Photography

I’m Kunito Imai, a nature photographer in Tokyo. I visited Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica to photograph hummingbirds. Here are some tips to capture them in-flight. 1. Shutter speed must be 1/1000 or higher to stabilize the bird on your image. 1/1600 or higher is ideal. 2. I recommend …

  Reading an online blog I came across blue salt fields in Australia. Photographer Simon Butterworth took aerial shots of them. Photos of blue salt fields look so surreal, like patterns of abstract painting. It’s obvious that he is worth the appreciation and he was also shortlisted for the 2015 …

  Finnish fine art photographer Mikko Lagerstedt (featured previously here and here) recently shared a selection of his atmospheric night photography from 2014/2015 in a Behance project entitled, Visions of Depth. Prints are available through Mikko’s website along with guides on night photography, custom Lightroom presets and Photoshop actions.  

Photo manipulations are a popular art form where photographs are digitally altered, combined, and rearranged to create new and often surreal images. They can become very complex, but as artist and photographer Stephen McMennamy shows in his “Combo Photos,” sometimes creating a surreal image is as easy as sticking two …

  What does music look like? We’ve all seen visualizations of sound-waves, but what about the motions a person must perform to create music? This what Ontario artist Stephen Orlando managed to successfully capture. Orlando uses LED lights and long exposures to record a musician’s movement. He attached the lights …

Though phones vary in quality and features significantly, there are still some general tricks – both technical and common sense – you can pick up on to maximize image quality in low light. Technical primer: Understanding exposure Before we begin, you should understand the two main variables affect exposure (how …

Awesome forced perspective photographs