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My name is Dana Neibert, and I'm an advertising photographer based in Coronado, California. I recently shot a series of portraits of Flo from Progressive Insurance. Here's a look at the project.

An Italian experimental photography group has set a new world record. Using a 24 square meter negative, a canvas of the same size, and 12 minutes and 30 seconds of exposure courtesy of the sun, they created the world's largest cyanotype contact print.

Ready to be wowed? Because if you've never seen how a car chase scene is captured on camera by modern-day camera crews, you're about to be thanks to this recently released B-Roll footage from the next Jason Bourne movie.

In an age in which over 75% of IKEA catalog "photos" are actually computer generated images, the Barbie brand is still sticking to some good old fashioned photo shoots. It just released the 2-minute video above that offers a behind-the-scenes look at a recent Barbie Dreamtopia photo shoot.

Here’s a 47-minute documentary about the work of renowned fashion photographer Mario Testino. Titled “Mario Testino: Diana’s Favourite Photographer,” …

For the recent "New York Issue" of The New York Times Magazine, mountaineer and Nat Geo photographer Jimmy Chin was sent to the top of the tallest point in New York City: the One World Trade Center's spire. And this vertigo-inducing 360° video lets you join him up there.

There comes a moment in time when every photographer or film maker has to reach out to the expert who knows every part of their camera or lens. Whether their gear needs to be revitalized, repaired, restored, reinvented or simply serviced it is these expert technicians that work behind tools to keep you doing what you love to do.

Bill Cahill is a commercial photographer based in New York and Los Angeles who specializes in capturing liquids in motion. He was recently commissioned to shoot an ad campaign for Peet's Coffee. The 11-minute video above offers a behind-the-scenes look at not only this specific project, but Cahill's career journey as well.

I had a great opportunity to do a “behind the scenes” of a recent portrait feature shoot which my very good friend Daniel Hambury was doing for the London Evening Standard. In fact I was mainly assisting, but couldn’t pass up the opportunity to document what happens as it’s something I’ve always been intensely interested in.

Ever since his video Alone in Paris got massively popular, people have been asking photographer and filmmaker Mathieu Stern to share some behind the scenes tidbits. Today, he obliged those requests.

Recently I had the opportunity to shoot a young up-and-coming golfer named Taylor Pendrith for SCOREGolf magazine’s 2016 ‘Power’ issue. The creative team at SCOREGolf wanted to show Taylor in his swing, hitting the ball, displaying the incredible power this young man is becoming known for.

Reuben Wu's science fiction-inspired, drone-lit landscape photos have exploded since we shared them last week, and now Reuben is showing off exactly how these eerie images were shot in a behind the scenes video.

We can come to terms with the fact that that astronauts aboard the ISS get a view none of us can access and gear few of us can afford, but do they have to rub our noses in it!? We're joking of course, but the latest vlog from aboard the ISS does have us pretty jealous.

Trying to copy an iconic fashion photograph by the great David Bailey is a daunting task in the best of circumstances. But how much more daunting would it be if you were doing this shoot with Bailey standing behind you, looking over your shoulder and making sure you do his work justice?

Back in 2014, Denver Post photojournalist AAron Ontiveroz's boss asked him to travel to Russian to cover the Sochi Winter Olympics, Aspen for the Winter X Games, and NYC for the Super Bowl.

Swiss International Air Lines, the flag carrier airline of Switzerland, just released this 5-minute short film titled "The people behind SWISS." It's a look at the work done by over 100 of the company's 8,000+ employees spread across 30 different divisions, and how their efforts all come together for the service provided to passengers.

The video was created by director Kevin Blanc, the founder of the Zürich-based LAUSCHSICHT. Over 20 hours of footage was captured in 4K with the new $16,000 Canon C300 Mark II camcorder and edited down for the 5-minute final product.

Photographer Dieter Schneider recently built a 4x5 large format camera for wet plate photography out of plywood using his Shapeoko 3 desktop CNC machine. Luckily for all of us, he also documented the entire process on camera.

Upon first glance, photographer Benjamin Von Wong's latest work looks like a Photoshop composite that shows a model swimming with sharks below the sea. But what you see is the real deal: Von Wong did actually tie down a model underwater with sharks swimming around, all for a series of surreal (but very real) portraits.

The Los Angeles-based sketch comedy group Mommy created this humorous 6.5-minute “behind-the-scenes video” …

Here's a short behind-the-scenes video showing how fashion photographer Yu Tsai recently photographed tennis superstar Serena Williams for Sports Illustrated magazine. Williams was featured in the cover story after being selected as the publication's Sportsperson of the Year, the first time an individual woman has taken the award in over 3 decades.

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Photographer Marco Grob was recently asked by TIME magazine to do a portrait shoot with the cast of the new (and highly anticipated) Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens. The 3.5-minute video above is a behind-the-scenes look at how the shoot went down.

I recently did a personal art photography project titled, "You Are My Twin." It's a little psychological study of twins' relationship shown with the help of metaphors. I’ve always been curious how it feels to have a twin. Often the way people view twins is as if they are the same, whereas there are twins who choose completely different paths in life. Yet, they always feel strongly connected to each other.

16-year-old photographer Leroy Bellet recently turned an idea he had into a series of epic surf photos that landed on the covers of international magazines. He followed behind surfers in giant barrel waves and photographed them in action with a Nikon DSLR and an external flash.

A few years ago, husband and wife photographers Ed and Dallas Nagata White captured the Internet's imagination with a spectacular photo of a passionate kiss in the midst of pouring rain and flowing lava.

Seeker Stories recently caught up with the photographers to learn more about the story behind the shot. The 2.5-minute video above is a behind-the-scenes look at how the viral photo came to be.

Back in May, Washington D.C.-based fashion photographer Ben Scott did an outdoor shoot featuring two models and a 1966 Corvette convertible. LEVR Studios was on hand with a 360-degree camera rig, resulting in the interactive behind-the-scenes video seen above. There are clips from different moments in the shoot, and you can move around in the scene to look in any direction you wish while the shoot unfolds.