Arev Manoukian directs a dramatic and visual short film. The story of how he became a director is rather interesting. He was thrown right into it. He applied to be a production assistant on a music video shoot but their director had just quit. After the producer saw his reel, he invited Manoukian to the location scout and gave him the job. The producer met the artists and made a shot list on the spot while listening to the music for the...

Benjamin Oliver Anthony “Ben” Watts, born 1967 in London, is an English photographer based in New York, whose work has been seen in various international fashion magazines, such as Elle, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Vanity Fair and Condé Nast Traveller. He is the brother of actress Naomi Watts. Their father was Peter Watts, a road manager for Pink Floyd. Watts studied at the Sydney College of Arts in Australia, where he...

A few months ago, I’d posted a couple of time-lapse videos done by Terje Sorgjerd. This last August, Terje went to Fjord landscape in western Norway and filmed another video for us. Amazingly, this movie was edited “on the road” and uploaded over 3G network from southeast Asia. What, that’s crazy talk! In fact, he’s sold his apartment, print-studio, car and other belongings so that he can be traveling and...

“What is Life?” is a creative stop motion animation created by a group of students at the MAPS Film School in South Australia, featuring the responses of people around the world who were asked that three-word question. Every single frame in the video is an individual light-painting photograph drawn with lights and torches and captured through a long-exposure shot. I can only imagine the amount of time and work that were put...

Watch this 2-part interview of Chase Jarvis‘ interview done recently by reDefine (AdoramaTV) with Tamara. In part one, Chase shares his journey to becoming a 10 year “over-night” success, which included more NOs early on than you might think, and just how much of his inspiration comes from outside of photography. You’ll also get to see how awesome his studio in Seattle is. Chase and Tamara share some great advice...

In case you don’t remember who Quavondo is, he’s one of the talented photographers who was featured on one of [FRAMED]‘s episodes a few months ago. Driven by an incredible passion for photography, design, and 80′s music, Quavondo is known for his amazing conceptual and fashion shoots along with his dramatic lighting, fantastic post processing work, and some other big magazines. In the video below, Quavondo takes us to a...

Interior photographer Scott Hargis is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and has lots of experience shooting really cool spaces. He works throughout the United States. Scott’s work has been published in This Old House, Women’s Day Kitchens & Baths, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times, Wend Magazine, Bay Crossings Magazine, and others. He’s fast, easy to work with, and fun to be around. This great video...

For most of us pros and semi-pros, and anything in between, we have at least two camera bodies. When you’re out on location doing a photoshoot, chances are you will bring out both (or more) of your bodies, with each having a lens attached to it; that way you can save the time of changing the lens to not miss any “money” shot, or to save the hassle. Up until recently, before I saw this video by Kevin Kubota, I always had...

These video is a must-watch for film geeks. And more than that, it’s an interesting testament to how inspiration works and, yes, how everything we see is a remix of something that came before. From Akira to Total Recall to Strange Days to scores of kung-fu films and the unreal concepts hatched by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick, this six-minute clip (above) compares frames from The Matrix to scores of movies and other media. I don’t...

I’m not sure where he is on the list of Phoenix freelance photographers, but Dustin Farrell should be near the top. He is an A-team shooter, and never let the many challenges of weather get in his way of being creative. His time-lapse work is rather remarkable, and it’s one of the best I’ve seen. The first video below is called Landscapes: Volume 2. It is the second of a three part series (probably). Every frame of this...