkey

Artistic Nude
^Nyx-Valentine and `Lady-Twiglet

Fetish
^Nyx-Valentine and `serpentinekiss

Abstract and Surreal
`DpressedSoul

Urban, Rural and Architecture
`fritsvandersloot

Cosplay, Horror and Macabre
^pullingcandy

Macro
`hellfirediva

Pinup and Glamour
^DistortedSmile

Street
`StamatisGR

Conceptual Photography
`DemonMathiel

Fashion Photography
^Pixel-Spotlight
You can find the rest of the CV Team at #communityrelations

Photography Squares

I feature a random selection of appropriately sized images from the Photography gallery every few days or so. Got a square you want included? Note me

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`dragonfly-oli Dec 10, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

Oh my god, thank you so much for featuring me..

It's a great honor to be chosen from the CV's!

I love you all! And I love to suggest DDs.

You're awesome!

I really like to read your NewsArticles

`trevg Dec 13, 2011 Professional Photographer

^Kaz-D Dec 11, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

You are very welcome!

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Awesome feature! Thank you very much for featuring my work

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_{Thanks for featuring my work!
Awesome collection!}

^Kaz-D Dec 11, 2011 Hobbyist Photographer

You're welcome

~Intergrativeone Dec 9, 2011 Professional General Artist

Very informative! Lots of work on your part... thanks!

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Thank you kindly!

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