These Are Seven Habits Of Highly Successful Landscape Photographers

There are plenty of amazing landscape photographers out there whose work we follow and admire. But other than creating fantastic images, there are some other traits they share. Mark Denney has figured out seven habits and characteristics shared by highly successful landscape photographers. He talks about them in the video below, so let’s see if you agree, and if you have these traits, too.Advertisements 1. Overcoming obstacles The first characteristic or habit is overcoming obstacles....

December 22, 2022 · 3 min · 621 words · Betty Long

These Are The Most Bizarre Ways Stock Models Had Their Photos Used

When you pose for stock photos, you may not even be able to imagine how those photos will be used. Writer Abigail Johnson recently warned people to “never do stock image modeling,” as a photo of her ended up in quite an… unusual article. But then, people joined with their own experiences, each more bizarre than the other. Some of them were funny, but most were embarrassing and downright humiliating....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 344 words · Candace Walker

These Are The Only Three Types Of Lens Filter You Probably Ever Need

Filters – no, not the Instagram kind – have been a part of photography and filmmaking for decades. Back in the days of film, particularly with black and white, they were often used to eliminate issues like excess UV light from the sun, to wrangle the brightness of the sky down to the relatively dark land for an even exposure, they were used to add contrast between different colours to black and white film or one of a multitude of effects....

December 22, 2022 · 4 min · 797 words · Courtney West

These Guys Are Creating Their Own Epic Superhero Comic With Photos Instead Of Illustrations

As their creators describe it, “Project Grand Shadows is a digital photography comic book project about a homeless man, outsider in our society, who gets recruited to an experiment that goes wrong”. It’s an interesting story, but what’s even more interesting is that they’re illustrating it with photos instead of drawings. Obviously the project is about telling the story, but it’s also about the journey of making the comic. The whole comics with photographs thing has been done before, but usually not very well....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 363 words · Hannah Sanches

These Photos Show That Halloween Costumes Were Much Scarier 100 Years Ago

Although Halloween can be traced back to ancient times, the celebration today is all about getting a sugar rush if you’re a kid or getting hammered if you’re an adult. And while creative, costumes are rarely truly scary, especially if they are DIY. However, Halloween costumes looked way different 100 in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You don’t believe me? Well, there are photos that prove it! Thanks to artist Ossian Brown, we get to travel back in time and see what the costumes were like back in the late 1800s and early 1900s....

December 22, 2022 · 3 min · 525 words · Susan Green

This 20 Projector Lens Has The Most Amazing Swirly Bokeh

If you like swirly bokeh as much as I do, here’s a real treat. Kipronar 105mm f/1.9 is a cheap projector lens that will give you the most amazing bokeh for photos and videos. Mathieu Stern found one for only €20 (around $23) and in this video, he shows you what it can do. I assume that the seller didn’t know exactly what they were selling, since this lens costs around $130-$140 online....

December 22, 2022 · 1 min · 194 words · Alonzo Hier

This Amazing Stop Motion Film Was Made Using 200 3D Printed Frogs

Recently, I’ve been looking into picking up a resin 3D printer. Finally, yesterday, I caved and ordered myself an Anycubic Photon Mono, which should be arriving tomorrow. In preparation for its arrival, I spent yesterday evening searching YouTube for information about the printer, resin, software, problems I might run into and how to solve them, etc. And then I stumbled across something very cool. An experimental stop motion film that utilises 200 frogs, 3D printed on the Anycubic Photon Mono X (the big brother to the one I’m getting)....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 334 words · Daniel Jeanlouis

This Amazing Tiny Satellite Selfie Video Was Shot Using An Off The Shelf Gopro Action Camera

When we think of satellites, we often think of super high-tech state-of-the-art technology being sent up into space. We generally don’t think of them blasting up off-the-shelf electronics that many of us already have in our homes. Well, that’s exactly what the folks at NanoAvionics did when they attached a GoPro Hero 7 (Yes, not even a Hero 10!) to their MP42 microsatellite to capture selfies in space as it flew over the planet....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 330 words · Shasta Portales

This Baby Is So Thrilled By Nikon S Shutter Sound That He Can T Stop Giggling

If you want to take a break from the frightening news we’ve been surrounded with for months, then I something perfect for you. A video shared by ViralHog shows a baby boy clicking his father’s Nikon, laughing uncontrollably every time he hears the shutter sound. Check it out below, I’m sure you’ll giggle along. The boy’s dad is Jason Rouch Jr, an amateur from Palmer, Alaska. He shared the video of his son clicking the NikonD7000’s shutter, laughing every time he hears the sound....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 217 words · Kevin Rodriquez

This Drone Mounted Large Format Camera Made The World S First Aerial Tintype Photograph

Combining levels of technology from vastly different times is often very fascinating. Sometimes it’s amusing, and occasionally it fails miserable. This time, failure is definitely not the word that springs to mind. For this particular merging of devices, photographer Giles Clement mounted a large format camera to a drone. Why? To create the world’s first aerial tintype photographs, of course. Not content with simply making a photograph from the air, though, Giles and the team also produced the world’s first drone tintype selfie....

