Mastering composition is the best way to get more keepers in your street photography. That makes sense, right? If you know how to make a visually pleasing image, then you can discipline yourself to capture the remarkable photos that tell a story.
Here's a fascinating 6-minute video that explores how Ansel Adams went from being a rather mediocre amateur photographer and into the legend we now know and revere.
On March 10th, 2016, I woke up with great expectations: I was heading to the White House to photograph Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and American President Barack Obama.
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.
Want to see what it's like to shoot on the streets of the West Bank? Photographer Chris Hughes wants to show you.
My name is Vitor Schietti, and I'm a Brazilian photographer who is combining fireworks and long exposures for my series "Impermanent Sculptures."
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 an 8-minute video in which photographer Alexi Lubomirski shares the story of how he became a professional photographer.
To highlight human destruction of animal habitats in East Africa, photographer Nick Brandt shot giant panoramas of life-size animal prints in their former habitats. The project is titled Inherit the Dust.
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.
What would you endure for the perfect shot? For Australian photographer Joshua Holko, the answer is "freezing blasts from a winter storm in the arctic." That's what he went through to capture incredible photos of the Arctic fox.
The band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros just released this music video for their new single "No Love Like Yours." Here's what's neat about it: it was created by actress Olivia Wilde using just the iPhone 6S Plus.
My name is Chris McCann, and I'm a photographer based in San Francisco. In this post, I'm sharing a list of photography videos I've found that have been helpful to me.
If all journeys are teachers, it may well be that a journey to India is the greatest teacher of all. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "Bizarre travel plans are dancing lessons from God," and it was in search of a new dance that I purchased a one-way ticket on the longest train in India.
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.
You never know when a good photo opportunity will present itself to you. Always be prepared.
"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.
"Talks at Google" is a program in which notable people in various industries are brought to Google to talk about their work. Over the years, a large number of notable photographers have participated to share their stories and images.
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.
The winning photos have just been announced for the Underwater Photographer of the Year 2016 contest. The grand prize was awarded to Italian photographer Davide Lopresti for his image "Gold," a portrait of a spiny seahorse.
Here's a beautiful 2-minute video by Great Big Story in which photographer Anuar Patjane talks about what it's like to swim with and photograph whales in the ocean.
Hong Kong is a densely populated city where high-rises are crammed close together and where an estimated 100,000+ people live in 40-square-foot cubicle apartments. Photographer Andy Yeung used a drone to capture this density for his project Urban Jungle.
My name is Sasha Leahovcenco, and I'm a photographer based in Los Angeles. Last year, my friend (and project producer) Cale Glendening and I traveled to Mongolia to meet an eagle hunter and spend a week documenting his story.
"Soul" is a beautiful 5-minute short film about the work of Canadian fine arts photographer Jakob de Boer, who traveled to the Pacific Northwest to capture landscapes with his large format camera.
Photographer Kyle Froman has had a rather unique career journey. Before becoming an acclaimed dance photographer, Froman was himself a dancer the prestigious New York City Ballet.
"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.
A box of super-expired E-6 and C-41 35mm film has been sitting in a box in my closet for years, slowly filling up with random rolls collected from friends, found in old camera bags leftover from internships, and the like.
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.
Frustrated with your failures in photography? Here's an inspiring comic titled "Be Friends with Failure" by artist Stephen McCranie of Doodle Alley.
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? …
Between the 1950s and 1980s, large-scale residential districts were built in and around Paris, France, to provide affordable housing for a booming population. Known as "grands ensembles," these sprawling complexes were sometimes poorly planned and constructed, causing some to have many empty units as residents found other places to live. Others, however, remain populated and are bustling with life.
For the latest episode of their Pro Tog, Cheap Camera Challenge series, DigitalRev invited fashion photographer Paul John Bayfield to shoot street and fashion photos using a super cheap (and badly reviewed) Vivitar DVR 781HD action camera.
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.
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."
Over the years I’ve done a lot of travelling, but I always came back to my home country, the Netherlands. Being completely flat, having no mountains, no rocks, no skyscrapers, no good weather (usually), no super dark skies at night because of light pollution, I always feel a bit down when I come back from "spectacular" countries.
"When you push the shutter and take a photo, you're a photographer... but are you an artist?" asks photographer Roger Ballen. "As an artist, I use photography as a medium to express my artistic vision." …
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.
Let me begin by saying that I’m not a hunter. But I am surrounded by hunters because I live in Minnesota. I’ve heard countless stories about deer hunting from co-workers and friends, but the most interesting story was from a seasoned hunter who told me that now he only hunts for a “trophy buck” because he’s hunted everything else and he’s only interested in getting “the big one”.
Ian and Erick Regnard are two Mauritian-born photographers who have won big awards for their underwater 4x5 Polaroid photos.
I was recently contacted by my cousin because a group was looking for volunteers to photograph 10 cancer survivor children. Without any hesitation, I contacted the person in charge and booked the shoot.
Jianmin Huang, better known as Jimmy on the Run, is a fashion and street photographer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The 7-minute video above by Wytse Koetse is an inspiring look at the life and work of this passionate photographer (note: there's a bit of strong language and nudity).
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.
"The Irrational Fear of Nothing" is a new short film by director Paul Trillo. It follows a paranoid, neurotic man named Terry as he wanders about on the streets of Manhattan. "Past memories and his irrational inner thoughts soon plague his every move," the synopsis says. "By channeling a form of mental time travel, he attempts to overcome these past anxieties." …
In order to tell you this crazy story, we have to go back to May 2015. As you may have read, my brand new $1,600 L lens fell to the ground after I got it out of my backpack. The glass didn’t have any scratches, however, the focus was completely broken and all photos turned out blurry. Although it was a huge shock at first, I wanted to turn this moment around and “develop the negatives”. I quickly fell in love with this broken look and created a set about broken characters with a broken …
During the Oscars this weekend, the website hosting service Squarespace will be airing a new commercial featuring photographer David Guttenfelder. Above is the extended 60-second version of the 30-second ad that will air on Sunday. "Why do I do what I do? So everyone can see what I've seen," the photographer says.
On a May evening in 2005, a group of us were spending time in my parents’ garage. We’d just graduated from high school days earlier and didn’t know what to do with ourselves. One of many boring nights spent pissing the time away, high on the excitement of graduation and fear of the future; I’m quite sure I’d have forgotten all about that night if it wasn’t for the noise we heard in the driveway.
Zacharie Turgeon is a photographer based in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. While he normally shoots with a digital camera, Turgeon decided at the last minute to take his Canon 35mm film SLR on a recent trip to Asia. It turned out to be the best decision he made.
Gulf Photo Plus 2016 just wrapped up in Dubai this week, and this year's event featured another ShootOut, which pitted 2 well-known photographers against each other on stage to see who could create the best shot of the same subject.
My name name is Rustam Azmi, and I'm a photographer based in Dubai. I recently captured this photo of lightning striking the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest skyscraper. In this post I'll share a little about how the shot was made.
For a short time every February, when conditions are just right, Horsetail Falls in Yosemite gets transformed by a phenomenon known as "firefall." When the sunlight hits the water just right, the waterfall looks like molten lava flowing down the side of El Capitan.
