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Watch the biggest ship in the world being built in a mere 76 seconds. Constructed in Korea by the Maersk Line, the Triple-E is 400 meters (approximately 1,312 feet) long. Maersk partnered with the Discovery Channel to produce the presentation, which has been compiled from 50,000 photos taken over a period of three months: In […]
“With any form of photography, the photo captures a point in time; it is a record of what was there at that specific moment. However, to make a photo interesting to the audience it must be more than just a record. Cities contain many buildings, good and bad architecture, shapes, patterns, people, and culture. Urban […]
The end of the year is a period of reflection, when you sum it all up and see the year’s highlights. I don’t know about you, but I’m always excited to see the “best of” the year, and National Geographic’s photos are some of the best roundups. If you want to see what the year […]
Having over 200 of his photographs featured as Sports Illustrated, TIME, LIFE, and People magazine covers, including many shots considered to be some of the greatest sports photos of all time, one would expect Neil Leifer to have a certain air of confidence about him. Surely, the man behind the lens that captured Secretariat’s historic […]
A lot of us don’t like the way we look in photos. Despite what it says about our collective self-esteem (not to mention an oversaturation of perfect body types and societal pressure to look a certain way), we are always striving to look better, healthier, and thinner in photos. That’s where Peter Hurley speaks right to […]
If you were born before the turn of the century and remember the good old days of film, prepare yourself for a bit of nostalgia. This cool one-minute short from Robert Marshall of Round One Films will bring it all back for you: In just over a minute Marshall captures just about every sound associated […]
Of all the landscapes I have photographed, mountains remain one of the most difficult to capture well. But I’ve found some amazing examples from photographers who really pulled it off: For more inspiration and some tips, check out 5 Landscape Photography Tips for Photographing Mountains.
The free flowing energetic movements of a dancer can be enchanting to watch. But when it comes to photographing the same it can be a real nightmare. For one thing, you can use a flash/strobe to freeze the movement but that free-flowing hint of movement is never easy to capture with a blinding, instantaneous light. You […]
They say to always shoot for the moon—but in photography, when you fail, you don’t land amongst the stars. Your moon just looks like an overexposed lightbulb. If you want to up your moon game as a photographer, there’s no better tutorial than this one: Host Tony Northrup starts off with a Canon 18–135 lens and his […]
There are many types of photography, some types not as glamorous as other types. I could use up a couple paragraphs just listing them all but since there only a couple that interest me, I won’t. Let me tell you just about the type I enjoy the most: “personal photography.” It sounds like I just […]
