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50 Quick Photography Tips in Less Than 15 Minutes

Kai over at DigitalRev put together this video that offers photography advice in burst mode: 50 (or 49) short and sweet tips in less than 15 minutes. If you take yourself too seriously, be warned: the tips are presented in Kai’s trademark “infotainment” style.

If you’d rather not watch the 13 minute video, here are the tips in text form thanks to Reddit user blufox4900:

1. UV filters are a waste of time
2. Lens hoods aren’t a necessity
3. If you’re not using the hood, put it away
4. Don’t treat your DSLR like it’s your baby
5. Stop hating on others
6. Get cheap lens caps
7. Pack light
8. Use a zoom for convenience
9. Prime will make you think more
10. The 35mm is the most practical one lens setup (on the 1.5 crop)
11. The 50mm looks better
12. Better cameras don’t make better photos
13. Know how your camera works before you go out to shoot
14. Always be ready for the shot
15. P-mode isn’t just for beginners
16. Bump the ISO if needed
17. Auto ISO is your best friend
18. Rely on the Rule of Thirds
19. Take lots of shots
20. Don’t take photos of any old sh*t
21. “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough” — Robert Capa
22. Contemplate your shot
23. The best equipment doesn’t help if you’re not standing in the right spot
24. Sharpness is overrated
25. Concept is king
26. Don’t look like a wrongun (i.e. a creep)
27. Don’t drink and shoot
28. Shoot when you’re full of energy
29. Sometimes it feels great to wake up really early and shoot
30. Think about what light you want
31. Emulate the style of the greats to get started
32. …but don’t keep doing it
33. Photography is as much a reflection of the person taking the photo
34. Shoot to please no one apart from yourself
35. Discreet or direct — it isn’t all that important
36. Setting themes keeps you focused
37. Change things every once in a while to keep things fresh
38. Everyone has creative blocks
39. Be critical of yourself
40. “Seeing is not enough, you have to feel what you photograph” — Andre Kertesz
41. You need to be there with the camera
42. The relationship is about you and the subject, not you and the camera
43. Stop chimping
44. Be brutal when it comes to deleting awful photos
45. Show only your best work
46. Changing photos to B&W doesn’t make an uninteresting shot interesting
47. Look at other people’s work
48. Post your work online, let others critique your work
49. There is no easy way
50. ???

via anythingphotography; DigitalRev; Reddit

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Including…
Five Things You Should Never Say To Your Wife

1. “Fuck you” (sincere version).
Obviously, saying it in jest is just dandy. I did it six times just now.

2. “You’re not my mother.”
I’ve said this to my wife a couple of times, and her reaction has always been unfavorable.

3. “Huh?”
Oh, so you weren’t listening to anything she said.

4. “I mean, we saw your parents just last month, didn’t we?”
You hate her parents. You just announced it.

5. “Come here. Let me give you a hug” (when she’s pissed).
Angry women hate being smothered with affection. It’s like shooting a bear with a BB gun and then trying to cuddle it. Not that your wife is a bear.

[By Drew Magary]

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The D’Angelo Outtakes:
More From GQ’s Exclusive

Over at GQ.com, our correspodent Amy Wallace posted some of her favorite bits with the soul singer that didn’t make the final story. They’re all worth reading if you’re a D’Angelo fan, but we re-read this one a couple times:

Even his first album, Brown Sugar, had been audacious—with its references to “Chocolate Thai,” has often been presumed to be an ode to the powers of good weed, while “Shit, Damn, Motherf*cker” was as dark and ominous as anything since Sly & the Family Stone’s “There’s a Riot Goin’ On.” But D’s onstage persona was more muted—it simmered, but didn’t burn. D’Angelo looks back on that time with some discomfort. A perfectionist, he wishes he’d had more of an active interplay with the audience. But it all took off so fast, he says. He was confused, he says, by his sudden notoriety, even as he, Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu and others were credited with launching the “neo-soul” movement (a label he hates). “It counteracts the very fucking idea of what it was in the first place,” he says. “It’s black music thinking — it’s black music manifested outside of the box. And when you label it neo soul, you’re putting it right back in the box. How about you just call me soul music?”

That argument was just one of many D was having in his own head. “I tried to fight, I guess, what typically fame quote-unquote does to people,” he says. “I didn’t want to stop being, you know, the rambunctious mug that I was, because that’s what made my music what it was. It happens to the best of them, you know: At some point in everyone’s career, it was like the music lost its bite. I’m like, ‘Well, how do you avoid that?’”

“You’re some kid from wherever, you get signed, you come out with a record, and boom, you’ve got money and instant success and there’s really no template to follow,” he says, recalling how Gary Harris, the EMI exec who’d signed him, gave him a copy of Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye, David Ritz’s commanding biography. Hungry for guidance, D devoured it in two days. When B.B. King first met the 22-year-old D’Angelo, Vibe magazine reported in 2000, the bluesman remarked that D had an old soul. Says Harris today: “He’s the oldest young man you’ll ever meet.”

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All Yeezy Everything: Kanye's 'Cruel Summer': Cannes Reviews Are In! Critics agree the film's seven-screen display is a unique experience that...

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Kanye West’s latest project comes in the form of his short film “Cruel Summer,” which the rapper produced, wrote and directed. He premiered the experimental 30-minute flick in Cannes during the city’s famous film festival, providing the audience with a unique experience. Instead of watching…

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soul/rock expressions: Newt Gingrich: Obama's Trayvon Martin Statement 'Disgraceful'

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One thing Mr Gingrich and no other white person in this country understands (and I pray that they never have to endure what we have in the past and present) is what it feels like to be black specifically in this country. He (Mr Gingrich) doesnt have a clue as to the depth of that profound…

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