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Rated X for X-Ray. Rated X for X-Ray Posted by Editor on Thursday, June 17, 2010 · 49 Comments We guarantee this content is safe for work, unless you grew up in Chernobyl. These images are from a calendar by an X-Ray machine company. Fullmoonhike.swf. BBC - In pictures: Landscape of northern England. Little red riding hood by Shlomi Nissim. 24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Photography. Photoshop actions are the best — they save time and make you more productive during post-processing.

24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Photography

They can be used to speed up repetitive tasks, make quick work of time consuming edits, and give you a little creative inspiration. So here are 24 Really Cool Photoshop Actions To Enhance Your Photography These actions are not simple, filter-playing actions. The steps they take have been studied and thoroughly tested, making these actions true image enhancers. The results of these actions are realistic re-creations of traditional effects, without any gimmicks. Download PROActions Bundle – Film & Special Effects → HDR legendary image actions work for any image size (doesn’t matter how large it is) Download HDR Legendary Image Action → So, here are 100 photo styles to quickly enhance your images.

Download 100 Photo Styles → 90 Premium Actions Set is a pack of professional Photoshop actions perfect for photographers and graphic designers. Download 90 Premium Actions Set → Typograph! The Best Street Photographer You've Never Heard Of. Vivian Maier/John Maloof Collection IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO TAKE measure of Vivian Maier's photos without taking stock of her story.

The Best Street Photographer You've Never Heard Of

She was by all accounts remarkably private, someone who didn't always enjoy the company of other adults. And yet her photographs feel like a celebration of people—a celebration of what Studs Terkel, the late grand oral historian, liked to call "the etceteras" of the world. (One photography scholar I spoke with suggested Terkel and Maier would have made a formidable pair, like James Agee and Walker Evans.)

Her subjects are often caught looking directly at the camera, apparently making eye contact with Maier, but she used a Rolleiflex, a box-shaped camera that requires the photographer to look downwards through the viewfinder. In the winter of 2007, John Maloof, a 26-year-old realtor who was co-writing a book on his Portage Park neighborhood of Chicago, stumbled upon a box of negatives at an auction house. She never exhibited her work. 1x.com - In Pursuit of the Sublime. Nirrimi Hakanson. All you photographers out there, a word up on one of the most prodigious emerging photographers in Australia.

Nirrimi Hakanson

And if you’re nursing an inadequacy complex, seeing Nirrimi Hakanson’s folio might propel you to briefly flee your aspirations and think about getting a job at the local supermarket. Hopefully, it will inspire you. The self-taught sixteen-year-old Hakanson has been taking photos on a digital SLR since the age of thirteen, after starting out on a disposable camera. Her distinctive style is ethereal and reminiscent of photo albums filled with enchanted childhood memories.

Her subjects (both friends and professional models) are cast in romantic portraits, in sophisticated fashion shots, in scenes of teenagers posing unaffectedly in everyday realms. 22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places. Thailand Chances are you already know Steve McCurry as the man who took one of the most iconic photos of our time.

22 Incredible Photos of Faraway Places

It was of a 12-year-old Afghan refugee girl who's piercing green eyes told us her harrowing story. The image itself was named "the most recognized photograph" in the history of the National Geographic magazine and her face became famous as the cover photograph on their June 1985 issue. Beyond just that one photo, McCurry has shot over a million images spanning 35 years. More than anything, he is one of a few that has that amazing ability to capture stories of our shared human experience.

Looking through his large body of work, we get to experience fantastic faraway places we can only dream about visiting. Real Love by Anze Malovrh. Flickr Related Tag Browser. Tom stoddart. Page 2 Page 3.

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