Articles by NS_Photography
You probably know of the iconic photograph titled Migrant Mother, but do you know the government photo project that led to its creation? Between 1935 and 1943, the US Government launched the largest photo project in the history of the country through its Resettlement Administration (RA) — later...
Here’s a behind-the-scenes video in which photographer Mike Butler walks through how he went about planning and photographing the 35-storey Hotel Intercontinental in Downtown Miami using 8 1000W DP lights by light painting portions of the scene and stitching them all together in post.
(via DPS)
The appearance of real world world objects changes depending on lighting, but photographic prints do not… yet. Researchers at HP and UC Santa Cruz are working on a method of printing images of objects or scenes that allows lighting to affect the image. For example, a statue in a print would cast...
Photographer Jeff Cable purchased a couple Canon 5D Mark IIIs recently and discovered that although the camera offers both SD and CF card slots, you should avoid the SD slot if you want maximum shooting speed. He writes,
It might not be a big deal for most photographers, but if your line of...
This is the first in a series of four lessons on close-up and macro photography by Andrew S Gibson, author of Up Close: A Guide to Macro & Close Up Photography.
Macro and close-up photography can seem complex and intimidating when you don’t know much about the techniques or equipment used.
The...
Technology is a great thing and never has it been able to help (and often hinder) photographers with their craft than in this day and age. A bold statement, so let me show you some applications and websites which can make photography more fun, interesting or educational. They each have apps...
Just a few days ago I took delivery of this exciting new lens. I posted an article outlining some initial impressions which I’m sure many of you have read. If you haven’t read it then be sure to watch the short video below which gives you an excellent idea of the size of the lens in my hands...
A 22-year-old Houston artist named Uriel Landeros made news this past week after walking into Houston?s Menil Collection museum and vandalizing a 1929 Picasso painting named Woman in a Red Armchair. A fellow museum patron captured cell phone footage of Landeros spray painting the word...
Light Painting is something we’ve written numerous times about here on dPS – but this week I stumbled upon a video that takes it to a whole new level in a commercial shoot of the Intercontinental Hotel in Miami.
In the video Mike Butler and his team light and photograph this iconic hotel.
Post...
When Leica announced ?Henri?, the M9 Monocrom on May 10th, it caused a lot of fervor on blogs and photography websites. The all black camera, named after the legendary black and white Leica photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson was devoid of almost all Leica markings and seemed niche even for the...
Dakota White and Andrew Hackbusch (AKA The Dash brothers) made this creative “backward world” short by reversing a single continuous shot of Dakota walking backwards.
Being a good photographer, you have a tripod. Maybe two tripods. Maybe even a big, heavy duty one for your big lenses, a standard one for everyday use, and one of those small, cool ones that folds up like a roadmap and you can carry it in your back pocket.
Wait, I just realized 50% of the...
On to our tenth country to visit in the DPS Travel Photography Inspiration Project. Kenya, for many, is synonymous with wildlife and the dry savannah. Indeed, tourism for the large game reserves is a major contributor to Kenya?s income as a country.
What follows are a number of elephant photos...
To celebrate its 100th year anniversary, Paramount Pictures gathered together 116 of Hollywood’s most famous stars for an epic group picture. Photographer Art Streiber used 57 strobes to light the scene, and spent just under 6 minutes snapping 63 frames using a Hasselblad H2 and 150mm lens...
Here are a few tips for when you shoot with your dSLR tethered to a computer. We’ve learnt these lessons the hard way.
Try it out beforehand with the particular computer and camera that you will be using. Hardware has a way of doing strange things when you least expect it.
Shoot to CF card and...
Typical photo books and resource books for photographers come printed and bound, which is not a bad thing. Digital as our photography has become, displaying it, or teaching people how to replicate it, are two areas in which ink on paper still rule. Dan Nguyen’s The Bastards Book of Photography...
You know those amazing high speed photos and videos of bullets being shot through various objects? BMW Canada decided to take things a step further and use a car instead of a bullet. They drove a car at top speed across salt flats and had it smash through a giant glass apple, some giant water...
Around this time last year, we featured a video on developing film using coffee and vitamin C. And now, the folks behind the Caffenol blog (which was named after the nickname given to the “home brew” developer) have put together a video showing that it’s possible to do the same thing using red...
Here?s another 60 Second Portrait, starring Mike Relm this time. I shot this after our recent episode of chasejarvisLIVE. If you dig it, check out the rest of my 60 Second Portraits here.
This week your challenge is to tai a photo walk and to share a favourite image from it here with the rest of the dPS readership.
You may wish to take a walk with a photographer friend or do it alone – it doesn’t really matter. You might want to do it locally near where you live or to go...