The first time you ever took pictures on your new DSLR, you probably thought “wow”. It’s possible you didn’t realize you could take such good pictures and those first images are maybe what got you into photography in the first place. So you start to study, maybe take lessons, learn everything you can, but after a […]
A powerful portrait can give viewers a look into the mind of their favorite celebrities. They tell a story about the individual and show us their true personality. The stories and inspiration behind the making of said portraits are usually quite interesting, but rarely discussed. That is, until now. Famous photographer, Mark Seliger takes a moment […]
Nowadays it seems as though everyone has their opinion on whether mobile photography is good or evil, and they aren’t afraid to tell us about it. As journalist and photographer Richard Koci Hernandez points out in the segment below for CNN, regardless of how we feel about it, mobile photography is here, an it’s making […]
In terms of quality and range of subject matter, Reid Gower’s most recent work, Natural Phenomena, is one of the best timelapse videos we’ve seen in quite some time. You may recognize Gower’s name from the wildly popular Sagan Series, which automatically garners the filmmaker accolades, but even putting that aside, for being his very […]
If you’re the type of photographer who is always buying new gear–and let’s face it, who isn’t–you might find solace in the music video made by Irwin Wong titled, I Wanna Be a Cameraman. The song reveals what most of us are feeling, as Wong sings humorously accurate lyrics such as “now I’m buying camera lenses […]
Expanding your photographic horizon can force you to get more creative and think outside the box. One way to jumpstart your creative side is to experiment in double exposures. The style, which saw a rise in interest in part due to the popularity of Lomography, has been gaining more momentum lately, thanks the feature becoming […]
A little bit of creativity and vision goes a long way. Graham McBride gets artistic by bringing home a bit of the beach for the background setting for his jewelry product shoot. With very minimal studio equipment, in the form of a diffuser panel and an octagon softbox, he produces awesome and unique product photographs […]
Have you ever wondered about those bits of bikes you sometimes see chained to lampposts and railings? In this short film by Lifecycle, we follow the fortunes of an everyday bike that was chained to a New York post over a period of 365 days using timelapse photography: When first chained to the post, the […]
While shooting outdoors can give you affordable dramatic backgrounds for your portrait photography, making sure the lighting is right can be a challenge. Sasha Leahovcenco shows us the setup he used on a recent outing while shooting a few portraits of a musician for an upcoming release. As you can see in the video below, Leahovcenco […]
There have been a lot of timelapse videos hitting the Internet, which has helped raise filmmakers’ standards. But it has also left some looking to possible next steps. In pursuit of the next big thing, photographers have started to experiment with something dubbed hyperlapse (essentially timelapse with huge movements). While some are better than others, […]
