On a particularly cold November night near Times Square, NYPD officer Larry DePrimo spotted a man walking around barefoot. When DePrimo asked him where his shoes were, the man said he’d never had any. Without hesitation, DePrimo went to the nearest shoe store and bought the man a pair of boots and socks. He then […]
Continuing on with our love of new timelapse projects, we bring you Christophe Thockler’s music video for “Un Jour Comme un Autre” by French trip-hop artist Degiheugi for his album “Dancing Chords and Fireflies”. Through over 35,000 photographs arranged in 120 timelapses, Thockler tells Degiheugi’s story of the world in one day, in one four-minute […]
When photographer Tomer Grencel found out his wife was pregnant, he didn’t just take a couple photos, he took 1,000. Grencel’s photos cover the span of his wife’s nine-month pregnancy from the beginning until his baby is born, and adds a little humor in the process: Grencel has added some unique touches to his stop […]
We all know at least one of those people who owns a big expensive DSLR but has no idea how to use it. They think money equals quality, and the words f-stop and metering confuse them. Well Sony has taken this idea and created it into a marketing campaign called, DSLR Gear No Idea, which refers to a series of youtube videos about clueless photographers. Take a look.
If you’re a camera equipment enthusiast, you’ve probably heard of the legendary Leica Camera Company—the signature red dot that will run you into the thousands of dollars for the most basic setup, and on into the tens of thousands for the good stuff. These are arguably the most widely-revered cameras on the market, and have […]
In a continuation of the series we reported on a few weeks ago, Thrash Lab brings us a new timelapse video—this time of Washington D.C., with its roads and streets completely empty: Adding this video to the list of others, including New York, San Francisco, and Seattle, the artists at Thrash Labs fly us through […]
This unusual time-lapse video shows an endless march of airplanes approaching at London Heathrow Airport. It has gained quite a bit of attention because of the delicate appearance of these massive airliners: They look almost like toys in fast motion, as we see the vulnerable and erratic wobble with which they soar, as the weather […]
Reuters TV brings us a glimpse at the largest camera in the world: a massive machine housed at the Cerro Tololo observatory in the desert mountains of northern Chile. Used to look far into the depths of outer space, this 570-mexapixel behemoth can survey six times the area of a full moon in a single […]
As far as great photographs so, sometimes it seems that it’s as much up to luck and fate as it is up to us. While shooting a timelapse in Montreal, Quebec, photographer Evan Kitaljevich quite accidentally captured the astonishing moment that a fire erupted in the middle of the downtown core: Stunned as the flames […]
The Marmalade is a creative effects studio specializing in high-speed tabletop videography. This one is more motion-picture based, but it was such a fascinating video, we thought that photographers would appreciate it, too: This short documentary-style video discusses the studio’s process of innovating not only a new style of shooting, but all of the equipment […]
