Here’s how it goes: Stop people by the street, talk with them, ask if you can take a portrait. Post the picture to Flickr and 100 strangers pool. Try to get an idea who they are. Write a caption that tells something about the person in portrait. Describe how you got the photo. Don’t post archive photos. Get out on the streets to take new ones.
So if you’ve made set “Taking more pictures of strangers” as a 2008 photo resolution then this is the challenge for you.
This couldn’t have come at a better time; if you’re looking for another cheap and easy way to shoots you some awesome Fisheye, why not look to your Christmas tree?
One shiny bulb, three simple steps, bing bada boom – you’ve got a great 360 degree (-ish) fisheye look… head on over to check this one out, folks. Then try it out, and let us know how it goes!
We’ve definitely been on a Halloween kick lately (candy? costumes? we’re lovin’ it!), so that considered, we couldn’t resist letting you know about this alternative method to capturing ghosts on film:
Bob Dragomirescu wrote in and told us about ‘em: The photos were “shot on a tripod with 6s exposure and flash. We posed for only 1-2s and than ran out of the scene. The flash managed to freeze the most lighted parts of us (faces and hands). The rest is transparent… pretty neat?”
Here at Photojojo, we don’t just snap photographs all day and think of awesome things to do with them. Sometimes, we get distracted by irresistibly wonderful and genius commercials on YouTube.
Take this one, for instance – an ad from Sony for its Bravia TV. Featuring 200 plasticine bunnies hopping around Manhattan (shot in claymation style), what’s not to love?
Apparently it took a team of 40 animators – from the ad agency Fallon London – three weeks to choreograph their bunny models and shoot over 100,000 still images for the 90 second spot. We’d just like to say that that’s some diligent photography (and a whole lot of clay) right there, folks.
If you’ve ever struggled with finding that just-right color combination, then Colorful Beauty in Nature: Butterflies by COLOURlovers should make your day. Simple, splendid images of butterflies doing double duty to create rich color palettes. They make it look crazy easy!
Thanks to Darius, founder of COLOURlovers, for sending this to us! Now everyone go out there and photograph something that can inspire your inner Designer.
Flick A Day is here to help keep you on task. The Boston-based service allows users to choose from taking photos with a web cam, or uploading images from their computer. You will get an email reminder by noon if you’ve not taken your daily picture AND they compile all your photos into a nifty widget you can use on other sites.
Did you love the idea of 24 hours of Flickr but didn’t know about it until it was over? Or did you participate and it’s left you wanting for more chrono-based photography?
Fret not, ShutterClock is going to do its part to help you out on May 11.
ShutterClock has several ways to participate but all let you share images taken at the same time in different geographic locations. I heart these types of projects because they give you a quick, achievable photography goal that can kickstart better photography habits. Check it out and join in!
Thanks to Photojojo reader/ShutterClock creator Ronan for letting us know about his project. Got your own project, let us know!
Now he can can easily added location information to this EXIF data and place his images in the Flickr Map. Would come in pretty handy during today’s 24 Hours of Flickr!
You could also add those photos to the Photojojo group map. Check it out, you’ll find some amazing photos to explore.
According to Chris, the adaptor seems to work for any Nikon that would work with the MC-35 adaptor. Now anyone have something for a Canon?
It is easy to forget, with all the shiny bells and whistles of digital, that photography wasn’t always something the masses had access to. Shorpy.com is a photo blog showcasing images taken a hundred years ago.
“How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. We’re starting with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey for the National Child Labor Committee, which lobbied Congress to end the practice. One of his subjects, a young coal miner named Shorpy Higginbotham, is the site’s namesake.”
Great idea and lots of fun for photography history geeks (guilty!).
We stumbled upon a great idea for a new family tradition. This comes just in time for those family holiday get-togethers. Take a picture on or around the same day every year, and compile them in rows. The good thing about this composition is that each picture is taken individually, so if you can’t get the whole family together at the same time, you can still have an accurate representation of each person’s image on that particular day.
Thomas Hoehn over at Kodak’s A Thousand Words has a post featuring his “Extreme Holiday Photo Card Ideas.” For the past five years, Thomas has created unique cards to share his family photos and holiday cheer with others. Check out his stained glass look-a-like or the photo paper airplane!
When I first saw the Moo cards on Flickr I knew it wouldn’t be long before someone did something groovy with this radically narrow space. John Ralston’s polyoramas are the most creative use of the cards I’ve seen so far. Lovely.
Let me know what you’ve done with the cards or just tell me about all your cool photo stuff/ideas/creations. Send it to nicole at photojojo.com.
Catherine Ledner takes some amazing photographs of pets and other animals. She has an eye for design and chooses the perfect backgrounds for each of her animal subjects.
The most important work a young photographer can do is existential. You must figure out what kind of photographer you want to be, what do you want to say and how are you going to do it better than others have done before you.
Michella McNally, photo editor at the New York Times, answers readers’ questions on camera equipment, what the Times looks for when hiring photographers, advice for people starting out in the craft, the Times’ policy on Photoshopping, photography and the law, and more. An interesting read!
Here at Photojojo, we don’t just snap photographs all day and think of awesome things to do with them. Sometimes, we get distracted by irresistibly wonderful and genius commercials on YouTube.
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