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Ever wish you could get stunning fashion images straight out of your camera? No Photoshop or Lightroom; no touch ups. Sounds pretty close to impossible, right? Well, that’s exactly what the team shooting for the brochure for the new Nikon D810 set out to do. In the video below, they take us behind the scenes on […]
Daniel Tellman, a pinhole camera enthusiast, built a camera obscura for his daughter, which is a pretty awesome thing to do for anyone. Then, after spending time playing with the camera himself, he decided to document the magic the camera obscura captured using timelapse photography and a DSLR. The results are nothing short of enchanting: […]
A national park is a park in use for conservation purposes. Often it is a reserve of natural, semi-natural, or developed land that a sovereign state declares or owns. Although individual nations designate their own national parks differently, there is a common idea: the conservation of wild nature for posterity and as a symbol of […]
Ever wish you could get professional-looking product photos from your cell phone? If you’re already a professional photographer, then maybe not. But if you’re into experimenting with your phone’s camera or you find yourself in a pinch (i.e. without your DSLR) and need to make some product photos, Household Hacker‘s video below is for you: […]
When photographing world champion boxer, Peter “Kid Chocolate” Quillen, professional photographer Dustin Snipes knew that he wanted to highlight the athlete’s muscles. To show off the muscles, Snipes knew he had to have a perfect lighting setup. Take a look at the following video to see how he did it: Having done these types of […]
The tilt-shift is an extremely versatile lens. In a neutral position the lens acts as any other, but add a tilt and the options for selective focus play are many. Jay P. Morgan guides us through a shoot at the Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California and offers a simple explanation of tilt-shift focusing: The […]
If you’re a photojournalist, there’s no telling where your editors will send you. Some National Geographic photographers visit remote areas of the ocean to swim with sharks and sea turtles. Other creatives are shipped out to North Korea, entrusted with the task of showing what life is really like behind those gates that never open. National Geographic […]
Children are the most wonderful subjects to photograph. They can make you sweat blood, stand on your head, max out every emotion of frustration, helplessness, and exhaustion you have ever had — and then make up for it all with their innocent exuberance, gorgeous open smiles, and their beautiful young faces. Often the pleasure of photographing children […]
With the advent of the smartphone, mobile photography has carved out a niche in the world of photography. Nowadays it’s quite easy to get a high quality shot with the camera on your phone, and with the numerous apps out there for editing, a photo doesn’t even have to leave your mobile OS before turning […]
Many good photographs owe a lot of their greatness to their photographers being in the right place at the right time. For example, had the photographer of this image been somewhere else—like in the crowd of people about to be sprayed with flaming chunks of wood as the pallets crash into the ground—we would never […]
