In case you missed our daily photo picks this week, we’ve put them in the gallery below.
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Sunset in Thailand
Photo taken on Koh Samed island, Thailand. Laurent has a few different cameras he shoots with, including a Leica M8 with a Summicron 35mm lens, as well as a Nikon D300, and Nikon D7000 with Nikkor 18-200mm and Sigma 10-20mm lenses.
Check out his Redbubble page to learn more about him and see some other great photos.
Caption this photo
Something fun for your Friday. How would you caption this photo?
Leave yours in the comments below.
Photo by Greg Porteous
The Secret Behind Victoria’s Secret Models: Photoshop
Victoria's Secret Photoshop 1
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Left: the unretouched original. Right: the final Photoshopped image. Changing the colors of garments in post-production (1) is one of the most common image edits; the transparency of the tankini fabric was also reduced with the recoloration. The photograph's colors were brightened in general (2) and lighting errors were corrected. Part of Kroes' back below her armpit has also been removed (3), as have the expression lines on her face (4). The hemline of the swimsuit bottoms has also been redrawn (5).
In August, Jezebel got a hold of some photos from a Victoria’s Secret photo shoot with supermodel Doutzen Kroes. What’s interesting about these particular photos is that Victoria’s Secret had accidentally published the photos in their raw format, without retouching them in Photoshop, as is common in the industry when they’re released to the public. So when the photos were actually published in the brand’s catalog, Jezebel was able to do some before and after photos to show just what kinds of photo manipulation is done to beautify the already beautiful models. Take a look through our gallery to see what kind of editing is done, and let us know what you think in the comments.
A National Geographic Photographer vs a Leopard Seal
National Geographic photographer Paul Nicklen was in Antarctica to photograph leopard seals. A leopard seal can weight up to 1300 lbs, and are one of the top predators in the Arctic, (I am not sure if I would jump into that water). Paul describes what it was like to come face to face with a Leopard seal.
If you like that you might also like a TED talk that Paul gave last year where he talked about what it was like to take photographs in the Antarctic, and the impact of disappearing ice.
