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For really striking outdoor portraits, give this a shot. Get your subject into shadow or crouch down beneath them. Aim your camera at the sky and take a reading. Recompose your shot and shoot your subject with a burst of flash light. The result: bare, instant glamour!
Outside of this techinque, metering for the sky is often a good idea for digital images. If you notice that your sky is always white, even on a beautiful day, it’s because your camera is metering off a relatively dark subject and thereby horribly overexposing the sky. Try aiming for the sky, recomposing, and focusing. If it’s nice out, you’ll get blue every time. If you subject comes out really dark, just bust out the flash.

Okay, so this has nothing to do with photography - but it is absolutely the answer to your sideburn dreams. As the website claims - “Sideburns make men look Bolder”. How true.

Snapped this guy mid-flip with the Olympus Stylus Epic. For those of you mourning the loss of the LCA, I can’t recommend this little guy enough. Totally reliable and bursting with color on every image. Long live film!

ps … Did I mention how much I love my digital rebel.

Big thanks to Josh Dobkin of the nycphoto group for sending this out…

Saturday, May 14th
Down Hill Derby

Boxcar race. Strap on your racing goggles. And get ready for a crazy race down Brooklyn’s steepest hill. Build anything with three or more wheels. Everything else goes, from box cars equipped with cream pie launchers, to four wheeled extinct animals. Be creative.

Trophies will be awarded to the winners of the race, the best box car, and the complete failures. Sabotage teams are more then welcomed to participate.

Race starts on Columbia Heights and Cranberry and ends at Old Fulton street, Brooklyn 3p; $free

NOTE: Nonsense rabidly supports this kind of foolish stupidity.

Here we have the gorgeous Bellagio casino literally exploding apart with light. Luckily, this is not the work of a disgruntled cocktail waitress and a few tons of TNT. All that’s needed is a SLR zoom lens and a few seconds. It’s done as such:

1. Find a reasonbly bright night-time subject. Buildings, bridges, and signs work well.
2. Set your shutter between 10 and 20 seconds, and set your aperture according to your ISO and the relative brightness of your subject. A fair bit of overexposure is no problem, and can often help.
3. Open up your shutter and slowly move the zoom lens in and out.

That should do it. You can change up the effect by moving the camera, varying your zoom speed, and extending the shutter time. Have fun - and tip your waitress.

GQ Magazine is presenting a collection of images taken by US Soliders in Iraq. Some are gravely serious, and some are not so much (as shown above). Definitely worth a look

Thanks to Jake and Mike for an amazing tour of street art in NYC. These guys know all the amazing pieces and keep up with the latest wreckings in all 5 boroughs. FlavorPhoto rode the Manhattan leg of the journey, then dropped off for some fine Indian food at Balucchi’s. 50% off lunch everyone.

Full gallery located here.

Photo taken with the Digital Rebel / 50 mm lens. Touched up with Virtual Velvia.

This week I dare you to take your cameras to some art shows with NO photography involved

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM, Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-879-5500)
Max Ernst: A Retrospective. Through July 10
Some hundred and eighty paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, and illustrated books by the restlessly creative artist (1891-1976).

MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 W. 53rd St. (212-708-9400)
The High Line , Through July 18
Ambitious urban rails-to-trails scheme for the abandoned elevated tracks that run along the West Side from Gansevoort to Thirty-fourth Street.

KREPS, 516A W. 20th St. 212-741-8849
Daniel Bozhkov, Through May 14
A very funny, and perhaps even profound, collection of works that incorporate practical and lascivious sources
Bozhkov is the artist who previously built a crop circle in the shape of Larry King’s head and took flying lessons over it; his grand sense of the absurd is still a complete delight.

BELLWEATHER, 134 Tenth Ave. 212-929-5959
Amy Wilson, Through May 21
Call it the revenge of the blondes. Mixing diverse visual traditions—Surrealism, comic books, and folk painting—the works look demure and pastoral from afar; up close, they pack a heavy political punch.

My man right here rolls around Brooklyn on a bicycle and shoots all manner of interesting old buildings. Check it out, there’s some very cool stuff here.

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