Category: Inspiration

Photographer shoots a wedding couple on a rooftop helipad during sunset

John Aldred

For many photographers, there are shots you see in your head that you one day hope to have the opportunity to create. Those visions can live there for years, just waiting to exist in the real world. For Phillipines based photographer Jiggie Alejandrino, the image above was one such photograph. When I first saw this photograph, […]

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On “Trame” – A photograph can be more than the sum of its included parts

Andrew Molitor

I feel that there’s a word missing from our vocabulary, and this essay is the culmination of an effort to find such a word, to define it usefully, and to work through some of what it might mean. Consider these two pictures: The first one I shot specifically to test a camera-clubby sort of online […]

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This photographer lit a biker doing stunts with an Elinchrom strobe mounted to a drone

John Aldred

When Nikon put a couple of SB-5000 speedlights on a drone for their launch of the D500, I was pretty impressed. I was also a little jealous. It was something I’d wanted to try myself, but didn’t have access to the kind of drones I’d need to lift them. Now, photographer David Robinson has upped […]

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This 4K Chicago Timelapse took more than 65,000 pictures to make

Udi Tirosh

Every once in awhile we stumble across a really cool time lapse. This is the case with Urbanique Chicago by Chris Biela. This 4K timelapse was shot in Chicago for a little over 8 months, and has amassed quite an impressive amount of footage – 65k photos and 250 clips. While you may think that the darkness and […]

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I am documenting a 7,000 kilometers paraflight with a flock of swans – this is my kit

Ben Cherry

Hello my name is Ben Cherry, I’m an environmental photojournalist and Fujifilm X-Photographer. Currently I am midway through a groundbreaking conservation expedition called Flight of The Swans. The project is hoping to raise awareness of the Bewick’s swan, which has a declining European population, that all sounds pretty normal for a conservation project, but here’s […]

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Getting over your fear of photographing strangers

Carla Coulson

This is one of my favourite subjects. I love teaching in my workshops as most people feel awkward about approaching people on the streets to photograph them. Through experience, trial and error, I have had the pleasure to understand the psychology of approaching perfect strangers to ask them for a pic and the wonderful joy […]

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Putting landscapes in jars with double exposures on film

John Aldred

These days, making a landscape appear as if it were inside a jar would typically be relegated to Photoshop. In the past, it was done by the use of double exposures. In a double exposure with analogue, you’re shooting twice without advancing the film. So, you’re basically adding one photograph on top of another (like […]

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This Madrid timelapse shows off a variety of cool techniques and a beautiful city

John Aldred

Some of you might remember Kirill Neiezhmakov. He shot the timelapse sequence of the Dubai luxury hotel fire on New Year’s Eve. In that short, he mixed some real time footage with timelapse footage and zooms to great, but short, effect. Well, Kirill’s back with a new timelapse of Madrid, Spain and he’s taking those techniques […]

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I lit fitness gear on fire and shot athletes using it, here is how it looks like

Brandon Wells

[editor’s note: I was surprised at how casually the athletes treated the fire. I mean, it has to hot, and that size of a flame up close can be quite intimidating. I asked Brandon about it  and he told DIYP that: “The safety and comfortability of the athletes was priority in this shoot, so making […]

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