500 shades of gray: tips for shooting black and white film

Vincent Moschetti

If you are new to film photography, chances are that you will get into shooting black and white sooner or later because you have been inspired by the masterpieces of our great geniuses. But before you become the next Henri Cartier-Bresson or Sebastião Salgado there are a few things you should know. Seeing the world […]

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How to reduce noise in your photos with no 3rd party plugins in Lightroom and Camera Raw

John Aldred

There’s plenty of great applications and plugins out there that will help you reduce noise in your images. Some are standalone apps while others are plugins. But there’s a lot you can do straight from within Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and Lightroom without all that. This video from Blake Rudis at F64 Academy talks us through […]

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Facing right in the photos makes people look more powerful

Dunja Djudjic

Do you pay attention which side is your model facing in photos? And do you think this is important for the message? According to a recent study, it is. Simone Schnall, Director of the Cambridge Embodied Cognition and Emotion Laboratory, says in her report that the subject should be facing right. If we want to portray […]

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Photographer Featured On New USPS Stamp

Levi Sim

Each year the United States Postal Service receives tens of thousands of images to be considered as artwork for new stamps; last year they received more than 40,000 entries, but they chose fewer than 25 to publish. One of this year’s new stamps, the Nebraska Sesquicentennial stamp, is a photograph made by Michael Forsberg. It’s…

These cuboids are made from 50,000 35mm film canisters

John Aldred

Those of us who develop ourselves typically throw the empty film canister away when we’re done. Perhaps we’ll keep one from a roll of something a little rare now and again. Hillvale, an independent film lab in Melbourne, Australia, however kept everything. Since opening shop in 2013, Hillvale have been saving the 35mm film canister […]

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This model dangled over a 1000 ft skyscraper for a photo without safety equipment

Dunja Djudjic

I know that people these days really try hard to get likes on social networks. But I still get surprised how far some of them would go. After the guy who climbs the skyscrapers to take shots, one model went a step further (quite literally). Viktoria Odintsova had a photo shoot on top of Cayan […]

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Photographer shares the truth behind viral photo of cheetahs killing impala

Dunja Djudjic

Has your Facebook feed been flooded with the photo of impala a few seconds from death by hungry cheetahs? Allegedly, she sacrificed herself to save her younglings from the hungry beasts, and the photo shows his final glare as her young ones escape. Well, this touching story of “motherly sacrifice” turns out to be totally […]

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Photographer of the Day: Edwin Collingridge

Vanelli

Category: Sports Photograph: “Bruno Senna” by Edwin Collingridge Edwin offers a unique angle not often seen in auto racing. By dragging the shutter–lowering the shutter speed to 1/100th of second–he achieve a tack sharp image of the car while showing motion of the road. Originally shared with the Photofocus Flickr community right here. To learn how your…