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As a photographer, you know that to create a striking portrait, you must properly expose your subject. But what about the background? Though the background may seem less important, how it is captured makes all the difference in making your subject stand out from their surroundings. In this video, Joe McNally shows us one way to […]
Complex lighting rigs don’t need to be complicated. In this easy-to-follow video tutorial, Joe McNally details how he uses three light sources to accent different parts of a photo, from the foreground to the background, to emphasize an athlete’s myriad Olympic medals: What His Lighting Rig Looks Like McNally first establishes a C-stand with an […]
Anyone who has lived in a large city can relate to the experience of using public transportation– when you take the same trip every day, it becomes monotonous, anonymous, mundane. Hungarian photographer Adam Magyar has taken that experience and transformed it into something personal, contemplative, and mesmerizing with his “Stainless” series, which exists somewhere between […]
Travel photography often has the tendency to become a little redundant. Breaking new ground as a travel photographer by creating a unique photograph–or in this case, an entire collection–can be tedious. The task, however, was no problem for Murad Osmann, a music video producer and photographer. While doing some extensive traveling with his girlfriend, Osmann snapped a photograph in […]
Of all the many different situations a photographer may encounter, shooting baby portraits may be the most difficult. Even if you are not a professional photographer, but are just trying to shoot some cute portraits of your own child, getting the tot to cooperate can be a difficult task. Here are a few tips for […]
Like any professional photographer who loves what they do, Douglas Sonders decided to use his very rare weekend off from shooting for commercial clients to work on a personal photography project. Since the original movie came out, Sonders has been obsessed with RoboCop, so doing a RoboCop themed shoot was like a dream come true: […]
As the conflict in Kiev continues, the images coming out of the area have been gruesome and telltale of the violence that is taking place in Ukraine. The striking image below shows the juxtaposition of Independence Square, commonly referred to as Maidan, in its before and after state: The once beautiful square has been reduced […]
The ICANN recently released a handful of new domain name extensions that may be of interest to photographers and those involved in the photography industry. The following video explores the new options and some of the advantages and disadvantages of the extensions: The New Domain Names The announcement is welcome news to many photographers who […]
For part of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 50th Anniversary Edition, Kate Upton and a crew of photographers boarded a specially modified Boeing 727 which flew in parabolic arcs to create a weightless environment allowing them to float, flip and soar as if in space–which makes for a very unique and challenging photo shoot: In the […]
The ice caves along the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in northern Wisconsin have been closed to visitors for the past five years. Warmer winter temperatures have kept the ice less than 8 inches thick, which is too thin to safely walk out on. Now, for the first time since 2009, the ice over Lake Superior is […]
