I must have watched this time-lapse video at least 2 two or three times before posting it. From the music to the composition and locations, everything gives you a very relaxing feel about it. Fine-art landscape & time-lapse photographer Joe Louw, who’s based in South Africa, travels around to shoot this video below with his wife, who helped him with carrying the equipment, planning the shots, and documenting the whole trip. In my...

Check out the time-lapse video below called “Heart of Vancity” shot by Canada-based photographer Joel Schat. The video is one of the cleanest I’ve seen. The composition is top notch, the music is epic, the movements are so smooth, and there is virtually none of light flickering. What you’ll notice is that is Joel Schat focuses on shots that involve a lot of change in terms of lighting. How did Joel achieve such...

I work in the Financial District area of Manhattan, New York; namely, at the corner of Water St and John St. There are at least 20-30 food trucks, on top of multiple restaurants, within the 700-yard radius. At lunchtime everyday, my coworkers and I walk around the blocks trying different places to eat. A few months ago, we discovered GRK Fresh Greek, and it’d proven to be a good spot to visit at least once a month or. The food is...

Here’s another Jasmine Star’s installment on how to pose a bride for a photoshoot. When you are photographing a bride, it is as important to make her feel comfortable as it is to have the pictures look good. One of the tricks is to give the bride something to hold, because it will create natural lines and curves where they are supposed to be. This can be easily done since there’s always the bouquet. You can also give...

Coco Rocha has got to be one of the coolest models I’ve seen. Born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, Coco Rocha started her modeling career in New York in 2004. Ever since, we have seen her face all over big named ads and commercials. I like her because she seems to be a hard working individual with a lot of self-respect and integrity. In fact, she ran into a bit of a problem last year when Elle Brazil...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, more commonly known as SDO, has spent the last three years taking pictures of the sun, showing off its steady increase in activity as its latest 11-year cycle nears its peak. As part of the project, NASA has taken some of the images and compiled them into a single 3-minute video, which makes it easy to see the gradual increase in solar activity. SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures...

On a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst, and 10 being top notch, I’d rate this video 8 for its music and art, 7 for its creativity, given that the light-painting idea isn’t exactly new. With that said, on a scale from 1 to 10 of how much I’m in love with Kina Grannis, I’d give it ∞ + 1. Yes, that’s infinity+1, meaning it can’t be measured. Kina Grannis is a singer/songwriter who started her...

If you’ve been surfing on the Internet long enough, I’m sure you’ve seen the work of Devin Graham, also better known as “Devin Supertramp“. Thanks to the power of Youtube and social networks, anyone with a camera, a passion for photography/cinematography, and effort, could really make it to be popular. And by effort I mean lots of it. Most people think photographers/videographers live their lives like a...

The post title is a bit confusing, so I’ll try to explain the purpose here: Let’s say you have a webpage with a top navigation menu. Now, suppose you want to be fancy and have the top navigation stay static with respect to the page as the user scroll down. The effect is seen implemented on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Techcrunch, Woot.com, etc… I’m going to explain how this trick is done using  jQuery. Now,...

I’ve been on a quest to find the best weather app for quite some time now, and I think I’ve finally found it. I have an iPhone, and the native weather app has been put in my “junk” folder for almost a year now, because it looks so ancient and is so impractical. What I wanted was an app that is clean, elegant, and informative. “How informative” you ask? Well, I want to know how windy it’s going to...