Category: photography

How I created underwater rooms for “Thinking Plastic” photo project

Joel Coleman

“Describe heroin, what’s it like?” he asked Wendy. “Oh it’s euphoric, it solves all your problems… Except it kills you. Sometime around 1994, Australian television personality Andrew Denton conducted an interview with Wendy Whiteley, widow of the Australian artist Brett Whiteley. Both Wendy and her late husband had a very well documented addiction to heroin. […]

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Photographer wanted to capture Moon, but then he focused and saw his mistake

Dunja Djudjic

How many times have you thought of an object to be something else? This happened to Fox 5 DC journalist Van Applegate and caused one of his images to go viral. Thanks to a mistake he made while taking the photo, the very same photo went viral and put a smile on faces of many. […]

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How a photographer recreated The Dark Side of the Moon album cover in camera

Dunja Djudjic

No matter if you are a fan of Pink Floyd or not, I’m sure you know the cover of their iconic album The Dark Side of the Moon. After all, as photographers, you are familiar with the phenomenon it depicts. Young photographer Mason Maxwell turned that phenomenon into a photo that pays a tribute to […]

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How do you pronounce “Bokeh?” Here’s how you should

Dunja Djudjic

When you see the word “bokeh” written, you probably see an image in your head to associate it with the word. But when you read it out loud, how do you do it? Is it “boh-key,” “boh-kuh,” “boo-kay” or something else? Guys from Photogearnews asked photographers at The Photography Show how they pronounce it. There […]

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Why the Technical Stuff Matters in Photography

Spencer Cox

Along with normal how-to articles and essays, I’ve always liked reading and writing very technical, nitty-gritty articles about photography — sometimes, articles on topics that rarely come up while actually taking pictures. In fact, I usually don’t even use my own sharpest aperture charts in the field, as useful as they are, since I don’t […]

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One Month On The Road: What I’ve Learned About Photography

Lauren Lim

Well, here we are. It’s been just over a month now that we’ve been on the road. We’ve done WAY less work than we hoped, but we’ve seen so much more than we expected. I imagine down the road we won’t feel so worried about getting so little work done, but right now it’s hard […]

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This is not your typical 7 mistakes video, it’s worth your 28 minutes

Dunja Djudjic

We all make mistakes and learn from them. And we’ve often been pointed out the ones we make as photographers. But in their latest podcast, Tony & Chelsea Northrup point out to 7 mistakes you may not have thought about, and you have probably made at least one of them. Maybe you still do. Listening to […]

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Idea is bigger than gear: photographer uses paper cutouts to transform famous landmarks

Dunja Djudjic

Photographing famous landmarks is something most of us do when we travel. It’s always a nice memory, but honestly speaking – it’s hard to make these photos original. But British photographer Rich McCor (or Paper Boyo) has found a way to do it. His photos of landmarks are definitely unique, yet the solution he found […]

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