The Impossible Cool: Stunning Portraits of Bad-ass Tastemakers from the Past 100 Years
What do Tom Waits, David Lynch, Debbie Harry, and Mark Twain all have in common? They’re all…ahem…impossibly cool. And they’ve all recently been featured on The Impossible Cool, a must-follow Tumblr account that offers gorgeous, mostly black-and-white, amazing portraits of some of the most bad-ass tastemakers of the last couple centuries. Ranging from politicians to...
Forced Perspective Photographs with Souvenirs
Germany-based freelance photographer Michael Hughes is an avid traveler and has visited over 200 countries. Throughout his travels, he has been working on a running photo series in which he places souvenirs found at various locations into shots of the tourist locations themselves. The famous landmarks in his photographs are replaced with miniature models, pen...
Photographer Takes to the Sky After Being Denied Access to Oil Mines
When photographer Robert Johnson of Business Insider was denied so much as a tour of the Alberta Oil Sands, he could have given up. Instead he chose a more… aerial approach, renting a Cessna 172 to secretly photograph the secretive operation from just over 1,000 feet. The Alberta Oil Sands are the second largest oil...
Tree Leaves as “Pinhole Cameras” During a Solar Eclipse
If you went outdoors to observe the solar eclipse yesterday, you might have noticed that the shadows cast by trees had suddenly become quite strange. The tiny gaps between leaves act as pinhole lenses, projecting crescent shaped images of the eclipsed sun onto the world below. Here are a couple videos showing the same thing:...
Time-Lapse of Yesterday’s Solar Eclipse
Photographer Cory Poole created this time-lapse video of yesterday’s solar eclipse using 700 photographs shot through a telescope that filters out the sun’s photosphere and captures its chromosphere. Wikipedia has some neat photos of the e...
Composition – Simplicity
Although simplicity in photographic composition tends to be discussed as a broad category that includes the complete image, I’m going to divide the subject into two categories – simplicity in subject and simplicity in background. Today I’m going to focus on simplicity in subject. When someone looks at one of your photographs you want the...
Giza 3D: A Historically Accurate Online Recreation of the Giza Plateau
Several weeks ago we mentioned a new Google Maps feature that allows you to take virtual tours of famous locations all over the world. And now — coming out of a partnership between design firm Dassault Systèmes, Harvard University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts — you can take a historically accurate, 3-dimensional, online...
Shooting a Rocky Beach in HDR with Trey Ratcliff
Trey Ratcliff is the well-known and well-loved HRD photographer behind the travel photography blog Stuck in Customs, and in this behind-the-scenes video he talks you though his gear and how he sets up a few shots of this rocky beach in the Virgin Islands. The video offers some great insight into Trey’s thought process as...
“Underwater” Stop Motion Video With Hand Made Sea Creatures
This fascinating video by Hayley Morris for Hilary Hahn and Hauschka’s “Bounce Bounce” is both a very creative use of stop motion, and a testament to her skill as a craftsman. She actually created the entire underwater world, sketching and creating the characters herself. If you’re interested in seeing how she goes about creating this...
Behind the Scenes Creating A Moving Still With Dave Hill
If you’ve ever wondered how a professional moving still is put together, this behind-the-scenes video of Dave Hill‘s shoot for Fiat should shed a little light on the matter. The final product is a composite mix of stills shot using a 5D Mark II and a Hasselblad H3D-50, and high-speed video shot using a Phantom...
Kirsty Mitchell’s Fairytale Wonderland
If you haven’t seen Kirsty Mitchell’s Wonderland series yet, then you’re bound to start running into it everywhere. Inspired by the fairytales her late mother used to tell her before she passed, the series wasn’t actually shot in exotic locations. In fact, some of the photos took months of planning to get right. Be sure...
Print Auction Raises Over $100,000 for Slain Photojournalist’s Kids
The Friends of Anton is an organization that has come together over the past year to ensure the future of slain South African photojournalist Anton Hammerl’s three children; and 3 days ago the organization in partnership with Christie’s held the latter’s first ever auction of contemporary photojournalism prints, raising over $100,000 towards their touching cause....
