It’s Mom’s day again (May the 9th!), and you’re scratching your head asking, “Holy crap, wasn’t it just Mother’s Day like 2 months ago?”
The woman carried you for 9 months. You can’t be late this year.
We’ll help! Here’s three new goodies from your favorite photo shop (that’s us!) to save your scalp and Mother’s Day, […]

It’s Mom’s day again (May the 9th!), and you’re scratching your head asking, “Holy crap, wasn’t it just Mother’s Day like 2 months ago?”

The woman carried you for 9 months. You can’t be late this year.

We’ll help! Here’s three new goodies from your favorite photo shop (that’s us!) to save your scalp and Mother’s Day, too.

p.s. For Mum’s Day delivery order by April 29 by 1st class, Wed, May 3 by Priority Mail, Wed, May 5 by UPS 2-Day, and Thurs, Mayy 6 by UPS Next Day.

				Polapost Mailable Frames Give the post office some business while spreading instant smiles ‘oer the land with these Polaroid shaped frames. One regular photo + one stamp (NO envelope!) = instant happiness! Polapost Mailable Frames $15 for 7, $25 for 14  Tweet it!      Share
Shinjuku Photo Scrap-Kit If anyone can make scrapbooking—the once old-fashioned way to share photos—cool again, it’s Japan. This kit includes our most favorite crafty photo bits from our recent trip to Tokyo. Because we’ve compeletely failed to explain Flickr to mom. The Shinjuku Photo Scrap-Kit $29 at the Photojojo Store  Tweet it!      Share
				Fuji Instax Instant Cam + Snapshot Book Our Fuji Instax is great for Mums and even greater for their kiddos that’ll ‘ooo and ahh’ at the instant photo magic. And what to do with those pretty prints? Fill up our Snapshot Book — made especially for Instax mini prints. Fuji Instax Instant Cam + Snapshot Book $125 for Camera, Film, and Snapshot Book  Tweet it!      Share

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Are you tired of counting to three with your finger on the shutter, only to receive meek grins and stiff shoulders?
Well we’ve found just the thing to get your portraiture out of the dark ages: The Chalkboard Speech Bubble. It’s a security blanket for the photo fearing and inspiration […]

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Are you tired of counting to three with your finger on the shutter, only to receive meek grins and stiff shoulders?

Well we’ve found just the thing to get your portraiture out of the dark ages: The Chalkboard Speech Bubble. It’s a security blanket for the photo fearing and inspiration for the photo fearless — a true savior indeed.

The Chalkboard Speech Bubble 
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$29 each at the Photojojo Shop!

p.s. Special thanks to our SF lovelies who attended the Photobooth Party. You were the bestest models we could ever ask for. Check out our Flickr for more shots of you being awesome.

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It’s ugly, green, and it’ll make people stare at you.
And that’s why we love it.
Our pal Bhautik is no stranger to camera hacking, so we were excited when he told us about his newest creation: an adjustable-focus fisheye lens you can make from a peephole and soda can.
Follow the step-by-step tutorial for an afternoon of […]

It’s ugly, green, and it’ll make people stare at you.

And that’s why we love it.

Our pal Bhautik is no stranger to camera hacking, so we were excited when he told us about his newest creation: an adjustable-focus fisheye lens you can make from a peephole and soda can.

Follow the step-by-step tutorial for an afternoon of fun photo hackery. (For an inexpensive readymade version, see: The Fisheye Lens Adapter.)

Make a Tin Can Fisheye Lens

*NEW* in the Photojojo Store: Smoke Drops! Pro-Grade Special Effects at home. A 4/20 special!

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Taking a great photo is kinda like making magic happen — leave it to us to really Houdini the heck out if it.
Introducing our new Pro-Grade Smoke EFX Drops. Magical elixirs that give you the power to make smoke appear out of thin air enticing endless photo inspiration.
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Taking a great photo is kinda like making magic happen — leave it to us to really Houdini the heck out if it.

Introducing our new Pro-Grade Smoke EFX Drops. Magical elixirs that give you the power to make smoke appear out of thin air enticing endless photo inspiration.

Smokey Photo EFX Drops 
Twitter It!$49 at the Photojojo Shop!

Wondering how they work? Brave the jump young apprentice!

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There was a time when one would have to put those ugly roll films into a camera to click photos. Most roll films could capture anywhere between 50 and 100 pictures. Such roll films were sensitive to sunlight. Hence, there was always a risk of the roll film turning bad. Camera technology, then, suddenly took a giant stride, and we were bombarded with high quality digital cameras, that were not only incredibly fast and user friendly, but also stylish and compact. Digital cameras changed our lives. Today, almost every household in the United States has a digital camera. Brands like Nikon, Sony, Cannon, and Olympus offer ultra-chic, user friendly, feature-rich portable cameras at surprisingly affordable costs. It would not be unfair to say that price is no longer a concern for purchasing a digital camera.

How to choose a digital camera? With each camera-making company assuring the consumer of high quality pictures, enhanced batter life, one-click image adjustment, night-photo technology, and a host of similar tech-jargon, it becomes difficult to make a decision quickly. This is where camera reviews come into picture. There are some excellent websites that offer free-to-read camera reviews. You can also find videos on these reviews that provide detailed information about digital cameras.

There are two factors that should determine the type of camera you should buy- purpose and price. What happens if your favorite digital camera stops working? Where would you go to get your digital camera fixed? Under no circumstance should you take your camera to an amateur serviceman for repair. It is best to submit your camera to an authorized service center. Most digital cameras come with a warranty. If anything goes wrong during the warranty period, you can get it serviced for free. If you want to purchase a high-end digital camera, but do not have the money, you can apply for payday loans online.

