It’s that time of year, and all that, so I thought I’d put together something of a christmas list: What can you get your photography-addicted buddy for the holiday season?
But first, let’s help the readers of this post with a poll. Here’s your chance to tell people what you’d really like!
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Okay, so don’t throw it away, that’d be a pointless waste, really. But you could consider throwing it around a little, and let gravity, inertia and other physics help you with your abstract photography.
The idea is to trip the shutter and then lob your camera through the air. The first couple of times you’ll have adrenaline coming out of your ears, but then the endorfines kick in as you realise what sort of results you are getting.
It all sounds rather dangerous, doesn’t it, but don’t worry too much, there’s a Flickr Pool of camera toss photos that contains over 2,000 photos, and rather few reports of smashed cameras. Read the rest of the article »
I’ve gone on about PhotoJoJo before, back in may, when they were just starting out but they deserve it, damn it, so here’s officially a re-recommendation of what they do. Read the rest of the article »
So, they decided to exile Pluto from our little planetary club. What? Suddenly a planet less? Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t. Nonetheless, it’s getting a bit lonely down here, afting having an 11% decrease in number of planets to deal with over night.
So, we were most happy when we discovered that our old comrades over at PhotoJoJo had stumbled across a wicked solution: With the power of Photoshop, panoramas and more than a little bit of creativity, you can make your own planets - just like that! Read the rest of the article »
They’ve only been going for about a month, but PhotoJoJo is definitely one of the cool kids on the block. So far, they only have just over a thousand subscribers to the newsletter, and another thousand who read the RSS feed, which is bloody ridiculous, considering the amount of very good newsletters the guys have produced so far. They should be more popular than the Pope and strawberry jam by now! Read the rest of the article »
It's now available from »Amazon.com and »Amazon.co.uk, too! If you prefer, you can buy a signed copy directly from me from this page.
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