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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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"“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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"Replace Fear of the Unknown with Curiosity..."
As the year crawls into the final quarter - lots of challenges and daily photo tasks and so on begin to conclude. I have personally been challenging myself with the 365 Photography challenge - a photo a day for a whole year. It has been tricky to say the least, especially as I set myself a high standard of capturing more than one Photo a day - but also rewarding. Setting yourself a challenge, whether it's following the 52 week photography challenges that are out there, or doing a themed challenge such as 365 breakfasts - is a great way of expanding on your portfolio. Whilst it sometimes means that you struggle to find anything interesting to photograph or share, on the days that you do, you're one step closer to building another aspect of your portfolio.
Next week in Photography Troubleshooting - we will be looking at Money Matters and so

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" What's the most obscure subject you have been asked to photograph?"
If there is one vital thing that I have learned in my years as an amateur photographer - it's that to diversify and spread yourself amongst as many outlets, ideas and topics as possible is the best way to move forward and become successful. Photography doesn't begin or end with a Wedding. Nor does it start with a fashion shoot that pays you hundreds of pounds. There are so many niches and gaps in between that people overlook as lesser known and inadequate - but that can be one of the strongest rungs on the ladder to success. (See what I did there?) It's coming to the end of a week where I've stretched myself
photographically, more so than usual, and I'm more than happy to share what I have learned in order to help out those who want to step up with their work. Last week I was recruited by an image company as a
photographer documenting ins

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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.”
-William Shakespeare
Basking in the glory of finally getting recognised for your hard efforts and photographic skill is pretty awesome and at the start of this week I took the opportunity to enjoy *Fuzzypiggy's after he got published in a UK Photography Magazine. It's really nice when something like that happens and the knowledge that across the country - and because of deviantART and other networks - across the world, people are looking at your work. And if you're me, smiling! I once stumbled across *lauren-rabbit's work in Black and White Photography Magazine and was truly proud that somebody I had found here on deviantART was here in my mag! So have you been published? Has your work received any recognition that makes you proud? What are your tips to getting out there and having your work showcased?

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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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"Creativity, like human life itself - begins in Darkness "
-Julia Cameron."
I read a very interesting article this week debating Photography Vs Literature and which one of the two tells us more. Of course there is always the element that a picture could be accompanied by words but neither aspect is enough to tell a whole story. But as the article says, Photography has become a universal constant in the world today and is accessible to nearly everybody. Yet many still believe that only pure narration can truly tell a story. What are your thoughts? As Photographers we can choose to limit what we tell or show with a photograph, we can even mislead. Can we convey more with words? Or more with an image? You could describe a person with words but never truly give an accurate picture of who they are visually without a photograph...

Community Relations News
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Photography Weekly: Edition Forty TwoPhotography Weekly Header created by ~TouchedD
“Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it.”

― Mark Twain
The sky is so often underestimated in terms of Photography that I felt compelled to give it a bit of love and talk about it in this weeks article. I've been following UK Storm Chasers on facebook who have been documenting the arrival of the 'demon child of Nadine' as it has been deemed. Hurricane Nadine is still out there in the Atlantic Ocean spinning around and preparing to send the UK another demon child (which is really just a tropical storm to us) and with it comes a plethora of opportunities to snap some stunning skies and horizons. But do we appreciate the sky enough? I don't think we do. When was the last time you stopped shooting at eye level and looked up? Often, there's nothing there - but often too, there's something worth capturing. The general rule when capturing la

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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

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:
^ladygagz - 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
^Salvador-Rudy - Traditional Art
^krazykel - Chats

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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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“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”
- Albert Einstein
I don't know about you, but Light Painting has to be really unique and awesome in order to impress me. So when I stumbled across the work of Darren Pearson aka Darren Twin - I was astounded at the creativity and simple methods used to create his conceptual photographic pieces. Darren creates LED pictures of Skeletons Skateboarding, dancing and living - exploring what the Mail Online has termed as the bare bones of our daily lives. And it really is precisely that. Darren takes the ordinary, the mundane and the normal of everyday life and lights it up by night by painting bones. Check it out for yourself. That prompted me to go searching for some of my favourite light painted pieces here

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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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"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

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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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 subsequently named after him as it had no brand markings on it. It's rumoured to be dated back to the 1900s. It's a camera! Although it has different purposes and does slightly different things to your standard point and shoot - imagine what we'd have had to contend with if this was the equipment we had to lug around in order to snap our memories and do our work. I for one, would never again complain about the weight of my two (very small in comparison) SLR cameras after seeing this!

Community Relations News

We've said goodbye to a few names on the Community Volunteer team. They're still around though so go and show them love! In the past week we've said farewell to
`MzzAzn, `shuttermonkey, `CreativeJenn, `takethef and `hellfirediva.

