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19 Portrait Photography Tutorials

A great collection of tutorials to help you take better portraits.

The Food Pornographer

The Food Pornographer lives in Perth, Western Australia and simply loves taking photos of food, including this mouth-watering burger.

She takes her camera everywhere with her. Her workmates have grown accustomed to their lunches being photographed.

She makes no claims of being a professional photographer, but she really enjoys taking pictures. [via]

Under The Microscope

Amazing photos of some very small things such as this mouse embryo. Lots more here.

Pictures From The Sky

Lots more stunning photos here.

Lightmark - Light-Writing Photography

A gallery of light-writing set against global landscapes. Simply stunning. [via]

Image via cenci goepel + jens warnecke

Nokia N95 Photo Awards - April/May 2008

Image via derekmac

Some stunning photos taken with a Nokia N95.

Iconic Microsoft Photo Reshot

The iconic photo featuring the 11 original Microsoft employees taken on Dec. 7, 1978, on the eve of the company's move from Albuquerque, N.M., to Seattle has been reshot. One person is missing from the new photo due to his death in 2002 but has been replaced with a woman who was absent for the original photo. [via]

Out Of This World Soap Bubble Photos

© Creative Review

These stunning photos of bubbles look almost celestial. There's a post on Creative Review that shows how the photographs were made. [via]

Iowa Tornado Closeup

AP Photo/Lori Mehmen

Imagine opening your front door and seeing this. Luckily the tornado only damaged trees and crops. The Big Picture has more amazing photos from the Iowa floods.

The Big Picture

REUTERS/Arko Datta

If you haven't already checked out The Big Picture from The Boston Globe, go and take a look at some of the stunning photographs. The quality of the images from this rain-soaked football match is amazing and are the types of images you wouldn't usually see on news websites.

Bald Eagle Attacks Swan

© Kelly Munday via Birdchick.com

A stunning series of photographs showing a bald eagle attacking a swan. According to the commentary on Birdchick.com...

If it is in fact a trumpeter swan, then its average weight would be about 20 pounds, the average weight of a bald eagle would be around 10 pounds. If that eagle is able to grab and kill the swan, it will have to eat it where the swan body lands on the ground--eagles are only able to carry roughly half their weight when in flight.

According to this site, the swan managed to get away from the eagle. [via]

The Sky, From Above

© NASA

Spectacular images of the sky taken from over 200m miles high. [via]

Classic Photos Recreated In Lego

Image via Balakov @ Flickr

More photos here. [via]

5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo

Scientific American discusses how to spot a doctored photo by analysing lighting, eye position and cloning and examining 'photo fingerprints'. Included in the article is the infamous image from George W. Bush’s reelection campaign late in 2004 in which a crowd was cloned.

100 Photo Effects Photoshop Tutorials

ThePhotoshopRoadmap.com has compiled a great collection of Photoshop tutorials focused on photo effects such as ghosting, pop art, and movie effects.

Photos From A Wedding Taking Place During The Chinese Earthquake

© Dragon Photos

Dramatic photos of a wedding in China that was taking place during the huge earthquake. The site is reporting that 33 people were 33 missing in the church. [via]

Sea Slugs

© National Geographic

National Geographic has some stunning photos of nudibranches (sea slugs).

Skyplay

"SKYplay depicts a composition dominated by use of the sky & real clouds at that moment with another object." Lots more similar photos here. [via]

Photoshop Fun

Either someone got a little over zealous with Photoshop or this girl has got one very long and bendy arm.

Shipwrecks & Sea Disasters

Image via Donibane Sanjuan

Dark Roasted Blend has stunning photos of shipwrecks including the one above by Donibane Sanjuan that looks almost like a painting.

Lightning Strikes Volcano

© Carlos Gutierrez/UPI

This is the moment lightning struck the a Chilean volcano that is erupting for the first time in 9,000 years. The Sun has more photos.

Star Wars Urban Photography

French photographer Cedric Delsaux has created a series of photos where he puts Star Wars characters and vehicles and transplants them into modern day urban locations. [via]

San Francisco Fleet Week

I have a feeling I've posted these photos before but if so I'm posting them again. They were taken at last year's Fleet Week in San Francisco.

I've just booked a trip to San Francisco (for a birthday celebration but I won't tell you how old;o), and it happens to coincide with the 2008 Fleet Week. Seeing as I've got similar kit to what was used to take the photos I'm hoping that I'll be able to take some great shots. If you've been to a past Fleet Week, have you got any tips on good vantage points? I'm going to be in the city for the practice shows and the air shows, are the practice shows similar to the actual air shows?

