If you thought snow was pretty before, you’ll love this. This microscopic view of snowflakes came out just in time to pick up our spirits during this freezing winter–set to a delicate piano background, the video depicts snowflakes as an undeniably beautiful ballet of piercing white movement: The timelapse footage comes courtesy of Russian photographer […]
If you’ve ever wanted to make your subjects look small–like, miniature-toy small–you may have investigated buying a tilt-shift lens for more than $2,500. But there are cheaper options. This video gives a host of helpful tips for achieving an awesome tilt-shift style using a normal DSLR lens: California-based timelapse photographer Ryan Killackey gives the following tips: […]
Did you ever realize milk had such a lovely heft to it? The shape it makes, when captured with the right shutter speed, can be beautifully wavy. If you want proof, check out this montage of random people being splashed with milk on the street: The man behind the series, called “Le Grand Spectacle du […]
Scenic fly fishing, misty mountain panoramas, wild bears trekking the riverside–this is the life of professional wildlife photographer Charles Glatzer, who gave up his job as a successful commercial photographer to found Shoot the Light by teaching and shooting nature exclusively. See it here: “You’re just sitting out there by yourself, listening to the sounds, […]
Family portrait photographers know too well how tricky it can be to create an effective lighting rig at home. Kids move, furniture is everywhere, windows vary in size. This video, hosted by portrait photographer Tamara Lackey, gives a solid overview of what might come up when working from home, and why a broad, basic lighting […]
Most photographers auto-focus the traditional way: press the shutter down halfway, then compose your shot and pray your subject doesn’t move around. Or press down halfway and quickly take the photo in the same second. This video is demonstrating a different method–one that claims to make auto-focus much easier to manage: The Three Auto-Focus Settings Your […]
In some ways, she’s the ideal fashion model: she doesn’t blink, she takes direction, she doesn’t have an ego. How could she? She’s plastic. (It’s fantastic!) The men behind the latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition went all-out with this recent parody photo shoot. Watch the brisk two-minute satire here: The shoot was helmed by iconic […]
The following image was taken in January 2014 by the UN Relief and Works Agency, known as UNRWA. It shows a “queue” of Palestinian refugees–really more a mass of bodies–in Yarmouk, a district of Damascus, Syria, that has become a de facto refugee camp: Yamouk is different than most refugee camps, because it was never […]
Complex lighting rigs don’t need to be complicated. In this easy-to-follow video tutorial, Joe McNally details how he uses three light sources to accent different parts of a photo, from the foreground to the background, to emphasize an athlete’s myriad Olympic medals: What His Lighting Rig Looks Like McNally first establishes a C-stand with an […]
Any photographer who’s shot through a harsh winter can tell you: it ain’t fun. You have to choose between finger dexterity and frostbite, between constantly moving to keep warm and standing perfectly still to capture the shot. Photographer and videographer Mike Wilkinson spent two weeks in below-freezing conditions in northern Michigan recently, and he came back […]
