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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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“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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“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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"Does Equipment Matter?"
One of the more recent articles on the topic of photography explores how an instagram photograph taken during Hurricane Sandy has been selected to be used on the cover of Time Magazine. Perhaps quite fittingly, the title accompanying the image on the front page is Lessons from the storm. Whilst many have learned a lot from Hurricane Sandy and many more are working on rebuilding their lives, one of the biggest lessons for photographers and the world of media could well be that iphone Photographers can be photo-journalists too. We've covered the topic of equipment, capabilities and qualifications many a time before now in Photography Weekly - but what are your thoughts on this article?
Source: Petapixel
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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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“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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“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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"Eyes like a Shutter, mind like a Lens" - Anon
This week the general thoughts come from =Eitvys200 who brought up the topic of Too many cameras around?! It's one that baffles many from amateur to professional in deciding what we, as artists, want to use as our tools. Hopefully one of our community volunteers will cover that in greater depth next week in an article all about choosing your next or even first camera. But for now the confusion comes when you're lining up to take a shot and somebody next to you with a mobile/cell phone is taking the same one and truth be told - it might even turn out better. I broached the subject a while ago of standing at a wedding and being the 'pro' but not the only one with a £500 camera. How do you make yourself unique in a digital world that's fast developing beyond our means and capabilities? Well, you work with

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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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"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.
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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

CR Newsletter - May & June 2012Table of Contents
1. New Faces
2. Daily Deviations: Listing Suggesters
3. Volunteer Openings
4. Share Your Opinions
5. Community Projects
6. Official Contests
7 Project Educate 2011/2012
8. Art History Project
9. News from the Chats and Forums
10. News from the Galleries
1. New Faces
We welcomed many new faces onto the Community Volunteer team this month! Please join us in welcoming them and I encourage you to reach out and get to know these fantastic people:
^bradleysays - DeviantART Related
`IsacGoulart - Photography
`RockstarVanity - Darkroom Photography
^laserBEAST - Chat & Forums
^Athos-of-Light - Chat & Forums
^JZLobo - Fan Fiction
^SylwiaTelari - Traditional Art
^DaPineapple - Chats & Forums
`dekorAdum - Chats & Forums
^Talty - Artisan Crafts
^princepal - Designs & Interfaces
^SRudy - Traditional Art
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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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“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

Culinary Creations Contest: The Results!
-Culinary Creations-
Still Life Food Photography Contest - RESULTS!

The Culinary Creations contest has ended and the results are IN! What an awesome batch of entries we had. I must say browsing through the gallery on an almost daily basis to check the entries had me feeling incredibly hungry! It was very hard to pick the winners, but the judges quite clearly had their favourites and ultimately we had to whittle the entries down and decide. So without further ado I give you...THE WINNERS!
1st Place
Winning:
1,000 deviantART points
1 Year premium membership to deviantART
1 print to the value of $20
1 Plushie Fella or Llama
1 Emoticon Stressball Pack

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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 on each article posted are mind blowing. I love seeing that spotlight deviants and groups get an increase in traffic - it means something must be working. But I rarely get anything from The Community in terms of promoting your work or others work, and getting your Photography related news out there. If you're unsure how to get involved check the end of this article for full details - and start noting me!

Community Relations News

Since it's the end of the month the regular Daily Deviation Roundups have been compiled over at #communityrelations Check out the article to find links to all the roundups of Daily Deviations given across March!

Contests

#BlackWhitePhotos are holding a Spring Contest

#communityrelations are sponsoring the deviantART Related Collaboration Contest which is open to ALL mediums on deviantART.

`StamatisGR is hold the Street Photography Contest

~TheConceptBox are hosting a contest along the theme of Grateful!

Spotlight Deviant ~csbazsek

Recommended by the Urban, Rural & Architecture CV `fritsvandersloot this deviant is one to check out! You may have noticed him last month when his fantastic piece Squares received a Daily Deviation.

~csbazsek explores the things that we overlook everyday turning them into minimalistic

Spotlight Group #Colorblast

Within this group the gallery folders are organised by color - and deviations are automatically accepted. Founded just a week ago but with more than 400 members already #Colorblast is proving vastly popular amongst deviants. What are you waiting for?! Head over and join!

Deviants to Check Out This Week

~TouchedD

*RobinHedberg

~dSavin

*AlexGutkin

Project Educate - Community Week

It's community week over at #projecteducate and the fantastic deviants that have been writing articles have brought some wonderful bits of advice and features to the community's attention. The Photography related articles include How to promote your art and Under=Appreciated Artists Photography but if you're looking for anything else head over and see what takes your fancy!

General Photography

This week `ScENeYmE and I have put together our Daily Deviations featured across the month of March. Here you can see all the pieces last month that were awarded a Daily Deviation. I also like to put together a selection each month of Suggested Daily Deviations to expose a few of the under-appreciated artists sent my way as well as those who have recently received a DD and so cannot get another for six months!

Abstract & Surreal

Community Volunteer `DpressedSoul

Follow me Down to the Valley Below is this week's fantastic feature from `DpressedSoul

*MichiLauke over at #Abstract-and-Surreal has put together a feature exploring samples of magical infrared photographs. Check it out!

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!!!

Over in the forums *jonniedee is asking for your Street Photography Horror Stories!

Horror, Macabre & Cosplay

Community Volunteer ^pullingcandy

The A, B, C's of Cosplay this week focus on J, K & L. The article includes Jigglypuff & Lara Croft amongst other awesome cosplay photos!

Artistic Nude & Fetish

Community Volunteer ^Nyx-Valentine

The Wednesday Feature this week explores Legs! Yep that's right

Check it out.

Featured Tutorial

This week I'd like to share a fantastic tutorial from !Goodfoot42 who has some beautiful landscapes in his gallery. The tutorial explores using an ND Filter and is over at his blog right Here!
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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!

Colour Blind VI Absolutely BEAUTIFUL from *Blaumohn

Photography Feature V from =Shutter-Shooter

Weekly Feature 34 from `lintu47

Nature Feature from *L0NE-W0lf

Project Comment's Under appreciated Feature from ^3wyl

Making a Difference from ^3wyl

Weekly Photography Feature from `lintu47

Square Feature from ~Alabastra

Happy Easter!

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

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love it

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Thanks for the feature ^^

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`RezzanAtakol Apr 6, 2012

Really I m shocked!
Thank u very much dear Katy for inculiding my photo for a nice reason

I m sorry I m not a religious person but I would like to know if it is on this weekend, your Easter.
Not sure if its date is changing for each year as our religous feast.
I wish to all Chiristian world a beautifull Easter:Love:

^Kaz-D Apr 6, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

You're very welcome!

It is Easter! Good Friday today, then tomorrow is just Saturday then Sunday and Monday are both 'Easter'

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Thank u very much for the info and feature

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