Category: Inspiration

National Geographic’s Crittercam Gives Unique Insight To The Eating Habits of Alligators

Liron Samuels

We’re all familiar with alligators and some people encounter them on a daily basis, but despite their healthy population and proximity to humans there’s a lot we don’t know about their feeding habits. Thanks to National Geographic’s Crittercam, researchers from the University of Florida were able to get unprecedented access to the daily (and nightly) […]

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Poetry and Photography: How Rainer Maria Rilke Is Relevant To Being A Photographer

Maarten Rots

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point […]

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Wildly Funny: The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards Winners

Liron Samuels

With over 1500 entries from 52 different countries, the organizers of the inaugural Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards have a good reason to smile. The hilarious submissions gave them a good reason to laugh too. Aiming to raise awareness for wildlife while celebrating animals’ funny sides, the competition shares those special moments that wildlife photographers are […]

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This Star-trails Light Painting was made by A Drone

Udi Tirosh

German drone makers, Ascending Technologies just redefined light painting. The company makes high end drones and drone software and to take their technology to the extremes, they made a series of Santa Light Painting which actually resulted in a short movie. The company used an LED mounted Falcon 8 – their own octa-copter. Way points were […]

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Photo of the Day: Architecture – Past and Present

Mark Morrow

Category: Architecture Photograph: Architecture: Past and Present, by Manuel Buetti. Originally shared on the Photofocus Flickr community, right here. To learn how your work can be featured on the site, please read this article. This Post Sponsored by: Perfectly Clear for Photoshop or Lightroom is all about saving you time so you can focus on doing what […]

8 New Year’s resolutions to improve your photography!

hamburgcam

Editor’s Note: Please welcome Marco Larousse to Photofocus.com.  We’re happy as heck to have him on board.  Give him a shout out or welcome in the comments section below. It’s that time of the year when photographers should look back on the year that was and look forward on the year that can be.  Here are […]

The Evolution of Cameras and Portraits in 11 Images

Liron Samuels

We’ve all seen photos from the early days of photography, and we all know how far imaging technology has come over the years, but how did we go from long-exposure self-portraits to instant selfies? In this video we are taken on a historical journey with COOPH photographer Leo Rosas through the evolution of cameras and […]

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Watch Frank Sinatra Brought To Life With A Hypnotizing 2.5D Parallax Movie

Udi Tirosh

If Frank Sinatra was alive, December 12th would have marked his 100th birthday. For this occasion Universal Music released a movie featuring the legend made by filmmaker Basti Hansen to promote the “Ultimate Sinatra CD Box”. Here is the cool thing, Basti did not want to use the ‘same old’ footage that have been seen-to-death again, […]

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Instagram Sensation Humorously Teaches Normal Dude How To Take Sexy Photos

Liron Samuels

BuzzFeed’s Zach Kornfeld turned to the online world in order to find a date, but his profile photo just wasn’t getting the job done. In need of a few pointers on how to take sexy photos of himself, Zach met up with “Instagram’s sexiest man”, Brock O’Hurn. With over 2.2 million followers on Instagram and […]

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