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Final day: only hours left for the Long Exposure Photo Guide at 71% Off Night owls with a taste for photography utilize long exposures out of necessity. As a result, they’re often able to create captivating details through motion blur in low lighting situations. But can the same dreamy motion blur be captured in the […]
Looking more like a laser show or special lighting effects at a concert, Lucas Zimmermann’s “Traffic Lights” series transforms a mundane object into a colorful spectacle: This 20-second exposure was taken with a Canon 5D Mark II on a foggy winter night near Weimar, Germany. To capture the shot, Zimmermann reportedly had to dodge cars and […]
Imagine putting in your best effort to get the perfect composition but ending up with an image that’s not sharp. That doesn’t do justice to your effort, right? Getting an image that’s sharp is yet another crucial factor that determines the success of any image. But alas! this is where a lot of photographers, especially […]
It wouldn’t be wrong to say that timelapse photography is at a halfway-mark between photography and videography. Timelapse photography is all about capturing a series of photos at specific intervals of time which you can later place in a sequence and export as a video clip. As an alternative, you could also stack them all […]
The beauty of photographing liquid in motion is that you can never anticipate what kind of splash you will get. While most of the time such splashes are understated, sometimes they can explode with form and motion. Take, for instance, the following image of a whiskey splash taken by photographer Ian Jones: Jones took the […]
Back-lighting a subject comes in handy when you want to separate the subject from the rest of the scene. It opens up interesting body features of the subject and makes the image so much better. However, this technique is equally challenging as it requires you to shoot into the sun. Professional wildlife photographer Paul Miguel […]
HDR, as the name suggests, attempts to extend the light and tonal range of images taken under normal conditions. And once a balanced HDR image is compared with the original shot the results are often outstanding. Ever hear the expression, “You just had to be there,” when someone is showing off photographs? What they are […]
When most people think of the beach, warm weather, tropical plant life, and sunbathers in bikinis come to mind. So, when an iceberg washes ashore instead, it’s bound to turn a few heads. Understandably, photographer Garret Weintrob couldn’t pass up this incredible photo op along the southern coast of Iceland: As unlikely as it seems, the massive […]
A lot of beginner photographers make the mistake of assuming that a flash is used to add light when shooting in conditions where the light is insufficient. Well, this is only partially true. In fact, you can use flash even in situations where there’s enough natural light. Using a flash allows you to add a […]
Things are not always the way they appear to be at first glance. This notion stands especially true if you get an opportunity to give something a closer look the second time. This is one of the core reasons why macro photography is so fascinating. We realize we’re missing out on all the intricacies when […]
