Author: John Aldred

This Inception-like timelapse of Hong Kong was inspired by a 2400 year old story from Ancient Greece

John Aldred

No sooner does one new timelapse impress the hell out of us than another one comes along to do it all over again. This time, it’s from the folks at Visual Suspect, with an amazing timelapse of Hong Kong called The Allegory of the Cave that’s going to seriously mess with your head. Like something plucked right […]

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A crash course in developing colour negative film at home

John Aldred

Lots of us still shoot and develop our own film, but many limit themselves to black and white, at least when it comes to DIY developing. C41 colour film is perceived as a complex process that requires an expensive Jobo or other specialised equipment. Well, Michael Raso and John Fedele from the Film Photography Project are […]

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Aputure’s versatile new light is the size of a credit card and costs only $49

John Aldred

Small lights are fantastic and well designed ones are extremely versatile. Whether you’re shooting stills or video, you can throw them in dark corners to balance out a scene, add a subtle rim light to your interview subject, or even replace practical lights on-set. They’re also usually quite inexpensive. Aputure’s are taking “inexpensive” to the extreme […]

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Hard, soft, specular and diffused lighting and how it affects your subject

John Aldred

Understanding different types of light is important. If you don’t know how light works, then fixing issues that show up in your lighting during a shoot is going to be a pain. In this video from Wolfcrow, filmmaker Sareesh Sudhakaran explains the different types of light, how they affect our subject, the problems they can present, and […]

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The 10 best and worst things about Photoshop CC

John Aldred

Photoshop’s one of those essential tools that most photographers can’t live without. It’s been the industry leading application for years, and it may still be for some time to come (maybe), but it’s not perfect. In this rather extensive video from Nathaniel Dodson at Tutvid, he talks us through his 10 favourite and least favourite things […]

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This photographer quit her job three years ago to photograph women around the world

John Aldred

Many of us wish we could give up our jobs to go and follow our passion. For a very lucky few, our job is our passion. Romanian photographer Mihaela Noroc quit her job to follow hers in 2013. Since then, she’s travelled the globe to capture the beauty in diversity around the world for an amazing project titled […]

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Photographer crashes $350K supercar through showroom window during photo shoot

John Aldred

Sometimes, when you’re out making photographs, you have a bad day. Other times, you have a really bad day. This seems to be the latter after a photographer allegedly drove a $350,000 Lamborghini Aventador through a car showroom window. The Lancashire Evening Post reports that a man, believed to be the photographer, got behind the wheel […]

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Build your own DIY GoPro stabiliser out of LEGO

John Aldred

Stabilising small cameras such as GoPros can be tricky. Their light weigh makes them particularly vulnerable to things like wind or fast movements. There are commercial handheld options out there to give you smoother footage, like the Lanparte HHG-01 or the Ikan Fly-X3-Plus, but they can be a little pricey. While it’s not going to give […]

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Optical zoom finally comes to the mass drone market with DJI’s new Zenmuse Z3

John Aldred

Everybody seems to have a drone these days of some sort or another for all kinds of different things. Most of them have cameras attached, but almost all of those have one limiting feature; they have a fixed focal length, which means the only kind of zoom you’re going to get is digital. DJI’s new […]

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Photographer chased storms for 18 days over 20,000 miles to make this epic timelapse

John Aldred

The amount of ridiculously good timelapses coming out this year that are putting the rest of us to shame is just getting crazy. Still, we can’t help but watch in awe and admire. In Mike Olbinski’s 6 minute video, Vorticity, we’re taken on a whirlwind journey (quite literally) covering 18 days of storm chasing, 20,000 miles through nine […]

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