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...

One of the mistakes one photographer could make in the early days was showing up to a photo shoot and hoping things would work out for themselves. They never do. When your shoots are not going the way you wanted, you should realize that it was no one’s fault but your own. As a wedding photographer, Jasmine Star needs to prepare her clients for success. This usually begins at the beginning of the working relationship – the...

Take about half an hour out of your day and watch the speech below given by Amy Dresser, who’s one of the most talented photo retoucher in the industry. Amy has a great point about her field, her work, and how it’s perceived by photographers and outsiders. Retouchers are like “parasites in the photo industry”, she said. She goes on about the ridiculous requests that she’d get from clients, and how she’d...

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...

It’s been almost six months in the making, and I finally was able to release yet another time-lapse video of mine. This video marks my very first time-lapse project since I packed up my belongings in 2 suitcases, left California, and moved to New York on September 25th of 2012. One of the reasons why I moved to the city was to be able to take photos whenever and wherever I want. And so I have. This video should be a good reminder of...