German brewery pokes fun at maternity photos with “Brewed with Love” ads

When it comes to creative advertising, beer companies often spring to mind as being some of the most ridiculous culprits. They want to make us laugh, they want to remind us how “fun” it can be to consume alcohol. Not to be outdone, German brewery Bergedorfer Bier, are having a go at the maternity photography genre with their latest [...]

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Snapchat’s “lenses” contain a whole lot of cool technology

Snapchat might be quite a silly and frivolous app to some people, while others live on it.  Regardless of your thoughts on its practical application, it employs some pretty serious technology in order to be able to do what it does with its “lenses”, or filters as most people call them. From the same facial recognition principles [...]

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This new camera lens is as small as a grain of salt

Everything seems to be getting smaller and smaller these days. Cameras and lenses don’t seem to be immune to this phenomenon, despite some cameras pushing for bigger.  Of course, there’s no real right or wrong when it comes to the size of your camera, just whether or not it will do the job. One of [...]

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Quick Tip: Use dog tags to mark your gear

Here is a cool tagging idea we got from Roni Chastain.  Roni uses dog tags for marking her gear. In an email to DIYP she explains: … I have them [dog tag ] on my cameras, bags, tripod. I had my daughter put them on their sneakers, when they go out running… … My thoughts have always [...]

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Your Next Smart Selection Could Be Powered By A Neural Network

Admit it! object masking sucks. It’s not that it is impossible, even the hardest selections and masks can be created with some work (and some methods require less work that others). But, in general, masking is a hard and tedious work. Researchers in the The Chinese University of Hong Kong working with Adobe Research are now [...]

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Creating the Perfect Gelled Background

At first glance this seems like an easy thing to achieve, how hard can it be to get a great looking gelled background in your shot? As anybody who has used gels in the past will tell you, there’s certainly a few key things to pay attention to if you want to avoid those flat, [...]

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Being limited by my landlocked location, I bought 1,500 pounds of sand for a “beach” photo shoot, and got a single photo out of it

I bought a stack of foreign Vogue magazines for inspiration, and inside of Vogue Italia I saw an amazing photo of Alessandra Ambrosio on a beach at night (the image at the bottom of this page). I tucked it away in a manila envelope labeled “Possible Shoots”. For a year and a half, every time I [...]

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