I must have watched this time-lapse video at least 2 two or three times before posting it. From the music to the composition and locations, everything gives you a very relaxing feel about it. Fine-art landscape & time-lapse photographer Joe Louw, who’s based in South Africa, travels around to shoot this video below with his wife, who helped him with carrying the equipment, planning the shots, and documenting the whole trip. In my...

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...

Coco Rocha has got to be one of the coolest models I’ve seen. Born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, Coco Rocha started her modeling career in New York in 2004. Ever since, we have seen her face all over big named ads and commercials. I like her because she seems to be a hard working individual with a lot of self-respect and integrity. In fact, she ran into a bit of a problem last year when Elle Brazil...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, more commonly known as SDO, has spent the last three years taking pictures of the sun, showing off its steady increase in activity as its latest 11-year cycle nears its peak. As part of the project, NASA has taken some of the images and compiled them into a single 3-minute video, which makes it easy to see the gradual increase in solar activity. SDO’s Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) captures...

On a scale from 1 to 10, with 1 being the worst, and 10 being top notch, I’d rate this video 8 for its music and art, 7 for its creativity, given that the light-painting idea isn’t exactly new. With that said, on a scale from 1 to 10 of how much I’m in love with Kina Grannis, I’d give it ∞ + 1. Yes, that’s infinity+1, meaning it can’t be measured. Kina Grannis is a singer/songwriter who started her...

If you’ve been surfing on the Internet long enough, I’m sure you’ve seen the work of Devin Graham, also better known as “Devin Supertramp“. Thanks to the power of Youtube and social networks, anyone with a camera, a passion for photography/cinematography, and effort, could really make it to be popular. And by effort I mean lots of it. Most people think photographers/videographers live their lives like a...

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...