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Meet the Photographer Behind the Viral Mirror Self-Portrait

Meet the Photographer Behind the Viral Mirror Self-Portrait

Last summer, 18 year-old Laura Williams from Cambridge, England, posted a photo she had taken on her Flickr page. The image, Invisible, immediately went viral, and Laura became an overnight internet sensation. She has since been featured in The Daily Mail, made the artFido Top 75 Pictures of The Year for 2013, and got her Flickr moment: […]

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The Challenges of Photographing Backcountry Ice Climbers

The Challenges of Photographing Backcountry Ice Climbers

Ice climbing is what people who enjoy extreme sports consider “too extreme”. Armed with two sharp hooks, climbers heave their way up a wall of solid ice–in this case, the 60-meter-tall yellowed wall of “HMR”, a remote ice sheet in Michigan’s Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. This video gives an excellent and rare look at what it’s […]

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Pro Photographer vs. Cheap Point-and-Shoot Camera, Beach Action Shot

Pro Photographer vs. Cheap Point-and-Shoot Camera, Beach Action Shot

Professional epic photographer, Ben Von Wong, was stoked when he was asked to do a video clip with DigitalRev. So excited, in fact, that he quickly loaded up his gear bag with a Nikon D800, a Nikon 24-70mm, 85mm f 1.4, 70-200mm, 14-24mm, a pair of speedlights ,and a waterproof Nikon AW 1. With all that […]

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Could the Sunny 16 Rule Solve All of Your Exposure Problems?

Could the Sunny 16 Rule Solve All of Your Exposure Problems?

One of the hardest obstacles when shooting outdoors is balancing a correct exposure in extreme sunlight. When there’s heavy white snow on the ground, it’s even harder. Luckily, there’s a mathematical equation, dubbed the Sunny 16 Rule, that solved the problem over 50 years ago. Check out Bryan Peterson explaining it here: What is the […]

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An Intimate Photo Shoot With Vladimir Putin

An Intimate Photo Shoot With Vladimir Putin

In December 2007, TIME Magazine named Russian president Vladimir Putin as Person of the Year. Photographer Platon was flown to Moscow for the shoot. He approached the massive fortress-like wall covered with snipers. At gunpoint, he was led through the gate and told to wait until Putin arrived; when he finally did, he walked in […]

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Comedian Surprises Strangers with Sudden Selfies

Comedian Surprises Strangers with Sudden Selfies

The selfie craze may have reached its zenith with Ellen’s most-rewteeted Oscar pic, but that hasn’t stopped Seattle-based YouTube comedian Jason Rodjanapanyakul from keeping the trend alive. Recently he traipsed alone around a local mall, yelling “selfie!” at strangers and surprising them with self-portraits: It’s actually a strangely fascinating social experiment. Not so much for the bored […]

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How and Why You Should Shoot RAW

How and Why You Should Shoot RAW

If you’re just starting out in photography, you might have heard of something called RAW. RAW files are really big photo files that professionals use, but many amateurs stay away from–mainly because RAW files are enormous and beginners wouldn’t know what to do with them. This video aims to solve that by offering a really excellent, […]

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Sit Back and Enjoy This Meditative Timelapse of a Road Trip Across America

Sit Back and Enjoy This Meditative Timelapse of a Road Trip Across America

On a road trip from Montreal to Nevada in July 2013, Eric Paré and Marie-Line Migneault were aiming for Burning Man but got distracted by the natural beauty of the American West. They began regularly stopping, hopping out of their car, and shooting stop-motion and timelapse videos of the wild west, including celestial sunsets and sweeping […]

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Use the Inverse-Square Law to Improve Your Light Painting

Use the Inverse-Square Law to Improve Your Light Painting

Light painting is a bit of an obscure art–it involves sitting in a completely dark room, setting your camera to a long exposure, and painting light onto the image with delicate wrist strokes of an LED light. (This article gives an excellent overview.) In the video below, we’re shown an intermediate-level rule of light painting […]

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The Surreal Photography of a Modern-Day Salvador Dali

The Surreal Photography of a Modern-Day Salvador Dali

In what has basically been a 14-year Photoshop ad, the career of surrealist Swedish photographer Erik Johansson has produced some of the most dazzling images on the web, blending the 3D trickery with a soft-focus, dreamlike lens. He is a full-time digital retoucher and photographer, but more properly, he is an artist in the same […]

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