Photographer Murad Osmann's wildly popular "Follow Me" project features photos of his girlfriend leading him by the hand to exotic locations around the world. Now some folks over in Taiwan are parodying the style with a strange new meme called "Hold My Head."
Photographer Garry Cornes of Glasgow, Scotland, attended the demolition of a 24-story building this past Sunday. After joining the crowd there and setting up his camera on the other side of the street, Cornes had his view ruined at the worst possible time when a bus rolled in to photobomb his shot.
I’m like a lot of photographers. I want to shoot more often. And one big reason I don’t shoot as much as I like is that I waste too much time reading about gear.
What would your camera be like as a person? That's the question Sony Thailand tries to answer in this strange and humorous 3-minute advertisement that was published earlier this month.
Everything is Terrible found a couple of cringeworthy photography instructional videos from decades ago.
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.
When your photo sharing app is used by hundreds of millions of users around the world, there are a lot of sad and angry people when your service goes down. Instagram crashed for about 15 minutes yesterday -- coincidentally April Fools' Day -- and people freaked out.
Although so far the stories of Flickr's death have been greatly exaggerated, there's no denying the photo-hosting leviathan is in a difficult situation. At best, it will be taken over by a company content to keep things ticking over and just claim the subscription fees, but I'm guessing that it will change.
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.
This is long. Sorry. If you want to read something shorter I hear War and Peace is a ripping yarn.
A lot of professional photographers have a growing frustration about losing jobs to part-time "photographers" doing horrible work for $30, or having clients tell them that another "photographer" will do the same job for $25. So, I got to thinking: what if other professions were treated like photography?
Here's a short and humorous sketch that pokes fun at how hard it can be to satisfy the wishes of clients as a portrait photographer.
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.
Want a camera that captures point-of-view video of the happiest moments in your life? Check out the Smile Camera.
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.
Getting a baby panda to stay still for your camera can be hard work. Here's an adorable 1-minute video showing how one tiny giant panda cub that just wouldn't work with a photographer/videographer during a shoot -- it just kept chasing the photographer and grabbing onto his legs.
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.
Two pixels on a hard drive were having a conversation. Here's how it went...
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.
"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.
There are often stories of huge (and often hilarious) Photoshop fails in the advertising industry, in which models are seen with extra limbs or ridiculous body proportions.
Snickers just released a clever advertisement that pokes fun at these Photoshop fails.
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 …
Nikon Singapore became the butt of many jokes last week after selecting a clearly Photoshopped photo as the winner of a small photo contest. After the story went viral and appeared in headlines around the world, Nikon and the photographer both apologized and took down the winning photo(shop job).
Seeing an opportunity, Canon Canada decided this week to poke some fun at Nikon's expense, and its tongue-in-cheek Facebook thread has since gone viral as well.
The YouTube musical channel AVbyte created this short video titled “Selfie: The Musical.” …
"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.
There are special agonies that are reserved for the "official photographers" of families and friends. One of them is when you sprint into the scene after setting your camera's self timer, only to have the camera snap the photo before you're ready. It was even worse in the days of film, when sometimes you might not even see the blooper until after the photos are processed.
Above is a family portrait that captures this pain perfectly. It was shared with us by a woman named Molly, who says it's her favorite photo of her father, Geof -- he's the one that set the timer.