Did You Know? is out once more and might highlight a few things that you didn't know about deviantART.
Daily Deviations - Behind the Magic is an article that's basically asking for your input on Daily Deviations and any questions you might have surrounding them. In particular myself ^3wyl and `IsacGoulart are interested in your questions and thoughts on General Photography but you can drop by with your questions on any area of art if you want to. We're getting ready for #projecteducate's daily deviation week that will be led by ^Astralseed

Finally we've updated the bi-weekly critique blog which you can find right here! The General Photography critique night went really well last night and I'm working on getting a date for another. Keep an eye out for updates and we'll keep you posted!

Spotlight Deviant ~huhahohi

~huhahohi has been here for two years and has a beautiful gallery exploring various subjects. Nature, Animals and People is her specialty with some wonderful spontaneous portraits and concepts.

Spotlight Group

#PhotographersSoul is a group dedicated to showcasing your work, not judging it. They want
you to submit your work without the fear pf it being rejected based on
skill. As long as they can see the subject, and it's not abusive in anyway
it has found a home in their gallery!

Deviants to Check Out This Week

~Justynka

~grinzekatze

~mondscheinsonate

Project Educate

This week #projecteducate has been focusing on Architecture Photography. Scroll down to the Architecture section for all the links! Coming up next week is Artistic Nude week with ^Nyx-Valentine It's worth keeping an eye on the group for all the updates and goings on!

Art History

Traditional Month is in full swing over at #ArtHistoryProject. There's an interview with Jonnie Dee to check out and an article about Giger who created Alien!

General Photography

Community Volunteers ^Kaz-D | ^3wyl | `IsacGoulart

We haven't had a trouble shooting article this week but I'm working on putting together something to troubleshoot a question about fireworks photography. If you have something you want answered just send myself or `sine-out a note and we'll work on it for you. *TouchedD has created me a wonderful header for People & Portraits Exposed so those articles will be kicking in again next week. For now though enjoy the latest edition of Nom Nom which features a bunch of yummy raspberries!

Another edition of The Story Behind the Photo is out and this time explores the work of a fantastic photo-journalist. Keep an eye on `IsacGoulart because he puts together some lovely features that are worth having a look at! Talking of lovely features don't forget to have a look at the transportation photography feature My Car and I.

Architecture Photography

Community Volunteer `anmari

This week it's #projecteducate week for Architecture Photography which means that there are plenty of articles to share!

Introduction!

Subject

Interview with Sigurd Quast

Interview with Johannes Heuckeroth

Interview with Vincent Wernhardt

Composition

Low - Tech

Composition II

Abstract & Surreal Photography

Community Volunteer `DpressedSoul

Over at #Abstract-and-Surreal a couple of fantastic features have been put together. The first, finding beauty from *RosleinRot explores some wonderful surreal works. The second is from *AFineWar and is The Surrealist.

Darkroom Photography

Community Volunteer ^RockstarVanity

Darkroom Exposed this week focuses on Cyanotypes. If you're unsure what that means then check out the article - it will enlighten you! There is a great series of articles from ^RockstarVanity aiming to educate you in the ways and processes of Darkroom so I recommend checking them out.

Fashion Photography

Community Volunteer ^Pixel-Spotlight

Fashion Friday is out once more from ^dekorAdum and features talented Fashion Photographers every Friday. Check out the article for some insight, inspiration and awe in the fashion world.

Street Photography

Community Volunteer `StamatisGR

Friday Night Murphy's Laws is a weekly selection amongst the images that were suggested to `StamatisGR as DDs or that simply impressed him. Check it out for some great street photography to browse through this evening!

Featured Tutorial

Since the theme this week is Wedding Photography - it's worth checking out the above tutorial if you're looking for hints and tips!

From the Forums

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Modeling advice?

Painting light in exposure

Cokin ND Filters

Are mobiles slowly killing the consumer camera market?

Portrait photography: the right lens

Need Help on Photographing Lightening

Advice and ideas for a novice/beginner photographer

Tripods

Manual or auto focus?

Underwater camera?

Photography Books

Capturing the Perfect Day is a decently priced photography book available on amazon. It explores how best to capture a Wedding and all that comes with it. I thoroughly recommend it for those that are keen wedding photographers and who want some hints and tips!

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!

Project Comment's Under appreciated Feature from ^3wyl

Finding Beauty from *RosleinRot

dA Love for Everyone from `lintu47

Celebrating Colour from ~Dani-the-Naiad

Wonderful Wednesday from `JamminJo

Project Porkchop from ^Astralseed

Under 1,000 Views from *L0NE-W0lf

Square-ishSquare-ish from `dragonfly-oli

Weekly Light Hunters from =MarinaCoric

The Community Volunteer Team - Photography

The Community Volunteer Team - Photography

General Photography: ^Kaz-D | ^3wyl | `IsacGoulart

Architecture `anmari

Abstract and Surreal: `DpressedSoul

Animals, Plants and Nature: `trevg

Darkroom: ^RockstarVanity

Urban and Rural: `fritsvandersloot

Artistic Nude and Fetish: ^Nyx-Valentine

Conceptual: `DemonMathiel

Fashion: ^Pixel-Spotlight

Horror & Macabre & Cosplay: ^pullingcandy

Pinup and Glamour: ^DistortedSmile

Photo-journalism: `xbastex

Street: `StamatisGR

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