Photographer couple Benjamin Lowy and Marvi Lacar created this inspiring short film with Sony about how Lowy's vision of the world as a conflict photographer changed after he entered the world of fatherhood.
Wedding photographers these days often find themselves competing with guests who spend the whole ceremony shooting photos with smartphones, DSLRs, and even tablets. The short film above, titled "Unplugged," is a parody that shows why couples are sometimes choosing to have an "unplugged" wedding free of these distractions.
Official Lone Star State Photographer Wyman Meinzer is a Texas legend. A world-class hunter, trapper, marksman, outdoor pioneer, and photographer, he's the ultimate outdoorsman and quintessential Texan.
What you can shoot with Canon's crazy low-light MH20F-SH camera, which has a max ISO of over 4 million? You can shoot real-time footage of people standing under the glowing Milky Way.
Want to see light pollution changes photos of the starry night sky? Photographer Sriram Murali's new time-lapse short film will show you. Titled "Lost in Light," it shows different locations with progressively lower levels of light pollution.
"Wake Up" is an inspiring 2-minute short film by landscape photographer Thomas Heaton about how his craft is so much more than just going into the great outdoors and taking pictures.
"Vorticity" is a new time-lapse short film by Mike Olbinski, a storm-chasing wedding photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Olbinski spent 18 days driving 20,000 miles across 9 states and shooting 60,000 frames to create what you see in the 6-minute video above.
When he's not out shooting commercial assignments for outdoor, travel, and lifestyle brands, German photographer Lars Schneider makes time to shoot for himself. In February, a camera followed him on one of these personal trips to the Faroe Islands to document his "other life" as a photographer.
Photographer Ludgero Filipe recently spent two years living in Paris, shooting tourist portraits to make money while roaming the city for street photography. The 5-minute video above is a short film with some memories and some of his favorite photos from his time there.
Animator Drew Christie of Whidbey Island, Washington, was recently commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to create a set of animated short films that tell the story of famous photography pioneers.
Photographer Paul Richardson of Manchester, UK, just released a time-lapse short film that's garnering high praise on the Web. It's titled "Patience," and is a 4K journey around Europe that took a great deal of patience to create.
It took 2 months for photographer and filmmaker Mathieu Stern to create his haunting short film "Alone in Paris." That's because it wasn't shot at odd hours when Paris' streets were empty... every scene was shot at 2pm on a weekday and then painstakingly cleaned up in Photoshop!
Wildlife photographer Vincent Munier's short film "Arctique" captures the stark beauty of the arctic in a way that will leave you absolutely mesmerized.
Want to see how the Nikon D5's video recording performs under low light and high ISOs? Kenneth Yung over at Photoblog.hk shot this short film -- what you see is straight out of camera and lit using a single 50W incandescent light bulb.
Many of the short documentary films about artisan makers these days follow the same recipe -- things like slow, dramatic music, close-up shots with a super shallow depth of field, and more. Photographer Patrick Kehoe decided to parody that style.
"Soul" is a beautiful 5-minute short film about the work of Canadian fine arts photographer Jakob de Boer, who traveled to the Pacific Northwest to capture landscapes with his large format camera.
Here's a 3-minute skate video that has an usual perspective: it was shot through the waist-level viewfinder of a Mamiya RB67 medium format SLR camera.
Jianmin Huang, better known as Jimmy on the Run, is a fashion and street photographer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The 7-minute video above by Wytse Koetse is an inspiring look at the life and work of this passionate photographer (note: there's a bit of strong language and nudity).
"Lost Property" is a wonderful 5-minute animated short film by freelance animator Asa Lucander of Bristol, UK.
"The Boy with a Camera for a Face" is an award-winning 14-minute short film about a boy who was born for a camera in place of a human head. Every moment in the boy's life is saved for the future, leaving to a unforeseen benefits and challenges in life.
French travelers and filmmakers Claire & Max have created this new experimental short film titled "Apparences." They shot 4K imagery of Paris using a Panasonic GH4 and 12-28mm lens, and then used clever editing to make the city look like a giant movie set. Real buildings are turned into facades -- fake flat fronts that are propped up with wooden beams.
Want to see what the Nikon D5 can do on the video front? Nikon ambassador photographer Corey Rich shot this short film titled "Inspired" using the new flagship DSLR. The video "explores what drives today’s most diverse and interesting professional photographers and filmmakers, and captures the commitment it takes to tell truly meaningful stories."
French photographer Serge Ramelli made this short film titled “Size Matters.” It’s the …
Shooting vertical video, the use of portrait orientation rather than landscape, is considered by many to be one of the scourges of the Web introduced by smartphone cameras. Google's camera app even warns you when you're in vertical orientation.
Director Jean-Charles Granjon recently decided to try his hand at turning vertical video from an annoyance into a cinematic experience. His short film above, titled Impact, embraces the orientation in order to capture the "mental journey" of a high diver jumping off a cliff.
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.
DCinematic of Hong Kong shot this 2-minute-long dance short film, titled “LUNA,” using …
Photographer Karl Taylor just released this humorous …
"Un Petit Tour Dans Paris" is a new 1.5-minute short film by French director Maxime Baudin.
"In a splendid and romantic Paris, while everything is going too fast, a young man ride a ‘bicyle’," the synopsis reads. "But his simple ride is going to take on a whole new dimension…"
Inspired by Tom Kucy's recent short film "Ground Control," Devon, UK-based photographer Chris Coupland took photos from the Project Apollo archive on Flickr and turned them into this beautiful 3-minute short film, titled "Apollo."
Danish nature photographer Morten Hilmer spent two years of his adult life serving …
Here’s a nostalgia-inducing short film titled “The Sound of Film,” created by Robert Marshall of …
Time-lapse photographer Patrick Cheung of PowerUpMotion created this short film titled "Time." It shows a blood moon rising over Hong Kong, with many of the scenes bouncing between day and night in sync with the music.
Here's an inspiring 16-minute short by SmugMug Films that shows how photographer Tim Kemple recently visited Iceland with two world-class climbers (Klemen Premrl and Rahel Schelb) to explore and photograph Iceland in fresh new ways.
Ringo Starr is best known as the rock star drummer of the Beatles, but he was also a passionate …
Halloween is just around the corner, and director Matthew Rycroft just published a …
Back in 2010, we reported that a California-based startup called InVisage was working on a new image sensor technology called QuantumFilm, which uses "quantum dots" to make sensors that are several times more sensitive to light than traditional sensors.
Now, 5 years later, the first short film shot with the technology has been released. You can see what the sensor can do in the 7.5-minute short above, titled "Prix."
Last week, a treasure trove of 8,400 photos by Apollo astronauts was uploaded to Flickr, making the …
Here's a 5-minute short film titled "O" that was shot entirely using a lens made with a drop of water and an iPhone. The lens gives the film a dream-like quality, which is perfect, given that the project is intended to give viewers the feeling of nostalgia.
PermaGrin Films just released this new short film titled "Imagination." It's a mind-bending stop-motion journey that follows a child through his imagination over 4 minutes.
Want to see the 4K video quality on the new iPhone 6S camera? Check out the short film above that was just released today by the media company RYOT. Titled "The Painter of Jalouzi," the video is the world's first short film that was filmed in 4K with the new iPhone 6S Plus.