Category: Inspiration

Prepare, shoot and develop wet plate collodion through the eyes of the photographer

John Aldred

Photographers today often complain about the amount of time they have to sit at the computer processing images. When you see what wet plate photographers had to go through for every single shot, it doesn’t seem so bad. In Be The Collodionist from photographer Monsieur Nède, we see what life used to be like for photographers. […]

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The dark art of Matt Barnes

Clinton lofthouse

At the moment the UK has a movement of dark art and conceptual artists growing from a love of movies and Photoshop. Their work is creeping its way on to more commercial mainstream sites like Behance, and starting to make an impact, amongst the more str…

Professional retoucher “spills the beans” on how swimsuit campaigns are really edited

Udi Tirosh

We know that those models that we are seeing on cover shoots have been shooed to death. We shared a few of those before/after over the years (see here, here and here for just a few). So we know that extreme retouching exists, and we also know that it’s an issue that bogs both models […]

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This 24 square meter contact print is the largest ever

Udi Tirosh

Looking at a print 24 square meters large up close is impressive, but having it made from a contact print elevates it to quite a different level. Contact print is a way of printing photographs in which the negative (or positive) is pressed against a the photo paper and then exposed. This creates a photo at […]

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Faces of Foxes: Every Fox Has Different Personality

Roeselien Raimond

When, during the sixties, Jane Goodall gave wild chimpanzees a name instead of a number, she put the science world upside down. Anonymous animals were no longer nothing but a number. With something apparently as simple as a name, she validated their individuality and uniqueness. “When you face a fox, you face personality.” Many years […]

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6 Things to watch out for when operating a boom mic

John Aldred

If you’ve been shooting video on your DSLRs for any length of time, you’ve realised that in-camera sound is awful. Perhaps you want to branch out to an externally boomed mic. Sounds simple, but there are some things you’ll want to keep in mind. In this video from Aputure’s series 4 Minute Film School, we get some […]

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Slow Mo Guys push it to the extreme with glass explosions at over 343,000fps

John Aldred

In the photography world, we’re used to the megapixel and high ISO races. When it comes to video, the race seems to be about frames per second. With frame rates getting ever faster, Vision Research are usually in the lead with their Phantom cameras. It’s just a regular day at the office for the Slow Mo Guys, making things explode. […]

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Grip it Good – The indespensable members of a film crew

John Aldred

On a film set, the grip handles all means of camera support. Grips assist the cinematographer and gaffer in managing and sculpting the light. They also deal with safety aspects of cast and crew while working on set. In the world of photography we may occasionally have an assistant, but such jobs are usually up to us. In this video from […]

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