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10-Year Timelapse of the 9/11 Memorial Construction in NYC

10-Year Timelapse of the 9/11 Memorial Construction in NYC

Construction at the former site of the World Trade Center Towers has been underway for over a decade in an effort to emblemize the site as a tribute to the the victims of 9/11. The National September 11 Memorial Museum, which opened May 21, 2014, took nearly 10 years to create and was documented in the […]

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Matrix-Style Bullet Effect Captured With 50 Nokia Smartphones

Matrix-Style Bullet Effect Captured With 50 Nokia Smartphones

If you have ever watched The Matrix, you probably remember a camera technique called the “bullet effect” that is responsible for all those awesome slow motion shots where the scene seems to just pop off of the screen. When filmmaker Paul Trillo joined forces with Microsoft, the team set out on a mission to create similar […]

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How to Improve Your Sunny Day Photography with Speedlights

How to Improve Your Sunny Day Photography with Speedlights

You know the scenario: a nice, naturally-lit, mid-day photo shoot goes awry when you see your subject squinting with awful shadows cast across his face. What do you do? Photographer Jay P. Morgan ran into this challenge when shooting promotional photos for world-famous trick roper Will Roberts. The obstacles he encountered on this shoot included: shooting in […]

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Passion and Politeness: The Keys to a Successful Photography Career

Passion and Politeness: The Keys to a Successful Photography Career

It’s not often that you find a person who is still just as passionate and involved in their career as they were when they started it four decades earlier. Most people retire or at least slow down with age, but photographer Albert Watson still maintains a full shooting and exhibition schedule and is easily one of the most […]

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Tutorial: How to Photograph a Splashing Wine Glass

Tutorial: How to Photograph a Splashing Wine Glass

Ever wondered how photographers happen to catch that one magic moment when a glass is dropped and the liquid splashes out in a perfect gravity-defying arc? Well, in this photography tutorial, Evan Sharboneau shows us how to capture a perfect shot of bright colored liquid flying out of a wine glass: All you need is a nice, clean […]

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Truly Extraordinary Photo & Timelapse of a Massive Supercell Forming

Truly Extraordinary Photo & Timelapse of a Massive Supercell Forming

As evidenced by the recent shows Mother Nature has put on, ’tis the season for violent weather in the Tornado Alley states. Several huge supercells like the one below—seen in Wyoming—have already been spotted and photographed by storm chasers this month: If the photo alone is not awe-inspiring enough for you, you can also check […]

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Steps to Macro Photography and Tips

Steps to Macro Photography and Tips

Learning to use your camera’s macro feature will open up a whole new world in your photography and may just get you into trouble. Why? Because it can become an addiction and lead to more expensive equipment. Above all, it is fun and easy to do. I entered the world of macro many, many years […]

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Photojournalist Loses $18k Worth Of Gear After Being Pushed Into Fountain

Photojournalist Loses $18k Worth Of Gear After Being Pushed Into Fountain

During a recent high school graduation celebration in Croatia, a photojournalist assigned to cover the event lost nearly $18,000 worth of camera equipment after the rowdy bunch of grads shoved the photographer into a water fountain. You can see the entire event take place in the video clip below: The photographer, Marko Lukunić, says he […]

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Before/After Lightroom Processing Tutorial

Before/After Lightroom Processing Tutorial

Learning how to post-process your images can make the difference between bland and amazing. But how to get there isn’t always clear. It’s not just a matter of knowing what tools are available to you. You also need to know when to use them, and why. And that’s where this new tutorial comes in. You’ll […]

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First Person View of a Photographer Working in a Concert Photo Pit

First Person View of a Photographer Working in a Concert Photo Pit

Some things you should always bring to a concert pit: dancing shoes, ID, a good attitude. Other things, of course, you just shouldn’t: an $8,000 Nikon 200-400 f/4 VRII lens, for example. Jared Polin learns this the hard way, and doesn’t let himself off the hook for it, spending most of the following 18-minute-long first-person video beating himself up for bringing this behemoth super-zoom […]

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