If you have both an unused rolling toolbox and an ever-growing camera gear collection that needs a better home, here's an idea: you can convert one or more of the toolbox's shelves into padded storage for your cameras, lenses, and accessories.
Jens Lennartsson is a photographer and writer who travels the world to tell stories. In the 2.5-minute video above, he shares how he creates all of his work with what he calls "the smallest photo office in the world."
When I heard the news that my town (Glens Falls, NY ) was hosting an event called Pet Fest, I knew I had to be there. My girlfriend, Emily, suggested that we set up a pet photo booth at the event and the idea took off.
Coldplay just released the official music video for the song "Up&Up," the 3rd single from the band's new album, A Head Full of Dreams. The 4-minute video is filled with creative composites that combines footage in a way that plays with perspective.
Getty Images has launched a creative new global advertising campaign titled "Millions of Images. Endless Possibilities." The 46-second video above shows a series of famous faces that were reconstructed entirely using various stock photo faces that aren't of those people.
Uzbekistani professional photographer Ravshaniya Azulye's signature style involves breaking rules -- not of photography, but of nature. Her portfolio is filled with gravity-defying art photos that combine chaos with elegant form.
Actor JD Walsh recently created a Hollywood-style movie trailer... featuring strangers he encountered on the street.
In late 2014, I was given a few pieces of piping -- what you might call trash, but which I call the "ring of fire." It ended up being an incredibly useful tool in my photography. I quickly decided to add it to my (now literal) bag of tricks along with Prisming, Lens Chimping, my Broken Freelens, and Anamorphics.
Here's a neat way to take your photos of wedding rings to the next level: include the couple in the reflections.
My name is Tracy Willis, and I'm a newborn photographer and digital artist based in Dorset, UK. For my personal project titled "Animal Antics," I create composite photos of my dogs doing various human activities.
Shooting stereoscopic 3D images usually means breaking out a cool old film camera like the one used here, but this $30 eBay find from 1950 can make shooting 3D images on your DSLR as easy as shooting a regular 2D still.
For his new project Lux Noctis, photographer Reuben Wu lit and photographed landscapes at night by mounting powerful LED lights to GPS-enabled drones.
Here's an amazing short film titled "The Old New World" by photographer and animator Alexey Zakharov of Moscow, Russia. Zakharov found old photos of US cities from the early 1900s and brought them to life.
Editors like to say, "There are great pictures to be made right in your own backyard!"
Come to think of it, there really is a lot going on in my backyard, or at least in my Baltimore back alley. Fugitives from justice have fled down my alley, pursued by police helicopters. I once found a trail of blood that stretched for hundreds of yards. I followed it the whole way, and at the end found a guy with a badly cut hand sitting on a curb.
For his new short film "Chromaticity," director Paul Trillo turned the sky into his giant canvas by strapping smoke grenades to DJI camera drones.
Here's the story of how I recently proposed to my girlfriend using the back of my film camera.
Here's a clever idea: if you have unwanted 35mm film canisters lying around, you can turn them into simple cases for storing and organizing your SD cards.
Swiss freeskier and filmmaker Nicolas Vuignier captured the worlds imagination back in February with his iPhone-swinging bullet-time idea. Now he's back again with another creative effort: turning the sky into a giant canvas by covering extreme skiers with black pigment.
Here's a creative time-lapse of London by the filmmaker Matel. It combines day and night views of the city in each frame as a diptych.
Food photographers have all kinds of tricks they use to make food -- or what appears to be food -- look appealing on camera. Those tricks are revealed in a new photo project titled Faking It.
Dawidi of Widicam.net created this beautiful time-lapse video by taking a single photo of each day's sunrise for 365 days.
For his project "Counterflow," photographer and visual artist Mauro Martins of Brasília, Brazil, created a series of composite photos showing people going against the flow in life by making their own path instead of following the masses.
Here's a gorgeous wedding photo captured recently by Vancouver-based husband and wife wedding photography duo Jelger and Tanja. They managed to capture the bride and groom, Andrea and Eoin, with horses galloping by and sun beams peeking through the clouds.
Leading up to the total solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, photographer Rueben Krabbe had a crazy and ambitious idea: he wanted to photograph skiers in front of the eclipse at the "edge of the Earth."
Time-lapse photographer Rufus Blackwell spent the last 2 months taking the DJI Osmo handheld stabilized camera around Saigon, Vietnam. The 3-minute video above is what resulted.
What do you find when you search for Copenhagen on popular photo sites? Generally it's Nyhavn, the 17th-century waterfront and entertainment area. But not only that: to my surprise, I also found some cool science fiction subway shots taken out of the subway system.
