Category: Inspiration

This stunning 12MP Los Angeles timelapse was shot with a 100MP Phase One

John Aldred

With all the amazing timelapses that are coming out lately, it’s getting more and more difficult to do something different and make your work stand out.  Shooting with a 100MP medium format camera is certainly one way to do it, which is the route that photographer and filmmaker Joe Capra chose to take. Shot on the Phase One […]

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Brandon Jennings announces Knicks signing by poking fun at a fan’s Photoshop fail

John Aldred

Celebrities, especially sports celebrities, seem to be fairly common targets for badly done Photoshop, but rarely has one responded quite like Brandon Jennings. While the former Milwaukee & Detroit point guard was a free agent, fan “Alex L” suggested he sign with the Sacramento Kings using one of the worst Photoshop jobs in sports history to illustrate […]

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Photograph Anything You Want

Eric Kim

I wanted to write you this letter on how to liberate yourself in photography— by photographing what interests you rather than what you think other people will be interested. It means to make your photography more personal, and to make your photos a reflection of who you are as an individual. Remember; photos are always […]

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Six great tips for creating freakishly awesome UV photography

John Aldred

A few weeks ago, the folks from the Cooperative of Photography brought us an excellent video on taking our photography to the next level. One of the projects highlighted in that video was on UV photography. Starting simple and building it up to produce something amazing. This time, the Cooperative are back with photographer Markus Berger and some […]

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Take the golden ratio with you everywhere you go using this wallet sized view finder

John Aldred

The golden ratio isn’t really something I think about much, or at all, when composing a photograph.  But if it’s something you’ve wanted to start applying more to your compositions, then now you can do so with this handy dandy new pocket sized golden ratio view finder from Areaware. Dating back to Euclid’s Elements over 2,300 years ago, […]

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Portraits are as much about psychology as they are about equipment

John Aldred

As more and more of our clients are becoming familiar with being in front of the camera (Thanks, Facebook!), people today tend to present themselves the way they want the world to see them, rather than as the people they actually are. In this video, photographer Sean Tucker talks about the difference between simply taking somebody’s […]

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How I shot a photo of Glenfiddich on fire

Rui Bandeira

Explore the idea of hanging products (like here and here), I decided to add a new element … fire. I had used fire in another image of a bottle  (here), but this time I wanted the fire to encompass the bottle, which meant taking a few more safety precautions. I started by choosing the background for image, I chose an old […]

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Making and framing a fine art print; What photography is all about

John Aldred

I love digital analogue hybrid processes in photography, I find them absolutely fascinating, and this video from photographer Nick Carver helps to show why. There is, of course, another message in this video. If you like your images, print them. Print them big and show them off. I couldn’t agree more. I still shoot both film […]

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