Think selfies jumped the shark with the infamous Oscar selfie? Or that video of the guy taking selfies with strangers? Think again: we may have just hit true peak selfie with this three-minute YouTube musical, created and composed by the mini-musical lovers at AV Byte. Check it out: If you hate selfies, or what they’ve […]
This video is the most entertaining thing you’ll see all week. In it, dogs turn the tables on their owners and start photographing them—except the delicacy with which the video is shot, and the politeness that’s shattered by these confusing emotional outbursts, transforms the whole concept from “ridiculous” to “surprisingly touching.” You have to watch it to see what we mean: […]
Sometimes you’re just in the right place at the right time. That’s what happened to Andy Shepard, a nature and travel photographer who hiked up a nearby mountain, set up his tripod, and fell asleep until 1:30 a.m., when a deafening sound exploded nearby; he woke up and quickly managed to capture this breathtaking image of […]
Who needs panoramas when you can create tiny Earths on your smartphone? Not jsmooth7, who trekked up Panorama Ridge in Garibaldi Provincial Park, in British Columbia, Canada, only to eschew the namesake panoramic route and opt for a little sphere of wonder instead: The photographer captured this shot with an old Nexus 4 phone and put it together […]
Studio lighting isn’t as difficult as it may seem. In fact, with just two lights, you can create several different types of shots simply by repositioning them. Here’s how: The first step, according to Scott Kelby, is to get a big, soft light. He’s exclusively using a dual Westcott package, which includes a large softbox and slender […]
Bombo Headland was the site of a tremendously scientifically important quarry in New South Wales, Australia. That’s where, in 1926, someone discovered the world’s longest geomagnetic polarity interval, near what would become the town of Kiama, giving the quarry its geological title of the “Kiaman Reverse Superchron”. Also, it’s really pretty: The shot makes the water look like painted brushstrokes. […]
Let’s be honest: we’ve all taken selfies. Maybe we’ve even tagged them with the hashtag #selfie. But have you ever actually browsed through them all? If you have, you’d notice the maybe unsurprising similarities between them—a sea of identical duck faces tossed into the Internet oblivion. Need proof? Watch this music video: The video is by French DJ […]
Most beginning photographers deal with darkly lit sunsets in the same way: toss open the aperture and try to balance all the light onscreen, from the darkest shadows to the sunlit sky. But, as Mark Wallace point out, that’s not really the best way to do it. Watch what he does instead: The result of what most […]
Feeling cold outside? Hopefully you don’t have to shovel your snow, at least. If you do, and you live in New York, you might run into this man, whose menacing pose is something out of a horror film: Photographer Navid Baraty was drawn by the light in this scene while in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He snapped the photo in 2010, but […]
So you’ve got a speedlite. Now what? A lot of photographers only use their flashes in one particular way, switching to different lighting rigs for different effects. But with one flash, you can actually achieve a number of different looks, simply by swivelling it around. Here’s how: Mark Wallace is hosting this video with his Leica M Digital […]
