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Aran Goyoaga’s story is a fascinating one. One might say she’s lived her life from moment to moment, in a free-spirited way always listening to her heart. This is her story: Goyoaga was born in Basque country. She studied business and eonomics before moving to the US for a short stint in the corporate world. But […]
Professional and amateur photographers alike use stop motion photography to tell incredible stories with the use of the objects (and sometimes even the people) around them. This incredibly delicate technique involves carefully positioning everything in a frame, then altering the scene little by little, frame by frame, intentionally creating a choppy scene that has a […]
Have you ever wanted to stop time? Or perhaps record a mischievous deed right at the moment of impact? The following video from Jay P. Morgan will show you how: Stop action photography (as opposed to stop motion photography in movie-making) is the art of capturing a moment of action in time and space in […]
Let’s be honest: we’ve all taken selfies. Maybe we’ve even tagged them with the hashtag #selfie. But have you ever actually browsed through them all? If you have, you’d notice the maybe unsurprising similarities between them—a sea of identical duck faces tossed into the Internet oblivion. Need proof? Watch this music video: The video is by French DJ […]
Most beginning photographers deal with darkly lit sunsets in the same way: toss open the aperture and try to balance all the light onscreen, from the darkest shadows to the sunlit sky. But, as Mark Wallace point out, that’s not really the best way to do it. Watch what he does instead: The result of what most […]
If your bride wants photos in the golden light before sunset then there’s very little that you can do but comply. However, things never quite go as per plan at a wedding. They can go behind schedule tossing all your plans out of the window, making you look bad. However, if you’re a photographer who understands lighting you […]
Wide aperture lenses are popular with photographers for a number reasons. The word bokeh, I’m sure, will ring a bell. Mark Wallace shares with us another reason to shoot with wide aperture lenses—and this one’s a real life saver in bad weather: Imagine you’re travelling in a foreign country and you go to sleep planning that when […]
You may be a photographer, but are you an artist? That’s the question COOPH and world-renowned artist Roger Ballen urge you to ask yourself in this inspiring, challenging, and thought-provoking video. Ballen’s unique style has been called everything from disturbing, chilling, terrifying, even psychotic to beautiful, moving, brilliant, and inspiring. Viewers may have differing opinions of his work, […]
You’ve probably run into this issue at one point or another—how to sharpen an image with high ISO noise without worsening the noise artifacts. This tutorial shows you how to do it quickly and effectively using Topaz DeNoise. It’s the epitome of a Catch-22 scenario. By applying noise reduction, you sacrifice detail. But by sharpening […]
Sometimes a little creativity goes a long way toward becoming a social media sensation. A case in point is PaperBoyo (Rich McCor), whose paper cutout combo photos have gained him over one hundred thousand followers on Instagram. This quirky little video from Digital Rev goes behind the scenes with PaperBoyo to see what’s behind the […]
