Category: Inspiration

Get creative with your portraits using a piece of silver window screen mesh

John Aldred

A few days ago, we showed you Cheesycam’s tutorial on making large frames for gels or diffusion with screen door kits. Well, those kits often come with some mesh.  Mesh which may now be laying around in your garage doing not much at all. Now, thanks to photographer Mark Wallace, we have a photography related use […]

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The BBC used IR RED, thermal imaging and Sony A7S cameras to get night shots for Planet Earth 2

John Aldred

The BBC is renowned for its stunning wildlife sequences. Every time they release a new wildlife series, especially one narrated by David Attenborough, the visuals are stunning. We are shown wildlife in a way we’ve never seen before. They use or invent technology that hadn’t even existed just a few years earlier. They really are on […]

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This photographer shot Northern Lights reflected in a volcanic crater lake

Dunja Djudjic

Photos of Northern Lights and volcanic craters are mesmerizing on their own. Photographer Sigurður (Siggi) William managed to capture them together and created a stunning photo of Aurora Borealis reflected on the water surface of a volcanic crater. We asked Siggi to share with us how he made this fantastic shot, and he shared the […]

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4 Lighting Principles I wish I knew when I started Photography

Tara Lesher

When I first started photography, I struggled a lot with lighting. In the beginning, we are often told to shoot our subjects in open shade. If you don’t know how to do this properly, then the results can be disastrous: faces with dark shadows, eyes with no depth, overexposed backgrounds, etc. To be able to […]

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Finalist photos of Wellcome Image Awards show incredible science-related images

Dunja Djudjic

The Wellcome Image Awards has been celebrating science, medicine, and life for 20 years now. This competition connects science and art in the most wonderful way, and the finalists of 2017 competition have officially been announced. The final images are both scientifically significant and incredibly unique and beautiful. Aside from conventional photographs, there are also […]

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Why Photographers Don’t Get Modern Art

John Raymond Mireles

It’s understandable that the great unwashed masses of the larger population might not appreciate contemporary art. But you’d think that photographers, who are creatives in their own right, would appreciate the art and creativity of others in all of its various forms. What I’ve seen instead is that, when it comes to much contemporary art, […]

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Are we entering photography’s “Golden Age”?

Don Giannatti

[This article is for commercial photographers and not intended for consumer shooters] Shoot, I don’t know. Seemed like a good headline made to interest someone enough to engage. A headline that asks a question, a provocative question seems to be the way to get clicks and saves and ‘likes’… all that really important stuff. And […]

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30 lessons Leonardo da Vinci has taught me about photography, art, and life

Eric Kim

Leonardo da Vinci was the ultimate ‘autodictat’ (someone who taught himself everything). He had no formal schooling, yet he didn’t let that get in his way. He was the world’s keenest observer— he would just look around himself, take notes, and followed his curiosity. He stayed like a child his entire life— never stopping learning, writing […]

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They melted an espresso machine with 60,000 Watts of light for this photo & video shoot

John Aldred

Shooting liquids for commercial clients is no easy task. There’s a lot of experimentation and learning involved to build the skills to get it right. And when mastered, it becomes an art form all of its own. In this behind the scenes documentary by Praemi we see photographer Bill Cahill shooting an ad campaign for Peet’s […]

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This is what it was like to work in Photoshop 1.0

Dunja Djudjic

The 1990s brought a real revolution in digital technology. Considering that this era brought us digital cameras, broader use of PCs and Internet, we can say that it was revolutionary for photographers, too. And this revolution wouldn’t be complete without the most famous editing tool – Photoshop. In this demo, one of the inventors of […]

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