Recently I started adding monitor calibration to my workflow and I am grateful that I did. I am using the Spyder4 Elite to do my calibration and I am going explain what it is and how it can help save your butt.

Photo manipulation is an art that requires lots of patience along with the expertise in Photoshop and other photo editing tools. Creating photo manipulations using Photoshop isn’t as easy as you see here. But it’s a passion for many designers out here including me. With your creativity and imagination, you can manipulate any photograph the [...]

A few days back we reported about the Magic Lantern team hacking a 5DmkIII to shoot 24p RAW video (probably the best thing that ever happened to Canon, even if they did not mean that).

London Grammar just released their new video - Wasting My Young Years. One of the most interesting things about this video is that it features several bullet time shots that are not only shot on film, but are shot on 625 pinhole cameras.

Before the Internet made sourcing new music and rising bands a simple matter of keystrokes, bookmarks and RSS feeds, there was the radio DJ. Those with an insatiable thirst for the fresh and undiscovered relied on the savvy DJ with the right connections to feed us a steady diet of the up and coming, the [...]

Even if you've never heard about Hamburg based studio, The Marmalade, there is a good chance you are familiar with their work. They are the studio responsible for many of the fascinating High Speed / Slow Mo footage in many commercials including Lipton Ice tea, Pepsi, Daimler, Dove and many, many others.

Welcome to the second article in the new series that showcases inspirational photo manipulations, and here we are back with some amazing works or art that will amaze you once again, as promised. So without wasting any more time, let's dig in, and see what we have here for this month.

Sydney, Australia-based photo assistant Diego asks:You seem to use the Photek Softlighter a lot. How would this compare to the Paul Buff PML Soft-Silver with the White Diffuser? While they are similar (both sub-$100 Octa killers) they are pretty different under the skin, So which model you'll prefer depends on how you'll use it…

The board adds a 5MP camera to the Raspberry Pi board and can take static images with resolution up to 2592X1944, and stream video both 1080p, or 720p and as with any Raspberry Pi project where you take it from here is entirely up to you. Having a fully customizable camera for $60 ($35 Pi board + $25 Camera module) is not a trivial thing.

However team Starchasers came across a rare phenomena that caused an Aurora to appear as south as Death Valley, CA while they were shooting March 16th - 18th 2013.

Prepare to have that lightbulb moment for yourself while watching the next episode of chasejarvisLIVE on Wednesday, May 22 becuase my guest is the globe trotting, “self employed for life” hacker Chris Guillebeau. In addition to being all those things plus the founder of the World Domination Summit (most amazing name ever for a creative [...]

There’s a hot new trend in landscape photography, going by the name “Vertorama”, which stands for Vertical Panorama: it’s all about producing high-impact landscape photography featuring a broader view than would be possible under normal circumstances. The present article will present an overview of this technique, as well as a rounding up some of the finest examples of its application currently available on Flickr.

It is also great for doing motion timelapse and almost all the time lapse movies we feature on the blog have some sort of sliding motion. And while getting a set of wheels on a rail may seem trivial, there has been a lot of innovation with this over the last year. It seems that even a triviality like a slider has ample space for innovation.

Many people out there think the holidays are too depressing… but it’s actually about joy, love and all good things, that’s for sure. And nothing better to capture these great moments as taking some christmas pictures!                                       [...]

Dear Readers: Houston, we have had a problem! Over the past few weeks we have experienced crippling challenges with the site. I recent weeks a database problem made it impossible to add content to your favorite photography site. At times it also crippled the site from rendering pages as you requested them in your browser. I’m now [...]