Photography Tutorials

Never work with children or animals, or so goes the old actors adage. No such fears for Zoo Studios though, who spend their days photographing animals of all shapes and sizes. In this video we see them at work with a number of cockatoos from Cockatoo Chaos in Australia.

Google is on an ambitious mission to map as much of the world as humanly possible. We recently reported on their project to photograph the tallest building in the world, and now they bring us to the shores of Hashima Island off the coast of Japan:

Millions of people around the world are affected by violence against health care. A carelessly aimed bomb might destroy a local hospital. An improperly trained police force might deny the passage of medical workers through a barrier. Countless lives are lost or threatened because of inability to access emergency care during times of unrest.

The name Jonathan Mannion has nearly become a household name in the world of hip hop and urban culture, as he has built a reputation for himself as one of the most influential photographers known to the genre.

In what has basically been a 14-year Photoshop ad, the career of surrealist Swedish photographer Erik Johansson has produced some of the most dazzling images on the web, blending the 3D trickery with a soft-focus, dreamlike lens.

While symbolism is clearly important in art, economic impact is also of utmost concern to Rodríguez-Gerada. As such, he uses only local, natural materials that harbor no negative environmental impacts, such as charcoal—and for WISH, mountains of dirt, sand, and rocks.

My aim here is to give an understanding, there is far too much to detail in full on one page, in fact there are plenty of books written just on exposure so I hope you will forgive me for keeping it short but hopefully to the point. It is worth noting that this is aimed at those who can alter their camera settings, those that can only use automatic settings should learn this but unfortunately won’t really be able to change much

Posing is as integral to portrait photography as the right lens and the right camera angle. A lot of photographers learn this the hard way. If you’re a portrait photographer or do family and wedding photography you know how important posing can be.

Since we’ve just passed the holidays—the time of the year when we usually spend lots of time with our loves ones—we thought we’d highlight some photos of beautiful families in the animal world.

New Zealand—both the nature lover and photographer’s dream. An island nation known for its utterly breath taking landscapes—from deep fjords, sky high waterfalls, ancient glaciers and rolling hills. It is hard to capture the true beauty and essence of a place on film.