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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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"“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
-Marc Riboud-
Community Relations News...
Firstly - and something I am MOST excited about is that #projecteducate has become a group! That means that we can bring you the latest articles and features much easier and you can join as a member to get the full benefits!
As a member of the deviantART community there are some Community Relations changes that affect YOU. For the full updates you can Read More Here.

There was a 3 month rule for Daily Deviations which meant that once you received one there had to be three months before you could receive another. That rule has changed to become Six Months.

As Community Volunteers we are only allowed to submit one Da

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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

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“I can’t tell you how many pictures I’ve missed, ignored, trampled, or otherwise lost just ‘cause I’ve been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.”
-Joe McNally-

I recently blogged about Joe McNally and his book The Moment It Clicks. I've not yet read it but it's on my Birthday list for April. However I have read some of the quotes from inside the book - one in particular is the 'pause for thought' for this article this week. As some of you might know I'm taking part in the 365 day Photography Challenge and I would thoroughly recommend it to anybody who wishes to think outside the box and get more creative with their photography. How many times do we ignore, trample or loose the real one in a million shot bec

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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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“ Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst."
– Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of people quote the above at me when I start to moan that I've taken a billion photographs on a specific day and none of them turned out to be worth anything. The truth is you might take a thousand or you might take 4 photographs before you unearth something that's recognized, liked and respected. It doesn't matter either way because you're creating first and foremost for yourself. When you start to take money for your hobby is when you need to look at technique, skills and actual finished product to ensure that you are meeting the sort of quality criteria needed. So whilst the quote is a famous thought - provoking one - it isn't necessarily true!
With the Seventeenth edition of Photography weekly upon us I'd like to just emphasize that the support given is wonderful, the feedback is fantastic and the general stats o

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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?
Community Relations News
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"Have no fear of perfection - You'll never reach it! "
~Salvador Dali"
Have you studied Photography? I'm intrigued to know whether or not a qualification in Photography has made you a better, or indeed a worse photographer. Or has there been no change? This week, The Photography Blog asks whether or not a Photography Degree is worth the paper it's written on. Graduation in any field these days doesn't mean that you'll immediately get a job in your desired area. Not these days. So is it worth embarking on study related to photography when in the end, you could get to the same place without the paper stating what you are capable of? Photography is one of a small number of job areas where what you've done speaks higher volumes than whether or not you're

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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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“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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"“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
- Erich Fromm
Weather Photography has always fascinated me - the weather in general does anyway, but capturing those changes, shifts in atmosphere and so on have always had me in awe. However when browsing the latest news within popular photography early this week I was stunned by an image that NASA had captured of hurricane Isaac as it lurked over the USA. I've been in a hurricane before, but it never felt as organised or precise as this image shows. This shows a smooth beautiful cloud formation. When below it's likely wreaking havoc and destroying lives. It's difficult to match the two together and contemplate them as the same thing. It's also incredible how we've advanced in terms of technology. This shot of Hurricane Isaac was captured at the end of a month in which images have been transferred from Mars. We, as a human rac

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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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“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

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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 Urban Exploration some which are misunderstood or overlooked. You can get those shots without trespassing, breaking in, or doing damage. In fact one of the biggest rules of the urban explorer is as I quoted above - Take only photographs, leave only footprints. The idea is to capture for the sense of preservation.

A year or so ago I would never have dreamt that I would be wandering around an abandoned hospital with my camera, finding beauty in rotten decaying things. I never thought I would be crawling around in an abandoned army camp or standing on the edge of a cliff on the Isle of Wight taking photographs of a house that was falling into the sea. If you'd asked me a year ago, if I would even consider walking down a landslip with camera in tow - I'd have laughed. _manically

The point is, lots of things are there for the shooting - you don't have to take risks or put yourself in danger to be an urban explorer . In Hampshire UK, where I live - many places are so accessible you can pull up in your car, jump out and shoot something amazing... At the bottom of this article you'll find some useful links to take you to urbex forums in your country (mostly) and some awesome resources!

Some of you might not be aware that you can suggest Urban Exploration pieces for Daily Deviations - send them to `fritsvandersloot You can also upload your own to the gallery found Here!

