Describe heroin, whats it like? he asked Wendy. Oh its euphoric, it solves all your problems Except it kills you. Sometime around 1994, Australian television personality Andrew Denton conducted an interview with Wendy Whiteley, widow of the Australian artist Brett Whiteley. Both Wendy and her late husband had a very well documented addiction to heroin. […]
“This is the last picturewhere the familyphoto will have 5 children instead of 4” John Maniaci tells me, before trailing off, letting the meaning of that simple sentencesink in. “What I’m doing in the children’s hospital isincredibly powerful.” Some photographers invest their lives in finding beauty in the most unlikely of places. For John Maniaci, […]
Editor’s Note : Digital storyteller and friend of DIYP,Ted Chinhas been guest posting on the official Photoshop Instagramaccount. This particularpost is a fantastic double exposure tutorial, whichTed and Adobe have allowed us to share with you here on DIYP. A simple technique with very effective results. Hey guys! Its Ted (@eye.c) here. Today I’m going […]
How many times have you thought of an object to be something else? This happened to Fox 5 DC journalist Van Applegate and caused one of his images to go viral. Thanks to a mistake he made while taking the photo, the very same photo went viral and put a smile on faces of many. […]
Although we have ran the occasional pranks in the past for April Fools’ Day, we decided not to do one this year. We wanted to just sit back and enjoy everybody else’s jokes this year. As it’s already April 1st in Australia, a few have started coming through already. We’ll be updating this post as […]
No matter if you are a fan of Pink Floyd or not, Im sure you know the cover of their iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon. After all, as photographers, you are familiar with the phenomenon it depicts. Young photographer Mason Maxwell turned that phenomenon into a photo that pays a tribute to […]
While it’s not quite April 1st in London yet, Kodak Moments UK were a little eager with the pranks. They took to the streets of London to get people try out a “super fast phone charger”, which would then wipe all the data on their phone before their eyes. This one seems particularly cruel and […]
When you see the word bokeh written, you probably see an image in your head to associate it with the word. But when you read it out loud, how do you do it? Is it boh-key, boh-kuh, boo-kay or something else? Guys from Photogearnews asked photographers at The Photography Show how they pronounce it. There […]
When we hear about “probes” flying around space, we probably think of something fairly small. We’ve all heard them on sci-fi TV shows. “Sent out a probe”, and off flies a little drone-like object. Well, not NASA’s Juno probe. This thing is as big as a basketball court. Launched in 2011, the probe tookfive years […]
Along with normal how-to articles and essays, Ive always liked reading and writing very technical, nitty-gritty articles about photography sometimes, articles on topics that rarely come up while actually taking pictures. In fact, I usually dont even use my own sharpest aperture charts in the field, as useful as they are, since I dont […]
