Photographing a wedding is more than just aiming a camera at the couple. It’s a constant flow of input from the photographer to the subjects, the majority of whom have never seriously posed for the camera before. And having to pose on the biggest day of their life can be intimidating. Good wedding photography requires not […]
A while back we featured a Los Angeles hyperlapse by Vadim Tereschchenko. Tereschchenko is a professional photographer who specializes in hyperlapse. His work is admired all over the world and he routinely gets requests to either work with leading corporations or to license out his work. During his first visit to New York, he shot this […]
Michael Muller is one of the busiest Hollywood photographers around. His name may not be familiar to you, but his work might be. He photographs the biggest stars in the business. Chances are you’ve seen his work more than once. But he has another side to him. When he’s not hob-knobbing with celebrities, he’s busy photographing sharks. Muller […]
How difficult can it be to crop an image in Photoshop to match an exact pixel size requirement? This is something that we do all the time. Everyone has a favorite method. Some photographers use the crop tool; it’s very easy to use, but it can be unreliable when you need to resize an image to […]
Watching your camera shutter die a slow and painful death is unnerving. That’s exactly what happened to photographer Myles Dunphy while on a trip to Fiji. The shutter on his Canon 5D Mark II huffed and puffed and then simply gave up. A quick check of the repair shop gave Dunphy a quote of $500 […]
Love them or hate them. But one thing you can’t do is ignore them. Prime lenses are some of the top favorites of photographers around the globe. What’s so great about them? In this video, Toby Gelston explains the five top reasons why you should invest in a prime lens: What is a prime lens? […]
If you think investing in a polarizing filter is a bad idea, photographer Steve Perry wants to prove you wrong. Perry explains the fundamental reasons why, as a nature photographer, you absolutely need to have one of these filters in your bag at all times. Even though you might be tempted to Photoshop your way […]
We’ve all heard of hyperlapses, stop-motion, and light painting. But what is holopainting? It’s a newly invented technique that combines hyperlapse, stop-motion, and light painting with an extensive post-processing routine to create images that look like holographic paintings. Here’s how it’s done: Thomas Pöcksteiner’s and Peter Jablonowski‘s university graduation project involved 24 Raspberry Pi computers and […]
Spinning a wheel decked in paint may sound like the favorite summer pasttime of a fifth grader, but for photographer Fabian Oefner, this is serious work: Oefner is known for his bizarre photography ideas, most of which involve paint. As a part of his Black Hole project, Oefner connected a metallic rod to an electric drill […]
The wet plate collodion process is the granddaddy of analog photography. One of the earliest and probably the most popular systems of taking and then making a photograph, wet plate photography was accidentally discovered by an Englishman named Frederick Scott Archer. He, however, never patented his process. The process of wet plate photography could arguably […]