When you think of expensive digital cameras, what comes to mind are top of the line Nikon and Canon cameras. However, if you were to win a multimillion-dollar lottery tomorrow, would these cameras be enough to go with your newly rich status? Probably not, so we present some of the most outrageously expensive digital cameras in the world. In all fairness, some of these cameras are also highly specialist equipment.

1) Hasselblad H3DII-50: this Swedish camera maker has always been right up there when it comes to making the best cameras in the world. This was the camera that started the trend towards mega million pixel cameras. Added to this was the ability to film up to ISO 800 and an outstanding line of camera lenses. Its 50 million pixel promise had camera lovers drooling till they realized they would have to shell out $37,000.

2) Phase One P65+: within a week of the Hasselblad launch, Phase One had overtaken it with the launch of the P 65 +. The camera offered 20 percent more coverage and an astonishing 65 million pixel resolution. The resolution made this the first digital camera in the field of medium and large format photography. The price was $3000 more than the Hasselblad and the retail price a mere $40,000.

3) Leaf AFi 10: soon thereafter, camera lovers were given a final offering for the year when Leaf unveiled this camera. Leaf who has worked with Hasselblad before offered a 56×36mm sensor and a resolution of 56 megapixels. To differentiate themselves from the cameras above, “Verto” technology is offered in which the sensor has the ability to rotate. This means that self portraits are easy to take, and you can film yourself in your post lottery glory to your heart’s content. The price tag — $43,675.

Maybe, after you have successfully completed your current debt consolidation exercise, you can start to dream again about cameras like this.

If you have a camera, you might fancy yourself as a photographer. But that would be rather like getting a piano, and suddenly thinking that you are a concert pianist. You have got to develop the skills of photography, if you intend to really go any where with it. Do you think you have what it takes to win awards, and have people pay you for the privilege of having your photographs hanging on their walls? Well, one way you can gain a good set of photography skills is to take classes on all of the technical details of photography. But then again, the best way to learn how to do just about anything is to actually go out and DO it.

And while you can most likely find some striking beauty any where you happen to be, there are some places, which just naturally lend themselves to great photographs. The following is a short list of just a few cities, which seem to have been designed just to give burgeoning photographers a great body of work.

Metz, France: Everybody knows about Paris, and it has been photographed to the point of being somewhat cliché. But many people have never heard of the mid size city on the Moselle River known as Metz. From its quaint market area to Temple Neuf, it is a city that seems to have come straight out of a time capsule.

San Francisco: Just take a gander beyond all of the more modern San Francisco apartments, and you will see architecture going back a hundred years. After the earth quake and fire in 1911, the city has made great strides toward getting its act together. And other than the Golden Gate Bridge and the trolleys, there is still a rich tapestry of potential “photo fodder.”

We all remember how movies used to be shown in “3d.” It was usually a boring movie, jazzed up with a bunch of extra lines around the edges to make it look as if it were popping out toward you. There were some high end alternatives in place, but they were more limited in scope because they cost more money to produce (not to mention that they often required trickier camera set ups). And with the regular kinds of 3d movies, you usually went home with a head ache, as you tried to decide whether you wanted to look out your “red vision” eye or your “blue vision” eye.

However, the times are changing rapidly. In this day and age, it seems like everything is getting better, faster and easier to access. Forget how easy it is to find out any kind of information you might want (encyclopedias? What are those? Got Google?). And forget how you can now communicate any where on Earth with any person, within a matter of seconds. When it comes to movies, we are living in an age the Jetsons would do a double take looking at.

For instance, it was recently announced that the World Cup would be the first major sporting event in world history to be broadcast in a version of 3d where it would seem like you were actually in the stands. Or better yet, on the field itself!

What is truly interesting is that, with some of these new technologies, you do not even need to wear those goofy 3d glasses which used to be required for the experience. And in the cases where you do, the glasses are now more like WWI pilot goggles (a lot cooler looking), and they don’t make you see weird colors.

Find 5 active, amazingly talented photographers every week. For 100 weeks. Share them with the world. Stop.
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Only two weeks young, Pieter’s 500 Photographers already hit on the work of some of our faves, including Alex Prager and Denis Darzacq.
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Find 5 active, amazingly talented photographers every week. For 100 weeks. Share them with the world. Stop.

Pieter Wisse, we support your mission.

Only two weeks young, Pieter’s 500 Photographers already hit on the work of some of our faves, including Alex Prager and Denis Darzacq.

Looking for fresh new ideas from up and coming photographers? (YES, YOU ARE!) Then it’s a must subscribe.

500 Photographers

Thanks to Lourens Smak (@smak67) for the tip! Found something we should write about? Let us know by email or twitter.

p.s. The Eye-Fi Home is only $49 in the Photojojo Store!

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A chasm between. An awkward lean. Arms draped around shoulders… loosely.
While most photographers sweat to make their subjects appear casual, their camera invisible, Richard Renaldi went another way.
He approaches strangers of all walks of life, and he asks them to touch each other.
Viewing the photos without knowing his setup, onr can’t quite guess why they’re […]

A chasm between. An awkward lean. Arms draped around shoulders… loosely.

While most photographers sweat to make their subjects appear casual, their camera invisible, Richard Renaldi went another way.

He approaches strangers of all walks of life, and he asks them to touch each other.

Viewing the photos without knowing his setup, onr can’t quite guess why they’re wrong or what’s going on, but there’s an inescapable mystery to them. In a country where physical touch is taboo, his project is daring.

And you thought taking ordinary portraits of strangers was hard!

Touching Strangersvia Conscientious

p.s. Seen something we should write up? Tell us!

p.p.s. The 4GB Eye-Fi Explore (free geo-tagging and video) is now only $79 in the Photojojo Store! (Limited supply)

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