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Began but combining four photos onto a background created with a couple of colour overlay adjustments, and did some Basic, Precision Contrast, Reduce Noise adjustments - created for camera club entry.
Photo dumps entered the cultural conversation in 2021. The Kardashians did it, the influencers did it, and our friends and lovers did it. It launched into popularity as a middle ground between those who posted constantly and those, particularly younger users, who had decided that posting on Instagram at all was no longer cool. This was, in part, a response to the unreachable Instagram aesthetic and perfection perpetuated by the app; photo dumps were a sort of messy alternative. At the same time, Instagram was changing its algorithm constantly, making it more difficult to find content from your actual friends or get the amount of likes and other quantitate popularity you were used to.
So we began posting more sparingly but also more sprawlingly, participating in our own little work of self-surveillance so the rest of the internet could gather more information about each other in a dragnet fashion that seemed more serious than it was.
These photo dumps serve as a kind of map of my own life, the weft of my yarn, you might say. I can look back on my Instagram and see myself each month at my hottest or most interesting. However, our need for constant online validation is too transparent, and posting has become inherently embarrassing.
Recently, the photo dump hasn't been as common on my feed. People are only posting on their Stories, if they post at all. Instagram Stories have a short lifespan that serves as an ameliorative salve to the anxiety of posting on the grid. But even posting on Stories has lost some of its luster.
The signs are clear: Posting at all is for suckers, especially on an app like Instagram which has become less relevant to young people. If you post, no matter how exciting your life looks, it's not cool to share it on Instagram. We now feel the need to start making moves in silence.
Posting trends on Instagram are mercurial at best, their volatile nature always ensuring a feeling of unease. Not once in the past few years of online life have I posted something and not considered that perhaps I am doing it all wrong. I have concluded that's a good thing, and I should trust my intuition; I am likely doing it all wrong. The only people doing it right on social media are solipsists, and I probably wouldn't vibe with Descartes anyway.
That's the beauty of the photo dump: It's inherently personal. As Instagram trends evolve and posting habits shift, the photo dump may fade into obscurity, replaced by new forms of digital self-expression. Seeking validation online may be out, but I'm going to keep dumping anyway.
Christianna Silva is a Senior Culture Reporter at Mashable. They write about tech and digital culture, with a focus on Facebook and Instagram. Before joining Mashable, they worked as an editor at NPR and MTV News, a reporter at Teen Vogue and VICE News, and as a stablehand at a mini-horse farm. You can follow them on Twitter @christianna_j.
These Patagonian glaciers have been forming for millions of years (scientists estimate that this formation began during the last Ice Age, which started approximately 2.6 million years ago and ended around 11,700 years ago), and are of both historical and cultural importance to the nearby town of El Calafate. I walked its streets wondering how glacial melting would affect the town, as every business heavily relies on the glaciers to bring in travelers.
Through compression melting, glaciers erode the land beneath them, shaping the landscape and creating the views that Patagonia is famous for. In turn, glacial till provides fertile soil for growing crops, and deposits of sand and gravel, that is used to create concrete and asphalt to build structures and homes in El Calafate. But as ice sheets melt at a faster rate, the loss of glacial ice reduces the amount of freshwater available for plants and animals on land, greatly affecting the ecosystems.
Glaciers are bodies of ice that form when repeated periods of snowfall compact the snow, where it accumulates to transform into ice. Basically, when more snow piles up over the year than can be melted during the summer. This repeated freezing and solidifying buries and compresses previous layers of snow, turning it into glacial ice to form either an alpine or continental glacier. Through erosion, deposition, and transportation, glaciers make up one of the most powerful natural tools on our planet, with the ability to entirely shape the landscape. When either type of glacier [continental or alpine] reaches the ocean, large pieces break off in a process known as calving. But as climate change warms the oceans, calving occurs at an even faster rate. With booming cracks echoing through the air, I witnessed the epic yet heart-wrenching movement of calving, and captured one of the most captivating photos I have ever taken.
Many use the fact that there have been record snowfalls and polar vortexes in recent years as evidence against climate change, but climate change is far more complex than a simple warming of the planet. In fact, scientists see these extreme winter weather conditions as even more evidence that climate change is happening.
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A great way to capture lightning is by video. Similar to the time-lapse method, hit record and let your phone do all the work! Be sure to set your video settings to the highest quality/frames per second:
Get your phone situated on a tripod and hit start. The phone will now automatically take a bunch of 15 second long exposure photos. This method maybe some luck/trial and error, but I am definitely going to try it out on the next thunderstorm and will update this post!
In the spring of 1963, popular from his big-screen breakout as one of The Magnificent Seven and just a couple months from entering the Badass Hall of Fame with the release of The Great Escape, Steve McQueen was on the brink of superstardom.
From early morning until late at night, Dominis followed McQueen through his action-packed days: camping with his buddies, racing his various vehicles, playing with his family, tooling around Hollywood. Even back then, Dominis recalled, he had to be mindful that his constant presence did not become irritating.
Seventeen years after Dominis made these photos, the actor died at 50 years old, suffering a heart attack following a risky operation to remove the cancerous tumors laying waste to his body. Though Dominis never saw or spoke with McQueen after 1963, he continued to follow his movies, and cherished those three weeks they got to know each other.
In this article, I show you an awesome Lightroom editing technique you can use to add atmosphere to your photos. If you take this method to the extreme, you can even turn a normal day into a foggy scene. It works well for woodland photos.
This technique is not for purists, though. If you want to keep your photos as close to reality as possible, you might not want to apply the edit I'm about to show you. But if you like to get creative, it is a valuable addition to your photo-editing toolbox.
In the feature video, I show you how I added mist to one of my woodland photos. I photographed the scene on a very windy morning - not the ideal conditions for forest photography. As I walked through the fields toward this scene, fog drifted in and out of the forest. But unfortunately, it didn't stick around for me to capture it.
When I opened the raw photo in Lightroom, it lacked atmosphere. I've photographed this forest many times with fog, and I know how it could have looked. I will also return next year to try my luck and take a better photo. But I also couldn't resist experimenting with the image I had taken: could I somehow redeem it by adding atmosphere in Lightroom?
As I explained in the video, fog typically appears more dense in the background of your image. That's why you should try to remove some of the effect from foreground elements - step 7. You can achieve amazing results with photos containing a lot of depth as source material.
Below I show two more images captured in the same forest. One contains real fog, while the other was processed using the technique from this article. The question is: can you to tell which image contains real fog and which contains artificial fog? Leave your guesses in the comments.
As you've seen in this tutorial, it is possible to completely transform a woodland photo with clever masking and a few sliders in Lightroom. You can add fog in just a few minutes. If this goes too far for you, use the "Amount" slider at the top of the masking panel to reduce the effect. You don't have to create the illusion of fog with this technique. Sometimes, adding just a bit of atmosphere will do the trick and give your photos a dreamy look if that's what you want to achieve.
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