Category: Inspiration

This photographer has ALS and shoots amazing street photography from his wheelchair

John Aldred

Brought world’s consciousness in a massive way in 2014, thanks to the Ice Bucket Challenge, ALS is not a nice thing to have to live with.  Having had a good friend suffer with ALS for several years before she passed away, I’ve seen the effects it can have first hand, not only on those who have […]

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If your camera were a human, who would it be? Sony pokes a little fun at DSLRs in their latest commercial

John Aldred

To show off the features of the Sony RX100 IV camera, Sony Thailand has produced an amusing three minute video imagining your camera as if it were a human in order to make their points on the RX100 IV’s advantages over a big, bulky, scary DSLR. With features like a flip screen, the RX100 IV certainly offers its […]

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This drone video uses the Hitchcock Zoom technique for beautiful but dizzying results

John Aldred

The Hitchcock Zoom, also known as the dolly zoom, the Vertigo effect, reverse tracking shot, triple reverse zoom, the trombone effect, as well as countless other names, is the process of simultaneously moving the camera while zooming the lens to keep your subject a constant size within the frame while the environment gets larger or smaller. This […]

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Humor: A Letter of Complaint from Her Majesty, The Queen

Missy Mwac

(Please Note: I can neither confirm nor deny this letter was sent.  I personally think the portrait is marvelous, but I’ve been called “Old School,” so what do I know?) Dear Annie Leibovitz, I am writing in regards to the most recent photographs taken of me for my 90th birthday. I shan’t delve into all […]

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Watch as this photographer shoots female bodybuilders in the middle of the street

John Aldred

I’ve been following the work of Texas based portrait photographer Keydrin Franklin for a while now, but a recent Facebook Live stream of this particular shoot got me very interested.  It’s certainly not every day you see a group of people walking out into the middle of the road to have photos made. As well as resulting […]

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“It’s no use!”: 10 tips to overcome photographic discouragement

Olivier Duong

Ever so often it happens. You don’t call it, it comes to you. You feel like it’s no use, you think your photography sucks and you feel discouraged. I’ve been there and still get there many times myself, here’s 10 tips to overcome photographic discouragement 1) You are not alone Here’s the first thing: Everybody […]

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Delete Your Sh!t: Why You Should Trash Most of Your Photos

JP Danko

This is one of those subjects in the photography world that is strangely controversial – like Nikon vs. Canon, DSLR vs. Smartphone and Prime vs. Zoom … the idea that you should delete your sh!t – or in other words – why you might want to permanently delete most of the photos that you’ve ever […]

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The power of a photograph

Gannon Burgett

‘Photographers have the power to capture human moments.’ This is the opening line of the inspiring new short film created by Cooperative of Photography, affectionately known to as COOPH. As cliche as it may sound, the truth couldn’t ring more clearly. A single image can stop the world in its tracks and, at least for […]

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This photographer is capturing childhood at its simplest, sheltered from TV and electronic devices

John Aldred

There’s no way around it, our world is dominated by electronic devices.  In these days of the super computers in our pockets we call cellphones, as well as tablets, smart watches and the countless other gadgets which make up the Internet of Things, one mother is taking things back to basics. In an ongoing project, New Zealand […]

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Using Photoshop and Timelapse to make an empty version of Paris

John Aldred

Recently posted to Reddit, is Mathieu Stern’s intriguing short film project “Alone in Paris“.  While Mathieu promises that a Behind The Scenes video is coming in a week or so, it’s always fun to speculate how things like this can be created. Some of the theories have already been shot down over on the Reddit […]

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