Hold Your Breath; The healing power of an underwater photographic love story

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a worldwide annual campaign to highlight the importance of breast awareness, education and research. For some, October is the only month of the year when we think about breast cancer. For others, it’s something faced on a daily basis. That is the situation for photographer Joe Hoddinott and his […]

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Adobe and UC Berkeley’s New Idea

Adobe and UC Berkeley have teamed up to develop a new image editing method, and it’s got some intriguing implications. It’s called Generative Image Manipulation.It intelligently considers the original image and considers what you’re asking it to do and generates a new version on the fly. It’s pretty cool, and if you’re capable of implementing…

Daredevil instagram star dies train surfing in New York

“Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking Instagram account” seems to be the mantra these days. The trend of doing whatever it takes to get the shot with little thought for personal safety has risen tremendously over the last couple of years. One such person was photographer Christopher Serrano, who died on Wednesday while attempting to “train […]

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GearEye wants to be the only solution you need for tracking your equipment

Losing equipment is one of a photographer’s biggest fears. But, it happens. You’re out on location, having a good time, you pack away your stuff and think you’ve got everything. Then you get home and realise you have to walk 90 minutes in the pitch black to go back to the location you just left to […]

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How to create the dolly zoom effect without a zoom lens

The dolly zoom, also known as the “Vertigo Effect” or “Hitchcock Zoom” can be an amazing technique to add tension or drama to a scene. It’s a process whereby the camera is dollied in toward your subject while the lens zooms out wide. Or, the reverse, where the camera moves away from your subject while […]

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