This image, titled “Star Gazers”, won Grand Prizes at the 2015 Shoot the Hills photo competition.Held in the Hocking Hills regionnear Logan, Ohio,this competition takes place the 3rd weekendevery April.160 photographers fromseveral states participated this year.
Iinitially came up with the idea for this shot over a year earlier, but my first attempt at the image failed miserably. (see below)
July 4th came and went and as usual we found ourselves drowning in fireworks videos and photos. Alexander Wolfe took another approach, converting fireworks into shapes using masked aperture. The idea is that a remote highlight will assume whatever shape youpunch on the front of a lens. Alexander used the Bokeh Masters Kit to achieve [...]
One of the hardest things to find in today’s society is real, unabashed honesty. There’s no shortage of people spouting their views and opinions, but very rarely do we see beneath the surface or reveal our true selves to those around us. Samantha Geballe is an exception to the rule. The fine art and conceptual [...]
There is an all-too-commonpath that many people follow when they begin to practicestreet photography. They grab their camera, go to the busiest place they can find, and capture people head-on over and over again.
While this is certainly something that you should do, it is not the only thing. I want to dispel a few myths about street photography to help broaden the content that you photograph. There is a wide range of ways to capture interesting street photographs for you totry.
Just one month after announcing the entry-level HERO+ LCD, the undisputed king of action cameras has just announced another new model. This one sports an entirely new, and drastically smaller, design. The Session looks like a lens block that was cut out of a regular GoPro making it 50% smaller. Including its integrated waterproof housing [...]
Photoshop can be extremely intimidating to learn, but once you start to get a grasp on some of the tools it has to offer, you’ll wonder how you ever processed photographs without it. If there’s one area of Photoshop that is both extremely confusing, and yet, extremely powerful when harnessed properly, it’s got to be the collection of blend modes. While this article won’t cover all of the options available within Photoshop, it should give you a good place to start your... more
DIYP has been following the Lightroom/Photoshop dehaze saga since before it was released in the public update. Now, we bring you the next installment. PhotographerChristian Mairitsch (who also has some breathtakinglandscape images in his Flickrstream) decided to go below the surface with the new feature. Literally. In a dynamic proof of its capabilities, Christian put [...]
Macro photographer Mark Thorpe(A.K.APixelHobo) just sent us this awesome macro photography tip. The idea is to create a concave macrodiffuser that will illuminate your (itsy bitsy) subjects from all around, eliminatingshadows. He calls it‘El Monstro’. The build is easy as long as you have ample supply of gaffers tape Ingredients What is missing from the [...]
