Category: Inspiration

Photographer documents nature vs humanity with a 4×5 large format film camera

John Aldred

Helene Schmitz is one of Sweden’s most successful art photographers. Her work focuses on the complicated and sometimes violent relationship between humans and nature. This idea has led to several award winning books, including her latest book Borderlands. In this short documentary by photographer and filmmaker Johan Stahlbergl, we get an insight into Helene’s thought process. […]

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Why Has The Falling Man – One Of The Strongest Photographs in History Disappeared [strong graphics]

Udi Tirosh

Some dates are defining dates and everyone remembers where they have been on those date. One such date is 9/11. If I asked you where you were on that day you’d probably remember. One of the photographs most associated with that day is The Falling Man. Interestingly, despite the strength of the photo is has […]

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8 Tips to help you up your game as a travel filmmaker

John Aldred

Becoming a travel photographer or filmmaker has had a resurgence in the last few years. It’s one of those markets of photography that took a little dip for a while as cameras got into the hands of more people. Suddenly, companies didn’t need to send photographers to far flung corners of the globe any more. It […]

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Photographer places life size animal prints in what used to be their natural habitats

John Aldred

Growing up in England, home to brown bears, wolves, wolverines and woolly mammoths, photographer Nick Brandt noticed something. Like most of us, he spotted that they weren’t around any more. Mankind had encroached upon their territory and essentially wiped them out. Or at least, led to the cause of their demise long before any of us were ever […]

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Take a visit inside Ansel Adams’ house & studio to see his camera collection

John Aldred

Marc Silber’s series of videos on Ansel Adams just gets better and better each time a new one comes out. In this latest video, we are taken into Ansel’s home and studio. His son, Michael, now lives in the home with wife Jeanne. He talks about some of his father’s lesser known commercial work as well […]

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In August, the Netherlands turns purple and this is what it looks like

Albert Dros

When photographers think of my country they think of windmills, Amsterdam and tulips. These are generally the most photographed subjects in the Netherlands. What they don’t know is that my country turns purple in August. It usually starts mid or early Augusts and ends till the end of August. It turns a lot of areas […]

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This is how Photoshop and other applications resize your images, mathematically speaking

John Aldred

The mathematical side of photography has always interested me. It can be mostly ignored by photographers, often only required to understand the exposure triangle. For me, though, the maths is part of what initially drew me into photography. In this video from Computerphile, we learn what goes into some of the calculations that allow us to easily resize our images inside […]

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Passion, patience and process. How I shot my personal project “The Big Bow”

Patrick Shipstad

I think one of the most important aspects of a successful photo is what happens before you ever click the shutter. Pre-visualization of what you want the photo to look like can happen quickly where you immediately envision the final photo, or it can develop over time where you build on your original concept, adding […]

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I’ve spent two years photographing giant things and I’m not stopping now

Alexandra Cameron

I started this project because, well, it seemed like it would be hella fun, and it truly has been, every agonizing moment of it. I can’t say it’s been hard work, very little of my life as a photographer has ever really felt like work, even when I’m shooting jobs I’m not really ‘in’ to, this series in […]

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IBM’s Watson gives us the world’s first AI created movie trailer and it’s pretty creepy

John Aldred

I’m going to get it out of the way right at the start. Having watched the trailer, I want to go and see this movie. This trailer tells us absolutely nothing about what the movie’s about, but every cut pulls me in more. Until the guy starts talking at the end of the trailer, I’ve no idea […]

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