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Photographer Gets Rape Threats for Hairy Female Legs in Adidas Photo
A 25-year-old Swedish photographer and model says she has received rape threats after appearing in an Adidas advertising campaign photo baring her hairy legs. Arvida Byström, who boasts over 192,000...
View ArticleSnapchat’s First TV Commercial Calls It ‘a New Kind of Camera’
Snapchat ran its first TV commercial this past weekend. As you can see in the 60-second video above, the company is trying to sell itself to a wider audience as “A New Kind of Camera.” AdWeek reports...
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Photos of KFC Fried Chicken as Fiery Explosions
Here’s something that’s strange yet creative. KFC Hong Kong wanted to promote its Hot & Spicy fried chicken, so the ad agency Ogilvy & Mather Hong Kong Photoshopped pieces of fried chicken...
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This LEGO Kit is a Photographer’s Promo Mailer
Every year since 2010, photographer Clint Davis has put together a creative promotional mailer to send out to current and prospective clients. This year he got playful and created a custom LEGO kit...
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Apple CAN Claim the iPhone X Shoots ‘Studio-Quality Portraits’: Regulator
Apple can claim to consumers that the iPhone X captures “studio-quality portraits.” That’s what the UK’s advertising regulator has concluded after it received complaints that Apple’s marketing was...
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This is How You Shoot High-End Food Ads on Low-End Budgets
You know those food commercials you see on TV with foods and drinks (and sometimes fire and ice) flying around in slow motion? You don’t need extremely expensive camera equipment and rigs to achieve...
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Who Photographed that Colin Kaepernick Nike Image?
Nike and Colin Kaepernick broke the Internet this week with an ad campaign celebrating the 30th anniversary of “Just Do It.” Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything. #JustDoIt...
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Distracted Boyfriend Photo Meme is Sexist, Sweden’s Ad Regulator Rules
The widely-shared Distracted Boyfriend photo meme has been ruled to be sexist by Sweden’s advertising regulator. The photo was originally captured by Barcelona-based photographer Antonio Guillem and...
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Tricks Food Photographers Use to Make Food Look Delicious
Food photographers have an arsenal of tricks up their sleeves to make food look delicious on camera. And more often than not, these hacks make use of non-edible products that aren’t appetizing....
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Apple’s New iPad Pro Ads Were Shot and Made Entirely on the iPad Pro
Apple recently released a new series of ads for the iPad Pro that shows how the tablet computer opens the doors to new ways of doing things. What’s neat is that Apple is “eating its own dog food”: as...
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Huawei Busted for Faking Smartphone Photos Yet Again
It looks like Huawei still hasn’t learned its lesson after getting caught faking smartphone photos in ads multiple times. The company’s latest teaser ads for the upcoming P30 Pro smartphone imply that...
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Shooting a Tourism Campaign in Kerala, India
I’m on the bow of the boat, bag over my camera, when the rain falls. We’re drifting over Alleppey’s backwaters, fed by the Arabian Sea and 38 rivers from across Kerala, southern India. 900km of...
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Construction Guy Instagram Influencer Turns Out to Be Coffee Ad Stunt
A construction guy named Omar in Austin, Texas, became an “Instagram influencer” recently after attracting hundreds of thousands of followers to his @justaconstructionguy account with just a handful...
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Influencers vs Instagram: Hiding Like Counts Sparks Tears and Controversy
Instagram’s controversial experiment with hiding public like counts is only live in seven countries, but it’s already inspired some freakouts from influencers who claim the change is crippling their...
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This Crazy Camera Rig Spins a Phantom Camera at 150RPM
Steve Giralt is a photographer and “visual engineer” who uses wild-looking camera rigs to capture eye-popping shots seen in ads. His latest project involved a large, heavy camera rig that spins a...
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This is the First Magazine Ad for Kodak Film in Many Years
In the heyday of film photography, Kodak was a major advertiser in magazines — people flipping through all kinds of publications would see ads for its film. But over the past several years, both the...
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The ‘Why’ of an Advertising Photo
I did my first advertising assignment in the year 2000. I still remember how excited I was when I, a few months later, walked out of a bookstore on Chestnut Street in San Francisco with several...
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Old Fashioned Marketing Still Works in Wedding Photography
The Internet has been brilliant for building a platform, but it is only one pillar… Did you know that ninety percent of small businesses fail within the first two years? With very few exceptions,...
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Huawei ‘Accidentally’ Claims DSLR Photos Were Shot on Its Smartphones (Yet...
Huawei has apologized multiple times in the past after getting caught passing off DSLR photos as ones shot with its smartphone cameras, yet it seems like the company still hasn’t learned from its...
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My Workflow for Editing a Watch Photo
Two years ago, I took an online class about product photography editing that completely changed the way I approach the photographic process. Coming from a background of street photography using film...
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