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Courses. Tutorials and Guides. Photographic Model Release Forms: When You Need Them, When You Don't. Following industry standards, for any work that will appear in consumer or trade magazines, newspapers, or educational books, you generally do not need a model release.

Photographic Model Release Forms: When You Need Them, When You Don't

This is also true for photographic exhibits. These are considered educational/informational uses. Photography Release Forms. Photography release forms are used to secure permission to publish images of people, including children, as well as certain property.

Photography Release Forms

Keep a supply of these handy, printable forms on hand so you'll be prepared whenever you might need one. Four Printable Photo Release Templates If you are planning to take pictures to publish on a website, in a publication or on any other type of materials that might be distributed, it's essential to get signed photography release forms that grant you permission to publish likenesses of the people and objects in your photos. Here are four printable photography release documents that you can use, each one created for a specific situation. 1.

15 Free Online Portfolio Hosting Sites. Having a design portfolio online for your potential clients to browse through is important.

15 Free Online Portfolio Hosting Sites

If you need a web portfolio up and running in no time, this roundup of free online portfolio hosting sites has 15 options for you to consider. 1. Carbonmade With over 500,000 hosted portfolios and over 8 million pieces of work posted on the site, Carbonmade is a top choice for displaying your work. Besides being free (they do also have paid subscriptions), Carbonmade has a user-friendly interface and doesn’t require any coding knowledge. Example portfolio on Carbonmade. 2. 100 Seriously Cool Self-Portraits (And Tips to Shoot Your Own!) The self-portrait has been a popular form of expression ever since man first saw his own reflection.

100 Seriously Cool Self-Portraits (And Tips to Shoot Your Own!)

Much like Narcissus, it's often the case that we need not look beyond the tip of our own nose for a muse worth studying. Today we'll walk you through some simple steps for taking your first self-portrait, followed by a huge collection of inspiration from photographers who have gone before you. Let's get started! How To Take a Self-Portrait I recently ordered a product for my camera that I couldn't wait to try out. I wanted to take a portrait with a shallow depth of field and very little detail in the background, so I grabbed my tripod and stood in the very center of my yard, away from trees buildings or any other substantial object. Below you'll find some helpful tips that I had to learn the hard way. Tip #1: Bring Something to Focus On The problem that I saw when I looked through my viewfinder was that I didn't have anything to focus on aside from the items in the far distance.

Corie Howell. The "Eternal Return": Self-Portrait Photography as a Technology of Embodiment. Amelia Jones.

The "Eternal Return": Self-Portrait Photography as a Technology of Embodiment

Hong Kong In The 1950s Captured By A Teenager. D Photography Architecture Inspirations Technology Animals Design Travel.

Hong Kong In The 1950s Captured By A Teenager

10 Awesome Photo Series (awesome, creative, photography, photo series) Cut Food Beth Galton is an accomplished photographer who specializes in still-life photography and food.

10 Awesome Photo Series (awesome, creative, photography, photo series)

In some of her most dramatic work, Beth teamed up with stylist Charlotte Omes to create a series of conceptual shots focusing on cut foods, but not in the ordinary way. Beth and Charlotte took everyday foods and cut away the sides to release the inner beauty of filled donuts, fancy ice cream, eggs, and most surprisingly, liquid foods.

Charlotte and Beth discovered methods of using gelatin and other hardening agents to capture foods in their natural state and then sliced them open to capture the insides. Their delightful liquid pieces include shots of coffee as milk is being poured in, ramen noodles, and delicious soups. Super Hero What would it have been like if our superheroes had fought during wartime? Soft Guerilla Skin Deep Photographer Julien Palast refers to his Skin Deep series as "a study on the body-object, ephemeral sculptures of the human form. Blow Job. A Love Letter to Appalachia — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER. May is from these mountains and he has given us the testimony of a people and their way of life through these photographs.

A Love Letter to Appalachia — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

Best of all, he has done it with complexity. Compassion, yes. An insistence on not looking away, yes. But complexity always. For the past 100, photographers have been telling the story of the Appalachian people. Both outsiders and native artists continue to perpetuate those notions of depravity today. Roger May insists on doing neither. Photo Journal: Salt Flats. Artist Statement - Souvenir d'un Futur. Phantom Landscape III, Pages 杨泳梁-Yang Yongliang. Maxime: Meet the monk who lives a life of virtual solitude on top of a 131ft pillar.

Maxime, a 59-year-old monk, lives on top of Katshki Pillar in Georgia He has to scale a 131ft ladder if he wants to come down Followers winch supplies up to him because he only leaves the pillar twice a week Maxime decided to make a change in his life after a stint in prison By Steve Nolan Published: 23:06 GMT, 5 September 2013 | Updated: 09:34 GMT, 6 September 2013.

Maxime: Meet the monk who lives a life of virtual solitude on top of a 131ft pillar