One of standout commercials during the Super Bowl yesterday was the above ad by Chrysler promoting its Ram line of trucks. The 2-minute ad pays tribute to farmers across the nation, and is composed entirely of photographs showing various facets of the farming industry.
In the background is a famous speech given by radio broadcaster Paul Harvey during the 1978 Future Farmers of America convention, titled "So God Made a Farmer."
If you were watching the Thanksgiving Day NFL football games on TV today, you may have seen the above commercial promoting the Canon Rebel T4i entry-level DSLR. It's a humorous ad that asks "When was the last time something inspired you to be creative?" and shows a number of photographers putting themselves in uncomfortable (and unsafe) situations in order to capture the photograph they have in their minds eye.
Earlier this year, we shared a crazy example of how you can make water drops look like they're frozen in midair simply by passing the water over a speaker and using sound vibrations to sync the drops with the frame rate of your camera. Well, Japan's largest music channel, Space Shower TV, has taken the idea and turned it into clever commercial. What you see above is ordinary footage using this trick -- there's no fancy CGI trickery, reversal during post, or high-speed camera footage involved.
Here's something to give you a chuckle as we head into the weekend. It's a parody iPhone 5 commercial that pokes fun at the fact that the phone has been stretched out in height without any change in width. But instead of being 7% taller, the imagined phone stretches that figure out to 795%. The result is a device that has some pretty interesting photographic applications.
Here’s a brilliant spoof advertisement for the Olympus OM-D mirrorless camera, created “for fun with a friend” by YouTube …
The World Wildlife Fund created this beautiful commercial with the message “We Are …
Check out this blast from the past: it’s a 1986 commercial for the Minolta Maxxum 7000. The Minolta 7000 …
Photographer Benjamin "Von Wong" has pulled of a flashy feat with fire: a multiple exposure shoot of a pyrotechnician at work -- all photographed and produced in his Nikon D800. That's right -- all in-camera, no stacking in Photoshop.
This amazing commercial for the Canadian Paralympic Committee was shot in one continuous …
Here’s a clever parody of the drug commercials you see on TV. It’s marketing “Fauxtographor”, prescription pills geared towards …
For a recent advertising campaign to bring attention to its hydrogen-powered cars, Mercedes-Benz decided to make a car “invisible” …
Filmmaker Jesse Rosten created this satirical commercial for Fotoshop by Adobé with the …
During the World Series last month, Chevrolet aired a new commercial that might have felt familiar to many of you. Featuring old photographs overlaid on their modern day locations, the concept is identical to the images found on the website Dear Photograph, which we featured back in June.
Here’s a “2 minute love story” Canon commercial that aired in Thailand. In other parts of the world, this …
Update: Looks like the video was taken down due to a copyright claim. You can watch it …
In 1986, Texaco’s gas stations ran a promotion where you received free Fujifilm film every time you filled up …
Freelance videographer Dave Wallace made this creative stop-motion video for …
Film student Zach King and his sister made this creative mock commercial for the Macbook Air using a Canon 5D Mark II, some string and a lot of imagination.
A student in Germany created this fake Canon 5D Mark III commercial for a school project, and fooled quite …
Nikon has been doing a pretty good job with its “I AM NIKON” advertising campaign in Europe — so …
Nikon is running a new “Man of Action” commercial starring Ashton Kutcher in the US that features the same …
Samsung created this humorous ad a couple years ago teaching how you can take better self-portraits of yourself for …
This advertisement might not seem too special or difficult to do at first glance, until you …
Here’s a neat blast from the past — a Kodak Instamatic commercial from the 1960s, when the latest technology …
Olympus has a new "Spokesman Series" of commercials that try to convey the different strengths of their compact cameras in creative ways. They remind me a tiny bit of the Old Spice Guy commercials.
This creative time-lapse video (a commercial for Volvo) shows a beautiful outdoor scene transform from one season to another …
What do 225,000 watts of light get you when shooting with the high-speed Phantom camera? Not much. Just ask Vincent Laforet who shot this commercial using the uber-expensive camera. Even with that much light, he still needed a 2.0 aperture. That only created more problems of staying in focus while using dolly moves in slow motion.
“Freeze Tag” is an award-winning commercial by Canon in which people play the popular children’s game using Canon DSLR …
Update on 12/9/21: This video has been removed by its creator.
Back in August a photo from a commercial shoot leaked onto the Internet showing a mysterious white camera rumored to be the Samsung NX100.
Here’s a pretty clever ad by Panasonic promoting their Lumix G2 camera. It’s fun seeing photographic terms appear in …
Here are a couple new commercials for Brothers printers that blend stop-motion and time-lapse photography in pretty interesting ways with real people. We love how the technique makes the people look like claymation figures walking around in miniature sets. The foreground is done in stop-motion while time-lapse photography provided the scenes shown in the animated paper.
It would have been crazy if they had actually printed out each individual paper of the scene on the wall.
London filmmaker Temujin Doran created this great little video for Lego that doesn't involve any flashy effects or fancy camera techniques -- just a child-like imagination. It won a prize at the prestigious Cannes Lions advertising festival in 2010.
British musician Robbie Williams was recently featured in Nikon's "I AM NIKON" advertising campaign, with a commercial showing a fun experiment he did at a concert in 2003. He asked his audience to pull out their cameras and, on his cue, fire off the flash. The resulting scene was pretty awesome to behold. The full clip of the experiment is above.
Since Sony's announcement for the NEX-VG10 video camera, Sony has released another demo video with actual footage taken by the camera. The demo video has a slightly creepy storyline of a videographer following a girl around with the NEX-VG10. Nevertheless, the video has some gorgeous footage, filmed in Bali, that really emphasizes the camera's ability to take advantage of the lenses depth of field and wide apertures in low light. Also, keep watching for the clever shadow puppet show during the credits, complete with a puppet version of the NEX-VG10.
Back in May we featured an Olympus commercial that was shot entirely with the camera it was promoting (the Olympus PEN E-PL1), lending credence to the camera's video capabilities.
Olympus' most recent E-PL1 commercial, PEN Giant, is stop-motion with a big picture -- or big pictures, literally. A total of 355 prints were made on billboards and shot again, all produced with the Olympus PEN.
In 1998, this US Navy photo was published, showing a Nikonos camera no one recognized from the IPTC caption: …
Olympus’ new commercial for the Olympus PEN E-PL1 is pretty typical, except that it has an interesting twist at …
Did you know Nikon SLRs were doing video before things shifted toward digital? This commercial was made back in 1997 by Alastair Thain, and was shot entirely on a Nikon F5 SLR camera, which could shoot up to 8 frames per second. More than 200 rolls of 36-exposure film were developed to create the resulting film.
It's nice to see that Adobe's corporate culture allows for some "self-deprecating fun". Yesterday Photoshop product manager John Nack posted the above video, in which a "Photoshop fan" starts an Apple-esque waiting line outside what appears to be a Best Buy.