These celebrities are serious about their photography

Allen Murabayashi

Everyone is a photographer, and that includes celebrities. But some celebrities take their photography more seriously than others, investing both significant time and money into developing their craft. Here’s a small sampling. Jeff Bridges The Dude photographs! Jeff Bridges is well-known for his on-set photography using a Widelux camera. The panoramic images have become somewhat […]

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This short film makes a parkour race looks like a video game

John Aldred

I find it cool to see the things people try with their drones. What they’re doing to try and come up with something a little different. Drones have become so commonplace now that many of the videos I see look much like all the rest. This short from filmmaker Marin Kafedjiiski, though, looks very different. At […]

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Zeiss ExoLens Pro Review

Amy Davies

The Zeiss ExoLens Pro is a wide-angle lens for your iPhone 6 or 7. It slots over the corner of your iPhone and changes the standard 28mm focal length to a much wider 18mm. Read our Zeiss ExoLens Pro review to find out if this is a must-have acc…

This is what photographers need to know about the modelling industry

Jake Hicks

I think it’s fair to say that most photographers will at some point in their career have to work with models at least once. Whether you’re a still life shooter that photographs models’ hands holding a fork full of food a couple of times a year or an e-commerce shooter that works with models every […]

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How our attachment to past makes us overlook new trends and talent in photography

Lars Mensel

There’s a very succinct analogy by Marshall McLuhan, summing up our society’s focus on the past: “We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.” McLuhan was referring to technology, but his observation works just as well in the context of modern-day photography: Even as technology reshapes it, we […]

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Using natural light to slim down and shape people without photoshop

Andrew Szopory

In today’s modern photography there can be a stigma that almost everything seen in magazines, online or in editorial publication has been photoshopped to make the models look slimmer, softer and more shapely. What if with a few simple “in camera” steps you could minimize the amount of work that needs to be done in […]

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How to color grade in Photoshop using only Solid Color Adjustment Layers

Dunja Djudjic

Each of us has our own style and our methods for editing photos. There are a few ways for color grading, and we can do it in different software. I have stumbled upon an interesting video from Eye Stocker for color grading in Photoshop. It uses only Solid Color Adjustment Layers and “Blend If” mode. […]

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