PetaPixel 2012-02-03 16:38:40
L.L.Bean recently decided to celebrate its 100-year anniversary by having this classic 1933 catalog cover recreated as a photograph by commercial photographer Randal Ford. It’s amazing how faithfully Ford and his team was able to recreate the illustration — some of the vintage clothing had to be purchased off eBay! Here’s a closer look at...
Artist Reveals Hidden Images Found in Everyday Photos
Dutch illustrator Tineke Meirink likes to take a closer look at photographs and then draw whatever her playful imagination reveals to her. Her website stop:watch is a collection of these “what it is” and “what I see” comparison...
Shoot Weddings in Comfort (and Style) with These Dress Pant Sweatpants
Are you a photographer who needs to dress nicely but loves to dress comfortably? Now you can have both! Check out these new Dress Pant Sweatpants by Betabrand: they look just like a pair of fine charcoal wool trousers, but they’re actually a super comfortable pair of sweatpants. You can snag yourself a pair for...
Portraits of People in Two Different Times
AgeMaps is a project by photographer Bobby Neel Adams in which he does “photo surgery” on portraits to show two different moments in a person’s life in the same image. For each subject, Adams takes a childhood photo and a current photo, prints them at the same proportions, tears them in half, and glues the...
Antarctic Glaciers and Caverns in a Bag
Antarctica – Glaciers & Caverns is a photo series by Belgian architect François Delfosse consisting of images captured from inside a white plastic bag.
Antarctica – Glaciers & Caverns (via Feature Shoot)
Ghostly Portraits Captured Using Stencils and Light-Painting
France-based photographer Fabrice Wittner has a neat project titled “Enlightened Souls” that consists of ghostly portraits created by light-painting with stencils (which are themselves created from actual portraits). Wittner first started the project in May 2011 after the earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand. I first thought of it as an artistic and morale contribution to...
Portraits of Abandoned Cars Taken From the Back Seat
Photographer Alicia Rius bases much of her work around searching for “hidden treasures”. One particular series is titled “From the back seat of my car”, and consists of unplanned photographs taken from the back of abandoned cars. She writes, The first car I found was the red one. Then, another then day while I was...
Portraits of Ladies in Cardboard Outfits
Dame di Cartone (“Cardboard Ladies”) is a project by Swiss-Italian photographer Christian Tagliavini in which he creates portraits of women that mimic the look of historical paintings. The styles include 17th century, fifties, and cubism.
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Rémi Gaillard Photographs Cars Dressed as a Human Speed Camera
French humorist Rémi Gaillard created this lighthearted video showing what happens when you photograph speeding cars (and other vehicles) dressed as a human speed camera.
Trippy Single Exposure Photograph
Light painting enthusiast Ian Hobson created this psychedelic long-exposure photo entirely in-camera. Can you figure out how it was created? Here’s Hobson’s explanation: The camera was placed on it’s back (i.e. the LCD screen facing down, the lens facing up) on top of a rotating cake stand. Then a cheese grater was placed on top...
Guy Documents His Year by Doing One Backflip Per Day
Last week we featured an amazing video by a girl named Madeline who documented 2011 by recording 1 second of footage from each day. The video above by Sam Morrison is similar: Morrison’s father bet him $100 that he couldn’t do a backflip every day of 2011, so he made it his New Year’s resolution...
