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Smartphones are everywhere. Go to a concert, and you’ll see thousands of glowing LCDs waving in the air as concertgoers try to snap a photo. Go to a museum and you’ll see people wandering from exhibit to exhibit, taking pictures of what’s on display, often at the expense of experiencing it firsthand. Go to a […]
Photographs of friends, family, and loved ones tend to be posed to include physical touch. Intimacy and closeness are symbolized by interlocked hands or warm embraces. What happens if you pose strangers the same way you pose people who are familiar with one another? Richard Renaldi has done just that in a series he calls […]
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde has created a new project in which he takes an element from the natural outside world and introduces it to the artificial inside world. His subject: the cloud. Smilde is interested in capturing the temporary form of the cloud outside of its natural context to exaggerate its being: “I’m really interested […]
Photographer Simon Christen has spent nearly two years shooting timelapse photos of the San Francisco Bay Area morning fog rolling in. Captured in the Marin Headlands, these scenes of thick, billowy fog drifting through the hills, city and the Golden Gate Bridge at the edge of sunrise inspire a feeling of absolute peace. In this short […]
There may be a lot to consider in setting up a day-to-night or night-to-day time lapse, but photographer Preston Kanak assures us that they aren’t as difficult to achieve as it may seem. In the video below, Kanak tells us everything we could possibly want to know about three different methods of timelapse, and how […]
Skulls, flowers, elaborate makeup, tombstones, and candles. These are just a few of the things you will see in Jay P Morgan’s setup for his Day of the Dead shoot. With smoke machines and a beautifully decorated model, Morgan will show you how he created his Day of the Dead images by explaining his lighting […]
Does size really matter? Samsung sought to answer this question by mounting a Samsung NX300 compact camera next to the same camera encased in the body of a fake, larger DSLR camera. They then asked unsuspecting people on the street to compare images taken with the two cameras (which were actually identical). Want to see […]
The Northern Lights is a spectacular display of nature that any photographer would pay to see and shoot. From the slower dancing lights, to the faster and more dramatic movements, it truly is a sight to behold. Photographer Ole C. Salomonsen’s video, which contains both stills and video sequences created with DSLRs, is one that […]
Getting a new lens is always exciting for a photographer. Whichever one you get, it’s likely going to open up new areas of creative possibility. For those of you thinking about getting some new glass, DigitalRev TV has some good reasons why an ultra-wide angle is the way to go. If you’ve dismissed ultra-wide angles […]
For a long time, corporate photography meant images of handshakes and smiling professionals in business attire. While many companies have smartly moved away from this look, this style of corporate imagery is still found in abundance. Times are changing though. Customers expect personality and uniqueness as much as they expect professionalism. Companies aware of this […]