Whilst on the subject of San Francisco/California, is Santa Cruz worth a visit? I'm planning on driving further south for a few days after visiting San Francisco to visit Monterrey, Half Moon Bay and possibly Santa Cruz. Are there any other places in the area worth visiting?

Nokia Creative N95 Photo Awards

There are some great example of what can be achieved with a cameraphone, in particular the Nokia N95, over on the March edition of the Nokia Creative N95 Photo Awards. The photo above won an award for best colour.

Great Wall Of China Panorama

Stunning! [via]

10 Stunning Night Photos

Wired has posted 10 stunning night photos sent in by its readers. View them all here.

Life Before Death

A series of portraits by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, shows people shortly before and after their deaths. [via]kottke.org

Photoshop Disasters

A fine collection of Photoshop disasters. There were so many good ones it was hard to choose one for this post. [via]

Atlanta Tornado

Beautiful yet deadly. This photo of a tornado was taken in Atlanta recently. [via]

2nd Annual Photography Masters Cup

Lots and lots of amazing wildlife photos on the 2nd Annual Photography Masters Cup winners and nominees page. It's a pity there aren't descriptions associated with each image as I would have loved to have known how photos like the one above were achieved.

Inside North Korea

Chang W. Lee, a photographer for The Times, got a rare outsider's glimpse of North Korea during a trip he took as part of a contingent of journalists traveling with the New York Philharmonic for a landmark concert. Here's a slideshow of his images. [via]

G.I. Joes Kill Squirrel

[via]

Hello From Atlantis

A very cool photograph.

Stunning Caves

A small collection of stunning photographs of caves.

The Polaroid SX-70

Polaroid recently announced that it was no longer going to produce film for the iconic Polaroid cameras resulting in the loss of 450 jobs. Here's a classic video showing one of the more popular models - the SX70 which not only shows the camera in action but also shows how it worked. [via]

World Press Photo 2008

British photographer Tim Hetherington has won this year’s prestigious World Press Photo Contest. His photograph of a US soldier in the Korengal Valley in the Eastern province of Afghanistan beat more than 80,000 other images submitted this year.

The BBC has more photos from the contest.

Cormorant Swallows Pike

This cormorant was photographed by Stewart Canham eating a 1ft long pike whole. According to the RSPB, cormorants can eat creatures up to two-and-a-half feet long and have been recorded eating 86 different species of fish. ONe has even been found with an 11-and-a-half-inch kitten in its stomach! More photos here.

Insect Covered In Dew

Simple stunning! More photos from the photographer. [via]

Stunning Nokia N95 Photo

The photo above shows just how good cameraphones have become. It was taken with a Nokia N95. There are more photos from the Nokia Creative - N95 Photo Awards (Jan 08) here. [via]

Huge 5200mm Canon Lens

This giant 5200mm lens from Canon is probably one of the biggest camera lenses ever made (it was built in the early 1960s). The 100kg lens is capable of taking photos of object 18-32 miles away (see below). If you are wondering where the camera is - it's the tiny object on the right of the image.

This site has more images of the lens including some of one that was being sold by a Chinese company. [via]

Goliath Grouper

That's one big fan club.

Cat vs Pigeons

Lightning Striking Tree

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Freaky Cats

It's probably photoshopped or a time-lapse photo but it's still freaky, especially the cat in the car. [via]

Long-Exposure Photo Of Two People Having Sex On A Bed

[via]

Photo Of A Photo

A twist on the normal 'photo of a photo'. [via]

Kids Hitch A Ride On A Truck In Peru

Taken from the description on Flickr...

In Perú from Huánuco to Tingo Maria, where the road from the Pacific coast across the Andes finds its way towards the Amazon lowlands. This is near the top of the last mountain pass. From there, soapbox rider can enjoy a vertical 1000 meters of gravity assisted ride.

As these kids help stranded truck drivers along the road, they're called bomberos (firemen). They transport drinks, food and spare parts to broken trucks.

[via]

World's Smallest Explosions?

Could these be the world's smallest explosions? The photo was taken with an electron scanning micrograph by Fanny Beron from the École Polytechnique de Montréal and has won first prize in the "Science as Art" competition. [via]

Canon Camera Museum

The Canon Camera Museum has tons and tons of information about Canon cameras, camcorders, movie cameras and lenses.

Thomas Hawk's Top 10 Photography Tips

Photographer Thomas Hawk shares his top ten photography tips with Mahalo Daily.