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5 Steps to Being More Photogenic

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 05:24:15 GMT

clipped by: meerkat
clipper's remarks: So useful for professional portraits, or for random pictures with your friends. Ah, vanity.

Clip Source: www.digitalcamerau.com

Step 1

If you are standing - turn slightly and rest your weight on one foot. It may FEEL goofy, but you WILL look better.

If you are sitting – angle to one side or the other.

Step 2

Lean slightly toward the camera – Leaning slightly toward the camera adds interest, dimension, and a natural look to a photo. Think of having a long neck like a gazelle, and tilt your chin down just a bit to avoid the appearance of a double chin and also to prevent the camera from getting a view right up your nostrils.

Step 3

Models are taught to change state by developing a ‘trigger.’ So when they are about to have their picture taken, even if they are in a crummy mood, they can go from level 1 to level 5 in a heart beat. Firing a trigger is a reminder to do the things that make you look good. Believe it or not, THE most successful trigger we found over the years was called the ‘rear cheek squeeze.’ It’s really cool because it’s inconspicuous. Yes, it’s exactly what it sounds like; you squeeze the cheeks of your rear end together. Don’t make fun of it until you try it. To see it’s effectiveness try this experiment. Ask someone to sit on a chair and then ask them to squeeze their cheeks together. I have not met ONE person who doesn’t immediately smile and say something like, okay, now what?

Step 4

Learn to ¾ smile – People just don’t like pictures of themselves with huge smiles. Smiling too big exposes gums and causes your eyes to turn into slits.

Step 5

Never look directly at the lens – ALWAYS, look slightly ABOVE the lens.

Tags: tips, photo, howto

A Freaking Hilarious Photo LOL!

Thu, 26 Oct 2006 06:31:20 GMT

clipped by: orangysb
clipper's remarks: i laughed so bad when i saw this on digg

Clip Source: pics.livejournal.com

Tags: funny, humor, photo

Lightning burst captured in photo

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 21:15:18 GMT

clipped by: Newfman

Clip Source: photo.accuweather.com

Tags: photo

The Last Photo I Ever Took

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:12:58 GMT

clipped by: karokan

Clip Source: www.hogrockcafe.com

Contest Winners For
The Last Photo I Ever Took
Contributed by Doogie

Tags: photos, humor, contest

The Current Prettiest Images

Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:38:20 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: thefairest.info

The Current Prettiest Images:

Tags: the current prettiest images, photo, beautiful, appreciation

A Morality Test

Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:13:55 GMT

clipped by: Malhablada

Clip Source: www.peskylittlepagan.com

From an e-mail...

This test only has one question, but it's a very important one. By giving an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally.

The test features an unlikely, fictional situation in which you will have to make a decision. Remember that your answer needs to be honest, and spontaneous.

Please scroll down slowly and give due consideration to each line.

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THE SITUATION

You are in New Orleans, There is chaos all around you caused by a hurricane with severe flooding. You are a photo journalist working for a major newspaper and you're caught in the middle of this epic disaster.

You're trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, and disappearing under the water.

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THE TEST

Suddenly you see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken down with the debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar. You suddenly realize who it is. It's the President, George W. Bush. At the same time you notice that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options- you can save the life of the President, or you can shoot a dramatic Pulitzer Prize winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world's most famous men.

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THE QUESTION

Here's the question, and please give an honest answer.......

Would you select high contrast colour film, or would you go with the classic simplicity of black and white?

Tags: humor, politics

Stunning Lightning Sunset

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:18:32 GMT

clipped by: karokan
clipper's remarks: Amazingly beautiful photo of lightning at sunset

Clip Source: www.xxos.net

Tags: amazing, photos, beauty, lightning

How to tell if images were faked

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 21:43:17 GMT

clipped by: bigb0b

Clip Source: consumerist.com

HOW TO: Tell If Images Were Faked

As a skeptical consumer, you've probably looked at photo in the news or a piece of advertising and thought, hey, I bet that was faked. Now with a little help from Photoshop, and Tim Mathenson's tutorial, you can tell.

• Open Photoshop
• Open questionable image
• Press CTRL+U or go to Image -> Adjustments -> Hue/Saturation
• Set Hue to low
• Set Saturation to high
• Scroll the light bar back and forth, looking for areas of the image that don't match
• If you find a splotch of discoloration, that may indicate the picture was retouched.

Tim says this will work on any retouched photo, not just Photoshopped ones. — BEN POPKEN

How to tell fake images from real ones using Photoshop [Tim Matheson]

Tags: pictures, photoshop, photos, fake

Amazing animals photo gallery

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:17:12 GMT

clipped by: amgumen

Clip Source: www.darkroastedblend.com

Tags: animals, photography

great pics

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 04:22:10 GMT

clipped by: prashanth

Clip Source: thefairest.info

Tags: appreciation, beauty, photo, nature

Crazy picture..not what it seems...look closely!

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:38:14 GMT

clipped by: Newfman

Clip Source: www.cs.helsinki.fi

Tags: photo

Earth Pic in The Cosmos

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:43:56 GMT

clipped by: zenu1luv
clipper's remarks: This made me stop and think. Wow!!

Clip Source: www.smart-kit.com

Powerful words by Carl Sagan

If you look carefully at the NASA photo below, you will see a little white dot. This minute speck is Earth seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away. The photo was taken back in 1990.

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Tags: discovery, images, photo, space, thought-provoking, solar system, earth

Beautiful China

Sun, 09 Apr 2006 03:05:42 GMT

clipped by: rubira

Clip Source: www-users.york.ac.uk

Tags: china, beautiful, color, photo, photos, photography, colorful, nature, poetry

Which celebrity do you look like?

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:40:18 GMT

clipped by: l1wulf
clipper's remarks: Upload a photo and it is compared against a database of celebrities. Fun and pretty accurate. This didn't clip very well and there wasn't an actual description that was clipable. Try it with different photos.

Clip Source: www.myheritage.com

Upload a photo:

Tip!	For best results, upload a photo with large, front-facing and straight faces.

Run face recognition!

Loading photo, please wait...

Tip!	Try additional photos later on to see which celebrities appear more than once. Free registration is required to view the results

Tags: fun, celebrity, photo

Smart-Ass Road Sign

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:23:50 GMT

clipped by: pencilsandpixels

Clip Source: farm1.static.flickr.com

Tags: photo, humor, street