This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a while. In the video, an FBI trained forensic artist sits down and sketches up drawings of his subjects. The catch is, he doesn’t get to see their faces, and there are two versions for each person: one described by the subject himself/herself, and one described a third party. The results are quite different: one is “closed off and fatter, and sadder too”, while...

It’s really time-lapse like these that make me feel like I really need to try pushing my limits even further to better my craft. I must admit, living in NYC is great, but there are so many projects that have already been done here, so unless you do something out of the box, your work is less likely to stand out. Ole C. Salomonsen, a dedicated and passionate landscape photographer who lives in Norway, however has a different story....

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...

When Vincent Laforet made a post about a game changing device that was about to by launched in the film-making industry, I really didn’t expect much of it. Vincent said it was a “mobile” device, so I thought it was some sort of lighting device that you could carry with you while filming on set. I was far from being correct. Very far. Watch this video and you’ll know what I’m talking about.If you notice, the...

Okay, this time-lapse video has GOT to be one you haven’t seen before. These photographers and filmmakers keep pushing the their limits that a regular time-lapse doesn’t even cut it anymore. Check out Richard Bentley‘s latest time-lapse project that he shot in Dubai; it’s really out of this world! And by that I mean you’ll see some aliens and spaceships like in a sci-fi movie. Normally, I’m not a huge...

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a...

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,...

If you don’t have a large 4×6 softbox or an octobox to shoot portrait using your existing light, Mark Wallace has some nice tips for you to overcome the limitation. In this episode, Mark teaches you how to use a light modifier that most people have – a white wall! Using the white wall to bounce the light and a few reflectors, Mark will demonstrate lighting setups using studio strobes and speedlights. The method works for...

Who needs to travel and use quadcopters, hexacopters, or even octocopers to shoot some aerial footage nowadays? All you need is Nokia 3D maps and Final Cut Pro, and some beefy computer hardware. That’s exactly what Paul Wex did to produce the video below. Upon coming up with the idea, Paul realized that his computer graphic card wasn’t powerful enough to execute it. Paul then upgraded his setup and was finally able to put...

People often wrestle with leaving their current job to pursue something more meaningful to them. Maybe they’re not happy with their current job. Maybe they don’t want to work for a boss anymore and want to be self-employed. Maybe they just want to do something true to their passion and themselves. So think of your current job as one train. Think of what you really want to do-or what you want to do next-as another train. Right...