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1. Just because someone has an expensive camera doesn’t mean that they’re a good photographer. 2. Always shoot in RAW. Always. 3. Prime lenses help you learn to be a better photographer. 4. Photo editing is an art in itself 5. The rule of thirds works 99% of the time. 6. Macro photography isn’t for [...]

DOMESTIC ANIMALS CATEGORY WINNER: Harry Giglio. TITLE: Praying. From bestfriendsphotocontest.com 1 Grand Prize winner will receive: Fuji Instax Mini 25 Instant Film Camera. 3 First Place Category winners will receive: Instax 210 Instant Film Camera. All Grand Prize and Category first place winners will receive: The Flip Ultra™ camcorder. A PDN Magazine Subscription. A 2010 [...]

The English fashion photographer Corinne Day passed away 28 August, following a long fight with brain cancer. Day’s stripped-down, de-glossed aesthetic was a breath of fresh air when she rose to prominence in the early nineties, coming on the heels of the ultra-stylized shoots of the 1980’s. Today, she’s most famous for one such pared-down [...]

Nigel Barker thinks that fashion can make a difference. Next month at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, the America’s Next Top Model judge will support Nine West Runway Relief: Steps for a Cause. Models will wear limited-edition Nine West boots fitted with pedometers; each step taken will equal a donation to Fashion Targets Breast Cancer. “I think [...]

Being creative and original these days is not an easy deal, and photography makes no exception. Milk photography isn’t something you see every day. Russian photographer Andrey Razoomovsky (Андрей Разумовский) took it to perfection. You might ask yourself what is milk photography? So, the photos below speak for themselves. Don’t forget to check all the [...]

Rick Norsigian holds up a photograph made from a glass negative purportedly shot by the late Ansel Adams during a news conference in Beverly Hills in July.  (Nick Ut/Associated Press) The Ansel Adams Publishing Trust, which guards the legacy of the famed U.S. photographer, is suing a man who is selling prints from negatives purported [...]

‘Double Exposure’ Stars Markus Klinko and Indrani on Lady Gaga, Naomi Campbell, and Photoshop From left to right, fashion stylist GK Reid, Markus Klinko, Naomi Campbell, and Indrani. Photo courtesy of Markus Klinko and Indrani The list of iconic faces who have been captured by the artful lens of photographer Markus Klinko and his creative [...]

Almost everyone who picks up a camera wants to take a great photograph that makes people say, “Wow! That’s incredible!” But alas, few people manage to get much more than, “That’s really nice.” Why? Perhaps it’s because not many people know what makes a photograph incredible. So let’s take a look at five elements that [...]

Rick Norsigian holds up a photograph made from a glass negative shot by photographer Ansel Adams during a news conference in Beverly Hills. Rick Norsigian kept two boxes he bought at a garage sale under his pool table for four years before realizing they may be too valuable to store at home. The Fresno, California, [...]

Jazz scene photographer Herman Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra and other great musicians, has died. He was 87. Leonard died Aug. 14 at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, according to his publicist. Leonard was [...]

What do Jean Genet, Jimmy Durante, Brigitte Bardot, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol, and Lena Horne  have in common? They were a few of the many personalities caught on film by photographer Richard Avedon. For more than fifty years, Richard Avedon’s portraits have filled the pages of the country’s finest magazines. His stark imagery [...]

Stefano Moro was born in Milano and discovered his passion for photography at the age of ten, thanks to receiving his first reflex camera. In the mid-1990′s he becomes an assistant on the advice of Richard Avedon, and a few years later he opens his own studio in Milano. Moro’s passion for beauty and perfection [...]

Spotlight Interview JRP: Matusciac Alex is a talented photographer who specializes in fashion. One can only be impressed as you view his images. Where do you call home Matusciac? Matusciac Alex: I was born in Timisoara, Romania and still live here today. JRP: Have you had any formal training in photography? Matusciac Alex: I don’t [...]

Take a look at absolutely unusual and creative works by Romain Laurent, a highly talented French photographer, famous for his brilliant work with some of the biggest advertising agencies. His retouching skills are pretty impressive. He is working with several biggest advertising agencies like TBWA, Young Rubican and his clients are Citroen and Microsoft. Laurent’ [...]

For photographer Robert Yager, there is no formula. The soft-spoken Brit was a teenager when he first thought about photography. Hitchhiking around Europe, he borrowed a friend’s camera and started making pictures. When he returned to his home city of London, he viewed a show of American photographers that caught his eye. Especially the documentary [...]

Interview with Florence Thompson, the Mona Lisa of the Dust Bowl JOHN CHANCELLOR, anchor: The Great Depression of the 1930s was no fun for those who lived through it, and the memory of it stands today as a reminder of how tough life can be when the bottom drops out of everything. The Great Plains [...]

In 1960, Dorothea Lange spoke about her experience taking the photograph: “I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not remember how I explained my presence or my camera to her, but I do remember she asked me no questions. I made five exposures,working closer and closer from [...]

Dorothea Lange in 1965, photo by Rondal Partridge A look at the work of Dorothea Lange who captured the Great Depression through her lens and created some of the iconic images of that era. As we go through our own hard times, some retrospect may be what is needed for their contextualization. Like Esther Bubley, [...]

ONLY hours before he died of cancer (16th of June), aged 52, Richard Bailey, the world-famous Australian fashion photographer, was planning his next shoot. “He was delirious,” his wife Gillian said. “The budget was $400 million, it was in Thailand, and the model was Paris Hilton, which is strange because she was one of the [...]

Are you the Photographer of the Year? Photographer of the Year 2009 Overall Winner: Bragi J. Ingibergsson, Iceland Digital Camera Photographer of the Year is one of the world’s biggest photography competitions, attracting more than 100,000 entries in 2009. We’re pleased to announce that this year’s competition is now open! Choose your categories below and [...]