Here's a 1-minute stop-motion commercial Karen X. Cheng recently produced and directed for Totspot, a resale shopping app for kids clothes. Cheng also documented the production process in order to show "how painstakingly laborious" stop motion photography is.
Street photographers Chuck Jines and Keenan Hastings both uploaded videos this week showing confrontations they had while shooting on the street -- Jines in New Orleans and Hastings in Detroit. They both came across strangers who didn't appreciate their photo being made, but Jines and Hastings had two very different ways of dealing with the situation.
Photographer Jay Philbrick takes his subjects where most photographers wouldn't dare to go themselves: onto the face of a cliff, 350 feet above the ground.
This past weekend was the 10th anniversary of the infamous Cronulla Riots in Sydney, Australia, race riots that resulted in 26 injuries and 104 arrests. "Party for Freedom" leader Nick Folkes decided to hold a "patriotic barbecue" to mark the occasion, but attracted less than 50 supporters. The event was attended by a throng of anti-riot police, journalists, and a counter-protest from a much larger crowd.
Photographer Jonny Armstrong's portfolio is filled with some of the most remarkable wildlife photos you'll ever see: many of the portraits have a studio-like quality to them, and they're often taken from just a few feet away.
This is a story about a collaboration to overcome 19th century technology problems using 21st century technology to produce well lit portraits.
Dave Sandford is a professional sports photographer of 18 years whose hometown is London, Ontario, Canada. Over the past 4 weeks, for 2 to 3 days per week, Sandford has been driving 45 minutes to Lake Erie, spending up to 6 hours a day photographing the lake.
I have found it difficult to specialize in one genre of photography as a full-time photographer in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Winnipeg is considered the smallest big city in Canada, and I find myself doing a whole lot of everything, including but not limited to: portraits, food, architecture, events, and a lot of other random gigs.
Photographer Nick Fancher often does high-quality shoots with simple locations and do-it-yourself gear -- he published a book on the subject earlier this year that's titled Studio Anywhere. For a recent portrait shoot, Fancher visited his model's apartment and shaped light using a custom prism gobo, DIY barn doors, and the blinds on the model's door.
I have had many hobbies in my life, but nothing comes close to my love for wildlife photography.
Between 1985 and 1991, ABC, A&E, and The Travel Channel aired a weekly half-hour TV show for photographers titled "World of Photography." The show was a big influence on a generation of photographers, exposing them to new photographers and photography techniques.
Jason Ching is a research scientist with the University of Washington’s Alaska Salmon Program who uses photos and videos to document wildlife, landscapes, and ongoing research in Alaska. He recently took a drone camera out to Iliamna Lake, the largest lake in Alaska, and captured hours of footage of sockeye salmon on their spawning grounds in one of the largest runs in recent history.
Here's a 6-minute video by Green Label that focuses on the work of Travis Jensen, the San Francisco (and LA) based street photographer that we also featured back in February.
What happens if your portrait clients request golden hour lighting... outside of golden hour? That's the situation photographer Pye Jirsa of Lin & Jirsa Photography found himself in recently while shooting a wedding. As you can see in the 4.5-minute video above, Jirsa was able to deliver by using creative lighting, a powerful flash, and a couple of colored gels.
If you want to play around with shadows and add depth to your lighting, this simple technique is perfect for you. And you only need minimal gear to do it.
Photographer Mathieu Stern did this short experiment with capturing the full image circle from a 180-degree fisheye lens. You'll need a smaller image circle on a larger camera sensor. For this video, Stern used a Kenko 180° fisheye lens, screwed onto a 55mm to 52mm filter, screwed onto a Canon 50mm f/1.4 FD lens, screwed onto a NEX adapter, mounted to the Sony a7II.
"Un Petit Tour Dans Paris" is a new 1.5-minute short film by French director Maxime Baudin.
For the past couple of years, photographer Joel Sartore has been working with Nat Geo on a photo project titled Photo Ark. The goal is to shoot portraits of the world's 12,000 captive animal species to help stop the extinction crisis, as half the world's plant and animal species are projected to go extinct by 2100. Sartore has added over 5,000 species to the collection thus far.
Here's an inspiring 3-minute video in which veteran fashion and portrait photographer David Turner talks about the idea that each magical photo is the result of 100 little decisions that were made correctly.
Update on 12/16/21: This video embed has been removed by its owner. You can still watch it here.
Snowflakes have become an obsession of mine as an extreme macro photographer, but I never thought I would be able to take it this far: 2,500 hours of work across 5 years, all presented as a single composite photo titled “The Snowflake”:
Skydivers often photograph and film their jumps with a GoPro camera, but what happens if you want to shoot higher-quality photos with a DSLR? The solution is to mount it to your helmet and find a way to trigger the shutter.
Polish photographer Rafał Krasa recently launched Eupidere, a new brand of high-end leather camera straps. He wanted some product photos with a seamless white background but didn't have the proper studio setup, so he decided to go with what he did have: his bathtub.
Here's a wonderful 6-minute documentary about the Seeing with Photography Collective, a New York-based group that brings together the work of visually impaired and sighted photographers.
Billions of photos were uploaded by photographers to Flickr over the course of 2015. As this year is winding down, Flickr has crunched some numbers and announced the top photos and cameras on the photo sharing service this year.
Freelance aerial videographer John Duncan of Edinburgh, Scotland, recently spent about 5 months taking his camera drone to remote locations around his country, searching for epic landscapes and ethereal light (especially during golden hour).
