Category: Inspiration

Take a Trip Down Memory Lane With The Sound of Film

Liron Samuels

Past and present film shooters will love this short video while newcomers to photography will scratch their heads wondering what’s going on. Robert Marshall of Round One Films captured the entire film process, step-by-step, from beginning to end. You’ll have to imagine the smell, but the sounds and sights of this critically endangered process were […]

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An Interview With Aerial Photographer Vincent Laforet about Air

Liron Samuels

Last time we featured Vincent Laforet’s work he had just finished photographing his AIR project in London and Barcelona and was preparing to shoot above Paris, Berlin and Venice. Now that he has completed the project and released a book containing high-altitude aerial night-time photos from 10 iconic cities, Leo Laporte of The New Screen […]

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An Interview With Aerial Photographer Vincent Laforet about Air

Liron Samuels

Last time we featured Vincent Laforet’s work he had just finished photographing his AIR project in London and Barcelona and was preparing to shoot above Paris, Berlin and Venice. Now that he has completed the project and released a book containing high-altitude aerial night-time photos from 10 iconic cities, Leo Laporte of The New Screen […]

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Live a Life of Leisure

Eric Kim

Dear friend, life is brutally short; live a life of leisure. I don’t mean to say suddenly quit your job, but to enjoy every moment as if it were your last. Imagine you are stranded in a desert and you are dying from thirst. You see a stream of water, but it will only flow […]

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Dealing with that Creative Rut

Mykii Liu

I don’t know if there’s a term for the photographer’s equivalent for writer’s block, but l had it for the majority of last year. I remember that I couldn’t feel the vibe, I couldn’t find the energy to shoot and I couldn’t find the motivation. I took a double dose of it all when I […]

How To Shoot The Dark Phoenix (And Hack A Broncolor Movel In The Process)

Udi Tirosh

French photographer Frederic Amadu recently shot a series starring Marvel Universe’s Dark Phoenix (oh, make a movie already!!). The Dark Phoenix ( or Jean Grey) has elemental control over fire. So fire was a main part of the shoot. Easier said than done. Frederic had to hack A Broncolor MoveL unit twice. A Different hack for each shot. Shooting […]

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TriggerTrap’s LapseWorld Shows off 5 Major Cities Through the Eyes of Crowdsourced Time-Lapse Photographers

Gannon Burgett

Last month, TriggerTrap asked photographers in five cities around the world to come together to create ‘the most diverse time-lapse ever made.’ After a month of receiving, organizing and editing, TriggerTrap has shared the final results, LapseWorld. The cities TriggerTrap asked to go out and shoot were San Francisco, New York City, Cape Town, London […]

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120,000 Photos Were Shot Over 16 Days For This Time-Lapse of Canon’s 2015 Expo

Gannon Burgett

Once every five years, Canon puts on its Canon Expo. It’s an all-encompassing trade show where Canon shows off the latest and greatest tech across all of its domains – photography, printing, medical equipment, commercial surveillance, and so on. This year, the event was held at the Javits Convention Center in New York City. Over […]

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See a Beautiful New Photo of Earth With Every New Browser Tab You Open

Gannon Burgett

If you haven’t heard of Urthecast, you need to fix that. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Urthecast is a company working hand-in-hand with NASA to provide the first publicly accessible HD camera that’s attached to the International Space Station. While their main objective is a constant stream of HD footage broadcasted live for the […]

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