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Seen this 1940’s photo floating around the net with a “time-traveler” seemingly sporting an SLR, shades, and NIN t-shirt? Wondered if it’s real? So did we. So, we decided to turn to photo forensics: the Error Level Analyzer! Slip a photo URL into the Analyzer, and like a CSI computer, it instantly highlights possible alterations. Turns out our time traveler’s legit — there are no distinctive color differences. (Here’s the full story.) Try this shark-meets-helicopter photo though, and the sharks show up pink and white. This photo’s been ‘shopped! How does it work? The analyzer looks for decreases in the quality of a jpeg that happen every time you save it. Those areas are most likely to contain edits. Sleuth away! Analyze internet photos that you’ve always wondered about: time traveler pics, anti-gravity photos, or fashion spreads. Extras: Check out photo tampering through history and the Cottingley Fairies Hoax. The Error Level Analyzer p.s. Have you heard of Thrillist yet? It’s a rad free newsletter that tells you about one amazing new thing each day. They’re giving a chance to win a $1000 Apple gift card if you sign up! |
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Bored of photographing plain old water? Try an Aquatopiary, the incredible photo trick that sculpts water into shapes. (If you can splash around in a tub, you can make an Aquatopiary.) All you need is something glass or plastic, a bucket of good old H20, and some digital jiggery-pokery. Soon enough, magical shape-shifting splashes will become a swan, an elephant, a train, a face. Bending water and reality? All in a day’s work for a photo wizard like you. p.s. We’re hiring in San Francisco! Must write sharp copy, know how to spread ideas, and eat social media for breakfast. info… p.p.s. Thanks to returning sponsor New York Institute of Photography for supporting Photojojo. Grab a free course catalog! |
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Do you dream of faster lenses, larger apertures, and ice cream? We do too! Too bad, brand new lenses don’t drop into our laps everyday. Fortunately, photographer Ryan Brenizer has developed a way to get specular results from your thrifty fifty or a basic kit zoom lens. By stitching together multiple shots, Ryan makes impossibly shallow depths of field, possible. Follow a few easy steps and you too can take photos with the look of a faster more pricy lens. (And when you spend less on new lenses, there’s more money for sundaes!) A million thanks to Ryan for letting us feature a few of his photos. |
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Long long ago, Black-and-White ruled the Earth. Frosty white highlights frolicked with rich black shadows in the Meadows of Grayscale, and it was good. Then came Digital, whose dingy whites and muddy grays nearly drove Black-and-White to extinction. But now, like wild-eyed scientists cloning a mammoth, we’ve found the best ways to convert digital color photos into the REAL honest-to-goodness-that-looks-like-Ansel-Adams-took-it Black-and-White. NOT the pale washwater grays and off-white whites you get with “Convert to grayscale”. And we’re going to show you how. Converting Digital Color Photos to Glorious Black-and-White |
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Until recently, if someone said the word “sharpening” to us, we’d whimper and hide under the table. We mean, what the #$% is a threshold anyway? Well, we finally got fed up with it, so we did some research. And you know what? Sharpening’s actually not that bad, and it makes a HUGE difference on digital images.* Here’s our no-nonsense, jargon-free guide to sharpening your photos using Unsharp Mask. It’ll change your life. We promise. *If you’re printing directly from film, feel free to be smug at this time. You don’t need to sharpen a darn thing. Photojojo’s No-Nonsense, Jargon-Free Guide to Sharpening with Unsharp Mask p.s. Hey San Francisco! Wanna help us out with the Photojojo Book? We need people to photograph and places to photograph them in. Check out our wishlist! We’ll make ya book-famous, baby! |
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The Japanese have gotten hold of a time machine. We knew it would happen sooner or later. The weird thing is, this time machine only works on photographs. You feed it a sharp modern photo, and it comes back to you looking like it was taken sixty years ago. Maybe it came from The Future! Or Outer Space! Or the Underground Lair of the Mole People (yikes)! We don’t know because, well, we can’t read Japanese. All we know is, if you click “browse”, upload a photo, and then click on the blue button in the middle, the time machine magically oldifies your picture. It might also summon an army of cranky Mole People, we’re not sure. Click if you must, just don’t say we didn’t warn you. Eerie Photo Time Machine p.s. We’re looking for more Long Portraits! Email us a link if you’ve got one. This one is happy and cute, and this one rocks our socks. p.p.s. If you want to get in your momma’s good books, score her one of our custom photo bags for Mother’s Day. Last day to order for rush delivery is Monday the 28th! Photo credit: Jim Abraham |
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Oh cross-processed film, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways…
The ultra-high contrast The retro, artsy style The way everybody asks, “How did you DO that?” But alas! Alack! Our digital camera gives us no film to cross-process! How shall we reclaim our Paradise Lost? With Photoshop, gentle reader: glorious Photoshop. With a curves layer and a “hey nonny nonny”, we are reunited with our favorite old dark-room technique. Huzzah! Photoshop Cross-Processing Tutorial p.s. Today is Chuck Norris’ birthday, which means it’s also the International Day of Awesomeness! Get out there and be the best awesome you can be!
Photo Credits: Jo Durber and Lou Hamilton. |
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Lounging on a beach chair in Tipumungo, margarita in hand, the waves lap at your feet. The far-off sun wanes, painting everything in brilliant color. It’s a postcard-perfect scene that any photographer would drool over. And then there’s Sunburnt Stan. There’s nothing like a pesky tourist with a sunburnt nose to ruin a beautiful vacation shot. What’s a photo-loving vacationer to do? It seems like everywhere you go, Stan’s there too, wading into the sea with his arm floaties or building a sand-castle on the beach. (Stan’s a persistent chap, he is.) Never fear! An ordinarily grim situation turns to triumph, with just a bit of techno-whoozical magic in the form of these three nifty websites/programs. Vacation photos will never be the same again. Sorry, Stan – we love you, but you’ve got to go. #1 – How to Remove Tourists from Your Photos – dsphotographic.com #2 – SnapMania.com – Tourist Remover #3 – Microsoft Research’s Group Shot p.s. The holidays are almost here, and our friends at Moo are running a holiday card design contest. Submit your favorite photos for a chance at $8,000 in prize money! Thanks to Neene and Mohamed Abdulla Shafeeg for lending us photos. |
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Oh, right. The stifling heat. But that just brings us to another of summer’s joys: The cool comfort of the cinema. In honor of some of our favorite summer blockbusters (Harry Potter and Transformers), we bring you our p.s. Help us out, Digg this tutorial!
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Tall glasses of lemonade, your legs sticking to the seat of your car, the days stretching languorously into the evening. What’s not to love about summer?|
It was a simpler time. A time when computers didn’t have fancy graphics and candy-colored buttons, and if they wanted to show you a cranky green ogre, they didn’t use CG. They used our friends “|”, “\”, “/”, and “.” Miss it? Well pop in an Air Supply cassette and surf over to Photo2text. Upload a photo and shiny metal robots turn it into in-stant ASCII. Retro-spiff. High-contrast photos work best, and your file has to be smaller than 200K. Make a few high-tech adjustments, then take it low-fi at Photo2text. Convert Photos to ASCII Art at Photo2Text p.s. Want more ASCII art? Check out Christopher Johnson’s ASCII Art Collection, featuring the always-popular “Naked Ladies” section [Maybe not safe for work.. but people, it's ASCII!] And don’t miss the ASCII Art Dictionary or Joan Stark’s ASCII art. If that last page doesn’t take you back, nothing will. It uses java!! p.p.s. Mac user? Check this out: you can play Quicktime movies as ASCII movies! Photo Credit: Reluctant Suburbanite |
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