My younger son is a big Star Wars fan - and here is a composite I put together last year, showing my younger son, performing a Star Wars inspired choke hold on himself.
Have a look at my Tutorial for Creating Levitation Photos in Photoshop to see how you can create similar levitating composite photos yourself.

wishing he had Star Wars powers

back yard at home, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @24mm, 1/400 sec, f/4, ISO100

Occasionally I like to go through some of my older photos, and look for things that I may have missed when I originally took the photos. Here is one from a school excusions I attended with my younger son, at Cohuna Wildlife Park.
I believe this is a Osteospermum, from the daisy family Asteraceae.

purple daisy

Cohuna Wildlife Park, Byford, Western Australia
Canon EOS 50D, 24-70mm f/2.8L @67mm, 1/500 sec, f/5.6, ISO500

David Nightingale from Chromasia Training is offering a great deal on his photography and post-production tutorials. Until midnight Sunday 10th November you can sign up for a lifetime membership for just £29 (approx USD$47), which is the normal price per year.
Check out the tutorials (including a free sample tutorial), and you can sign up here.

Chromasia also is offering a big discount on his video training titled "The Art of Black and White Photography", bringing the price down to just USD$9. The normal price is USD$99, so that's a savings of about 90% on the usual price, and is also available until midnight Sunday 10th November. Use this link to get the discount.



Phottix released their Mitros TTL flash for Canon earlier this year, followed by the Nikon version, to very good reviews.
They have now gone one step further, and integrated an Odin transmitter, Odin receiver, and a Strato receiver into the Mitros flash, and called it the Mitros+ TTL Transceiver Flash.
Having a TTL flash with this functionality integrated into the flash unit means you no longer need to use separate triggers for each flash, reduces the complexity of a lighting setup, and reduces the amount of gear and number of batteries that you need to carry.

The Phottix Mitros+ for Canon is currently available, with a Nikon version expected in the future.



Phottix published a table showing compatibility between the various models of flash triggers that they sell.
If you are considering buying a Phottix flash trigger, or have some and want to know what is compatible with them, be sure to check out this compatibility chart.

• Fiddleoak's "littlefolk" series is a great set of images by a 14 year old consisting of people composited as miniatures in the real world. Check out his photos on flickr, his blog, and a tutorial showing how he created one of the photos. He has recently started a new series titled traveler.
• Dave Flynn's Mini Worlds is also a great set of photos showing tiny humans in the real world.
• Crafting scenes of iconic Americana is a flickr blog post featuring some great photos by Michael Paul Smith. At first glance, Michael's photos of mid-twentieth century America look real, but they are actually created using model cars on a table, with scale model buildings and real buildings in the background.
• Ben Heine's series of images titled Pencil vs Camera combine photography with hand-drawn pictures in a very unique and interesting way. Browse through his photos and see some of his work as featured on the flickr blog.