Sometimes you need a long piece of fabric to create a big fancy dress or to make a surreal photo like the one above. Sadly, most fabric resources (including our own fabric package) are just not that long. The solution is to blend pieces of fabric together until you get the length of fabric that [...]
Most everyone is familiar with the concept of an anchor in the nautical sense. The anchor keeps the vessel from drifting away, due to current or wind. It fixes the vessel to a certain position. While this is easily understood, fewer people are aware of the need for a similar concept in photography.
I enjoy using wide angle lenses for landscape photography, but I also recognize that a wider focal length brings additional compositional challenges. While a wide focal length can produce... more
An easy assumption to make, when shooting landscapes, is use a wide angle lens. After all, most landscape photographers favor wide angle lenses for a reason, they naturally give you the widest view and allow you to get the full landscape into the frame, from the foreground to the horizon. They have the widest depth of field, so you get the whole landscape in focus too. Their distortion enlarges objects in the foreground, letting you show off close-up details. The same distortion also... more
DJI made some noise earlier this year when they dropped the DJI Osmo, a 3-axis gimbal system with a built-in 4K camera. With the exception of the microphone issues, which have been addressed, the device is an impressive one, putting out incredibly stable footage that competes with steady cam rigs many times its size and [...]
Ive come across hundreds, if not thousands, of hyper-lapses since the trend took off a few years ago. But non has captured my eyes (and ears) quite like this masterpiece from FilmSpektakel. Titled A Taste of Vienna, this three minute hyperlapse shows off the beauty and intricacy of the Austrian capital city. Not only is [...]
When you think about accessories used around the studio, apple boxes usually arent the first item that come to mind. But, they have their place and as simple as they might seem in concept, the reality is there are many ways to use them and various terms associated with each method. To explain what the [...]
Each week here on dPS we give you a new challenge, something to sink your teeth into and go out and photograph. Last week it wasModes of Transportationand I see many of you have participated in that one.
If you’re following along, this week we have a new one, and I shared some examples to wet your appetite already for... more
Shapes are a something that occur naturally in the world, and we reproduce in man-made objects. Squares, triangles, rectangles, and circles.
In this image set let’s look at the never ending shape – the circle. Curves lines are feminine in nature, they have no beginning and no end. Here are 23 images showing the circle:
[editor’s note: MPEXare the people who are making theLumoPro LP180R, so it makes sense that thatwouldwant to share the information in the article. After all they did come up on top. The fact that they make the LP180R,however, does not take away any of their findings] Todays flash market offers a wide variety of options [...]
Despite how it may look, the above image is not a strange closeup of a Salvador Dali painting. No, its a bizarre creation created by a user of Russian web app Ostagram. Based off an art style appropriately referred to as Inceptionism, this photo is the result of two images being combined together using neural [...]
