You can tell when something is shot with green screen, cause it’s kind of sucky, right? But maybe it’s not green screen that sucks, only the photographer behind the camera. When shot well, chroma keying can actually be an incredibly powerful tool, notes Syrp Lab, which has a tutorial on how not to suck at green screen. Read the full Story >>
“I am a country bumpkin, born and bred in Cornwall,” photographer Fran Rowse tells It’s Nice That, which says her series “Maids” is “a gift to young women and girls who, like her, have at times felt lost between the romanticised image of rural Cornwall and its harsh realities.” Using what she calls her golden trinity of skills – “fashion, styling and play” – Rowse set out to empower young women and girls in her community and to carve out a new definition for Cornish womanhood, using 2000s culture as an important reference point. Read the full Story >>
A photographer who claims to have shot spectacular photos of snow leopards in the Himalayas has admitted that they are composite images. Kittiya Pawlowski tells PetaPixel that she did travel to Nepal where she captured photos of snow leopards and is adamant that she hasn’t misled people. “Any other artist in any other medium doesn’t have this problem. Use pencils, pastels, oil paint, acrylic paint, crayons, metal or stone, instead of a camera, to create art, and you can do anything you want and people don’t complain… there’s no reason why photography should be held to a different standard,” she says. Read the full Story >>
Chinese authorities are trying to stamp out the demonstrations and vigils that have spread across the country recently, presenting a challenge to Communist Party authority in a way not seen since the 1989 Tiananmen protests, notes The Washington Post. According to various reports, the government is stopping people in transportation hubs in several cities and searching their cell phones for apps like Instagram andTwitter. Authorities may also be using cellphone tower data to track people who were close to the protests. Read the full Story >>
