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Sept. 14 Photo Brief: Giant vegetable lifting, mass floating in the Dead Sea

Sept. 14 Photo Brief: Giant vegetable lifting, mass floating in the Dead Sea

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A giant marrow wins all six classes in the giant vegetable competition, environmentalists hold a mass floating event in the Dead Sea and more in today’s daily brief.
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10 animated gifs from the 2012 Summer Olympic Games

10 animated gifs

If the Olympics reinforced anything, it’s our addiction to the animated gif — everyone from journalists to pop culture enthusiasts created them to add a little drama and pizazz in reporting the Games this year. Elspeth Reeve from The Atlantic provided a gif guide to “how the U.S. Team crushed the Russians,” meanwhile Buzzfeed highlighted the “most absurd moments of the Olympic Opening Ceremony” and Mashable presented “the most painful moments of the Olympics” via gifs.

Here’s a gif rundown from the Neiman Journalism Lab, a Storify of Olympics gifs, and a gif need to know guide for journalists from Ann Friedman.

We claim to be no pros, but here we add our own to the Olympics animated gif mix from the hurdles to weightlifting and even a First Lady Michelle Obama reaction, using photos and the power of layers and animation in Photoshop.
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Capturing Olympic motion with creative photo techniques

Capturing Olympic motion with creative photo techniques

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The Darkroom highlights the art of motion by featuring some of the best experimental photography being taken at the 2012 Olympics in London. Weightlifting, canoeing and badminton are a few of the latest sports to be added to the creative series below.

The following gallery highlights the use of multiple exposures, fish-eye lenses and extended exposures in creating artistic sports shots.
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