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What A Balanced Diet Looks Like… Literally

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Ricettario A balanced diet is a collaborative work buy food stylist Elena Mora and photographer Karsten Wegener. It is so far a meager four photo series featuring some popular food dishes presented in a most unusual way. They are namely Pizza Margherita, Apple Cake, Minestrone and Salmon. The different dishes are shot with their respective ingredients arranged, but not in a recognizable way we are accustomed to. Instead the ingredients are stacked, set and flimsily balanced with each other. The delicate arrangements are meant to allude to a healthier eating consciousness, a “balanced diet” to be exact. The food creations are set against solid color backdrops that enhance the natural appearances of the raw ingredients.

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Trick Photography eBook and Video Course

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Searching for a complete instructional guide on how to take breathtaking special effects shots?

Say no more. This eBook entitled Trick Photography and Special Effects V2 contains over 295 pages of instruction along with 9 hours of video tutorials and over 300 creative photographs to help you learn everything you need to know to create impressive images and to bring your photography to a whole new level.

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Photo Series ‘Limbo’ Shows Men Half-Submerged in Water

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The Free Dictionary defines “Limbo” as “states of oblivion, confinement, or transition.” It further elaborates that it “is derived from the theological sense of Limbo as a place where souls remain that cannot enter heaven, for example, unbaptized infants. Limbo in Roman Catholic theology is located on the border of Hell, which explains the name chosen for it. The Latin word limbus, having meanings such as “an ornamental border to a fringe” and “a band or girdle,” was chosen by Christian theologians of the Middle Ages to denote this border region. English borrowed the word limbus directly, but the form that caught on in English, limbo, first recorded in a work composed around 1378, is from the ablative form of limbus, the form that would be used in expressions such as in limb, “in Limbo.”

Photographer Rodrigo Dada has his own take on that state which is neither here nor there, through his series simply called Limbo.

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‘Portraits of my Family’, Photo Series Representing Family Members Through Their Possessions

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Material possessions are often the subject of much scorn and contempt. Forewarnings on falling slave to ones belongings is a recurring piece of wisdom that is dispensed quite often by the prudent and judicious. But as we live in a material world, it is in reality difficult to see people devoid of their personal effects. Along with precious memories, material possessions of people we know are all we have to remind us of who they are or were. The saying in the bible is so true that “for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” While this verse admonishes of having false gods, special possessions need not be seen as being such. These belongings disclose a person’s passions, interests, vocation, or livelihood. They offer a glimpse into their lives. This is the idea behind photographer Camilla Catrambone’s photo series, Portraits of my Family.

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Extremely Essential Camera Skills by Rob and Lauren Lim

The fastest route to better quality photography isn’t buying a new and expensive camera with all the latest bells and whistles. It’s by mastering the one you have. They say that the best camera is the one that you have with you, and this eBook will teach you all the essential camera skills you’ll need to create amazing photographs with whatever camera you may have.

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Adobe Releases Photoshop Lightroom 5 with Significant Updates for $149

Adobe has released Photoshop Lightroom 5, the newest version of its professional photography software.  Obtainable as an individual license or as part of a Creative Cloud subscription, Lightroom 5 puts in a more superior healing/cloning tool, an updated selective editing tool and the ability to edit files that are offline.  Lightroom 5 also comes with  an automatic image leveling and perspective correction feature called Upright (for distorted images). The price is pegged as $149 for new users while an upgrade will set you back for $79.

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