It looks like Photoshop but in fact, photographer Cade Martin here used especially made props and a veritable zoo of stuffed animals from a local taxidermist. It took two days to shoot the campaign in Martin’s basement studio.

As an example of what can go wrong during a shoot, the talent booked in New York City refused to travel by train with hurricane Irene hitting land. An earthquake also damaged the original location. Adapting to a new location and a new talent turned out better than expected.

Read more about the ONE SHOW and view the images at Greenhouse.

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Pencil Vs Camera - 64 ©Ben Heine 2012 – www.benheine.com

Eat, sleep, work… no way. No more routine! Escape the madness, escape the system.
The character is a mix of James Bond, Sherlock Holmes, Tintin and King Kong, lol!!!
I took this photo recently in Barcelona subway. I also made the illustration in colors.

Artist Ben Heine has innovated his Pencil Vs Camera artwork by doing colored sketches on black paper. The result is as spectacular as you’d expect, adding a time dimension and giving a night time feel to the pencil portion of the artwork.

You can also view the work in progress.

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ADOBE® PHOTOSHOP® LIGHTROOM® 4 NOW SUPPLIED WITH SELECT LEICA CAMERAS

Solms Germany (March 15, 2012) – Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4, the latest version of the powerful image-processing software, is now supplied with Leica S2/S2-P, Leica M9/M9-P, Leica X1 and Leica D-Lux 5 cameras. Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 is the most professional image-processing software currently available. When used in combination with Leica cameras and lenses, Adobe® Photoshop® Lightroom® 4 provides superlative picture quality. This comprehensive set of digital photography tools enables fast and efficient image organization, optimization and presentation options.

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London Evening Standard interviews Sir [he's been knighted] Jonathan Ive ["Jony"], Apple’s Senior Designer of many of the successful iconic products. He talks about the design-prototype-make process as being integral, about being inquisitive, the need to make products that are “better” rather than “different” or “new”, the challenge of creating a need from opportunities, a fanatical attention to detail, why Apple does not do focus groups, spending months solving a tiny problem, how success means the user is not aware of the product anymore, and how users can “sense” the care and work that have gone into the design of Apple products.

Read the Interview with Sir Jonathan Ive @ London Evening Standard.

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HOW of WHY from Corey Rich on Vimeo.

When Nikon approached Corey Rich to produce the “WHY” video to show off the attributes of the new D4, they also asked for a behind the scenes video spot detailing how “WHY” came together. Capturing the action behind the scenes became just as important as the hero footage and stills, and “HOW of WHY” is the result.

And here again is the original “WHY” video:

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Focus Numérique has an interesting interview with Steve Curry. It’s in French but you can read the Google English translation. Curry speaks of using natural light to bring out the dramatic in his photos, on how digital is “better” than film, working with the Nikon D3x and Hasselblad, the iconic young Afghan picture, on working alone in the field and on the need to keep an emotional distance from your subjects.

Read the: Interview with Steve McCurry @ Focus Numérique | Google English translation.

SOLIPSIST – Making Of from Andrew Huang on Vimeo.

There are some fancy special effects in the original video and this behind the scenes shows how they were created. Once revealed, they do not seem so mysterious anymore, though it still takes lots of photography and editing skills to pull them off.

Here’s the original video:

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BeetleCam is Back Teaser from Will & Matt Burrard-Lucas on Vimeo.

When U.K. photographers and brothers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas decided to photograph African wildlife in 2009, they built the BeetleCam, a remote controlled buggy with a DSLR camera mounted on top. The Beetlecam returned groundbreaking photographs of elephants and buffalo in Tanzania but it was almost destroyed in an encounter with a lion. In 2011, they created two new versions of the BeetleCam: one with more advanced capabilities and one with an armoured shell. The result: a portfolio of lion photographs in Masai Mara, Kenya.

As the pictures show, the lions are very aware of the Beetlecams and approach and poke at them curiously. In the video, it is interesting to see the lion holding its ground, unperturbed as a beetlecam races toward it. Maybe if the beetecams are left interacting with them (solar panels, smart software), the lions will completely forget about them in time and we can get more “natural” photos of the lions doing their own thing instead of staring into the camera.

If you want your own beetlecam (Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III, 16-35mm f/2.8 lens, dual Speedlite flashes and a GoPro Hero), they’ll sell you one.

View the photos at: Beetelcam.