(Hint: Much More Than Just Persuasion) Whether you’re busy navigating the choppy, roiling tides of the vast corporate sea or simply wanting to have things go your way a little bit more often than they presently do, the ability to communicate effectively will be one of the most important arrows in your quiver. The important thing to remember, though, is that communication isn’t only about making sure you’re understood — it’s...

So you know I love me some time-lapse videos, especially ones that involve planets and stars and stuff. One of the factors that make a time-lapse video more interesting is the camera movement. The guys from Kessler Crane and Dynamic Perception have figured out ways to add motion along the x-axis and y-axis. Check out this new product that’s being asked to be funded on Kickstarter called Astro. When installed, this little “hockey...

So Annie Leibovitz recently had a photoshoot with Karlie Kloss and a bunch of America’s top male Olympians for Vogue US June 2012. I’m not sure about you, but these pictures look below average to me. In fact, I personally think most of Annie’s work is really mediocre. Sure she gets funded to shoot big projects for big companies, and her portfolio consists of quite a few celebs, but her final results look far behind some...

This video below done by Vi Hart was made for her Youtube audience, but I think the message could also apply for us photographers. Well, she didn’t really make the video for her audience, she made the video for herself; and by doing so, she advertently creates an audience that follows her. Confusing? Kind of. It’s only but a way of saying you should create art that you enjoy making, for yourself, not somebody else. I must admit,...

Check out this awesomely cool time-lapse video below that was shot by a group called Spot on Idea, which is a multimedia production company based out in Hong Kong. I really like the construction shots at the beginning of the video, especially since it has the tilt-shift effect. I also like most of the shots that were taken at night the middle of the city. I’m going to take a wide guess and say some of the panning was done in post, but...

[FRAMED] Show Network is an amazing organization which consists of talented photographers and videographers. These people go out of their way to interview other inspiring, emerging and also well-established photographers and videographers, so that we all have the luxury of watching these outstanding professionals work behind the scenes, and how they got to where they are today. I used to watch every single one of their episodes on Youtube,...

There are a ton of tutorials on how to make a dynamic “Back to Top” button on your website, and most of them involve jQuery. The problem is, those tutorials are for standalone websites, not WordPress. The biggest difference is if you’re running a WordPress website, chances are, jQuery has already been installed, and the most important thing is, a function noConflict(); has been called. When this function is called, the...

What you see in the videos below are actually NOT computer-generated imagery (CGI). The amazing shots are actually done by a high-speed robotic arm that is attached to a camera. The guys from THE MARMALADE, a high-end commercial production company in Germany, have figured out a way to incorporate cinematography, computer science, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering into one machine, which has the ability to control the...

Video editing is no one simple task, and I’ve been tinkering with Adobe Premiere CS6 enough to get the job done, but I’m nowhere near being efficient at using the software. What used to take me an hour or two in Windows Live Movie Maker (I know, I know, it’s cookie cutter and not exactly professional), now takes me at least twice the amount of time when I use AP. However, I’m determined to force myself to learn how...

Here are some behind the scenes of Jeremy Cowart‘s most recent photoshoot with actress Marielle Jaffe. The shoot happened in pretty much a run-and-gun style, no makeup nor hairstylist, no wardrobe, no storyline. Jeremy and Marielle were just driving around the city and shooting for the fun of it. I really enjoy Jeremy’s simple approach to shooting and editing; moreover, with someone as gorgeous and photogenic as Marielle,...