Have you ever seen a fire-breathing dog or a headless gymnast? Check out this album of shots showing perfect timing as well as some forced perspective shots that trick our brains into seeing something that’s not quite right. Thrown in are some beautiful photos of natural phenomena where the only way to have captured it […]
Smashing wine glasses together isn’t just about making a colorful mess; it’s about getting the settings on your flash and your camera perfect to freeze wine droplets in mid-air. Gavin Hoey gives us a tutorial on how to set up your flash and your camera for a perfect frozen object, and he also shares some […]
Macro photographers love to photograph flowers, insects, and snowflakes, but did you know some also love collecting and shooting toys? Seattle-based photographer Shelly Corbett has a collection of over 1,000 LEGO pieces and plans to shoot all of them. The Bryan Ohno Gallery in Seattle is holding an exhibition featuring three artists from around the world […]
You don’t need to buy colored contact lenses to transform your subject’s eye color into a mutant fire-eyed monster… or simply a blue-eyed beauty. Aaron Nace shows us how to achieve this transformation in Photoshop and make realistic adjustments to an eye or even make a crazy fantasy eye. Watch to see how he uses a group of layer […]
Sometimes a photograph needs extreme shadow recovery, and Lightroom 5’s shadow slider just doesn’t cut it. Lightroom 4’s old fill light slider can be way more powerful, but how do we get it back? Matt Kloskowski from onOne shows us how to recover details in the shadows using the old process version of Lightroom and […]
You can flip the world on its edge in your photos without superhuman abilities. Paul Grogan of N-Photo gives us a couple of quick tips to make gravity-defying photographs almost anywhere. Grab some creative and willing subjects and check out how he did it in this video: Find a Location Find a location that could realistically […]
From the mountaintops to the rivers and lakes below, prepare to be stunned by Austria. The production company FilmSpektakel toured Austria from top to bottom to create this moving timelapse photography compilation. Infused with the sounds of buzzing bees, babbling brooks and electric jolts, this video gives us a whirlwind tour of the beautiful country: […]
Have you ever removed reflections in your image just to reinsert them later in Photoshop? Photographer Gavin Hoey gives us the entire process from start to finish with a cool card-playing model in this reflections photo: Eliminate Reflections In-Camera First Hoey gives us some tips on how to avoid having your light source reflected in the […]
Sinking furniture in a pool in your backyard doesn’t sound like a usual part of the photography process but photographer Kyle Thompson did just that. Thompson created ghostly scenes of a flooded town in his own backyard using an above ground pool and props from thrift stores. The result is a collection of eerie photographs depicting […]
You’ve probably heard of boudoir photography, but have you ever heard of dudeoir photography? A popular photo trend for women may have just crossed over to men. This news clip reports on photographer Natalie Licini, who shoots what she calls “dudeoir”—and she’s seen more and more men looking for this type of service: People sometimes think of […]
