Photography -- is it a lucrative and glamorous job filled with travel, a hobby with an eye-watering amount spent on unnecessary gear, or something in between? Photographer Niels de Kemp pokes fun at the different misconceptions people have about what photography is all about in this humorous 2.5-minute tongue-in-cheek sketch.
Non-fungible tokens in cryptocurrency have made a splash in the art world in recent days. If you're out of the loop and don't have time to read an in-depth explainer on what NFTs are, check out this humorous 3.5-minute Eminem rap parody by Saturday Night Live that will bring you up to speed (maybe).
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have created a deep learning algorithm that can turn rudimentary "freehand sketches" into hyper-realistic photographs that are nearly indistinguishable from real-life portraits.
Fujifilm will reportedly be announcing an "affordable" medium format mirrorless camera called the GFX 50R on September 25th, and now new sketches are giving us a first look at the camera's physical design.
As the wedding photography industry gets more and more saturated with competition, some photographers may switch over into different niches that aren't as hot. Here's a 1.5-minute video that offers a glimpse into the work of Tom Byrd, a professional divorce photographer.
It seems like every month there's an earth-shattering new camera bag that can hold ridiculous amounts of gear in an absurd number of compartments. Fstoppers decided to poke fun at this niche in the photo industry and created this humorous 3-minute sketch showing what camera bag marketing hype is like when you buy into it.
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.
Here's a lighthearted 2-minute sketch by CollegeHumor's Hot Date series, titled "Contour Makeup Has Gone Too Far." It's about a woman who takes her contouring makeup too far to look perfect in Instagram photos... at the expense of looking normal in real life.
Photographer video maker Lok Cheung made this humorous 5-minute video featuring different things people do and say that get on photographers' nerves.
Here's a short comedy sketch that creatively sums up what photographers and other creatives often experience: being asked to do free work in exchange for "exposure."
500px today announced a new tool called Splash. Instead of searching for photos using titles, keywords, EXIF details, or colors, Splash lets you hunt for photos simply by sketching them on a canvas.
Researchers at Radboud University in Holland have managed to do something pretty crazy. Using hundreds of thousands of photographs, they've trained a neural network to take a hand-drawn sketch and create a photorealistic portrait from it.
The sketch comedy group SketchShe made this humorous short titled “#InstaFaker Vs #InstaReality.” …
In the not-so-distant future, finding the photo you're looking for online may not require you to describe it or know the location or even the photographer... just as long as you can doodle something that looks like it on a scrap of paper.
The folks at AwesomenessTV are paying homage to "Instagram Bros" and their quest for the perfect coffee cup photo. You know the one: a crisp white cup sitting on a reclaimed wood table next to your passport, a copy of Kinfolk magazine, and some sort of Apple device.
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.
"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.
The Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group Mommy created this humorous 6.5-minute “behind-the-scenes video” …
Here’s a short 3-minute comedy video by Mashable that offers a “behind the scenes” look at how Facebook autotags …
Photographer Karl Taylor just released this humorous …
Hồ Anh Đức of Vietnam created this humorous video that shows the "truth" behind those picture perfect photos you see shared all over Instagram and Facebook. You don't need Photoshop to stretch the truth in photos.
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek promotional video for a new support group designed to help Instagram Husbands. “Behind every cute girl …
Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam, recently launched a new campaign called "The Big Draw." It's an effort to get museum visitors to ditch cameras and simple snapshots in favor of drawing the artworks in order to more fully appreciate the easy-to-miss details.
Modelsbelike created this 5-minute comedy sketch about the different types of fashion photographers …
People often use social media photos these days to make their lives seem a lot more happy, exciting, and/or glamorous than it actually is. Popular Vine comedian/actor @MelvinGregg decided to poke fun at this fact of Internet culture with a little 6-second-long Vine sketch that's going viral.
Need a digital sketchbook to document your photography shots and ideas? Morpholio just launched an iOS app for you. It's called Journal, and is a iPad sketchbook app that has special tools designed specifically for photographers.
The Washington City Paper recently decided to boycott the Foo Fighters' restrictive concert photo contract by buying photos from fans instead. Now a different paper is protesting that same contract in a much different way.
This past weekend, the Quebec newspaper Le Soleil decided to send a cartoon sketch artist to cover a Foo Fighters' concert instead of putting a photographer in the media area.
Chinese restaurants are known to have painfully bad food photos adorning the walls to show the different dishes offered, …
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek infomercial by CollegeHumor for a revolutionary new product called Friend. It’s a selfie-stick alternative that lets …
Photographers often get asked to shoot for free in exchange for experience, exposure, future work, and images for their …
Actor TOMMY_XPENSIVE created this clever short Vine about people who don’t start eating …
You know that girl in group photos who always wants to see the photo you capture and is never …
Here’s a tongue-in-cheek sketch in which Ramones drummer Marky Ramone shows off a …
The didn’t-turn-off-the-flash mirror selfie, the plane wing cloud porn photograph, the ‘this is my office for the day’ humblebrag, …
Paris-based artist Sébastien Del Grosso combines his talents as an illustrator and photographer to create incredibly creative self-portraits. Taking on an almost cartoon-like aesthetic, the series is titled “L’esquisse d’une vie,” translating to “The Sketch of a Life.”
Some fashion photographers are known for hyper-conceited attitudes and nasty personalities — traits that aren’t usually shared by infant …
"Blind Self-Portrait" is a project by artists Kyle McDonald and Matt Mets that's based around a machine that can help you turn photographs into sketches. The machine constantly track's the subject's face using a camera and translates the image into a line-drawing and x- and y-coordinates. The user then rests their hand on the machine's "hand" and presses a pen into a piece of paper. The robot hand does the rest of the work, guiding the hand into drawing the photograph as the person sits back and watches the magic happen.
A fascinating story from the art world: back in 2010, British businessman Andy Fields purchased a collection of 5 …
Philanthroper founder Mark Wilson was at a …
What would happen if you hired a wedding photographer to assist with forensics at a crime scene? British show …