The Cameras Seen in Movies and TV Shows
Want to see which cameras are used by characters in movies and TV shows? Product Placement Blog is a website that tracks brands that appear on screen, and one of the categories on the site is cameras.
Searchable Database Lets You Browse Great Compositions from Films and TV
Raymond Thi—the creator of the Composition Cam app and ultra-popular Twitter account—is back with another great database for composition-obsessed photographers. It's called Geometric Shots, and it's a searchable collection of great composition from well-known films and TV shows.
These Long-Exposure Seascape Photos Pay Homage to Movies and Comics
To hear photographer Nathan Wirth tell it, the wonder of old movies, TV shows, and comic books was that they were so obviously unrealistic. These old fantasies sparked the creative fire inside Wirth, and it's in homage to these memories that he created the photo series Imaginations.
Lines Reveal the Great Compositions in Famous Movies
Want to see the composition concepts used in famous scenes from famous movies? Raymond Thi of Composition Cam has been taking still frames and overlaying neon pink lines to show things like symmetry, thirds, quadrants, triangles, diagonals, and more.
Famous Movies and TV Shows Recreated with Things Found at Home
We first featured the Cardboard Box Office project back in 2013 as parents Lilly and Leon Mackie were attracting quite a bit of attention for their creative recreations of Hollywood films with their baby boy, Orson. In the year-and-a-half since, the family has continued shooting low-budget photos, branched out into TV shows, begun doing commercial shoots with their concept, and been nominated for a Webby award.
Here's a second, deeper look at some of the work they've been creating as a family.
Shutterbugs: A Comedy Web Series About Obsessive Photographers
Shutterbugs is a new comedy web series geared towards photo geeks: Set …
Amazing Effects From Popular TV Shows
Here’s a mind-blowing demo reel by Stargate Studios that will make you doubt …
BBC Series from 1983 Featuring Masters of Photography
In 1983 the BBC aired a series called "Master Photographers" in which they interviewed some of the biggest names in photography at the time, including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. The series can't be found anywhere on DVD, but luckily many of the episodes have been uploaded to YouTube. If you're at all interested in learning how historical greats worked and thought, this is a video series you have to bookmark and chew through.