December 22, 2022 · 4 min · 825 words · Robert Bryant

This Epic Tracking Shot From A Century Old Silent Film Was Way Ahead Of Its Time

Some silent films from the early 20th century were groundbreaking in terms of stunts and effects. The 1927 movie Wings was way ahead of its time by more than one criterion, and one of them is certainly epic camera movement. You can see it in the clip below, and you’ll agree, this is the kind of shot we see in movies to this day. The tracking shot has the camera move across several tables until it zooms in at the main subject and his table....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 218 words · Sara Flores

This Gear Vs Skill Challenge Puts An Amateur With A Fuji Gfx 50R Against A Pro With A Google Pixel 3

When you talk about photography gear online, one thing is inevitable. Somebody will pipe up talking about how “the gear doesn’t matter, a good photographer can make a great image with a potato!”. Well, Linus and Brandon over at Linus Tech Tips decided to put this to the test. Brandon is LTT’s DP. He has a lot of practical experience with a lot of gear in a lot of shooting scenarios....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 411 words · Rolando Stocks

This Is How Photoshop Resizes Your Images Mathematically Speaking

The mathematical side of photography has always interested me. It can be mostly ignored by photographers, often only required to understand the exposure triangle. For me, though, the maths is part of what initially drew me into photography. In this video from Computerphile, we learn what goes into some of the calculations that allow us to easily resize our images inside Photoshop with just a couple of clicks. It used to be that there was only one method of resizing images, and it wasn’t very good....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 349 words · Margaret Rieves

This Is What A 10 Million Second Long Exposure Photograph Of The Sun Looks Like

Matthew Vandeputte is generally better known for his timelapse and hyperlapse work than his regular single image photography. But in this project, he decided to kind of merge the two, shooting what is essentially a timelapse in a single exposure that lasted for four months. Of course, he didn’t use the digital cameras he typically shoots with to create this photo. Instead, Matthew used a process called solargraphy. It uses a pinhole camera and captures the movement of the sun and exposes the scene over a long period of time (4 months in this case) so that you can see how the sun moves through the sky each day, slowly building up the final result....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 289 words · Brett Chandler

This Is What Bugs Look Like When They Get Ready To Fly At 6 000Fps

I follow quite a few YouTube channels. Some of them are purely for the visually stunning creations they post. Others are for the information they provide. Occasionally, though, you come across a channel that does both. That’s Ant Lab, the channel of Dr Adrian Smith at the Evolutionary Biology & Behavior Research Lab. Dr Smith’s content focuses primarily on bugs, and we’ve featured him here on DIYP before. A few times, actually....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 246 words · Walter Adams

This Is Why An Octabox Is The Best Modifier For Portraits

While I don’t think everybody will ever agree on a single modifier that works best for shooting portraits, we all have to start somewhere. Usually it’s with one light and one modifier. So, where does one begin in their search for the perfect portrait modifier? Photographer Daniel Norton explores that topic in the above video, and explains why he thinks an octagon softbox (aka “octabox”) is the best and mose useful modifier for portraits....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 351 words · Lisa Moran

This Moon Terminator Illusion Explains Why Light Can Appear To Bend The Wrong Way

And no, the Moon Terminator is nothing to do with Arnold. The “terminator” in this case is the line between the lit and dark sides of the moon. During those times when the moon and the sun are in the sky together, there’s something odd about it. The line defining the lit side of the moon doesn’t line up with the sun, the thing that’s lighting it. This video from YouTuber Vsauce attempts to explain the phenomenon of the Moon Terminator illusion....

December 22, 2022 · 3 min · 627 words · William Padilla

This New Tiny Camera Overcomes The Problems Of Metalenses By Using A Whole Bunch Of Them At Once

Metalenses have been a thing for a while now. We first wrote about them here on DIYP back in 2016 when a team at Harvard first built a lens that’s even thinner than the waves of light being focused. The goal of such lenses is to essentially shrink cameras down as much as possible. They use nanostructures to focus the light instead of the optics we’re used to in more traditional lenses, but they have something of a flaw....

December 22, 2022 · 3 min · 430 words · Phil Meyer

This Photographer 3D Printed His Own Photo Sniper Grip For His Macro Photography Setup

A few months ago, photographer Nick Sherlock shared with us his epic 3D printed 300mm long extension tube. Then he needed something to hold this beast and provide him with more stability, and he once again put his 3D printer to work. Inspired by the legendary Zenit Fotosniper, Nick designed and printed his own rifle-style grip. It doesn’t only look cool, but it gives him way more stability when using his macro setup....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 349 words · Clara Montoya

This Photographer Creates Weird Miniature Worlds From Figurines And Everyday Objects Nsfw

I am one of those people often complaining that growing up sucks. Maybe this is why I’m so enchanted by toy photography, and Péter Csákvári is one of the photographers whose work I really love. He combines the adult world and topics with tiny figurines and toys. We featured his ongoing project Tiny Wasteland a few months back, and now he brings a new series of his quirky miniature worlds....

December 22, 2022 · 2 min · 289 words · Jason Grunder