As a photographer, I’m sure we all have dealt with situations where we had to do the shoot when the lighting wasn’t our best friend. Too much shade, too little shade, too much sunlight, too little sunlight, ambient lights bouncing off all over the place etc. We all know lighting is one of the most difficult subject to master. I do realize that I’m not very good at lighting, so when I set up a shoot, I try to pick a...

Have you ever seen a video on the internet that made you go, “How the $%&@ did they do that?” – This is one one those videos that I happened to come across. Normally, time-lapse videos are shot using a crane/dolly system where you can set the camera movement within 3-6 feet. Well, check this out, these guys from NOVALAPSE [link was incorrect, and has been fixed] have figured out a way to shoot the videos across a...

Jay P. Morgan has posted quite an amount of very informative and education videos. This time, it is all about Soft Boxes. There are many misconceptions about what Soft Boxes do and how to use them. This is the scientific look at the area of coverage and light quality of the different sizes of Soft Boxes. Using this knowledge you will find it easier to decide which size Box to use to achieve your desired lighting result. After this lesson...

For their music video for the song Bright Siren, Japanese band androp created a mind-blowing giant display using Canon 60D DSLRs and strobes as the individual pixels. They used 250 separate cameras and flash units, and controlled each one individually using a computer program. Every single light used was real, and no computer-generated trickery was used. You can also check out the behind-the-scenes video they made. I think they went just a...

Some photographers try to make miniatures look like the real world, while others aim to make the real world look like a miniature. Check out the two time-lapse videos below that are opposite to each other. The first video was shot by Pedro Sousa in Portuguese; the idea is to make the city look like everything is small and fake. The second video was shot by Sam O’Hare, whose intention was to make miniature things to look real....

Advertising Standards Authority, the ad industry watchdog in the UK, has banned an advertisement by Lancome featuring Julia Roberts for being misleading, stating that the flawless skin seen in the photo was too good to be true. Parliament member Jo Swinson first brought the ads to the authority’s attention, and later told the BBC: This ruling demonstrates that the advertising regulator is acknowledging the dishonest and misleading nature...

So in case you haven’t heard about the latest news with Kanye West, he’s allegedly dating an Albanian model named Angela Martini. Not that I really care who the hip-hop star is dating, but I care more about the Albanian model about whom everyone’s talking. If you can recall, I posted a few videos shot by Jerome Duran a few weeks ago. I still don’t know exactly who the photographer/videographer is, but he’s...

A few weeks ago, you guys have probably heard all the news about the new LYTRO camera. Supposedly, this camera has the ability to shoot first and then focus later in post. I’m not sure when they’ll be releasing the consumer version of this thing, but apparently Coco Rocha, a Canadian fashion model based in New York, and her photographer, were able to legitimately get a hold of the prototype to do a test shoot. This was the very...

Mike Tittel is a Salt Lake City, Utah based commercial, advertising and editorial photographer, who specializes in sports, fitness, adventure and active lifestyle images shot on location worldwide. Below are some of his great behind-the-scene videos. Make sure to follow him on Facebook and Twitter. Capoeira Capoeira–a Brazilian art form that combines elements of dance, martial arts and music. A few months ago my rock star make-up...

The AT&T and T-Mobile deal heated up again today as Senator Herb Kohl issued a statement in strong opposition of the merger that was then promptly followed by a response from AT&T. The carrier claims that a majority of the public support their acquisition of T-Mobile, including dozens of government officials and millions of union workers. But the folks behind the following T-Mobile commercial parodies certainly don’t, as they poke...