What do you get when you mix a few nerdy, talented videographers with some exceptionally skilled racing drone pilots? An epic tie fighter/X-wing aerial battle shot using drones and Star Wars toys of course!
In 2014, filmmaker Tom Leveritt used an ultraviolet camera to show people their skin like they'd never seen it before. Now, you can do the same thing with the Sunscreenr: a tiny, waterproof UV camera that is meant to keep you slathering on sunscreen by showing you when you've used enough and where it's worn off.
The airline Emirates is a sponsor of the French Open championship in tennis, and one of its advertisements at the tennis matches is an aerial camera in the shape of an Airbus A380.
Making an iconic landmark 'disappear' might seem like the purview of magicians, but it's street artist and photographer JR who gets the glory this time around. Through clever use of massive photo prints, he managed to make the iconic Louvre Pyramid 'disappear' into the Museum behind it.
Photography studio Bruton Stroube works with huge brands to create beautiful images, but not every step of the process is so glamorous. In a new Instagram series they call "Test Shot Tuesday," they're sharing some of the fun and ridiculous stand-in shots they capture on their way to a final image.
Ah, the Instagram #yoga hashtag. As of this writing, there are over 20 million posts hashtagged #yoga on Instagram, and this creative spoof describes/pokes fun of a good 50% of them.
The photo above is a perfect example of when preparation and luck meet, shake hands, and press down your shutter in unison. Captured by wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas, the photo shows a lion cub in the foreground with last September's supermoon eclipse in the background.
Color is one of the fundamental aspects of branding, and most major companies in the world of photography are known for using key colors in their branding.
Here’s a humorous video that’s making the rounds online: a guy named Mikey …
The Hydraulic Press Channel is a staple of many people's online video diet. Every few days another gadget, foodstuff, or toy gets crushed on video while millions watch on, and this week it was time to surrender a few "tough" action cameras into its clutches.
The lesson of the video below can be summed up in one very simple phrase: always pay attention to your surroundings. This photographer didn't, and he got called out on television for his lapse.
Timelapse title credits for television shows are getting to be pretty common, but this one definitely stands out. One creative YouTuber recreated the Game of Thrones intro credits using some really stunning macro mold time-lapses.
A student at the Rochester Institute of Technology had a creative idea for his Visual Media Innovation Project this past semester: he created the first (to our knowledge) instant camera drone by hacking a Fuji Instax Mini 8 camera onto a DJI Flamewheel f450 drone kit.
DON'T DO IT!!! *clears throat* ummm... I mean... this is pretty bold. The CEO of GoWing, makers of the popular Lens Flipper camera accessory previously featured here, wants to give you a heart attack and demonstrate the strength of his product at the same time.
Well, this is odd. A university in the UK is banning the traditional throwing of mortarboards at graduation; but no worries, they say, students can pretend to throw their hats and the event's photographer will Photoshop them in after!
Installation artist duo Anna Heinrich and Leon Palmer loved the landscape around Hadleigh Country Park in Essex, England so much, they decided to capture it forever through the magic of the Camera Obscura. Thus was born "The Reveal."
Photo projects usually are planned, researched and given approval to. This one just kind of fell into my lap after a single day of shooting on a bunch of expired film on a whim at the Daytona 500.
What's your deepest... darkest photography secret? Do you occasionally give in and shoot *shudder* Auto? Is your most popular photo taken with *shudder* an iPhone? This silly DRTV video is all about these kinds of "shocking" photographer confessions.
It may not be the first place that comes to mind, but the Soviet Union is a great place to start if you're looking for a good quality piece of glass on the cheap.... well, what's left of the Soviet Union anyway.
Over on Tumblr, there's a new blog called Guns Replaced with Selfie Sticks. As the title suggests, the site features movie stills from action films with all the guns Photoshopped out and replaced with selfie sticks.
This is some serious dedication. When wedding and adventure sports photographer Nathan Welton fell through the ice and into a frozen lake while shooting a wedding ceremony in Colorado, he didn't stop or let his assistants take over. Nope... he just kept on shooting.
Photographer Murad Osmann's wildly popular "Follow Me" project features photos of his girlfriend leading him by the hand to exotic locations around the world. Now some folks over in Taiwan are parodying the style with a strange new meme called "Hold My Head."
Now THIS is a sunrise timelapse. Captured by astronaut Jeff Williams on the International Space Station as a way to celebrate the station's 100,000th tour around the world, the video is breathtaking in the way only images of our planet from space can really be.
The folks at AwesomenessTV are paying homage to "Instagram Bros" and their quest for the perfect coffee cup photo. You know the one: a crisp white cup sitting on a reclaimed wood table next to your passport, a copy of Kinfolk magazine, and some sort of Apple device.
BuzzFeed's "Try Guys" are just average guys. But in this new video, they put themselves at the mercy of professional makeup artists, photographers, and (of course) some Photoshop retouching masters to see if they could recreate photos of buff, sexy male celebrities... and find out how those photos made them feel.
Abandoned places are an alluring subject matter for many photographers. Japan is a treasure trove of abandoned places, or "haikyo", due to a perfect storm of an ageing population, a burst economic bubble in the 80s, and land tax loop holes.
The group of traveling filmmaker/photographers were caught on camera disturbing the delicate ecosystem of Yellowstone's iconic Grand Prismatic Spring for the sake of a few pictures this past weekend, and now they're paying the price.
The creative process can be a painful one, but once in a while it's a good idea to laugh at our pain and remember that you're not alone. To that end, this humorous video by the folks at Lixi Studios is bound to elicit a chuckle... and perhaps a groan.
Curious if you have what it takes to be an action/sports photographer? What about a combat photographer? Or wildlife photographer? If you don't know for sure, this new Pokenmon Snap-like 'VR Photography Experience' might help you find out.
Want to recreate that "Martian" look? Or maybe it's the "Moonrise Kingdon" look you're going for, or your latest photo project needs the "Annie Hall" look. Whatever cinematic feel you're trying to capture, Cinema Palettes can help you achieve it.