TED has some of the most interesting talks you'll find on the web, with topics ranging from how diet can prevent cancer to demonstrations of amazing new photo technology. They also have a great collection of talks by photographers, and we've compiled a list of 14 of them here. These short talks are eye-opening, jaw-dropping, and often quite moving.
When Sean Stiegemeier saw the photos and videos that were emerging on the web from the eruptions at Eyjafjallajökull last month, it prompted him to fly over and shoot his own footage.
Peter Funch is a New York City-based photographer who we featured a while back in a post titled "4 Creative Projects that Bend the Reality of Street Scenes". Funch photographs scenes for extended periods of time, and then combines people who share something in common. In the photograph above, he chose to include only people who were carrying manila envelopes.
If you need a 2 minute dose of relaxation, check out this video by Jeff Scholl of GravityShots. It was filmed with a Canon 550D/T2i-equipped helicam Whitefish, Montana Scholl used a 14mm lens, filmed at 720p, and rendered at 24fps. This kind of helicam footage reminds me a lot of dreams in which I'm flying, since the helicopter glides so slowly while everything on the ground moves at normal speed.
Olympus’ new commercial for the Olympus PEN E-PL1 is pretty typical, except that it has an interesting twist at …
One of the biggest stories last month was that an upcoming episode of the popular TV series House was …
Jonathan Berqvist needed a shoulder rig for stabilizing his Canon 7D when filming, and his father Erik is quite good with woodworking, so they built a do-it-yourself a wooden shoulder rig using a a single tree branch. What's awesome about the shoulder rig is that it has follow focus built into one of the two handles used to hold it.
Google just released the latest beta version of its Chrome browser, and created a pretty amazing video to demonstrate how fast pages load. Using a Phantom v640 high speed camera, they film the browser racing random Rube Goldberg-style contraptions at up to 2700 frames per second. For example, in one test Chrome races a potato gun. Sweet.
Sony recently hired Superfad to create a video for its global "make.believe" campaign, and got its money's worth. This jaw-dropping video was created with a Phantom HD cinema camera shooting at 1,000 frames per second, and blends live action and CGI into ethereal scenes that are sure to leave you take your breath away.
Did you know Nikon SLRs were doing video before things shifted toward digital? This commercial was made back in 1997 by Alastair Thain, and was shot entirely on a Nikon F5 SLR camera, which could shoot up to 8 frames per second. More than 200 rolls of 36-exposure film were developed to create the resulting film.
Slow motion videos have a way of making most things (that move) fascinating. Cupcakes being shot at faces are no exception.
It's nice to see that Adobe's corporate culture allows for some "self-deprecating fun". Yesterday Photoshop product manager John Nack posted the above video, in which a "Photoshop fan" starts an Apple-esque waiting line outside what appears to be a Best Buy.
This video wasn't filmed with a DSLR, but it's so beautiful we just had to share it with you. Patrick Lawler filmed some of his favorite locations in San Francisco using a RED ONE camera at 4K 16:9 resolution, creating a breathtaking glimpse of this wonderful city.
Fine art now comes in concentrate. This video, created by graphic design student Chris Peck, shows every painting in the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as they were on April 10, 2010.
Tom Hogarty, the Lightroom product manager over at Adobe, has posted a sneak peek at the automatic lens correction technology that will be included in Lightroom 3 and Adobe Camera Raw 6 (included in CS5).
This amazing video by Spacecraft Films shows the July 16, 1969 launch of …
This amazing video by Romain Pergeaux and Alex Profit shows a journey around the cities of the world in …
Google recently added high-quality street level photographs to …
This breathtaking timelapse was created by Tom Lowe of Timescapes, showing footage from …
Here's an interesting behind-the-scenes video series that shows the creation of a Canon 500mm f/4.0L IS lens. It's a neat look at the guts of glass, and an opportunity to see how exactly the various components of a lens are created and put together.
Here's an amazing stop-motion video created for Nissan, and promoting zero emissions mobility. It's amazing that a sense of speed and danger can be created from photographs of people sitting still in wooden chairs.
In addition to Content Aware Fill, Puppet Warp is another powerful feature to be included in Adobe's upcoming Photoshop CS5.
This video isn’t related to photography per se (though it is a time-lapse), but occasionally we like to show …
Constant Motion is a breathtaking time-lapse video by Redding, California-based freelance photographer Aaron Patterson that takes HDR to a whole new level. On his blog, Patterson writes,
This music video for the song "Doubtful Comforts" by Blue Roses is the first music video to employ wiggle stereoscopy to create a 3D effect that does not require special glasses to view.
Here’s a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo …
This video, created by PhotoErrant, shows a Canon 7D shooting at 8 frames …
A History of the Sky is an ambitious project by San Francisco-based artist Ken Murphy that aims to create a gigantic mosaic of 365 time-lapse videos of the sky - one for each day of the year.
Kai at DigitalRev was recently given the challenge of painting a Nikon D90 pink magenta. He chooses to dismantle the camera in order to paint individual components, but works on it as carefully as one would work on a steak. At one point he even gets an electric shock from the components, though we're wondering why he didn't simply remove the battery. The camera miraculously looks somewhat normal in the end, but several parts are broken in the process (LCD won't turn on, and popup flash wont' go down).
This amazing video clip shows the amazing collision of two vortex rings. Imagine the kind of smoke photographs you could make if you had this setup!