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...

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...

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...

I’ll be honest, I’m generally not a huge fan of Joe McNally when it comes to tutorials because he tends to go off tangent and I can’t follow, but this is an exception that I personally think is one of the greatest. In this video, Joe McNally will tell a story about how he got the gig to shoot this badass aircraft for National Geographic. The plane was delivered to him and 3 o’clock in the morning, so it was pitch...

April’s Fool is approaching us, so I thought this post would be appropriate. Below is a jQuery code snippet that you can paste into your website that’s loaded with jQuery to run on the first day of April, 2013. The prerequisite is that jQuery.noConflict() has been called, and you have FTP access to your website or WordPress blog. Here are the things this code will do: - Check to see if today is April’s Fool. If yes,...

My friend Julia Kuzmenko McKim has done it again and released yet another eBook called “Digital Photo Retouching: Beauty, Fashion & Portrait Photography“. I had the honor to be involved with the proofing and launching processes of the product, so I was able to check it out before it went live. I must say this: this is one of the most comprehensive and useful book I have read, as far as photo retouching is concerned. I have...

In this installment of Shooting Star, Jasmine shows a few tips on how to pose a couple on a wedding day. Incorporating behind-the-scenes footage from a recent wedding, Jasmine shows how she interacts with a couple to get the results she wants. One of the great tips is that instead of telling your clients how to pose, you encourage to interact with each other, so that the poses look more naturally and less like a “Simon says”...

Guys, check out this behind-the-scene video below with Sue Bryce. Man, she is so boss when it comes to directing a model. Normally, when you watch a BTS video, you’ll notice that the photographer tends to let the model kind of do their thing, and the photographer would just sort of “machine gun” it. Definitely not Sue’s approach here. She knows exactly what she wants, and she can communicate her ideas to the model...

This is one of the most inspirational interviews I’ve seen in the photography industry. Photographer Gregory Heisler is a professional photographer known for his evocative portrait work often found on the cover of magazines, such as Time, for which he has produced a number of Man, Person, and People of the Year covers. He loves his job so much, he’d much rather stay home pulling an all-nighter working on his images than going...