There are stormchasing photographers and there are portrait photographers. Usually people don't combine the two genres, but that's exactly what photographer Benjamin Von Wong recently did. He spent two weeks chasing storms in an ambulance to shoot a series of unique portraits that have real storms in the background.
Did you know you can shoot aerial photos and videos by putting a stabilized camera on a boomerang? Victor Poulin of Boomerangs by Vic recently attached a Mobius 1080p action camera to the top of a boomerang.
Photographer Mathieu Stern found an interesting way to shoot digital photos through the plastic lens of a 1950s toy camera. After removing the back of a Photax Heanar Type V camera, he simply strapped it to the front of his Sony a7II using rubber bands.
For his latest project "Decadence," photographer Tyler Shields staged scenes that reimagine the court of Marie Antoinette in the late 1600s. Shields mainly used a 50-year-old 8x10 camera, as well as various Hasselblad cameras.
Brandon Stanton of Humans of New York has millions of online followers and two NYTimes bestselling books by capturing people's portraits and stories on NYC streets. Elias Weiss Friedman has had a similar type of success by photographing dogs.
Here's an unusual wedding photography slideshow by Peter Adams-Shawn of Memories of Tomorrow Photography. Titled "Eyescapes," each photo shows a scene at the wedding that was captured as a reflection in a guest's eyeball.
Nailing the perfect shot sometimes requires a lot of patience. Scottish photographer Alan McFadyen would know: he spent an estimated 6 years, 4,200 hours, and 720,000 exposures trying to nail the perfect symmetrical shot of a kingfisher diving into its reflection.
If you can carve 20 minutes out of your day, check out this fantastic lecture that was recently given by award-winning photojournalist Michael Goulding at Sports Shooter Academy 12. The talk centers around the mantra "See Better Shoot Better."
Canon Australia has been conducting a series of experiments that are "designed to shift creative thinking behind the lens." For the latest one, titled "Evolution," the company gathered 6 professional photographers and gave them everyday objects to photograph. But there was one simple rule: the same composition cannot be shot twice.
Danish nature photographer Morten Hilmer spent two years of his adult life serving in his country's special forces. While patrolling in Northeast Greenland, he braved -50° C temperatures and drove over 10,000 km in a dogsled. The experience would prove invaluable in his photography career.
New York-based photographer Alexi Lubomirski was recently commissioned by Allure Magazine to shoot a series of fashion photos titled "Mood Elevators." The images show a man floating around as he walks next to a woman.
A while back I shared an article that explained how I photographed a plane flying "across" the moon during a supermoon event. Over the weekend I’ve been out chasing another similar type of image: one of the International Space Station transiting the moon.
Making portraits is something I really love. When there is a model available, you get a lot of freedom regarding the pose, expressions and styling. However, during my travels, when I want to portray people in their authentic environment, I usually don’t get to choose a model, because it is about the people who are really living there.
Photographer Paweł Kadysz of Bialystok, Poland, recently started a new 365-day photo project: a daily photo blog showing scenes from Darth Vader's life. The clever and humorous photos portray the Sith Lord "as just a normal guy with everyday life problems."
Hyperlapse videos generally show dazzling urban cityscapes filled with bright lights and tall skyscrapers. The video above is a bit different: New York-based photographer Tyler Fairbank took the hyperlapse to the South African safari. Using his Canon 5D Mark III, Fairbank shot thousands upon thousands of photos each day -- his safari guides thought he was nuts -- to create this 3-minute video adventure. Most of the sequences were shot handheld and stabilized in post (only a few used a tripod, …
I recently did a personal art photography project titled, "You Are My Twin." It's a little psychological study of twins' relationship shown with the help of metaphors. I’ve always been curious how it feels to have a twin. Often the way people view twins is as if they are the same, whereas there are twins who choose completely different paths in life. Yet, they always feel strongly connected to each other.
Seok Li and Danbi Shin are an couple who create art together as Shinliart. A while back, their relationship turned into a long-distance one: Shin is currently living in New York City and Li lives in Seoul, South Korea.
What do the things we touch over the course of a day say about us? That's the question artist Paula Zuccotti asks through her project Every Thing We Touch. Traveling the world, she asks people to document every single small object they come in contact with over the course of 24 hours -- excluding large and/or fixed things.
The New York Times recently published this 6-minute Op-Doc ("opinion documentary") about the work of urbex ("urban exploration") photographer Vic Invades (real name Victor Thomas).
My name is Fernando Krasovitzky, and I'm a nature and landscape photographer based in Miami, Florida. My story is one of tragedy followed by good fortune. It is the story of death giving birth to life and of the power of photography to make it happen.
With 2016 just around the corner, many photographers will be dusting off the cameras they've been neglecting and making New Year's resolutions in an attempt to rekindle their creativity. If you're looking for ideas and inspiration, here's a good one: do a OCOLOY project. It requires using just One Camera and One Lens for One Year.
Time-lapse photographer Patrick Cheung of PowerUpMotion created this short film titled "Time." It shows a blood moon rising over Hong Kong, with many of the scenes bouncing between day and night in sync with the music.
Here's an inspiring 16-minute short by SmugMug Films that shows how photographer Tim Kemple recently visited Iceland with two world-class climbers (Klemen Premrl and Rahel Schelb) to explore and photograph Iceland in fresh new ways.
After using a vintage 1910 lens on a modern Sony a7II, Paris-based photographer Mathieu Stern is back again with another interesting lens experiment.
