Hefty’s Burger By Jake MacDougall

My wife also took some phone cam shots of this (like minds). It's the underside of a freeway overpass. Besides loving the fact that it is so neatly lit, I love the way it gets abstracted... almost like the bridge of a stringed instrument.

8 portrait posing tricks to improve body shape and hide unflattering features James Paterson, digitalcameraworld.com

In this portrait posing tutorial we show you eight posing tricks you can try on any subject to improve body shape, conceal unflattering features and make them look their best.Regardless of what your model looks like, posture can make or bre…

A 1950s Kitchen, Locked Away Since It Was Built Benjamin Starr, visualnews.com

Like walking back in time, furniture designer Nathan Chandler opened the door on a home he bought in 2010 and found the kitchen in nearly original condition from when it was built in 1956. For some reason the original owners built the house…

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Experiment Water droplets. One of my sons jokingly quipped that this could be done with paint, milk, or pigs blood. I used water and a glass pyrex dish that I could slide paper under (which accounts for the pyrex logo in every shot…sigh…should've used an unbranded dish or a plastic container).

I also used colored paper as flash reflectors, and an off-camera YN560II flash aimed at the  paper. Used another reflector opposite (almost camera-left) angled a bit. Had some ambient daylight as well.

You need to manually focus on the point where your water droplets fall (AF won't lock in on it otherwise) and use a tripod. I shot at sync speed (1/200 for Canon consumer-end) manual flash, 1/4 to 1/2 for most shots.

You'll get the feel for your flash and camera on this exercise. It is ALL timing. The coveted "crown splash" shot (top) was literally in 3–4 out of over 170 shots.

Want to try again sometime with constants (my LED hardware store light and a few Fluorescent clip lamps).

My wife's flowers in the front of our house. Playing a bit with lens compression on a zoom (about 80 mm on the roses, 220 on the lilies).

AMAZING what he does with High speed. I don't have the capability or the equipment, but I have see the rigs for sale that allow you to do this. Cool.

Even though he only describes it as a hobby, Heinz Maier’s high-speed water drop photography is some of the best we’ve seen.

Using simple white backgrounds and colored liquids, Heinz transforms water into amorphous sculptures.

High-Speed Water Drop Photos Are a Cut Above the Rest

via 2photo

sweet...literally

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Exclusive Details on the Light L16 Camera Stu Maschwitz, prolost.com

The Light L16 prototype spills its guts.This is a follow-up to last week's post on the Light L16 camera, a computational camera that claims unprecedented big-camera performance in a small-camera form. Light launched a pre-order campaign last week,…