Article: Striking Portrait ‘Solitude’ Wins International Portrait Photo of the Year

Striking Portrait ‘Solitude’ Wins International Portrait Photo of the Year https://flip.it/mIfdlY

https://internationalportraitphotographer.com/

Article: Easy Tricks To Create Moody Portraits in Adobe Photoshop

Easy Tricks To Create Moody Portraits in Adobe Photoshop https://flip.it/KGaPPg

The turbulent life of Robert Mapplethorpe – British Journal of Photography

The turbulent life of Robert Mapplethorpe – British Journal of Photography

Fascinating Photos Inside China’s Toy Factories by Michael Wolf

Fascinating Photos Inside China’s Toy Factories by Michael Wolf

Gordon Parks’s Long-Forgotten Color Photographs of Everyday Segregation

Gordon Parks’s Long-Forgotten Color Photographs of Everyday Segregation

Woman Slammed for Photoshopping Her Face Onto African Tribeswomen

Woman Slammed for Photoshopping Her Face Onto African Tribeswomen

This Dog Has Explored More Abandoned Places Than You

This Dog Has Explored More Abandoned Places Than You 

Amy Schumer Shares Beautiful, Strong, Thin, Pretty, Sexy, Flawless Photo Of Herself

Amy Schumer Shares Beautiful, Strong, Thin, Pretty, Sexy, Flawless Photo Of Herself

Annie Leibovitz opts for natural and effortless style in portraits of Serena Williams, Yoko Ono, Amy Schumer and others

 Pirelli Calendar Slideshow on New York Times

“On Monday, a new kind of Pirelli calendar was unveiled for 2016, showcasing 12 months of fully clad women (mostly) chosen for their achievements. Though the calendar has, on rare occasions, featured women in clothes, this is the first time there is no provocation in the posing, and the first time the attraction of the subjects is in their résumés, not their measurements.” – Excerpt from the forward of the calendar, Yao Chen.

CreditAnnie Leibovitz for Pirelli

How to Make a Portrait Look Like Wet Plate Collodion Using Photoshop

How to Make a Portrait Look Like Wet Plate Collodion Using Photoshop

“Retoucher Antti Karppinen is starting a new YouTube channel called Alias Academy, and his first video tutorial is on how he recreates the look of wet plate using Photoshop.”

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6 Photographers Asked to Shoot Portraits of 1 Man… With a Twist

“Canon recently conducted an interesting experiment on the power of perspective in portrait photography. They enlisted the help of 6 photographers and asked them each to independently shoot portraits of a man named Michael. But there was a twist: each photographer was told a different thing about Michael’s background.

The photographers were told that Michael was: a self-made millionaire, someone who has saved a life, an ex-inmate, a commercial fisherman, a self-proclaimed psychic, and a recovering alcoholic. Michael, an actor, did his best to take on the personality of each character.”