Creativity
Raw Photoshoot Of Woman Preparing To Battle Breast Cancer As Husband Shaves Off Her Hair Goes Viral
Photographer Mandy Parks recently captured the pain, beauty and bravery of a woman's fight with breast cancer. The pictures show Kelsey Johnson shaving his wife, Charlie's, head. The Arkansas photographer's post has received more than 209K reactions and 215K shares in less than a day, and people from all over the world are sending the couple their best wishes.
Photojournalism
Powerful photo of Nampa firefighter deepens conversation around post-traumatic stress
When Nampa Fire Capt. Frank Beauvais reached out to a photographer friend in February, he wasn't looking for photos that he could hang on his mantelpiece. He just wanted to better understand his experience with post-traumatic stress.
Video Creators
How Netflix Is Using Its Muscle to Push Filmmaking Technology Boundaries
Arguably the most popular camera among Hollywood cinematographers is the ARRI Alexa, made by the century-old ARRI camera company. But as recently as six months ago, Netflix would not permit DPs to use this camera (other than the large-format Alexa 65) for its original programming because the standard model employed a 3.2K resolution sensor instead of the streamer's required 4K.
Photoshop
How to Create Starburst Effect in Photoshop
In this photoshop photo effects tutorial, we'll be mixing photo editing and graphic art to create our own starburst lens flare effects and applying them to an image. You don't really need any sort of graphic skills to do this as the process mainly involves manipulation through scaling, rotating and applying filters.
Documentary
5 Woodstock Photographers on the Images That Moved Them Most
Fifty years ago, nearly half a million people convened at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, for the first Woodstock Arts & Music Festival in August 1969. Billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: Three Days of Peace and Music," the event featured now-iconic sets from acts like Jimi Hendrix, Santana and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.
Cameras & Lenses
10 things we don’t know about the Panasonic Lumix S1H yet
Ever since the Panasonic Lumix S1H was announced in May, filmmakers and video enthusiasts have been on the edge of their seat waiting for more information. This 6K powerhouse looks set to blow its competition out of the water, but we don't even know some incredibly basic information - such as when exactly the S1H will be released!
Off-Camera Flash
Why Salads and CEOs Are Photographed the Exact Same Way
Pick up a magazine or fall down Instagram's rabbit hole and you're likely to come across at least one photograph lit up by an unnaturally bright flash - a flash that floods the space, evenly illuminating every detail in vivid color.
Newspapers
Oregon officials request criminal investigation into newspaper reporters over after-hours phone calls, emails
The Malheur Enterprise, a small newspaper in eastern Oregon, spent months investigating a state lawmaker's business deals and contract work in Malheur County. But on Monday, the newspaper reported an unusual development: Now the county wants to investigate the Malheur Enterprise - for harassment. The problem?
Personal Advancement
Nobody’s Perfect
Nobody's perfect, as the saying goes. And while that is perfectly true (Ha! See what I did there?), and meant to make us feel better for being flawed or making mistakes, in retrospect it also implies that we hold perfection up as an ideal..as the ultimate achievement.
Community
Canon Drops Ambassador Barbara Davidson for ‘Racist’ Tweet
Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning photojournalist Barbara Davidson has been booted from the Canon Explorers of Light program after an insensitive tweet aimed at Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro sparked outrage on social media. In the tweet that kicked off the controversy, Davidson mocked the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for not being able to speak Spanish.
Lifestyle
No one cares about 99% of the photos you take. Not even you.
Before deepfakes and alternative facts, the online world was already telling us fibs. In our series Lies the Internet Told Me , we call 'em all out. For our summer vacation, my wife drove us hell-for-leather between National Parks, driven by the urge to collect every stamp in her Parks Passport.
Wordpress
Tumblr sold off yet again, adult content bans to remain in place
Verizon announced that microblogging platform Tumblr would be acquired by Automattic Inc, the tech company behind WordPress. This comes roughly eight months after Tumblr announced that it would no longer host NSFW content on its side and introduced posting guidelines that prohibited sexually explicit videos and images, as well as pictures of "female-presenting nipples."
Books
30 Books Mattis Thinks Every Good Leader Needs To Read
James Mattis, the Marine Corps general-turned secretary of defense, is known for many things, including his prolific reading list. We know everyone jokes that Marines can't read, but Mattis has probably perused more books in a year than most people manage in a lifetime.He sat down with Foreign Polic
Technology
How to fix your phone’s shitty portrait mode
Ever since Apple introduced their depth map generated fake background blur filter known as Portrait mode, practically all other phone makes have also added that feature. In all cases it's terrible at making your photos look good because the filters never get the edge details right.
Geek Gear
1TB phones are coming and I’m so fucking ready
Something special happened today. Samsung, a tech company you definitely know, announced it's mass-producing 1TB flash storage chips for mobile devices. In other words, you'll soon be able to buy phones with a terabyte of storage space. When I asked people about this news, there were two main schools of thought.