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A lot of us don’t like the way we look in photos. Despite what it says about our collective self-esteem (not to mention an oversaturation of perfect body types and societal pressure to look a certain way), we are always striving to look better, healthier, and thinner in photos. That’s where Peter Hurley speaks right to […]
If you were born before the turn of the century and remember the good old days of film, prepare yourself for a bit of nostalgia. This cool one-minute short from Robert Marshall of Round One Films will bring it all back for you: In just over a minute Marshall captures just about every sound associated […]
Of all the landscapes I have photographed, mountains remain one of the most difficult to capture well. But I’ve found some amazing examples from photographers who really pulled it off: For more inspiration and some tips, check out 5 Landscape Photography Tips for Photographing Mountains.
The free flowing energetic movements of a dancer can be enchanting to watch. But when it comes to photographing the same it can be a real nightmare. For one thing, you can use a flash/strobe to freeze the movement but that free-flowing hint of movement is never easy to capture with a blinding, instantaneous light. You […]
They say to always shoot for the moon—but in photography, when you fail, you don’t land amongst the stars. Your moon just looks like an overexposed lightbulb. If you want to up your moon game as a photographer, there’s no better tutorial than this one: Host Tony Northrup starts off with a Canon 18–135 lens and his […]
There are many types of photography, some types not as glamorous as other types. I could use up a couple paragraphs just listing them all but since there only a couple that interest me, I won’t. Let me tell you just about the type I enjoy the most: “personal photography.” It sounds like I just […]
Since we’ve just passed the holidays—the time of the year when we usually spend lots of time with our loves ones—we thought we’d highlight some photos of beautiful families in the animal world. This is what we found: Show us your own animal family photos in a comment below. Also, take a look at the […]
From the same daredevil company that brought you that ridiculous stratospheric freefall (that’s Red Bull, for those unaware) comes this 45-second behind-the-scenes glimpse at how skydivers snap perfectly composed shots, despite plummeting swiftly from an airplane toward certain death: Red Bull has teamed up with Wolfgang Lienbacher to create this seemingly simple three-step process to show amateurs how it’s done. Lienbacher starts […]
Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre is the scene of this Christmas-styled photo shoot by photographer Klara G. The 100-year-old theater is hallowed ground for performing artists. Designed in white marble and detailed in pure gold, it can give you goosebumps. Klara G’s subjects are the nine actors playing the Ekdahl family in Fanny and Alexander, a […]
The future is now, folks. On Monday, December 21, 2015, SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 rocket—carrying 11 satellites—from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It successfully deployed the satellites and returned back to land for a vertical landing, making history—and some pretty impressive photographs: “With this mission, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will deliver 11 […]
