Guy Creates Working Virtual ‘Film’ Camera Inside 3D Software Program
Marco Purich, known as sirrandalot on YouTube, created a realistic virtual camera inside Blender using the software's "Cycles" path tracing.
How to Combine Photos with Unreal Engine for Creative Composites
Mixing photography with digital backgrounds is becoming easier and more approachable. In this in-depth and over one hour video, Serge Ramelli breaks down how to use the free Unreal Engine to build a background from scratch and use it to create new composite photographic images.
Mixing Photos and 3D Modeling with Blender as a Photographer
I started in photography as a stepping stone into digital art. As with most photographers, I started taking pictures of everyone and everything. It was not fun hiking with me; I was the guy stopping every five minutes to take pictures of trees and rocks.
Insta360 Literally Blended a Drone and Three Cameras for This Teaser Video
This one is painful to watch. In a new video teaser for an upcoming modular camera, Insta360 decided to get creative (and destructive) by literally putting an action cam, a 360 camera, a "1-inch cam" and a drone into a blender.
A DJI Camera Drone Chopping Food at 1,500FPS, Shot with a $60,000 Camera
How's this for a bizarre short film? Speed Motion Films decided to take a DJI Phantom camera drone and see how it performs as a food blender. They tossed various foods at the spinning propellers and filmed the carnage at 1,500 frames per second using a $60,000 Phantom Miro high speed camera.
Exploring the World of Color Theory with a 3D Modeling Program
From time to time I post plots of color gamuts like the one above. Each time, I get emails asking how I make them, leading me to assume that the world's thirst for color nerdiness is going unquenched. I'm setting out to fix that in this post.
Photographers: You’re Being Replaced by Software
The image above is one-hundred percent fake. It has no connection whatsoever to the world of things. I created the bolts, lights, textures, and everything else in a free, open-source, relatively easy-to-use software package called Blender. It's easy enough that even a novice user like me is able to make a pretty convincing image. If you are a photographer that makes a living shooting still-life photos, this should scare you.
How to Visualize Photography Lighting Setups in Blender
Not too long ago I finally got around to picking up a decent manual flash for exploring lighting and speedlight techniques. I picked up a Yongnuo YN-560 Speedlight Flash for Canon and Nikon, and my friend Sean was kind enough to send me his old radio triggers to play with. I was mostly all set to start exploring the world of off-camera lighting...