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From March 2013 to February 2016, a hobbyist timelapse photographer named Alexander Chin documented Melbourne, Australia’s most iconic locations and landmarks as they appeared in spring, summer, fall, and winter. Chin then combined all of the images together into a dreamy “chronolapse” video called The Four Seasons of Melbourne: Chin shot the images with his Nikon D90 and D610 and purposefully selected symmetrical locations—such as the […]
Adobe has been employing an interesting tactic to showcase their photo editing products—Photoshop in particular. During recent NBA games of the Golden State Warriors, Adobe has been morphing images of the fans present and giving those images a completely new look. The edits are shown live on the giant screen: This is done during some […]
In a perfect world, we’d always have whatever elements we neededfor a shot ready at hand. But as the world’s rarely perfect, there might come a time when you’d like to add a bit of interest and/or atmosphere to your pictures. In the video below, photographer Glyn Dewis shows us a simple technique for adding […]
A picture speaks a thousand words. It has the power to move a mind and compel it to act. Beyond the gear and beyond the tricks and tips, photography has been, in its purest form, a silent recorder of humanity for as long as it’s been around. You can’t deny that photography has played one of the most significant roles in […]
After nearly 10 months of negotiations, Belgian photographer Anton Kusters was finally allowed to photograph one of the most feared Yakuza families of Japan. Starting in early 2009 he spent two years photographing them, bringing back images that give a rare insight into one of the world’s most dreaded criminal gangs. The Economist shares his […]
Timelapses of sunsets are wonderful to watch, but they require an understanding technique and a whole lot of patience. Photographer Cal Thomson explains quite lucidly what it takes to produce a day to night timelapse: Manual Exposure There are two basic ways to capture images for this type of timelapse: manual mode and aperture priority mode. […]
When you change the shutter speed in a timelapse, you can control how people moving in and out of the frame transition. With faster shutter speeds the movements are more jagged; you can make out each individual. With longer shutter speeds, the movements are a lot smoother. In this video Jay P Morgan from The […]
Imagine you have to photograph a team of football players or a group of very busy corporate executives and you’re given less than half an hour. Sound impossible? Well, let’s make the challenge even more difficult. Let’s make it three different shots with three different lighting setups. Sound ridiculous? Wait until you watch this trick by Daniel […]
Getting the hang of your new DSLR involves a lot of work. There are a lot of buttons and dials, not to mention the menu, which can take a toll on you while you’re learning. There are a few basics of photography and cameras that you need to master before those dials start to make sense. One […]
In 2008, a Romanian photographer came up with a project that reveals the different lives of people living in 10 identical apartments. Bogdan Gîrbovan was living in a single-room apartment on the 10th floor of a Bucharest apartment building built in 1966 during communist times. The building, like most in Romania, was built with plain, identical apartments placed on […]
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