General Photography News

The rather fantastical `ScENeYmE is going on a little Hiatus for a few weeks so head over and give her some luff. This means that I would have been on my lonesome with the General Photography Galleries had the awesome ^Pixel-Spotlight not existed! She's stepping in to help feature Daily Deviations for General Photography so send your DD suggestions to myself and her please!

Project Educate

There are just a few days left to enter the Project Educate Photography contest on Beauty! Lots of awesome prizes to be won. Check out the rules though.

Also over at Community Week this week `JamminJo has posted a Groups directory that is well worth checking out. And =Echostar08 has introduced the famed Link System!

Photographers Wanted over in `AshleyxBrooke's forum post. Ashley is planning to start up a Feature Friday news article and invites you to post thumbs of your work. Be sure to read the guidelines though!

Spotlight Deviant ~victoriaaudouard

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~victoriaaudouard is one of those photographers that beautifully combines Conceptual thoughts with Surrealist techniques. Recommended by the Abstract and Surreal Community Volunteer himself ~victoriaaudouard is certainly an artist to keep an eye on.

Spotlight Group #Urban-and-Rural

I did try finding a group with a focus of Urban Exploration but all the ones that I did find appear to be inactive - some having journals posted from back in 2010! So the spotlight this week is on #Urban-and-Rural

A group with all the gallery folders that span the Urban and Rural Photography Galleries including one especially for your Urbex shots

Don't forget to check out their latest spotlight...Member Feature with Geolio!

Photo-Journalism

Community Volunteer `xbastex

There are two fantastic articles out by `xbastex that explore masters of photography. Be sure to check them out and keep sending your photo-journalism DD suggestions his way.
Masters of Photography Part I
Masters of Photography Part II

Conceptual Photography

Community Volunteer `DemonMathiel

A rather beautiful article has been put together by the wonderful Mathias so be sure to check out Jewels Of the Night

Abstract And Surreal Photography

Community Volunteer `DpressedSoul

A new article is out over at #Abstract-and-Surreal which explores Abstract Photography - Diagonal Lines

#WhoNeedsColour's monthly feature is Out!

People & Portraits

Community Volunteers ^Kaz-D ^Pixel-Spotlight (Fashion) and ^DistortedSmile (Pinup and Glamour).

A beautiful article exploring Masculine Beauty was brought to my attention this week.

Street Photography

Community Volunteer `StamatisGR

This week `StamatisGR has reccomended a fantastic Street Photographer to keep your eye on. ^myraincheck has a wonderful gallery with some fine examples of the type of photography that makes street photography what it is.

There is also some useful news to share from the Street Gallery Friday night Street Specials v3.2 is out again and the LIGHTHOUSE GALLERY
by the #The-Yard-Collective group is worth looking at!

Artistic Nude and Fetish

Community Volunteer ^Nyx-Valentine

The Wednesday Feature this week explores Artistic Nude and Fetish Portraits with Tattoos.

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Horror, Macabre and Cosplay

Community Volunteer ^pullingcandy

Cosplay news includes The A, B, C's of Cosplay by ^pullingcandy worth having a look at and joining in with suggestions!

Horror/Macabre updates include Serenade Me, Sinister: Florence and the Machine.

Deviants to check out this week

Each week several deviants will get featured whose work follows the majority of a specific theme. This week it's Black and White Photography!

~kevinsaintgrey

`SimonSawSunlight

*lostknightkg

This Weeks Tutorial

from `cweeks
A useful pdf file to help you establish Street Photography

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Useful Urban Exploration Forums:

Urbex Forum UK
Whatevers Left UK
28 days Later UK
Forbidden Places Worldwide
Derelict Places - UK
Everything Goes Quiet - Blog
Interview with `Greenie - Urban Exploration Photographer by ^ScENeYme
Sick Britain
Canada Based Urban Exploration Forum
New Zealand Forum
American Forum
Polish Site

The Community Volunteer Team - Photography

The Community Volunteer Team - Photography

General Photography: ^Kaz-D
(`ScENeYmE on hiatus see ^Pixel-Spotlight)

Abstract and Surreal: `DpressedSoul

Animals, Plants and Nature: `trevg and `shuttermonkey

Architecture, 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