Pan American World Airways may have declared bankruptcy in 1991, but that didn’t stop photographer Michael Kelley and aviation prop fanatic Anthony Toth from taking flight on an authentically decorated Boeing 747-200 in 2014. Together, they assembled all the bits and pieces of Pan Am memorabilia they could find, hired over a dozen models and eight camera assistants, and […]
Finding a unique angle for your wedding photography can be tricky, but finding a couple willing to go along with some zany new idea can be even trickier. When British wedding photographer Simeon Quarrie met the soon-to-be-married Nikesh and Lalita, he knew he’d found kindred spirits willing to go along with his plot. They decided that […]
Sometimes, to get the lighting right in-camera, we’ve got to sacrifice some spots to darkness. High-dynamic range photography, known as HDR, composites multiple exposures to draw out hyper-realistic details and evens out the lighting range. That kind of effect is possible to achieve in Photoshop, too—and with more subtlety than most HDR. Here’s how to do it: […]
Don’t watch this if you’re getting ready for bed. There’s nothing outwardly scary about it, but it’s definitely unnerving: a jet-black magnet creeps up from beneath a layer of bubbles, attracting a mysterious inky black liquid that snakes around the bubbles until it gets close enough for the water to get blotched blood-red. Then it ends. Truly, that description […]
We’ve seen most of these before: the Oscar selfie, the kicked-in-the-head selfie, the parody selfies. So let’s take a moment and appreciate that now even inanimate objects are purportedly snapping glamor shots of themselves several thousand feet in the air: The original photographer is unknown, and the location is also unclear, though it’s believed to […]
As long as people have been taking photos, they have been taking photos of animals acting like humans. There’s something either very funny or very poignant about an animal standing on two legs, shaking hands with its owner, giving off a puzzled expression or, in this case, walking gracefully like a ballerina through someone’s backyard: This surreal moment was captured by […]
Finding the right space doesn’t always mean finding the best lighting. In this situation, the producers found an awesome restaurant, complete with glittery safety deposit boxes and lined fireplaces, but the space was too dark to shoot at a comfortable shutter speed. Watch the video to see how they solved the problem: To light up the safety […]
Adobe has had some trouble breaching the mobile market. With apps like Snapseed and Pixlr dominating the marketplace for free, the complexity of Photoshop hasn’t quite transitioned naturally. They’re hoping to change that with their mobile version of Lightroom, called Lightroom Mobile, available only on iPads (for now): Key Takeaways for the Lightroom App Controls seem pretty natural—swipe […]
In a marriage that seemed destined to happen, stock photo suppliers Fotolia brought together light painter Eric Paré and CGI artist Mike Campau, each renowned for intensely hyper-colorized dreamscapes, to create a single shining digital image from their minds. And though the final product is a kaleidoscopic achievement, the process is seriously technical. A must watch for anyone […]
Every year, Yosemite National Park sees more than 3.7 million visitors hike through the implacable seven-square-mile Yosemite Valley. Since it’s blessed with brilliant granite cliffs, pristine streams and ancient Giant Sequoias, you can understand why two landscape photographers, Colin Delehanty and Sheldon Neill, would spend 10 months hiking 200 miles for 45 solid days to produce […]
