8 Ideas for Funny Portrait Photos
If you're looking for a wacky idea for portrait photos, check out this 4.5-minute video by COOPH. It's a collection of 8 wacky things you can do with things that you can mostly find around a home.
This Instagram Husband is an Image of True Love
An Instagram husband is being celebrated as a shining example of true love this week thanks to a set of viral photos showing him photographing his wife over the Christmas holidays.
Famous Album Covers Recreated as Cat Photos
Brooklyn-based photographer and graphic designer Alfra Martini has been taking famous album covers and recreating them with cats instead of humans. She calls the project The Kitten Covers.
The Camera Store Customer from Hell
If you've ever worked in retail at a camera store, perhaps this sketch will tickle your funny bone... or bring back bad memories. At 5:30 in this episode of the comedy show Rostered On is an interaction between a store employee and a customer asking to return a "broken" camera.
20 Top Photos from the 2017 Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards
Need a laugh? The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards has announced its finalists for 2017. The contest injects humor into the world of wildlife photography by searching for the funniest photos of animals captured around the world.
Photoshop Turns Rock Climbing Photos Into Rock Worshiping Photos
Here's a strange and hilarious idea that the Internet has spawned: if you Photoshop rock climbers out of bouldering photos and leave the spotters in the frame, the resulting images look like photos of rock worshipers.
This Guy Ruins His Friends’ Instagram Food Photos
In the age of Instagram, snapping a photo of a picture-perfect meal before eating it has become something of a ritual (science also suggests it helps food taste better). But one guy has made it a ritual of his own to ruin his friends' Instagram food photos and capture their horrified expressions.
Photos of Cats Doing Martial Arts
Hisakata Hiroyuki is a Japanese photographer who has focused his career on a rather unusual subject matter: action photos of cats that make them look like they're doing martial arts.
How to Spot a Photography Lover on Tinder
Reddit user Blownsh*tup was chatting with a Tinder dating app match named Orli when the two had this brilliant and punny exchange.
How to Piss Off a Photographer: Here are 11 Easy Ways
Photographer video maker Lok Cheung made this humorous 5-minute video featuring different things people do and say that get on photographers' nerves.
A Newborn Photo Shoot… With a 21-Year-Old Son
Rebecca Hayes and David Ward didn't do a newborn photo shoot with their son Clayton when he was born, so this year they decided to make up for it... 21 years later.
Ridiculous Group Photo Poses You Can Try With Your Friends
Here's a lighthearted 1-minute video by VGAG that provides some unusual posing ideas for group photos.
This Building in Ohio Has a Polaroid ‘Security Camera’
David Hollenack was in an alley southeast of Columbus, Ohio, when he noticed that one of the garages had this unusual Polaroid "security camera" installed.
20 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Date a Street Photographer
Photographer Rohit Vohra, a Leica Ambassador and the co-founder of APF Magazine, came up with a humorous list of 20 reasons why you should never date a street photographer.
This Couple Did an ’80s Themed Photo Shoot for Their 10th Anniversary
For their recent 10th anniversary, Steve and Danielle VanHorn hired photographer Vanessa Hoffmann of Giggle Monster Photography to do a photo shoot. But it wasn't just any ol' photo shoot -- it was a 1980s-themed one complete with lasers, tube socks, and Spandex.
When a Panorama Selfie Goes Wrong
The intelligent panorama features on smartphones these days can help capture some pretty neat shots, but they can also produce some very strange results if things go wrong. Mitchell Flann and Erika Gomos were using the Wide Selfie mode on a Samsung Galaxy S7 recently when Gomos sneezed midway through the exposure. The gem above is what resulted.
Photographer vs Model: This is What Happens When Roles Are Reversed
What happens when a model and a photographer switch places? In this humorous 18-minute video, photographer Matt Granger swaps roles with Stephanie Pham, his model of 7 years experience.
This Bride Doesn’t Have Girlfriends, So She Did a Photo Shoot with Bros
24-year-old Rebeca Brantes of Brazil is a computer engineering student who's one of just 4 women in her class of 60 students. Leaving up to her recent wedding, Brantes realized that she didn't have any girlfriends from school for a bridal photo shoot, so she decided to invite her best guy friends for an unusual photo series.
Skier Falls Into 60-Foot Crevasse with His GoPro Rolling
“Yeah, I’m in a crevasse”, Jamie Mullner radios to his friends after tumbling 60 feet to the depths of a glacier in the Swiss Alps. “I had the GoPro recording; how epic is that!?”
A Visual Effects Artist Made This Epic Video to Sell His Old Car
Israeli visual effects artist Eugene Romanovsky wanted to sell his old 1996 Suzuki Vitara SUV, so he created this out-of-this-world 2-minute video to advertise its qualities. The ad shows the car zipping around in ordinary landscapes before appearing in famous movies and on the moon.
Medical Ad Spoof Pitches Pill that Will ‘Cure’ Your Gear Acquisition Syndrome
Need a little comic relief? Check out this medical ad spoof for Noventus, a pill that will cure you of the dreaded Gear Acquisition Syndrome (GAS)... as long as you don't mind a little bit of rectal bleeding and an "atrophied sense of self."
