Fantastic. The kids are incredible. The last lines are great, listen carefully. [via wimp.com]

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Taking Baby Photos You’ll Drool Over Me Ra Koh lists some extremely useful tips on doing baby photography. I must say she’s got great advice that’s easy for anyone to use and generalize for almost any kind of photography.

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Supermodel’s Photoshop Horror A former Sports Illustrated cover model is suing an Estee Lauder company for allegedly damaging her career with a fake promo using a Photoshopped picture of her. The suit is the latest wrinkle in the global phenomenon of photo retouching. An interesting example of this type of photo retouching is this Dove [...]

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‘Best in Show II’ — This Time It’s for Real Wonderful video piece on Fred R. Conrad’s shoot of the Westminster Dog Show. Watch full screen, it’s worth it.

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LaPorte, Indiana Trailer from Joe Beshenkovsky & Jason Bitner on Vimeo. My wife’s a Hoosier (from the Evansville at the other end of the state) but this documentary is something I’d be interested in anyway. Thousands of images from a local studio photographer rebuild the history of a town much like a Ken Burns film [...]

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Macworld iPhone 4 Cover I’ve always thought it would be cool to photograph the cover of Macworld magazine using an iPhone as my camera. When the new iPhone 4 was released with the 5MP camera, the editors at Macworld were excited to see if it could be done. What better way to showcase the phone’s [...]

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How to build a Portable, Paperless, Digital Copy Machine. I’ve been using my DSLR and a tripod to do this for years but this is a nice step by step set of instructions on how to build a copy stand for a point and shoot camera. Here’s another post at the same site: Copy Stand [...]

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The Getty Center has an incredible show up: Irving Penn: Small Trades. This is a large collection of portraits of window washers, plumbers, bakers, waiters and more, shot in the early 1950s in New York, London, and Paris. Penn is both one of the greatest portrait photographers and one of the greatest photographic printers and [...]

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Barack Obama’s Official Presidential portrait released. It was taken by Pete Souza, the newly-announced official White House photographer with a Canon EOS 5D MK II. [via Daring Fireball]

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My friend and Seattle photographer Steve Korn posted this image which he was contracted to shoot with the following caption: I was contacted last night for an urgent photo session this morning. The shot is for an article about the up coming series presented by the Chamber Dance Company at the University of Washington. Because [...]

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The well known photographer Jill Greenberg was asked to do a portrait of Senator John McCain for the cover of The Atlantic. She did the job and gave them the image they wanted. Jill has a distinctive style that is unmistakable: heavily processed images with harsh lighting making them look airbrushed. Some background on Jill [...]

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Another studio shot of a dancer from my flickr contact Steve Korn who shot this at the University of Washington for the Chamber Dance Company. I found links in the comment thread of Steve’s shot to two more photographers who specialize in this type of photography: David Cooper, and Lois Greenfield who are well known [...]

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My flickr contact Steve Korn shot this at the University of Washington for the Chamber Dance Company. Incredible.

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