Behind the Scenes of a Grammy Nominated Stop Motion Music Video
The stop motion music video for Oren Lavie's song "Her Morning Elegance" took the web by storm last year, amassing over ten million views on YouTube and receiving a Grammy nomination.
The stop motion music video for Oren Lavie's song "Her Morning Elegance" took the web by storm last year, amassing over ten million views on YouTube and receiving a Grammy nomination.
About a week ago I did a shoot with the band Strange Birds as we were walking there was a point that I saw light rays trickling down right in front of us. I told all of the guys to stop and arranged them to my liking.
One of the most important things about shooting for me is having an idea of you want the photo to come out in the very end. I tend to adjust my white balance in camera and set almost everything up so it makes less work on the computer and closer to the final product. Below is the original image:
Portrait photographer Gregory Heisler has done quite a few portraits for Time Magazine covers, including a few for their Person of the Year issues. This is an informative video where he steps through how he went about photographing Rudy Giuliani at the top of Rockefeller Center with the Empire State Building in the background. If you're interested at all in portraiture and/or lighting, you'll find this video quite educational.
Editor's note: This walkthrough was originally published on Clint Decker's Flickr account. We found it pretty informative and asked him to share it here.
The main thing with in flight hover fly photos is not to try, by that I mean if you go out to take one you will end up normally chasing a hoverfly all over the place with little chance of success. I only take them when an opportunity arises.
In this case the males of this species of hoverfly patrol the flowering bush looking for females . When they spot one they go into a stationary hover for about 10seconds whilst they decide if the female is what they think it is and if it's a suitable mate.
Here’s a really neat video about the making of a Speedo ad campaign that is running all across Europe …
Ever wonder how top photographers deal with their files? Chase Jarvis just put out an awesome blog post and behind-the-scenes video describing his entire workflow from capture to backup.
Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called "Burning Bulbs" in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.
Editor’s note: A few weeks ago I discovered James’ photography in PetaPixel’s Flickr pool …
Went to Bodega bay to do some crabbing for the first time, and took this photo while walking to the …
Crater Lake in Oregon is such a beautiful place that post-processing isn’t really even needed for photographs taken there. Here’s …
Today I’ll be doing a post-processing walkthrough with the following photograph I took about a week ago: It was …
One of the results of always carrying around my camera is that I end up with a lot of portraits …
I was over at Lake Tahoe attending my brother’s soccer tournament this past weekend, and took this photograph from behind …
Here’s a photograph I randomly snapped on a tennis court a few days ago: It was taken with my …
Here’s a photograph I took of my brother skateboarding (or attempting to) back in 2005: This post is a …
A few weeks ago, I was taking photographs of my friend Tommy at his …