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Icebergs always make for great images…but look at how amazing they look when they have flipped upside down!

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-Salivating over all those delicious photos you see of food? Not so appetizing after you read some of the tricks used in food photography

-Vincenzo Mazzo shares the story of how he destroyed his car door but then shot an award-winning photo

-TED talks are always informative and cover a wide range of topics and issues…check out all the ones related to photography

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-APP YOU SHOULD DOWNLOAD

Mextures is a great app editing your images, with a wide assortment of textures, light leaks, and effects.

On the app store

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Examples images made using Mextures

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In honor of May The 4th Be With You day…the Force is strong with this edition of Photo Bits…
Photographer Paweł Kadysz brings a little levity to the darkside with a series of images depicting Darth Vader as an everyday joe.

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-Lots of people use Star Wars figures as their subject…check out
Zahir Batin, Stormtroopers365, Rather Childish, and Vesa Lehtimaki

-Here’s an easy (although very boring voiced) tutorial on making lightsabers

–50 behind the scenes images of the cast of Star Wars

-Series of portraits of Star Wars fans and their collections

-Site containing images from the original shoots of the Star Wars figures

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A photo posted by WhyTheLongPlayFace (@whythelongplayface) on Oct 16, 2015 at 2:17pm PDT

Why The Long Play Face is a hilarious mash up of album covers redone using Star Wars characters.

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Interview with Jerry Uelsmann, a pioneer in image manipulation. BTW…all done in the DARKROOM…no photoshop!

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-Interesting series of videos by Mathieu Stern of him shooting with weird and old lenses

-PhotoJojo is celebrating 10 years with a list of their 10 most popular posts.

-Learn about the creation of the first Kodak digital camera in this New York Times Lens Blog article.

-Hilarious series of images by Freddy Fabris that recreate famous paintings…with mechanics as the subjects.

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Color Thief is an interesting app that allows you to take colors from one image and transfer them to another. Takes some playing around with, but it can provide some very interesting results.

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Google has made the Nik Collection of plugins for Photoshop/Lightroom free to download. A lot of useful tools in this bundle, from black and white conversion, hdr, sharpening, image effects and more. Note: You will need Photoshop CS/CC, Elements, or Lightroom to use it.

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-Learn about the creation of the first Kodak digital camera in this New York Times Lens Blog article.

-Hilarious series of images by Freddy Fabris that recreate famous paintings…with mechanics as the subjects.

-Here is a hilarious video of photographers trying out Photoshop Version 1.0

-Strange story on how photographer Ryan Visima got kicked off a beach for taking photos

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LetterGlow is a great app for add text, artwork, and effects to your images. It has tons of fonts, lots of styles.

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Over 14,000 images from the Apollo missions have been put on Flickr. One small step for man, one giant leap for photography!

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-If you can believe it, some parents are naming their kids after Instagram filters…

-The Camera Store has a You Tube channel, with lots of great videos…including the Battle of F-Stop Ridge and it’s sequel

-Looking for a great gift for the photographer in your life? Check out this list of Time’s top photography books of 2015

–Browse over 170,000 images taken by photographers from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information

-Wonderful behind the scenes-ish page about the Sports Illustrated boxing photographs of Neil Leifer

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A photo posted by Mark Hemmings (@markhemmings) on Feb 3, 2016 at 6:42pm PST

Mark Hemmings is a Saint John based travel photographer and educator who takes amazing photos on his journeys around the world.

-APP YOU SHOULD DOWNLOAD

Waterlogue is a great app for add text, artwork, and effects to your images. It has tons of fonts, lots of styles.

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Examples images made using Waterlogue

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