In the below video, two drops of water are dropped, a fraction of a second apart, so that the second drop smashes into the Worthington Jet (the water up spout) created by the first drop. Add in a little milk and food coloring to make the collision more pronounced, film it all with a 5000 FPS Phantom Flex slow motion camera, and you’ve got yourself a stunning slow motion video. There are a few of photographers who specialize in this type...

In this Slanted Lens tutorial, Jay P. Morgan shows you how to build a snow falling rig and then how to light falling show. Most of the snow-falling effects done in Hollywood are made by a special effect house. It’s hard to find a setup at Walmart that will create a curtain of falling plastic snow 10 feet wide. Morgan has built many of these over the years and simplified the process so it can be built in an hour or so, and then thrown...

Watch the video below for some useful tips on how to clean your DSLR sensor by Bud Thorpe from The Studio of Photographic Arts (SOPHA). Bud Thorpe is the owner of The Studio of Photographic Arts in Manchester, New Hampshire. SOPHA is a 5,000 square foot photographic training center dedicated to helping photographers of all levels. They teach classes, run seminars, rent studio time, and have memberships. Their community of over 80...

If you’re someone who happens to be into videos, may it be wedding, event, or any other kinds of video, these are great tutorials for you regardless of your skill level. In these videos, the guys at Stillmotion go over some basic ideas such as lens & composition, monopod usage and manipulation, color temperature in camera, and even same day edit! These are guys like the master of same day edits, so make sure to not skip the good...

These hands-on videos show the basics of using the Dynamic Perception Stage Zero Dolly and MX2 DollyEngine. If you’re someone new to the making time-lapse videos, you’ll want to watch this! Several topics are covered, including using the system for basic video moves and shooting time-lapses using the continuous movement mode. They also introduce the tooth method, a rule of thumb for making time-lapse calculations easy. Many of...

Check out these before-and-after videos of photo retouching by Hennadiy Kvasov. Hennadiy is a professional photographer and retoucher who specializes in fashion, beauty, lifestyle, portrait and creative styles. I must say, his work is remarkable. Now, I understand that it might be bit overly done for your everyday portrait photos, but this is the amount and type of work that is required if you want to have your pictures published on...

Here’s another educational and useful behind-the-scene video by Jay P. Morgan “The Slanted Lens“. In this video, he shows us how to balance strobes with daylight. When shooting on location, it’s always good to use ambient light, sun or Shade, as one of your light sources in the scene, and then bring in strobes to make that light more interesting. If you’re not so sure on how to incorporate ambient light with...

To prove to their deadline-setting clients that creativity takes time, Hungarian ad agency Café Creative visited some schoolchildren and asked them to perform two tasks: Complete a drawing in ten seconds, and then complete the same drawing in ten minutes. We all know that for good and original ideas to be born, it is essential to have enough time. With this Deadline Project, Cafe Creative has drawn their attention to this fact in the most...

Check out this great series of beauty retouching Photoshop tutorial videos by Sean Armenta from Fstoppers. The tutorial is broken down into 4 parts, from start to finish. In part 1, Sean spent the entire time working on just removing the blemishes on the model’s face and body. Part 2 was pretty much dedicated on stray hairs – yes, the entire 8-minute video. Part 3 is on detail enhancement, which includes eyes, nose, lips, skin...

Here’s in interesting behind-the-scene video with Mark Wallace and AdoramaTV. In this episode, Mark walks us through the entire process of shooting and editing a science fiction movie poster. Mark will demonstrate how to use lens flare to enhance post-production editing. Mark will also walk through the his Lightroom 3 editing and show each step of the final edit in Adobe Photoshop CS5.5. It’s fascinating to see how we can...