Want to see the face of the tiny insects that live in your home? For his project "Suburban Symbiosis: Insectum domesticus," photographer Daniel Kariko shot close-up portraits of common household insects. The images are gorgeous... and terrifying.
Want a camera that captures point-of-view video of the happiest moments in your life? Check out the Smile Camera.
Want the look of an 8mm film camera but the convenience of digital? Instead of using a filter app and your phone camera, you can hack together your own digital 8mm camera using Raspberry Pi.
For me photography is not portraying what exists, but portraying what exist in me.
My name is Chaim Perl, and I'm a NYC-based photographer who specializes in large group portraits. If it's difficult to shoot, I like it. In this post, I'll share how I created a photo mosaic by shooting 1,000 portraits.
My name is Vitor Schietti, and I'm a Brazilian photographer who is combining fireworks and long exposures for my series "Impermanent Sculptures."
I like to keep the amount of kit I have to carry with me to a minimum. Every single pound counts when you're scrambling up the side of a snowy mountain, and if you've ever had to pay excess baggage charges at the airport you will probably appreciate my 'less is more' mentality!
I recently spent some time using a DJI Phantom 3 Pro camera drone to make a 3D printed model of a statue of Jesus that's by my house in Lima, Peru. The technology used to do this is called photogrammetry.
Here's Instagram's latest celebrity: Juji the giant dog. His owner Chris Cline is making waves by using Photoshop to turn him into a giant fluffy best friend.
My name is Ty Foster, and I'm currently on a mission of shooting portraits of every single purebred dog breed. The project is called Canine Collective.
My name is Dirk Hardy. I'm a 27-year-old Dutch photographer currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. For the past eighteen months, I worked on a personal project called Void. After having lived and worked in New York City for six months a few years back, I developed an obsession for the elevator.
"Site Specific Cameras" is a fascinating project by photographers David Janesko and Adam Donnelly. To shoot landscape photos, the duo creates large cameras out of materials found in those landscapes.
For his project titled "Always Look Up," Hong Kong-based photographer Andy Yeung visited particular tall buildings around the world and pointed his camera straight up at the sky.
"In Anxious Anticipation" is a photo project that's designed to make you feel anxiety and apprehension. Each photo shows something bad on the brink of happening.
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.
What do you think of when you hear the words "light painting"? Colorful and squiggly lines over a dark background? An explosion of glowing sparks?
Did you know that you can also add photo-realistic images to your long-exposure photos by painting them in with light?
As a product photographer, I've always had a problem with finding what to use as a background. Even more so when I need to go to my client to shoot their products.
Before, I was limited to shooting on a black granite tile. Then I added some do-it-yourself wood planks into my props collection, but carrying the wood planks was a big problem, as they were too heavy and I could only limit myself to about 2 wood planks per shoot.
Camera gear often isn't cheap, and sometimes photographers need to make touch choices when it comes to what gear to purchase and what they'll give up in order to purchase it. Photographer Barnabas Horvath decided to turn this painful reality into a photo series called "Priorities."
Here's a fun little 7-minute video tutorial on how you can create interesting water illusions using an ordinary camera and some sound. It has to do with syncing the water drops to your camera's frame rate.
If you enjoy do-it-yourself photography hacks and projects, here's an interesting one for you to try: buy an old Soviet MIR-1B camera lens for about $45 on eBay, open it up by unscrewing the front, and reverse the front lens element. The result is a "reverse globular lens," photographer Mathieu Stern says.
A few months ago I was working on putting together a still life shoot with a fantastic stylist and a friend of mine, Kiki Tse. She had come up with this beautiful idea for a shoot: to represent a person in a still life context by the use of some of their personal effects.
To know someone's possessions; to see a navigational chart from their grandad; an amulet with a photo of their late sister without ever seeing a face to attach this narrative to invites the viewer to form their own account devoid of judgement of background, race, age or physical appearance.
The Coffee Drip Printer is a curious contraption created by RIT photography professor Ted Kinsman. It can print out your digital photos, but instead of buying pricey ink for the prints, all you need to do is give the machine some coffee.
Enjoy looking at lighting diagrams to see how photographers light their photos? Check out the way photographer Joey Hernandez shares his. Instead of sharing simple 2D layouts showing his gear and placements, Hernandez shoots behind-the-scenes photos of his shoots and overlays helpful (and humorous) labels across important (or random) things in the shot.
Launched back in 2012, the Impossible Instant Lab is a device that prints out your iPhone photos as Impossible instant photos. But what if you want to use the Instant Lab itself as an instant camera instead of an instant printer?
The Vienna-based brand SUPERSENSE has a solution. Today the analog brand announced the Lab2Cam Conversion Kit, which allows you to transform your Instant Lab into an instant camera by mounting a Polaroid SX-70 lens to it.