This perfectly concise video clip gives us a high-energy montage of a manufactured soccer shoot, brought to us by Norwegian photographer Jens Haugen. This guy is an expert on scene construction, among other things, and this recently released short gives us a quick teaser into what his process is like: We’re not given much information, […]
A story of sadness and caution this week out of Sacramento, where 52-year-old photographer and high school visual arts teacher Kathy Carlisle was taking pictures in a rail yard, when she was struck from behind by a train. Her students at St. Francis High, the faculty, and the surrounding community are still reeling from this […]
This is a super fun behind-the-scenes video of a shoot for the band Fighting for Ithaca, taken on a playground in gorgeous North Vancouver, Canada. This is an exciting session to watch; for the signature shot, the photographer mounts his whole setup, including Nikon D700 with Sigma 15mm fisheye lens and a strobe with an […]
Continuing on with our love of new timelapse projects, we bring you Christophe Thockler’s music video for “Un Jour Comme un Autre” by French trip-hop artist Degiheugi for his album “Dancing Chords and Fireflies”. Through over 35,000 photographs arranged in 120 timelapses, Thockler tells Degiheugi’s story of the world in one day, in one four-minute […]
This should be an eye-opener for timelapse photographers. In the middle of filming a breathtaking timelapse of the August 2012 Perseids meteor shower for his project, “Helvetia by Night”, Swiss photographer Alessandro Della Bella had one of his three cameras stolen, in plain view of the other two. To make matters worse for the thief, […]
If you’re a camera equipment enthusiast, you’ve probably heard of the legendary Leica Camera Company—the signature red dot that will run you into the thousands of dollars for the most basic setup, and on into the tens of thousands for the good stuff. These are arguably the most widely-revered cameras on the market, and have […]
Today we’re revisiting Ian Ruther. He and his collaborator, Lane Power, have brought us a profoundly inspiring documentary that is the culmination of a trans-America trip undertaken in the truck/gigantic camera introduced in this article, which was written about Ruther back in April. The product, “American Dream”, explores not only his subjects, or his equipment, […]
In a continuation of the series we reported on a few weeks ago, Thrash Lab brings us a new timelapse video—this time of Washington D.C., with its roads and streets completely empty: Adding this video to the list of others, including New York, San Francisco, and Seattle, the artists at Thrash Labs fly us through […]
This unusual time-lapse video shows an endless march of airplanes approaching at London Heathrow Airport. It has gained quite a bit of attention because of the delicate appearance of these massive airliners: They look almost like toys in fast motion, as we see the vulnerable and erratic wobble with which they soar, as the weather […]
Here’s a short and sweet photo session, brought to us by photographer Ben Garrett. In this video, he takes us swiftly through a recent shoot he did for Steadfast Creative, a web and mobile design firm sporting a nautical theme. With a few handy techniques and a bit of a mess, he shows how his […]