When You’re Taking a Photo Class But Your Only Friend is a Cat…
This digital contact sheet is what you get when you're doing a high school portrait photography project, but your only friend is a cat.
Minecraft in Real Life: Retoucher Turns Real Animals Into Cubic Creations
Copyright disputes, huge camera announcements, the decline and fall of Instagram botting, this week has been a pretty serious one in the photo industry. Let's wrap it up on a slightly... sillier note. Behold: Minecraft in Real Life.
Dad Poses for Hilarious Maternity Shoot Parody, Nails It
This photo shoot is a year old, but we are so happy we stumbled across it today. After shooting too many maternity shoots in a row, photographer Martyn Wilkes decided to break the monotony with a bit of fun. He asked his friend Francisco Pérez to pose for his own "maternity" shoot.
How NOT to Photograph the Moon
There are plenty of tutorials and examples on the Web for capturing amazing photographs of the moon. Photojournalist Van Applegate recently experienced a humorous personal fail that shows how not to do it.
A Roundup of Photography April Fools’ Jokes in 2017
It is yet again the day of the year on which you can't trust anything you see online. Here's a roundup of some of the April Fools' Day jokes that have emerged in the world of photography in 2017.
Photographer Parodies ‘Chinese Girl’ in Humorous Portrait Series
UK-based photographer Joe Giacomet has published a new set of portraits based on one of the world's most popular paintings. The photos parody the iconic "Chinese Girl" painting (also referred to as "The Green Lady"), created back in 1952 by Vladimir Tretchikoff.
Boyfriends of Instagram: Candid Shots Show the Reality Behind Perfect IG Pics
Behind every perfect inspirational travel photo and candid "girls night out" shot is an amateur boyfriend Instagram photographer. He's always there, sometimes contorted into strange and awkward positions to get the shot, but rarely acknowledged... until now.
How NOT to Reply to a Photographer When You Ask for Their Rate
I always say that if you want to see creativity, ask a photographer the various ways potential clients will respond back to rate requests. I decided to turn that into reality!
‘Eric Cartman’ Lens Flare Photo Becomes an All-Time Top Reddit Post
From the "weird but also kind of fun" department comes one of the strangest and now most popular photos ever shared on Reddit. No, it's not some epic landscape or a mind-blowing wildlife photo... it's a shot of the London skyline with a lens flare that looks exactly like the South Park character Eric Cartman.
Watch This Determined Photographer Wrestle a Softbox in Crazy Winds
German photography duo Michael Fertig and Phil Schreyer of Flash Bros shared this humorous video of a portrait shoot they recently did outdoors. There were extremely strong winds blowing, and getting the Profoto Octa softbox into position for the shot was not an easy task.
Pro Model Doesn’t Even Flinch as Pants Drop During Photo Shoot
We've shared some pretty impressive videos of professional models doing their pro model thing for the camera, but this Japanese model absolutely takes the cake. He doesn't even flinch when his pants drop during a shoot.
The Diamond Ratio: The Ultimate Rule of Photo Composition
You have no doubt heard of the Golden Ratio, which is somehow or other connected to the Golden Mean and the Fibonacci Spiral, which is oft-touted as the basis of all great compositions. It is less likely that you have heard of the Diamond Ratio.
Photographer Captures Wacky Facial Expressions on His Dog
When photographer Tamás Szarka of Budapest, Hungary, takes his down Strawberry for walks, he often brings a camera to capture the 6-year-old boxer's crazy facial expressions as she sprints around.
This Woman Tried to Publicly Shame a Photographer, and It Backfired
One woman just received a big lesson on how NOT to treat photographers, and one photographer is being praised for how she handled an extremely difficult client.
This Guy Inserts Himself Into Photos of Kendall Jenner
Over on Instagram, there's a guy who goes by "Kirby Jenner" who has attracted over 440,000 followers with cleverly Photoshopped photos. For each photo, the guy humorously inserts himself into a photo of celebrity Kendall Jenner.
Stock Photo-shop: Music Video Shows Guy Inserted Into Stock Photos
YouTube star Joe Penna (AKA MysteryGuitarMan) partnered with the stock photo company GraphicStock …
Guy Epically Photobombs Newspaper Photographer Shooting a Demolition
This is painful to watch. After spending all day setting up and preparing to capture a smokestack demolition for her newspaper, Reading Eagle staff photographer Susan L. Angstadt was horrendously, tragically, epically photobombed by a guy with an iPhone during the moment of truth.
Photoshopped Fisher-Price ‘Happy Hour Playset’ Fools Parents
"Fake news" is one of the biggest real news stories of 2016, and sometimes Photoshop plays a role in the deceit. One of the latest incidents is widespread outrage over a new Fisher-Price "Happy Hour Playset" that lets kids play with a pretend bar. It sparked plenty of anger from parents, but it was simply a faked box with Photoshopped photos.
The DJI Ronin Camera Stabilizer is Smooth Enough to Hold Your Drink
Just how well does the $2,500 DJI Ronin 3-axis handheld gimbal work to stabilize cameras? Just check out this short clip of Israeli photographer Oleg Balzanov using one upside down to hold his drink steady as he bounces around on a dance floor.