Image recognition is widely used to flag and remove offensive content from social media these days, but sometimes artificial intelligence isn't very intelligent. One Instagram user just found that out after she had her account disabled for posting a photo of a cake.
Happy April Fools' Day, everyone! We've scoured the Web for the cleverest and funniest photography-related jokes so that you can get your fill of the day's ridiculousness in one place.
Many of the short documentary films about artisan makers these days follow the same recipe -- things like slow, dramatic music, close-up shots with a super shallow depth of field, and more. Photographer Patrick Kehoe decided to parody that style.
Here's something lighthearted that may put a smile on your face. A designer named James Fridman is amassing quite a following online by fulfilling people's Photoshop requests... way too literally.
There's a humorous stock photo making the rounds on the Internet that shows what you need to know your subject as a stock photographer.
Los Angeles-based photographer David Zaitz created a series of humorous concept photos that can be described as "visual jokes."
Canon's slogan in the US is "See Impossible," but over in Asia it's "Delighting You Always." To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that slogan last year, Canon decided to... write a song and make a cheesy music video.
Tablet selfie stick not ridiculous enough for you? Check out the Macbook Selfie Stick. It lets you mount a Macbook (or any laptop, for that matter) at the end of a long telescoping pole for easy self-portraits with the built-in iSight camera.
Enjoy looking at lighting diagrams to see how photographers light their photos? Check out the way photographer Joey Hernandez shares his. Instead of sharing simple 2D layouts showing his gear and placements, Hernandez shoots behind-the-scenes photos of his shoots and overlays helpful (and humorous) labels across important (or random) things in the shot.
Want to teach your dog a new trick? Try training it to do studio photography. That's what a few dogs over in Japan were taught to do recently. You can see the results in the 3.5-minute video above, titled "PhoDOGrapher."
"Normal" stock photos often feature scenes and situations that would be incredibly strange if you ever saw them actually happening in real life. DigitalRev made this humorous 3-minute video that reveals what's actually happening in those generic stock shots of business people, doctors, and scientists.
If you use Facebook (or Instagram), you may have seen people share photos of themselves that they “accidentally” snapped… …
There are good Photoshop tutorials and there are bad Photoshop tutorials. Tom Trager and Or Paz of the sketch …
The YouTube musical channel AVbyte created this short video titled “Selfie: The Musical.” …
Nikon Singapore posted an announcement on its Facebook page yesterday, congratulating a photographer named Chay Yu Wei for capturing a perfect shot of an airplane framed by a ladder in Chinatown.
Photographers quickly pointed out that the photo is clearly the result of editing, and sarcastic comments soon flooded the post.
"Bubbleissimo" is a quirky new photo project by New York-based photographer Mindo Cikanavicius. It features serious portraits of men wearing serious expressions... and beards and mustaches made of soap bubbles.
Fujifilm has a sense of humor. At its major press event today, company Vice President Toru Takahashi made an unusual argument for the benefits of its professional mirrorless cameras over traditional DSLRs: he pointed out that DSLRs weigh 2 cans of beer more than Fujifilm flagship camera.
Photographer Karl Taylor just released this humorous …
Tripp and Tyler of the audio podcast Hello Today made this humorous 2.5-minute …
Modelsbelike created this 5-minute comedy sketch about the different types of fashion photographers …
Requests for free spec work is a big problem for photographers, who lose out when clients demand free photos in exchange for "vague to nonexistent compensation." To show how ridiculous the idea of spec work is, Toronto agency Zulu Alpha Kilo had a guy approach people in other businesses with requests for free spec work to sample their products and services before actually committing to paying. A barista, chef, personal trainer, and architect all responded with indignation; watch their reactions in the 2.5-minute video above.
Want to know how to capture a wacky portrait of your cat? Shoot a photo while they're shaking themselves clean (or dry). That's what photographer Carli Davidson did for her new project titled Shake Cats.
People often say that dogs and their owners look more and more alike as the years go by. For her ongoing project "The Dog People," German photographer Ines Opifanti is shooting portraits of dog owners trying to mimic the expressions on their dogs' faces.
Canon has launched a lighthearted new advertising campaign for its PIXMA line of printers. Titled "Never Again," the series of short 30-second advertisements imagine disastrous moments in life when printing out a photo or document could have saved a person from a lifetime of mental trauma and regret.
Yash Bhardwaj of Jugaad Posters created this humorous little illustration showing what everyone …
Here's an unusual wedding photography fail: Chase Richardson was photographing a wedding party last year when he accidentally slipped on a puddle. As he tumbled to the ground, his finger pressed his camera's shutter button and captured this photo of the party's expressions as they watched the disaster unfolding before their eyes.
Stock photos of office environments often show strange and laughable scenes that you never see in real life… but …
There's a new viral photo fad that's sweeping the world in the wake of Jurassic World's blockbuster opening. One of the heavily publicized scenes from the film shows actor Chris Pratt with a few dinosaurs inside an enclosure. Now real-life zookeepers (and ordinary folk) at major zoos around the world are doing their best to recreate that shot in humorous parody photos.
HTC today unveiled a new limited edition 24-karat gold version of the HTC One M9 smartphone. Unfortunately for HTC, there was just one small (and rather embarrassing) problem: one of the promo photos was taken with an iPhone.
Here’s a new 1-minute commercial that’s one part poignant and one part humor, going to great lengths to preach …
Pizza Hut just posted this humorous 2.5-minute commercial public service announcement warning that “egotastic specimens of visual self obsession” …
There's a new set of photography memes that have generated quite a bit of attention over the past week. "Photography Woes" is a set of meme images featuring true horror stories by professional photographers that are both funny and sad at the same time.
Need a laugh? Check out the official Instagram account of the Reykjavík metropolitan police (Reykjavík is the largest and capital city of Iceland). It's a strangely humorous account that's filled with silly snapshots showing that the officers know how to have a good time while busting criminals and keeping their city streets safe.
If you appreciate simple pranks, here’s a photo-related one you may find amusing. Greg Benson of …
Mike Mellia is an advertising and fine art photographer based in New York City. Over the past year, he has been working on a project titled "A Selfie a Day Keeps the Doctor Away." It's an ongoing series of self-portraits captured in a studio and shared through Instagram.
Mellia poses as a wide range of fictional personas and includes clever and humorous captions to go along with each image. He says the photo above shows "that one time an affluent divorcee invited me to clean her pool."
20th Century Fox has come up with an unusual way to promote its upcoming film Unfinished Business. Teaming up with Getty Images and its iStock service, the studio has created a series of generic-looking stock photos showing Vince Vaughn and his co-stars in a corporate atmosphere.
Here's a rather humorous example of why it's important to source your photographs correctly and carefully. Venezuela's state run television has taken down a photo after it was discovered that they had been trying to promote tourism with a photo of an American that had been detained.
Chicago-based photographer and videographer Jon Cole made this test video for the …
There's no getting around it, former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair should have picked a different photo before he and his wife sent out this year's Christmas card (yes... that's their actual card). Sent to us by a reader, this wonderfully awkward image is good for a laugh and perhaps a cringe or two.
Recently, during a period of extreme self-examination (this is pretty much that time of year -- is it not?), I set about tackling the age-old question... why ain't I famous yet? Why am I not in every gallery, museum and private photography collection -- when I so obviously deserve to be?
So I set about examining this age-old mystery, dissecting every possible raison de jour. Boundless talent -- check; unrivaled originality -- check; sheer, unbridled charisma -- check, check and check! Stumped as I was, this time I pushed forward -- this time, there would be no rest or retreat until I broke through the bonds that would unleash me from my ill-begotten anonymity...