reflection

The 2012 election season is now over, and photojournalists who have been scrambling for many months on the campaign trail can now take a breather and reflect on their experiences. Reuters sent us the video above in which Reuters White House photographer Jason Reed offers a short 2-minute-long behind-the-scenes look at what it was like to photograph Barack Obama as he hustled around the nation, "from riding in motorcades through the streets of Manhattan to flying in Air Force One."

Here's a powerful video shared by The Economist a couple of years ago that features acclaimed British photojournalist Don McCullin talking about his 50 years of photographing war, atrocities, and human suffering. (Warning: it contains disturbing images.)

Last week we shared a project by photographer Daniel Kukla, who photographed mirrors on easels in the desert in a way that makes them look like landscape paintings. Photographer Brendan Wixted did a similar project earlier this year for a photography class at his university, except he used off-camera lighting to illuminate the reflected landscapes.

Daniel Kukla is a photographer who had formal training in biological and anthropological sciences. His educational background plays a major part of his artistic practice, and this can be seen in his clever project titled, The Edge Effect.

Earlier today, we poked fun at a clip from the TV show CSI showing some pseudo-scientific photo enhancing. Many of the comments on YouTube also poked fun at the mention of "corneal imaging", in which the investigators used to obtain imagery from the reflections seen in an eyeball. Turns out corneal imaging is a real thing...

The Mirror is a highly acclaimed and incredibly creative short film by Swiss directors Ramon and Pedro. It shows a journey through life in one take, with everything taking place in the reflection of a bathroom mirror.

After taking a macro photograph of his own eye using a Samsung WB500 compact camera, …

While visiting New York City by himself, Serbia-based art director Marko Savic came up with an interesting way of creating "tourist" photos with himself in the frame. Instead of setting the timer on his camera, asking passers-by for help, or photographing his reflection, he decided to shoot self-portraits by illuminating his face and photographing it in various reflections.

Back in 2010 we shared that MIT was developing a special camera that uses echoes of light …

Unless you’re constantly staring at photos of yourself, the image that comes to mind when you think of your …

Reflections is a series of photographs by New York-based fine art photographer Ira Fox. Shot through the reflections seen in puddles on their ground, they show shadows of passers-by as they cross paths with Fox on a rainy day.

Here’s a helpful tutorial on how to adjust the angle of your light sources to avoid the nasty reflections …

Night photographer Ben Canales made this image by stacking together roughly 50 different …

You’ve probably photographed your own reflection in sunglasses before, but have you ever captured a reflection of yourself shooting …

San Francisco resident Travis Curtis spent 15 minutes shooting this unique photograph of …

Here’s a photograph we’ve all taken… only in our bathroom mirror. NASA astronaut Michael Fincke shot …

Shooting the Dalian Oil Spill on assignment for Greenpeace, Chinese photographer Lu Guang witnessed and photographed 25-year-old firefighter Zhang …

Bruce Dale spent 30 years as a staff photographer for National Geographic, travelling the world and having thousands of …