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Time-lapse guru Dustin Farrell recently released this epic video showing the stunning landscapes …

“What Light” is an incredible stop-motion video that features sunlight dancing around a bedroom. It might look like it …

Crazy about photography, web designer and aspiring commercial photographer Dabe Alan decided to get a sleeve tattoo showing the evolution of cameras. He documented the process by creating stop-motion videos in which the artwork magically appears on his arm. The videos show 12 hours of sitting in the tattoo parlor, and comprise 2713 separate photographs shot with a Canon 5D Mark II and 24-70mm lens.

Here’s an educational time-lapse tutorial by Los Angeles-based architectural photographer Mike Kelley in …

Photographer Nathan Seabrook made this creative stop-motion music video for the band Yuba …

Here are the recordings of all the "Is Photography Over?" panel sessions hosted by SFMOMA that we referred to earlier today:

Photography has almost always been in crisis. In the beginning, the terms of this crisis were cast as dichotomies: is photography science or art? Nature or technology? Representation or truth? This questioning has intensified and become more complicated over the intervening years. At times, the issues have required a profound rethinking of what photography is, does, and means. This is one of those times. Given the nature of contemporary art practice, the condition of visual culture, the advent of new technologies, and many other factors, what is at stake today in seeing something as a photograph? What is the value of continuing to speak of photography as a specific practice or discipline? Is photography over? [#]

The videos run a total of 5 hours altogether, so you'll need to set aside a good amount of time to chew through the talks. You can also find transcripts of the sessions and more information about the experts here.

YouTube user smithje77 and his dog recently embarked on a cross-country road trip …

Johan Rijpma spent six months creating this two and a half minute time-lapse …

Freelance videographer Dave Wallace made this creative stop-motion video for …

Local TV station WGN made this beautiful tilt-shift time-lapse video of Chicago, giving …

Pre-med student Ryan Killackey and his wife spent nearly two years shooting 10,000 …

Some photographers try to make miniatures look like the real world, while others aim to make the …

Astronomy and photography enthusiast Alex Cherney spent 31 hours over six nights shooting …

Inspired by Tor Even Mathisen’s stunning time-lapse of the aurora borealis over Norway, amateur photographer Ágúst Ingvarsson …

Vignetting is often viewed as a bad thing when discussing lens quality, but it’s sometimes desirable to add artificial …

Need a break from work? Photographer Murray Fredericks created this beautiful 10-minute time-lapse …

Time-lapse videos of the night sky usually feature breathtaking views of stars spinning in the background, but …

Samsung created this humorous ad a couple years ago teaching how you can take better self-portraits of yourself for …

Learning how to control depth of field with your camera isn’t too difficult, but do you know the science …

Landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd spent four years looking to create a timelapse of …

You've probably heard people say that you shouldn't try to get a cheap photographer for wedding photography. Here's a good example of why.

Can you point out all the things this wedding photographer is doing wrong? Leave a comment and we'll get a running list going here.

If you want to know the ins and outs of shooting a college basketball game, check out this awesome …

Sorry that this is the second beard-themed time-lapse video we’ve posted in two days, but it’s so …

Adam Fisher, an animator at Laika, grew out his hair and beard in …

Even if you know how to operate your SLR camera and external shoe-mount flashes, you might not have any …

Here’s a cool and creative video that will only take 6 seconds of your time. Photographs from 3 different …

Patryk Kizny created this short HDR time-lapse film titled "The Chapel" that explores the inside of a Protestant chapel located in Zeliszów, Poland built in 1797. The HDR imagery gives the video a eerily beautiful surreal look that makes the video look like it came from a video game.

Eirik Solheim has been making videos documenting the changing of seasons since 2005. Over the past year, he glued …

This poor wedding photographer wasn’t looking at where he was going and, as a result, caused a huge commotion …

Sam O’Hare is developing quite a reputation for his tilt-shift, miniature faking videos. O'Hare is the same guy that created The Sandpit, a beautiful tilt-shift video of New York City that has been watched nearly 2 million times. He was recently commissioned by the Coachella Music Festival to create a similar video for Coachella 2010, and the resulting video (shown above) is just as stunning.

Pixilation is the stop motion technique in which humans are used as the subject, moving through slight changes in pose and position in each successive frame. Eric Hanus, a recent graduate from Indiana University, created the above video (titled "Day Drunk") using the technique, and doing it with a old, hacked film camera to boot. Hanus tells us,

A couple days ago we featured a compilation of stunning time lapse clips shot in the desert …

Jock McDonald is a San Francisco-based photographer that has travelled the world, photographing people of different ages and cultures. He recently teamed up with animator Paul Blain to transform his black-and-white portraits spanning decades into a single 17-minute long video. The twist is that the transitions between faces are seamless using morphing, resulting in what feels like a single, dynamic portrait of the world.

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.

If you were reading PetaPixel earlier this year, you probably remember the jaw-dropping CGI animation titled "The Third & The Seventh". Here's another extremely realistic and detailed computer-generated animation that simulates a camera traveling through a classroom (with lens flares and all). It was created by Israel-based Studio Aiko.

The music video for Sara Bareilles' song "King of Anything" has everything contained in Polaroids and contact sheets. The concept is pretty neat. Can you imagine how mind-boggling this video would have been if they had done it in stop-motion with individual Polaroid photos and carefully exposed film strips? That'd be epic.

This is a 17 minute video showing Kai over at DigitalRev (the same guy that painted a Nikon D90 pink) putting a Canon 400D and Nikon D70 through various torture tests. The tests include stabbing them with knives, dropping them down escalators, smashing them with elevator doors, using them as stilts, and more.

Here's a fun video that compiles quite a few clips from movies where "experts" look for clues to mysteries in videos and photographs, often "enhancing" them in ridiculous ways before suddenly discovering something earth-shattering.

If you're a fan of the Polaroid SX-70, this promotional video from the 1970s should stir up warm fuzzy feelings. If you've never used one, watching this might give you a better idea of why so many are obsessed with it.

British musician Robbie Williams was recently featured in Nikon's "I AM NIKON" advertising campaign, with a commercial showing a fun experiment he did at a concert in 2003. He asked his audience to pull out their cameras and, on his cue, fire off the flash. The resulting scene was pretty awesome to behold. The full clip of the experiment is above.